Location, Location, Location...

It's the most asked question that we don't have an answer for yet... "Where are you getting married?" I think we are going to let me loyal voters pick, so far the church wedding is winning... but there is one more day of voting left! So if you really want Matt and I to tie the knot with Elvis, or out in nature vote now!

We are looking for information on reception/ceremony sites. We are still open to ceremony/reception at the same place if it is an awesome location. If anyone has any suggestions, please email us. Google doesn't know it all, and all these wedding magazines think that we do in fact have a money tree in our yard (wouldn't that be lovely).

A few places have been looked at, some have been crossed off, and some have moved up a little higher on the list. After getting a few price quotes from some places this is what Matt and I looked like...

One Week Engagement

One week ago today, Matt and I got engaged! It's been a whirlwind week!

Matt's grandparents took us to a nice facility tonight, Woodlake in Vass, NC. Beautiful! Plan to call them tomorrow to check prices and availability. Matt and I really want to get married on July 26, 2008 but have a "backup date" as the next Saturday, Aug. 2nd, 2008. We want to find the perfect place and we have plenty of options, which is nice. I also have an appt. to see another local place tomorrow.

Matt and I enjoyed previewing photographers tonight online. If they didn't have a website, we crossed them off the list. I mean you are a photographer, pictures are your selling point, put some online! We have a list of 3 local people that we plan to contact for pricing and setting up some engagement shots. Matt made a good point that I shouldn't contact a photographer until we have decided on a place and an official date. So here's to being up the creek without the proverbial paddle...

Speaking of planning, I have had a lot of people teasing me for already setting dates and looking at places. I guess you have to know me and Matt to understand. Matt has like a 2 week block from school that we could do a wedding, and we both always want to have "our ducks in a row". So we wanna know, where and when ASAP! Plus, we are really ready to get married, we don't want to wait until Christmas or 2009. And you wouldn't believe how many places I have already called that said, "We are booked into 2009". So that is why we feel the pressure to make this decision quickly.

I guess I am trying to treat these wedding plans like school plans, I mean I know what I am using from today until Christmas. But classroom plans are all up to me, I do whatever it is I need to do, I have the final call. I don't have to check to see if I can use my classroom or construction paper or whatever else. Wedding plans are much different, it is like a puzzle, each little piece has to fit. I am on the phone hoping that they have room for us and that they are not booked. It is kinda stressful considering I have never done anything anywhere close to this before. I mean the last time I planned a party a giant thunderstorm knocked the power off on the whole street! But you know what? That party went off wonderfully, people jumped in and brought candles and we ate by candle light and my parent's had a great 25th wedding anniversary. Like a co-worker says, "It'll all come out in the wash". And she's right, it will all work out the way it's supposed to.

So, keep your fingers, toes and eyes crossed that Matt and I find the right place for us.

Save The Date!

Matt and I have set a date! July 26, 2008. Now starts the rush of finding that perfect place. Called a place in Pinehurst today, they have an opening on the 26th of July. It is called The Fair Barn, really neat place. It is used for a few High School Proms and The O'Neal School uses it for their annual auction. I am excited to go and see it. I also emailed The Highgrove in Fuquay Varina yesterday, no response back and I called Ferrington Village and left a message (yeah, Dad if probably pretty glad they haven't returned my call). I am learning a valuable lesson, start things early! I am just happy to have some options. If anyone would like to throw an option out their for me that would be grand!

You might noticed that I have changed the page. I think that the dots were a little "too much" for the blog. I like this look a lot better. Also, we've added a countdown timer (Seriously, only 8 months, 4 weeks and 1 day away!), a poll and a visitor counter. Matt is pretty excited about the poll...

Thanks for all the loyal readers already! I cannot believe I am getting stopped at work and receiving phone calls about our blog. That is awesome! This event is very important thing to us, and we are so excited to share it with all our family and friends! Keep checking back, we hope to update a few times a week.

Big News!

Matt And I Are Getting Married!

I know its some BIG news! What a wonderful evening... I don't know how I am going to sleep tonight! Let me tell you all about it!

Matt tells me earlier in the week that we have to go to a law dinner on Sunday night in downtown Raleigh, this is nothing out of the ordinary. So I agree to go and get all dressed up and everything. So we leave the house tonight and we are past the exit for Cary when Matt hands me the invitation to the event and says, "read the directions for me". I immediately notice that the invitation says, "Monday, Oct. 22nd". I go, "Matt this thing is tomorrow night." So Matt bangs on the steering wheel and goes, "We're going to Sullivan's anyways. Read me the phone number" So he calls and makes a reservation and the whole time I am going, Sullivan's is expensive we don't have to go there. But we go.

So we have a delicious dinner and everything is wonderful. So about 9:30 we head home. Nothing out of the ordinary except we had a bomb dinner. So we get home and Matt opens the door and the house is full of roses, like seriously 5 dozen or something ridiculous like that, I am still finding flowers! There is a chilled bottle of champagne and everything. I turn to Matt and he is on one knee and proposes!

So of course I find out later that the whole law school dinner thing is a sham and he made the invitation himself and on purpose put the wrong date. He had made reservations at Sullivan's long before and the phone call in the car was fake. His grandparent's set up all the flowers and everything at the house. So many people were in on the whole thing and I had no idea! Matt went and asked my dad on Tuesday if he could ask me to marry him and my dad said, "She'll be a good wife, she'll save you a lot of money" Haha, that's dad, always concerned about the dollar.


This is part of what the house looked like...


Hey, what is that face supposed to mean?


That's better...


Ta-da!

There will be plenty more blog later, right now I am too excited to really type!