Long Time No Update!

Hello to all of those who have not completely given up on checking the blog! I know that I have been horribly delinquent and even felt pressure/guilt to post to the blog during the 13 days in between moving back from NYC and the wedding but just could not do it. WAY too much stuff to do to tell all of you about the stuff I was doing.

At any rate, my goal is to finish up my posts about the wedding planning experience and catch you all up with the little details and labors of love that made our wedding possible. All those that attended, I hope you had a fabulous time. It really was a perfect day for E and me.

I am debating keeping this blog going even after the wedding updates and make it a sort of Nelson Family Blog but we'll see. If that's the case, it'll probably go private just because blogging about newly married life, job searches, and other such things just seems much more personal than blogging about a wedding, which is a public-ish event afterall.

So, I hope that you will again start checking this site for the events leading up to the big day. Although, it may not be as fun considering you've probably already seen the main event. For my long-distance friends/visitors this will probably be much more interesting. Anyway, I should probably get going with my day (morning classes being canceled are both blessings and curses).

Ceremony Planning

Erik and I have been working on the ceremony in the background. We've done it in the car on the way home from Mother's Day and from his grandfather's 80th birthday party as well as from another friend's wedding. This planning of the ceremony, however, ended after I moved to NYC (as with most other wedding planning until last week!).

Soo.... in comes our officiant. He emailed me last week and was like, "Hey, um... need the ceremony...." So, Erik and I got back on it. And, after a few reviews from bridal party and non-bridal party members, it is perfect! I'm so excited about it. I was reading it tonight out loud to see how long it was going to be and it is 12 minutes... before adding dramatic pauses and time for readers to get to the microphone. So, are probably looking at a 30 minute ceremony from start (walking of the g'ma) to the end (us leaving!).

I'm going to send it to our officiant in the morning (E is still deciding on his reader). After that, it's program time!

Hotel Info

Hello All,

I have great news about the hotel. The special rates for both Friday and Saturday have been extended until AUGUST 3. We also had them lower the rates to $79 for both room options - 1 king & 2 queens. This also was applied retroactively for those of you completely on the ball with these things!

However, a bit of scolding for those of you who have not RSVPed yet: Please do so! And please indicate who wants what for food!

I love checking our shared Google Doc every day to see how many people are coming. We are up to 94 guests! Also, we were able to invite some people that we REALLY WANTED to come but just didn't have the space. We are super excited to be able to have those people join us on our special day. Unfortunately, we are working with the reality of a tight squeeze with our venue.

So, that's it for now. We have less than 6 weeks until the big day!