Year of the Dragon is here!

Four months to go!

Went to my first dress fitting on the 13th with a friend from school. Chrissy has done an incredible job with the design! It still needs a lot of work, though, since the dress is currently about 5" too long and doesn't quite fit my bust. I go back in mid-February to get fit again. Yay!

Had a great meeting yesterday with Megan to talk about how we're going to set up the venue, centerpieces, and all sorts of other things. We'll only have four large round tables, which means I only need to make four full-size centerpieces. The rest are all going to be cocktail tables and plinths. We'll also have a lounge in the back next to the dance area with two super comfortable couches. There will be tons of candles, so I'm excited about that. I need to figure out the centerpieces still, though... hm, more on that forthcoming. Still a lot of things to finalize, but first I need to start assembling invitations...

Some progress... but not a ton

Well, I didn't end up doing quite as much in December as I thought I might, since I really only took a few days off. Oh well, we did accomplish some things.

We finally got around to meeting with our caterer to talk menu and about the cutting cake. We're really excited; the cakes we tasted were delicious, and both tastings we've been to of theirs have been fantastic. The food is in good hands. They aren't called Seattle's most creative caterer for nothin'.

Let's see... what else? We started putting together the music playlist. It's got a long way to go and isn't really ordered yet... but at least we've started! Um. I bought a HD webcam for the live video streaming so that the random people who can't join us will have good quality video to watch! I also added a tab at the top as a placeholder for whenever I actually set up the account...

January should be pretty busy. I have a dress fitting and some meetings to go to... oh boy!

Six months to go

Where has the time gone??

School has been going pretty well (got a proposal mostly funded, which means I finally have a dissertation topic), and we've had a lot of visiting friends. While I love having company and being busy, it really digs into my planning time. I've hardly touched planning or crafting for the wedding in the last month. Oh well, I still have plenty of time, especially with the holidays coming up.

Hopefully we'll get things squared away with catering here soon and I'll find some time to focus on the rest of the stuff that needs to get done. I'm also looking into printing a book with photos of us and our travels together to have as a table book. I mean, the engagement photos turned out so nice... I want to have a good way to display them! Then again, it also makes me wish Cody and I were better about taking photos.