two months and counting down

Yep, well, that's a bit of a frightening thought... less than two months. So much to do. Not just wedding stuff, but life stuff too. I keep trying to simplify everything as much as possible. I easily over-complicate things, so I'm making an effort not to over the coming months. I figure that's the only way all the things will get done.

Thanks so much to those of you who have mailed back your RSVP cards. Much appreciated! Looking forward to seeing everyone at the wedding!

My apologies for the fact that the rest of the wedding webpage has yet to be developed. We'd both really like to, but seeing as I don't know how to do any of that fancy-smancy web design stuff and Marcus barely has time to breathe calmly these days, it will probably be finished about three months after the wedding is over and done with. At which point the webpage will become our personal couple's page :)

Some of you have already booked your hotel rooms at the Four Points. For those that still need to do this, please do so soon. Remember, the block rooms will only be held until Oct. 20th.

Tina's "Bestman" dress is partly finished. I mailed it to her recently and now I'm just waiting for her to try it on and fit it accordingly. In the meantime, I've been sewing lots of stuff for a Christmas craft fair at our church in November.

We attended the wedding ceremony for our Pastor, Mike, last Saturday. Congratulations to Tracey and Mike! It got Marcus and I all in pumped up for our own wedding and re-affirmed why we want to make this commitment to each other. Things have been strained lately, but we'll make it through this rough spot. Thank you to our very supportive family and dear friends!

my apologies

Sorry. I can't seem to get the images of the vases to load on the blog page. You'll just have to use your imagination, smile, and say, "oh, those Are lovely". :)

bit by bit

My lovely parents finally found the perfect large vases for our ceremony flower arrangements. Marcus and I had found some at Ikea that we liked and thought were pretty affordable, except that the vases were not available at the Calgary location and we had no way of getting them from Vancouver to Calgary. So my mom checked out Sunnyside and bought two of these perfect vases. I think they're even better than the ones we had seen at Ikea.

I also gave my mom the task of dealing with reserving a block of rooms at a local hotel for out-of-town guests. I think that is pretty much taken care of now. We have rooms reserved at the Four Points Sheraton, just off highway #1, near Canada Olympic Park. Procedural details will follow for those that are in need of a hotel room. Please do take note that, reservations must be made before October 20th, at which time all un-booked block rooms will be made available to the rest of the public. As it turns out there's a big ski competition at Canada Olympic Park the same weekend as the wedding, so both the Four Points and the new Sandman near the park are booking quickly (since the ski teams are staying there).

I've been spending my evenings sewing on Tina's bestman dress together. It's coming alright, but I have quickly realized that removing stitches from satin is a pain in the butt and the holes remain, so I hope the dress isn't too small anywhere for her. It's going to be a lot easy to take it in, then it will be to let it out and still look nice. I'm planning on mailing the dress to Tina in a half finished state in order for her to give it a try. The dress is fully lined, so any alterations pretty much need to be done before I permanently sew in the lining. Still need to deal with my veil too. I don't think that will take long at all to create, unless I decide to do some beading on it.

Less than three months to go! Maybe we should get like a big clock on the webpage to count down the days...