Christmas Updates
First the good news, I'm thrilled to announce that my brother Robert has agreed to be my Best Man, which lifts a huge weight from my shoulders. I still need to find another Groomsman, but I think I will get that done this holiday season when all my friends are in town and I get a chance to talk with everyone.
Karen and I have been working on a few projects these last few weeks that I will shine a little light on now. First we finally settled on a look for our wedding cake, after digging through books and talking back and forth about it we have pinpointed the things we like and sent off a package to my Aunt Cindy detailing what we are looking for. My Aunt Cindy has volunteered to make our wedding cake, she has been a cake hobbyist for a few years now and we are thrilled that she is willing to do this for us. I know the final result will be beautiful.
We have also started redesigning our invitations. We had done some planning before our trip to NH, and once we found our chapel and had to change our wedding date, we went from an early autumn wedding to a late summer wedding. Which hasn't been a problem really, but it has caused us to take a second look at some of the things we decided on before the date change including the flowers and decorations we wanted to use. Looking at our original invitation designs it is easy to see that we were still in an autumn mindset with them, including the gerbera daisies that were prominent in the design which we will not be using in our wedding because they are out of season. I have drawn some new art for the invitations, and handed it over to Karen's sister-in-law Sarah to be used in the new design. Sarah is a graphic artist like me, she volunteered to design our invitations for us, which has been a godsend because had she not volunteered to do them I would probably be doing them myself, and I don't really have the time with everything else going on.
Karen and I have purchased my wedding ring. In the end, I decided to go with a plain white gold band. After looking through many different styles and trying to find something that was "me" I realised that I'm not very fancy, and I don't really want a fancy ring either. It also made sense for me to get a White Gold band as opposed to Titanium or Tungsten because White Gold can be sized and engraved, which is important for me. I'm a heavy guy, I want to be in better shape and hopefully I can do that and keep it off, but I always want my wedding ring to fit. So the ability to size it will be very important. I would also like to have both of our rings engraved, which I can't do with Titanium and Tungsten (I did find a few places that claim they can do it, but most places say it can't be done which bothers me).
Karen and I have purchased our wedding guestbook, which isn't really huge news except that it was sort of a project. We hated all the generic ones we saw in the stores, then we found one that was made by a scrapbook company that had a wood cover we knew we could take apart and paint to match our wedding colors. I still need to make a stencil out of our monogram for the cover, but it is painted now and looking really sharp.
So, all of that, combined with Christmas and we have been a little busy. That hasn't stopped us from thinking of everyone, we hope you are all well and having a great Holiday Season.
Karen and I have been working on a few projects these last few weeks that I will shine a little light on now. First we finally settled on a look for our wedding cake, after digging through books and talking back and forth about it we have pinpointed the things we like and sent off a package to my Aunt Cindy detailing what we are looking for. My Aunt Cindy has volunteered to make our wedding cake, she has been a cake hobbyist for a few years now and we are thrilled that she is willing to do this for us. I know the final result will be beautiful.
We have also started redesigning our invitations. We had done some planning before our trip to NH, and once we found our chapel and had to change our wedding date, we went from an early autumn wedding to a late summer wedding. Which hasn't been a problem really, but it has caused us to take a second look at some of the things we decided on before the date change including the flowers and decorations we wanted to use. Looking at our original invitation designs it is easy to see that we were still in an autumn mindset with them, including the gerbera daisies that were prominent in the design which we will not be using in our wedding because they are out of season. I have drawn some new art for the invitations, and handed it over to Karen's sister-in-law Sarah to be used in the new design. Sarah is a graphic artist like me, she volunteered to design our invitations for us, which has been a godsend because had she not volunteered to do them I would probably be doing them myself, and I don't really have the time with everything else going on.
Karen and I have purchased my wedding ring. In the end, I decided to go with a plain white gold band. After looking through many different styles and trying to find something that was "me" I realised that I'm not very fancy, and I don't really want a fancy ring either. It also made sense for me to get a White Gold band as opposed to Titanium or Tungsten because White Gold can be sized and engraved, which is important for me. I'm a heavy guy, I want to be in better shape and hopefully I can do that and keep it off, but I always want my wedding ring to fit. So the ability to size it will be very important. I would also like to have both of our rings engraved, which I can't do with Titanium and Tungsten (I did find a few places that claim they can do it, but most places say it can't be done which bothers me).
Karen and I have purchased our wedding guestbook, which isn't really huge news except that it was sort of a project. We hated all the generic ones we saw in the stores, then we found one that was made by a scrapbook company that had a wood cover we knew we could take apart and paint to match our wedding colors. I still need to make a stencil out of our monogram for the cover, but it is painted now and looking really sharp.
So, all of that, combined with Christmas and we have been a little busy. That hasn't stopped us from thinking of everyone, we hope you are all well and having a great Holiday Season.
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