Happy Birthday Gina!

Today is Gina's birthday but unfortunately I have to spend it without her because she is on her Caribbean cruise with her family. I can't even call her but I talked to her yesterday and she is safe and having a good time in San Juan. I wasn't invited because when they arranged the trip we weren't engaged. Its all good, just wish I could spend it with her or at least tell her "Happy Birthday" *sigh*. Oh well at least after next year they won't have an option.

So yeah the blog hasn't been updated in a while, especially by me. I don't even know if we can even call it a blog since we have only posted sixteen times. We aren't even within 9 months of the wedding and how much is there to talk about? Once things start getting closer we will be adding more and more. To be honest the whole purpose of the blog was to have an "In the moment" record of the all planning, anxiety, emotions, and drama so that we can look back on and remember instead of just an album recording the day. So to those who read and check regularly forgive me that I haven't had much to say because there just hasn't been much to report. I'm amazed that people actually read this and find it quite cool.

Ok so here is my update. I'm behind on the website....Very behind. First the good news, I have a website layout design and Gina is on board. I also have an idea for how the invitation should look and print and it is radically different from what I had in mind originally. The other idea was ok but not very original and it would have been a pain in the ass and expensive. The bad news is my laptop harddrive died and almost took everything with it. Fortunately I had some time off so I was able to swap it out and transfer as much as I could which took almost the week because it would stop working and I'd have to let it sit and try again. Eventually I was doing everything in pieces in order of priority. The web design was the first to come off. The graphics applications however are lost and I have to find a way to replace them quickly. So once that is done hopefully I can get this up fairly quickly. I'll have more as it happens.

Voting

I did my civic duty today and voted, however it took almost 30 minutes to get through the L-Z line. The A-K line was non-existent... Next year, I get to be move up in the alphabet!

Quickies

Got official word on Friday that we have the CCM Chapel... yay for not having to VTC our wedding! So, I've opened up our Knot page with actual locations of church & reception site. Also, people can sign our guestbook (hint, hint).

We've asked most of the folks we wanted to participate in our wedding and you can view their names on our Knot page. Folks that aren't listed there are our readers, who are Katie Sylvester, Meredith McGuire, & Reagan Clyne. The only people left are the primary sponsors, who would be our godparents or ninongs/ninangs for the ceremony.

We do need to start looking at blocks of rooms particularly at the Ho House for it's convenient location near everyone's favorite W&M watering hole, Green Leafe Cafe. Other than that we're pretty much on track!