We have a photographer and wedding dress!!

Hey! I hope everyone is having a good summer :)

So, we have finally decided on our photographers. Their names are Melissa and Paul and they own Wake Forest Portraits Shoppe. We really love their work, personalities, (both equally important to us) and the price (yikes, good photographers are not cheap haha). So we will be working with them over the next year to evaluate Wolfgang's hair length (he likes it really short, his mom wants it longer, and I am just worried about him looking bald in our wedding pictures) and to make sure everyone is on the same page during the big day!

Also, I have found my wedding dress!!! YAY- I'm excited. I would describe it to you, but Wolfgang and I are trying to stay traditional as possible so, because there is a high possibility of him reading this message, I can't. Most of the bridal party has seen the dress though and loves it.

Next step is finding a DJ, someone to make our wedding cake, and sending out save-the-dates. I contacted a DJ maybe a month ago and he made me feel stupid because I asked him if I could meet him on the weekend and he said "you know Im a DJ right." I still don't know what he was trying to say except that maybe he was really busy, but it has made me reluctant to contact other DJs. But Im getting over that experience and will move one and contact others. Finding the cake lady (or guy I guess), as Wolfgang explained, is already in process. We like what we tasted from the one lady, but we will be sure to try other cakes from different cake people. We still need to collect the mailing addresses of all our family members before we can send out the save-the-dates.

We still have lots to do!! Hope to update you guys soon :)

~Patricia~

Things are a-happenin.

So, lots of news on the wedding front people. As Pat has already told you, we've chosen a reception location. We're pretty excited about that. We've also met with a few photographers. We met with this couple here in Greensboro (where I'm interning for the summer) off of a recommendation, and we both really liked them! Then, the following week Pat met with another couple in Wake Forest. She liked them even more than the Greenboro folk! All that's left is for me to meet them as well, to make sure we're all on the same page, and then we will hopefully have our photographer.

Cake.

Pat went with Stephanie (right?) to meet this cake person. The lady made some samples for them, and Pat was kind enough to save some for me and bring them up to Greenboro with here to let me try. Well, I can tell you now that I'm going to be kind of picky about the cake. I don't want it to be too birthday-cakey and I don't want to frosting to be too sweet. I don't really know what I do want, but I know that I don't want those two things at the very least. After tasting the samples, I really like "yellow cake" as the inside, compared to whatever the other two were. I want to try "pound", but if it's too much like what you get at Starbuck's ™ then I'll have to say no. I also really liked this mint-chocolate icing that was on the chocolate cake. Unfortunately, Pat and I can't really imagine a brown wedding cake. A little too moderne for us. We're going to find out if she can make a mint white-chocolate icing, but I'm skeptical as to how that white chocolate will taste. We'll see I suppose.

Once we have a photographer, we'll work on getting a DJ ("uh thaz my Dee Jay") and then we'll just have to worry about other stuff! We hope to send out some save-the-dates this month so as to give people plenty of time to get it saved.

Excitement!