Updates

I have been taking pictures of stuff like crazy to put on this website for my own amusement, but it took me over a month to get them out of my camera! I supposed that means I'll just condense all the pictures and comments into a single post.

I had to take two pictures because the top row of beer 

was obscuring the rest in my cavernous trunk

 We picked up some of the beer since we didn't want the wine to feel too much pressure. We were going to get the beer at Grocery Outlet also, but we happened to go down the beer aisle in Freddy's and they had an amazing deal so we filled up a grocery cart and made a lot of strangers jealous.

our test LED lantern 

Big stack of paper lanterns 

I never thought it would be the decorations that would get Aaron enthusiastic about the wedding, but I also probably wouldn't have guessed we'd geek out and decide to make our own lighting. Against our whole local thing, all the components are from China, but it was fun ordering massive amounts of LEDs and batteries from sketchy websites.

warm white light

We also got LED string lights. This may disappoint Chris because it means we'll only need one extension cord - you can hook 41 strands of these together end to end.

an "adequate" coffee mug

I broke our favorite mug,  which my supervisor had given me, and when we went to the store to find a replacement, they had giant mugs in the pattern we picked out for our dishes! We were really excited and bought two. I have to say, I can't drink that much tea between the time it is cool enough and the time it is too cool, but they are great for soup and Aaron loves them for Saturdays which are apparently too-much-coffee days.

doesn't like to be seen without a cap

I started on the cake toppers. I made a cap out of sculpey clay for the guy. The ease of painting gray hair on his head was just another reason to wish girls looked as good in short hair as guys do - the convenience of short hair even extends to crafts. The girl one is still indecent so she can't get her picture taken.

We're pretty sure we're wrong, but we think we have all the big stuff taken care of and all the rest is gravy - stuff we want to do but can blow off if we get overwhelmed between now and the wedding. Less than 5 weeks!

Photographer Update

Hey all, this is just an update to the photography situation. In the "join in" post we mentioned Ryan agreed to be our photographer. Then we realized we don't really have the gear to do it properly - and that would end up being pretty stressful for Ryan and us, so we decided to hire some professionals.

Ashley Forrette and Aaron Courter are going to "capture our special day." We met them yesterday morning at a coffee shop (they even bought be bacon) and had fun getting to know them.

I think the formerly-camera-shy Aaron is very reassured and he'll be even more so after the engagement session when he sees how much fun it can be to get your picture taken.

I can't pick on Aaron too much, because many of you know that growing up I was an extremely uncooperative subject, and over half of our photo-ops resulted in tears. Why in the world I should pretend to be happy and pretend to like my sisters after hiking to the top of some trail just because a camera was pointed at me, I never understood.