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Shiny_Rock
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- Nov 12, 2004
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you all are the BEST and sweetest women on earth. truly. it is incredibly, incredibly sad and still just not real. we are waiting to hear about the arrangements.
naturally I also do want to share all my news from home. it was a great trip. I arrived home to banners and a cake saying "Happy Engagement" and balloons and everything (courtesy of my sisters and parents) and I did get some major details worked out though some things are still hanging in the air.
my first choice of venue is not going to work but when I actually went there, it wasn''t quite what I had remembered it to be so that was okay. the second choice (now first choice) seemed like it was going to work like a charm until the marquee guy got in touch with him (after my sister and I had spent an hour with him talking through my plans) and he is not happy with the dimensions of the marquee - but there''s nothing I can do about it, it won''t work in anything smaller. So I''m not sure now where I stand with him and there are some other bits that might be more difficult at this location (for example, it''s right on a main road and I''d be nervous of the children that will be there getting out and onto the roadway) so it would all have to be positioned in one specific way or it just won''t work there either.
However, I did see another place, a third place and liked it a whole lot. I had never even known it existed until my sister told me. From the point of view of privacy and the kiddie angle, it''s ideal. From the point of view that the other two were near the ocean and this is not, it''s not quite what I had had in mind. On the upside it''s a period house and was a hunting lodge in the 1800''s and is all furnished from then and would be LOVELY for photos if not what I originally had in mind.
Finally, it looks like being a two-day affair anyway because the Catholic church (originally didn''t think we would have a church wedding but loads of paperwork/phonecalls and meetings later it actually works out that this is the only option we can go with because a civil ceremony requires us to be resident in the country for longer than we can be there so ........ ) won''t perform marriages on a Sunday so the ceremony would have to be on Saturday but I still want the gathering to be on Sunday so NOW I''m thinking I could take photos after the ceremony with just family (small number for the ceremony, no-one outside of immediate family, so not even 20 people, including the kids) at my original ocean locations and then have all the other pics at the hunting lodge on the Sunday.
Loads to work out still but the paperwork is filed and we are on our way !! I will post pics of all locations .... just one of each place - so you all can see - but I am increasingly thinking this will be how it''ll all go.
And I think it will work out just great !
naturally I also do want to share all my news from home. it was a great trip. I arrived home to banners and a cake saying "Happy Engagement" and balloons and everything (courtesy of my sisters and parents) and I did get some major details worked out though some things are still hanging in the air.
my first choice of venue is not going to work but when I actually went there, it wasn''t quite what I had remembered it to be so that was okay. the second choice (now first choice) seemed like it was going to work like a charm until the marquee guy got in touch with him (after my sister and I had spent an hour with him talking through my plans) and he is not happy with the dimensions of the marquee - but there''s nothing I can do about it, it won''t work in anything smaller. So I''m not sure now where I stand with him and there are some other bits that might be more difficult at this location (for example, it''s right on a main road and I''d be nervous of the children that will be there getting out and onto the roadway) so it would all have to be positioned in one specific way or it just won''t work there either.
However, I did see another place, a third place and liked it a whole lot. I had never even known it existed until my sister told me. From the point of view of privacy and the kiddie angle, it''s ideal. From the point of view that the other two were near the ocean and this is not, it''s not quite what I had had in mind. On the upside it''s a period house and was a hunting lodge in the 1800''s and is all furnished from then and would be LOVELY for photos if not what I originally had in mind.
Finally, it looks like being a two-day affair anyway because the Catholic church (originally didn''t think we would have a church wedding but loads of paperwork/phonecalls and meetings later it actually works out that this is the only option we can go with because a civil ceremony requires us to be resident in the country for longer than we can be there so ........ ) won''t perform marriages on a Sunday so the ceremony would have to be on Saturday but I still want the gathering to be on Sunday so NOW I''m thinking I could take photos after the ceremony with just family (small number for the ceremony, no-one outside of immediate family, so not even 20 people, including the kids) at my original ocean locations and then have all the other pics at the hunting lodge on the Sunday.
Loads to work out still but the paperwork is filed and we are on our way !! I will post pics of all locations .... just one of each place - so you all can see - but I am increasingly thinking this will be how it''ll all go.
And I think it will work out just great !
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