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[goddess32585]

It's been a while since I had the discipline to separate out 'topics for public consumption' from everything else, but I wanted to make a 'state of the planning' entry anyway. There has been progress, but probably not enough :/ boo, IAP. [this entry is mostly done in first person, b/c it looks weird to talk about 'we' all the time; i'm not royalty

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[davidglasser]

as far as chairs and jointy people go, perhaps encourage people to bring camping chairs? i'd also worry a tad about sudden rain in H^2 unless you're going to be superconservative about activating the rain plan. but CC would be a pretty place.

as far as the between-ceremony-and-dance-party time i suspect it'll be fine for local people or folks like me who are friends of local people, especially if you implicitly encourage people to come up with complementary plans. eg i will probably throw a $RESTAURANT mob. for your non-Boston alone friends, you may be able to throw them at such a mob, but maybe that would be awkward; you can always give them a little "exploring cambridge" handout with recommendations of fun sights to see, restaurants, bookstores, etc etc etc.

(also, hmm, you might want to make it explicit to people like me who are thinking of organizing things in that interim time to what degree the dance party (and the ceremony, etc) is invitation-only. i mean if this was a Wedding then it would be obvious that if you weren't invited then you don't get to follow my dinner mob to the party, but this is a !Wedding.)

anyway done rambling now. i think you two will make this day an awesome one!

[conana]

I'm vague and undecided about the ceremony, but my general attitude about the evening party is that people who know us and think they'd enjoy it should come.

[goddess32585]

I definitely intended to add a 'What to Do in Boston' section to the website, since I have out of town people who've never been and might never come back, and they might want to spend some time looking around. (Hm. I should refrain from making an RSS feed to keep people informed as we add stuff.) Camping chairs are a thought! I forget that people bring their own stuff to hang out in parks all the time.

As noted, v. little of this is invitation-only; we don't really have any need to restrict the number of people who show up to any part of the day, luckily. (Ok, I will slightly die if we run out of food, but that seems unlikely.) Mostly I worry about the inverse problem: people who don't care about the ceremony only showing up b/c we invited them, and being bored/offended/etc. But I am trying to be better than usual about explicitly informing everyone I think would want to be there, instead of relying on word of mouth and SOs like usual, so people can decide for themselves.

My high school friends are awesome (no really, ask bergey), I should totally throw them at my MIT friends and watch the ensuing chaos! Wait, no.