First Update: Guest list?

Hey guys! Sorry to those of you who are following for the long delay in updating. As stated earlier, this is mine and pat's first time blogging so we're not used to getting on and posting often. We'll try to get better about that though :-) . So, over the past two weeks we've finally been able to talk to both sets of parents in order to get a nice little guest list built. We've got our list of immediate family, definite invites, and maybes as well. Yay!!! My side of the guest list was startin to look pretty big, but we were both relieved when hers ended up being about the same size. It looks to be about 120 guests, maybe slightly more or less. We won't have the definite guest list ready for a few weeks, but now that we've got a good estimate on how many people we want to invite, we can finally start hunting for a reception area.

Our plan as of right now is to have the reception area booked by the end of february. We originally wanted to have the reception in some kind of ball room at the hotel where most of our guests would be staying, so that they could just stumble up to their rooms after getting wasted (we want an open bar!) but there may be some complications: it seems like most hotels want you to use their catering services, and charge a fee for every bottle you bring in etc.. Hopefully this is not the case for every hotel, and once we start looking at places we'll have a better idea of what we're looking at.

oh and UPDATE: we have a date for the ceremony at the church already!!! May 29, 2010. Peep the countdown up top. This post is getting sort of lengthy, so I'll leave it to pat to update you guys on anything that I've missed.

wolf out.

Pat's First Post

hey everyone!!! So, like Wolfgang said, I hope that you like our website and that you can enjoy our experience in the wedding planning as much as we are! Hopefully we will provide more information about our engagement and our experience thus far, but for now, here it is in brief. We got engaged December 17th, 2008. We attended the Bridal Show in Raleigh, NC on January 3rd, 2009 in order to create a budget and to create a plan of action. Although not completely official, we set our date for May 29th, 2010 (hence the countdown!!!). Our wedding will probably be simple but quaint and eloquent. Wolfgang and I are madly in love and we just want everyone to partake in that on our wedding day. That is all the information we have so far, but we would like to thank you for all your blessings and help in the planning to come.

First Blog Entry!!!

So, both Pat and Myself have never blogged before, so this is a new experience for the two of us. We plan on chronicling our whole wedding planning journey on here for our own benefit as well as yours! We hope that you enjoy it, and please look forward to our next post (I think we might put up the details of our engagement or something). Also, I'll probably end up getting real picky about the layout for this piece, so you can probably expect that to change :-D