Random assortment of thoughts
(I took this from the plane so excuse slight fuzziness - we were flying over the mountainous areas of mainland China and we passed by this lake which had lots and lots of roads leading to it)
Uber tired. Basically worked from 9:30am-9pm today, which was an interesting experience. Back-roads driving with high beams is preeeeeeetty neat. Also, trying to stay focused when a kid rambles to you about how much they love Hannah Montana is great fun. Or which Jonas brother they think is really good looking. Wheeeeeeee, awesome.
Otherwise, work is going well. Lots to do, don't have enough time to get it all done when I have to juggle training with it. People have progressed from freaking out about their jobs to H1N1. Wewt.
I can see why it's easy to fall behind with paperwork though - I'm juggling 9 families and it can get pretty intense. I don't even want to imagine juggling another 10 more.
---- Wedding rambling to follow ----
Wedding planning is moving along, since I realize now that time is dwindling and I reallllllllllllly need to get started on everything. We managed to book a photographer over the weekend, which was nice. We had narrowed it down to two choices - I had my first choice, which I decided on since I had a chance to talk to the photographers at some wedding shows I'd been and I really loved their style.. but they were slightly out of our price range. We looked up option two because they were cheaper and also had an interesting style to their pictures. In essence, both of them did more than just blur the edges to make things more "artsy" - you laugh, but you have no idea HOW MANY people advertise wedding photography and seriously, their whole portfolio is just blurry wedding shots. Wow, so artistic.
Anyhow - arranging to meet option two was much more difficult than it should have been. I emailed them at this time last week, and also called them on Wednesday. I was told that since we're getting married on (Canadian) Thanksgiving weekend, they'll have to see if they're working and they'll get back to me in a day or so. Well, it's been a week or so. Does that mean no? When I initially asked several weeks back (before we left on the trip), they had said that date was fine. So.. what's going on?
We ended up meeting with option one just because we had scheduled to, and it ended up going really well. The photographer actually planned my whole day's timeline for me (!!!) because.. well, I hadn't done anything. So he suggested what would be a good time to start, where to go, etc. It was nice - I actually felt like I was getting somewhere. After all the calculations including what we wanted and what not, the end price was pretty good - much better than what we had anticipated.. slightly more expensive, but still within budget for the most part (we kind of got a discount). We talked about it a bit after the meeting and decided just to go with the place - they had what we wanted originally, the price was decent and option two was still slacking. I hope it all goes well though. O.o - we're supposedly doing an engagement shoot too in the summer sometime.. need to start scouting locations. :P
We also have scheduled to meet with invitation people this weekend to start considering invites and what not. It also means I need to develop a colour scheme .. since I don't even have an inkling of one at the moment. Picking colours is more complicating than I thought it would be. I don't want it to be like uber rustic, pumpkin patch wedding. I also don't want to use colours that are completely not even in season. I'm thinking a pale-ish green + bold orange + soft beige. Or some combination of that .. since I like how green looks, I think orange would be a nice compliment.. and beige/ivory is basically the colour scheme of our reception hall so might as well use it. I can't really find anything visually to demonstrate what I mean though - hopefully the invitation person will help. :/
So.. I still need to:
- book DJ (we have one in mind based on recommendations.. just need to talk to the guy)
- flowers (have another recommendation.. but no colour scheme = no flowers)
- cupcakes (picked one, just need to order .. again, no colour scheme = no decision)
- attire (no idea where to even begin.. but I think the guys have a scheduled appointment at some tux place)
- photo-booth
.. and we still need to decide on the wedding party. Weep. -.-
I swear, if you're like me and most of your friends are male.. and you don't really have that many female friends (read: 3) you're sooooooooooooo screwed.
I mean, I do have female friends.. but I don't want the wedding party to be a free-for-all. I'd at least like to pick people I can talk to for more than 20 minutes. It makes it worse when people you want to include are overseas. AGKASGJ. -.-