YAY!
I just finished the last block for Galaxar’s blanket! No more pictures till it’s done!
pretty quilt blocks!
So, Lemmers sent me a picture to show me how mad Isaac was at me for not getting anything done last week.
He looks mad, doesn’t he? Well, I didn’t want to disappoint Sir Isaac yet again this week, so in the last seven days, I have made six pretty quilt blocks!
My total is up to twenty four blocks. I need twenty eight, and two of the blocks aren’t usable. That means there’s only four more blocks to go. This is exciting. And it makes Isaac happy.
See?
march 13 is really soon
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?
I am a very bad quilter this week
Guess how many quilt blocks I finished this week?
none! How awesome is that? Not very? Yeah! I know!
But I have a wedding coming up and apparently that means I use by time to worry about stuff related to it instead of making pretty things.
It’s a really good thing Isaac isn’t relying on me to keep him warm.
I would make a terrible wedding planner
First off, did you realize that it’s 62 days until march 13th? That’s really soon.
So I thought I should let you all know how wedding plans are going. Mostly cause I want to know if I’m forgetting about something.
- Date: March 13, 2010, which seemed really far away when we picked it.
- Church: Camlachie United Church. We also have two ministers and Pat Morrison’s going to do music for us
- Photographer: Is shooting with a Canon something or other in RAW format and then giving Alan a disc of the photos for him to play with
- Invitations: 71 were mailed out yesterday. We have about 30 more to go because there were missing bits in their addresses
- Wedding Party: I’ve got three kick ass bridesmaids who all have nice dresses and I’m assuming they will all have been altered by March 13th. Alan’s got three kick ass groomsmen who are bad at getting measurements to him. They may be wearing tuxedo t-shirts if they keep this up. We have a hairdresser booked.
- Flowers are being handled by family friends who own a flower shop nearby
- Reception: Across the street from the church. The UCW is catering. My brother is going to be the emcee and is for some reason trying to think up nerd jokes. The DJ is the hairdresser’s husband.
This weekend we got a lot accomplished. We printed out the address labels and put together and sent out most of the addresses, I got my shoes, and we also picked out our rings. We also managed to get most of the missing pieces in addresses filled in by calling the relatives who are good at organizing and have things like address books. This week I need to confirm that the person who was going to do makeup is on board and talk to our photographer. On Saturday I’m going for another dress fitting.
What do you think? Am I forgetting about something?