Intro, progress and pics, a question and 319 days to go!
Name and/or LJ userID: nonvenomous.
Wedding Date: OCT 8th, 2011.
Bride/Groom/Other (please specify): I'm the Bride.
Age: 25
City/State/Country you live in: Baltimore area, MD, USA
City/State/Country you're getting married in (if different): Southern Coastal Maine, USA
Your song/First Dance song: Haven't chosen one yet.
Wedding Colors: Not picked yet, but we're most likely going to pick multicolored based on the movie. Most likely yellow, light blue, pink, purple, orange, and lime green.
Formality: Informal, casual.
Theme (if you have one): Since we love it and it means a lot to us, we're doing a Disney Pixar UP themed wedding.
Number of guests: 200 invited but likely less than 100 will attend.
How'd you meet your fiance?: Here on LJ ♥
How long have you been together?: Two and a half years.
Do you have a personal wedding website?: Not yet.
Have you read the community rules before posting this survey and do you agree to follow them? Absolutely.
Anything else you'd like to tell us?: Sure...
The details so far:
He proposed when we went to our favorite Cabin on vacation. He sent me on a wild goose chase scavenger hunt with cute little clues hidden from place to place. At the end of it was this ring.
The ring:
And because that doesn't do it justice, the website pics:
And the matching band:
We've had over 14 months to plan this and we were taking it nice and slow but now it's time to hustle. I've asked my two sisters to be the bridesmaids, my little brother to be the ring bearer, along with a long time friend as maid of honor, five other girls to be bridesmaids (4 of them on lj!), one of their adorable daughters to be the flower girl, and my cousin to be the best man. He's asking his two friends to be grooms men. I might ask another male friend to be a groomsman just to try to even it out a little. lol. But I do want to tell you guys about Pink Hearts Paperie on Etsy where I purchased these ADORABLE will you be my bridesmaids/groomsman/ring bearer/flower girl cards. I absolutely without a doubt recommend these to anyone, they are just too cute. And all the recipients LOVED them.
So we've hired a lovely wedding planner to help. We wanted to get married in New England since it's where we both are from and where we love so she helped us find this house to rent called Greystone Manor in Southern Coastal Maine right on the beach. It was one of the first few places that we talked about and when I mentioned it to my Fiance he was over the moon about it as it happened to share land with his favorite lighthouse (he has a thing for lighthouses). We were both just sold at that point. We've also rented the tent, the wood floors, and the bathroom trailers.
Pics of Greystone Manor:
The planner has also helped me book hair and makeup for the day, which both are packages that I will be gifting to the bridal party as well.
We've booked the amazing and talented charlottegeary, which I am absolutely ecstatic about! I've wanted her forever as her pictures are just stunning.
The next thing we're set to do is send out save the dates. The planner wants to get on these within the next 3 days so they will be ready ASAP and mail out this year (I asked her to do them a months ago, she swore we shouldn't as they'd get lost in holiday mail). And all of a sudden she's gone against her own words and wants them out NOW. She's worried because it's 11 months to the wedding and we haven't send those out. Now here's the thing - out of our 200 guests, 50 are my family (and some friends) from out of the country and the rest are coming from all over USA. Only 3 of the people invited are from Maine. So it's technically a destination wedding (which is one reason we decided on a long weekend, so that everyone can make a nice little holiday trip out of it). All of our friends and family have been asking for months when it is and most of them know when it is. A lot of them need to save money and take off time well in advance to make it. So we've tried to spread the word around.
Now, is it really necessary for save the dates? The planner is really pushing for them and soon. I think we should skip them and just send the invites ASAP instead. Is this tacky? Would you do this? As I said a lot of people will need to know in advance to make it, but a lot won't even be able to come (especially the out of country guests). I know we are inviting 200, but at least 40 of them have already said that they probably wouldn't make it and we suspect about another 60 won't be able to make it either (and there's a few obligatory invites in there for people who definitely won't come - bosses, coworkers, elder family members). So we're truly expecting about 70-80 and we'll be honestly shocked if more than 120 people come. But because it's such a destination, we have NO idea what true numbers will be. I think if we go straight for invites, not only do we save by not sending save the dates, but we'll get RSVP's and definite numbers so when we get caterers, bakers, seating rental, and other estimates, they won't be too high (or too low!) but rather very accurate. I really have no idea as I've never been married before LOL. Thoughts? Opinions? Please? And thanks!
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