Oh my, so much has happened in the last 2 months. Specifically most of it in the last month or so actually. First thing, the invites are out. YAY!! What an ordeal that was. We had bought a DIY kit from Michael's which was fairly straight forward. However, apparently my printer does not like to print on card stock paper and therefore we had to figure out a work around. Short of buying a new printer, we knew that we would have to add something to the invite so that we could print on it. So it turned out that we found some nice, regular thickness paper that matches the pattern on the invites pretty well to print out the info on. This meant that the printed out stuff had to be cut and glued to the card stock. Oh my god! If my printer had been able to print on the card stock I probably would have been able to finish assembling the invites in like one weekend. Having to cut and glue all the stuff to the card stock added a weeks worth of work. I did get a new toy though. Its a cool paper cutter that allowed me to cut all these stupid things straight and somewhat consistently. I will stop complaining about the invites though cuz the ended up coming out beautifully. I think the added touches from printing on the paper as opposed to the card stock made them that much better. You will see!
Mailing them was another thing. Before we started the whole paper fiasco, we had gone to the post office to see what kind of postage we need for the invite. Without the fix (cus we didn't know that we needed it at that point) the invites were 29 grams. The threshold for a stamp is 30g. So that was good, but after adding all the glue and paper and such we were afraid that it would be over the 30g. So we went to weigh them again and they were....30g exactly. Score! So hopefully you should all see the invite and the (figurative) blood sweat and tears that we (mostly I, Jeff did help with some assemblage and addressing but nothing that would have warrented blood sweat or tears on his part) put into making them.
So that was one thing. We have also figured out what they guys will be wearing. They will look snazzy I think, but it is hard to tell since you don't actually get to try on the entire tux when you go in for a measurement...heck you don't even get to try on a tux at that point, more just random pants and jackets that they have in store so they can get your measurements. But I think they should look sharp.
That same day we went to the mall and ended up getting both Jeff's ring and the registry set up. Jeff had a lot of fun with the scanner. So we are registered at The Bay, however we are going to get everything sent to the store here rather than ending up with a bunch of large presents in Victoria that we have to lug across the country. Amazingly we already have some presents that have arrived.
We have also just found our officiant and our dj. So check and check. The last things we need to do are reserve the tent and order flowers and centerpieces (we know what we want but we don't know how many we need). And then we have some other details to iron out. But the ball is rolling pretty well now. Hopefully it doesn't roll over us!
