Well, over the past weekend Karlyn and I managed to get quite a bit done for the wedding. For anyone who has never planned a wedding, let me tell ya, it’s a crap load of work!
What got accomplished? We bought our wedding rings; we got our gift registries done; Karlyn and my mom got all the artificial flowers purchased for the decorations.
But the big thing was the finalization of our reception hall. Originally we had planned to have the reception at the Knights of Columbus hall near my parents, but I got a big surprise Friday night. When I called to confirm the start time of the reception I found out that there was a communication error and our date was taken by another wedding. Ouch! But a little quick thinking and a few phone calls managed to find another place that, quite frankly, is better than the Knights of Columbus hall, and about the same price. So in the end all worked out well and we will now be having our reception at a nice Irish banquet hall called Eddie Ryans.
All in all it was a good number of things off our plates, but we have plenty more to go. This weekend we will meet with the minister to go over the ceremony.