Geek Love is ours
We’re getting into details now. We finished the wedding website a few days after invitations started arriving, and we got gift registries sorted out and published last night. I have confirmed my makeup and hair people, and Pat Morrison is good to do for ceremony music. We’re making headway with finalizing the ceremony. On Saturday I have an appointment with the person doing alterations on my dress. I’m going tomorrow for attempt number two at obtaining the marriage license.
Last week, we tried to get the marriage license and my passport only to find that my birth certificate is no longer considered a birth certificate. I had to order a new one, which arrived yesterday, so tomorrow I’m going to go try again. The passport people and marriage license require the same identification set and are in the same building, so that’s at least convenient. I have to take another morning off to do it, but at this point I just want it to be done.
The gift registry was harder to do than we wanted. No brick and mortar stores have good online gift registries, and our families aren’t going to be okay with using an Amazon.com registry. Sears had the best online registry, and as a web developer, I have to say that not having an online registry may have been better. It wasn’t tied into their catalogue website at all, but their wishlists are. What is the difference between a wedding registry and a wishlist? The only thing I can think of is adding multiple people’s names to the account, but even then, there aren’t individual log-ins.
I have a feeling some of our guests aren’t going to like the number of items on the registry, but Alan and I had a hard time coming up with the items we have added. We have a full apartment and don’t really have room for more stuff. We’re going to upgrade our dishes and a few small appliances, but other than that, we are good. We have a short registry, but it seems like we always managed to pick the most expensive item in the store when we did add something. I’m going to blame Alan for this, even though it’s probably not his fault.
We have to work on our vows still. Right now Alan’s seem to be lines from an MC Hammer song, and mine involve the robot apocalypse. Think we’re going to have to do a bit better than that.
What other wedding things am I missing guys? What things should be done by 7 weeks before the event?
Dude. There is nothing wrong with mentioning the upcoming robot apocalypse. It will happen one day.
the vows are yours and about you guys…if mc hammer and robots are meaningful to you than you shouldnt shy away from them :)