An update on the wedding :)

Today Brian and I are going to try and get the cupcakes to taste test. I will leave 4 here and bring the rest to Caroline's. Hopefully they are open with a good variety :)

Yesterday we dropped off the contract at Wachesaw so I am very excited about that as well. Today Caroline and maybe her daughter are going to come with me to meet with a possible photographer. He is a bit expensive though and while I want professional photo's I don't really want to spend 2k on them. My trainer at work knows a girl who does weddings so she is going to get me her name. Hopefully a) her pictures are good and b) she is less expensive.

The hotel rooms have been put on hold and the guests only have until December 1st to get the rooms booked so that puts the rush on save-the-dates so that everyone has enough time. I have traditionally thought the hotel  info went with the invitations which means the invitations would need to be sent out before October and that would be only 2 weeks or so after the save-the dates. My trainer suggested sending the hotel info with the save the dates and my co-worker said that is how she did it and it worked wonderfully.

Now I just have to wait for my group sales director at the hotel to tell me how I should let the guests know how to book the rooms. It is a bit of a complicated set up....half of the people will be combining and have set rooms and the other half will book on their own within the block. The fear is that someone who is supposed to combine will end up in a single room and someone who isn't supposed to combine will end up in one of the larger units. Everyone who is combining knows they are and will be reminded before the save the date cards get sent out. What I do know is that everyone who is combining will get a special insert in their save the dates along with the typical hotel-info. What that insert and hotel info says, I will leave for the group sales director to advise on. I know how complicated and easily this can get messed up if people call in saying the wrong thing or not saying enough as I worked there and handled these calls so I definitely want my wedding to go smoother and easier for the Front Desk staff to handle because we are expecting about 60 people calling in which can be a lot for the hotel.

We are still deciding on what to do Friday night. Right now, if the cost is right, we are thinking of doing dinner at the hotel at about 6:30 after a quick rehearsal either at Wachesaw or outside where we would get married at the hotel if we got married there. After dinner we would have a couple activities for people to do so that everyone can get to know everyone. That is the current idea :)

Next week I hope to meet with the DJ. The second DJ finally emailed me back but didn't really answer any questions so I hope the first DJ who responded and was just so helpful is just as wonderful as he seems to be. It would be nice to get that checked off the list.