We’re late! We’re Late! To set a very important date!
Okay, well, that isn’t EXACTLY true.
We’ve already set it. A few times….
Nick and I were engaged on August 10th, 2008. I think we set a date the following weekend and wrote out our guest list on the back of a used envelope at happy hour on the beach. There are some days that I really miss Miami…I digress.
I mistakenly thought setting a date was the easiest part of planning a wedding. In my mind, we set the date and people would show up; we began with the wonderful date of 10/10/09. I have a terrible memory so my though process was obvious. I could see myself being unable to recall the exact date and think “what is our wedding anniversary? well, we got married in October-the tenth month…oh I know! 10/10 is our anniversary!”. Not to mention 10/10/2009 is the same in both the British date writing (day/month/year) and American (month/day/year). Pathetic I know, but useful and handy!
Additionally October is very beautiful in Maryland. The humidity begins to die down, the heat subsides and we begin to get little pops of colors in the trees. So I began to imagine my Maryland fall wedding, with bright orange trees and our wedding colors of deep aubergine and chocolate brown. Wedding favors-how about copper fall leaf wine stoppers? The cake? lets put fall leaves on it! the invites? fall leaves! fall leaves!
SEE! FALL LEAVES!
But upon further consultation with our nearest and dearest we soon found that 10/10/2009 was not to be. Many of our friends and relatives are teachers or students and a mid term vacation to a different country would be fairly difficult. So we went back to the drawing board and after much research of UK, US and Australian school/university holidays we finally ended up on a date at the end of August.
Also, after talking to my photographer he reassured me that the leaves don’t even really change till November anyway.
Did you have difficulty setting a date? Did you have to change it multiple times too?
January 1st, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Hello fellow Bee! I was just writing a post and went to link to a comment you left and realized who it was when I clicked over to your blog! I’m curious how you know Meatball so well?