gwendolyn
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Hello, lovely ladies! Congrats to those of you who have recently gotten married or who are getting married this weekend! Hooray!
I don't know what it is with me--just can't seem to commit to a plan for what EXACTLY we are doing for our (legal) UK wedding or our US celebration. After some posts on here, we decided that the best bet would be to have a pre-wedding dress rehearsal sort of celebration in the states with my friends & family and then, shortly after, have a small, legal ceremony here with J's friends and family. So, we started looking into doing that, and all was good, and my folks were helping to find venues in the states, and we were weighing our options here in the UK (either this lovely venue for about 30 or so people, or registry office and nice dinner out to celebrate).
BUT! Now I have sort of fallen in love with a venue in the states for a few reasons--it's in the Poconos, somewhere where my family and I used to vacation every summer and where my beloved grandmother used to live, it's on a LAKE in the Poconos (am totally butt-crazy in love with all bodies of water), it's reasonably priced if we're having a "banquet" and not a "wedding," my aunt & uncle used to work there and say the food's yumtastic, AND they have bumper boats and I *so* want to go up against my friends in bumper boats while wearing my wedding dress. I want that photo!
So, this last bit (the bumper boats) kind of throws things a bit, because originally we were looking to do our US party at the end of March. End of March in the Poconos is usually still winter, so then we'd have no bumper boats.
When I think about moving the US party back to the end of May or beginning of June (if they have dates available--mid-week is a-ok with me!), then it works weather-wise AND I am pretty sure I'd be ok having it after the legal wedding if it got to be the sort of thing I've been imagining, which it would be especially because J's MOM said that she talked to J's sisters and they would all be willing to fly over to the US so we could have one big celebration, instead of two separate ones! (We will call the sisters to confirm this tomorrow, but how cool would that be?!
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So, yeah. I realize I must be totally whacko to have had about 23467598423 different ideas for when and where to do our weddings, BUT this one is the sort of deal I have been imagining all along that I thought was out of reach--beautiful location, warm weather, casual BBQ type atmosphere (they have a BBQ banquet option), everyone all together, and with fun stuff to do that's a little unusual! AND it's all in a sentimental place, and in budget!
Let's just hope that finding a dress and choosing shoes is easier and less time consuming...
I don't know what it is with me--just can't seem to commit to a plan for what EXACTLY we are doing for our (legal) UK wedding or our US celebration. After some posts on here, we decided that the best bet would be to have a pre-wedding dress rehearsal sort of celebration in the states with my friends & family and then, shortly after, have a small, legal ceremony here with J's friends and family. So, we started looking into doing that, and all was good, and my folks were helping to find venues in the states, and we were weighing our options here in the UK (either this lovely venue for about 30 or so people, or registry office and nice dinner out to celebrate).
BUT! Now I have sort of fallen in love with a venue in the states for a few reasons--it's in the Poconos, somewhere where my family and I used to vacation every summer and where my beloved grandmother used to live, it's on a LAKE in the Poconos (am totally butt-crazy in love with all bodies of water), it's reasonably priced if we're having a "banquet" and not a "wedding," my aunt & uncle used to work there and say the food's yumtastic, AND they have bumper boats and I *so* want to go up against my friends in bumper boats while wearing my wedding dress. I want that photo!
So, this last bit (the bumper boats) kind of throws things a bit, because originally we were looking to do our US party at the end of March. End of March in the Poconos is usually still winter, so then we'd have no bumper boats.
So, yeah. I realize I must be totally whacko to have had about 23467598423 different ideas for when and where to do our weddings, BUT this one is the sort of deal I have been imagining all along that I thought was out of reach--beautiful location, warm weather, casual BBQ type atmosphere (they have a BBQ banquet option), everyone all together, and with fun stuff to do that's a little unusual! AND it's all in a sentimental place, and in budget!
Let's just hope that finding a dress and choosing shoes is easier and less time consuming...
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