(mostly) not about my job
saw 4 appointment allbymyself today. really that meant i was sitting around a lot, but i did ok-ish with remembering what im supposed to say and do in appointments. hopefully the clients didnt notice much. my boss is very awesome, approachable, and supportive.
but anyway what i really wanted to talk about was getting married to kenneth. we really want to do that in October 2010. the question is, do we do that here or in memphis? as far as options on locations, wedding coordinators, dresses, hair stylists, and generally all the various vendors and resources, Washington DC wins hands down. however, we would like to actually have our friends from Starkville and thereabouts attend our wedding, and a 15 hour drive or a flight is a bit much. 3 hours is doable. there'd be no way for me to have a bachellorette party or kenneth a bachelor party here. we dont have many local friends at the moment and thus the travel problem of 3 hours vs. 15. im leaning towards getting a wedding coordinator here and planning remotely. one reason why, i can only find a few listings for wedding planners in memphis area, whereas there are many here. its gonna be a big pain in the ass to plan remotely and have to travel ahead of time to check out things in person, etc, but i dont know what else we can do to have friends present.
there are also the issues of what to budget our wedding at. my parents helped us so much just moving here, i dont know if i can ask much in the way of paying for a wedding. kenneth and i could probably save up enough in the next year but dont you have to sortof pay for things over time and know a specific number at the beginning? we'd hoped for a nice wedding, not crazy, we dont need every little detail but there high points id like to have done well. and then we'd really like a nice honeymoon. its distressing. we'd hate to put it off longer than a year.
oh, and issue number next, i have 16 days total to spend on vacation, illness, and CE. vacation wishlist includes Gulf Wars in March, DragonCon, and Wedding and Honeymoon plus some number of days it might take to go to memphis and check on any details.
maybe we could have a short, relatively inexpensive getaway after the wedding and have a big trip the following year? maybe we should do the really nice wedding small here for family and do the big party later? but that doesnt solve the issue of bachelor/bachelorette parties and may or may not address the issue of vacation days.
i dont know
any additional ideas?
but anyway what i really wanted to talk about was getting married to kenneth. we really want to do that in October 2010. the question is, do we do that here or in memphis? as far as options on locations, wedding coordinators, dresses, hair stylists, and generally all the various vendors and resources, Washington DC wins hands down. however, we would like to actually have our friends from Starkville and thereabouts attend our wedding, and a 15 hour drive or a flight is a bit much. 3 hours is doable. there'd be no way for me to have a bachellorette party or kenneth a bachelor party here. we dont have many local friends at the moment and thus the travel problem of 3 hours vs. 15. im leaning towards getting a wedding coordinator here and planning remotely. one reason why, i can only find a few listings for wedding planners in memphis area, whereas there are many here. its gonna be a big pain in the ass to plan remotely and have to travel ahead of time to check out things in person, etc, but i dont know what else we can do to have friends present.
there are also the issues of what to budget our wedding at. my parents helped us so much just moving here, i dont know if i can ask much in the way of paying for a wedding. kenneth and i could probably save up enough in the next year but dont you have to sortof pay for things over time and know a specific number at the beginning? we'd hoped for a nice wedding, not crazy, we dont need every little detail but there high points id like to have done well. and then we'd really like a nice honeymoon. its distressing. we'd hate to put it off longer than a year.
oh, and issue number next, i have 16 days total to spend on vacation, illness, and CE. vacation wishlist includes Gulf Wars in March, DragonCon, and Wedding and Honeymoon plus some number of days it might take to go to memphis and check on any details.
maybe we could have a short, relatively inexpensive getaway after the wedding and have a big trip the following year? maybe we should do the really nice wedding small here for family and do the big party later? but that doesnt solve the issue of bachelor/bachelorette parties and may or may not address the issue of vacation days.
i dont know
any additional ideas?