39 days to go...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:40 AM
We had dinner with M's parents last night to discuss the rehearsal dinner. I was nervous that the crazy-angry-yelly E would show up, but I found the perfect solution that enabled me to discuss the rehearsal dinner like an adult... beer. Just one, but it made the crazy go away enough to have a decent conversation with M's parents and get a lot of the rehearsal dinner planned. We're thinking of renting a local park shelter, ordering Qdoba and just practicing the ceremony here in Madison. Sounds lovely. I have to call Qdoba today to order the food.
I got an e-mail from Target saying a couple items on my registery have gone out of stock or something like that so I went to update it... apparently people have already bought us things! Wow... those people are not procrastinators... I feel kind of weird about being able to see what's already been bought (and even weirder not knowing who bought it)... Do all online registries show what people have already purchased? M said we probably shouldn't look at it, which I agree, aside from updating/adding things... but I still have this curious desire to bring up the list and see what we're getting... a lot...
Time has just flown by, I can hardly believe it'll be only a little more than a month until I'm Mrs B. Although, as my mom said when we told her we were engaged (in August of '06) "It's about time!" (she later told me she regretted not saying something nicer like: Congratulations! but, whatever mom... you said what you said...)
I'm debating ordering ponchos, cheap, one use ponchos in case of rain. I asked guests to bring rain gear if it looked like rain, but I don't know, are ponchos too cautious or a good idea? We're trying to figure it out.
Oh yeah, flowers.
I went to a bunch of florists with my mom on Friday. Apparently that is not how you get a bridal bouquet. Each florist (well, probably flower shop cashier) asked when the wedding was and we said August, there was an awkard pause followed by... "of this year?" Only one of the several stores we went to had their wedding flower person in (before we went, we didn't even know each florist had a wedding flowre person...) The one wedding flower guy, when I said I wanted a bridal bouqet, stared at me... so I said, "that's all I got." He seemed in a hurry and rushed my mom and I to a table and threw some picture books at us. He then more or less reprimanded me for not having looked at pictures already, saying that i could do so on my own leisure time (and not tie up his table? as we were the only customers in the store...) in fact, he suggested I look at flower pictures on The Knot... had I ever heard of it? um... yeah.
Any way, I think we're going to buy bulk flowers online from Sam's wholesale club, they have really good prices and no weird looks from wedding snob florists.