Let The Planning Begin...

Being that Rhiannon and I are now engaged, it's time for the wedding planning to commence! I'm beyond excited! I've been looking forward to this for a LONG time!

Rhiannon, like most women, will do most of the hardcore planning, especially the dresses, flowers, and such. (I'm not too good at that. HaHa!) I'll help with all of the decision-making, though, after she's narrowed her choices down to two or three. (We suck at decision-making anyway, so this ought to prove to be interesting.)

I don't want to come across as a man who's just going to sit back and let his bride-to-be do all of the work. Not at all; that's not how I am. (If you know me well, you know that I will certainly put my two cents in, whether it's asked for or not!) I just know that Rhiannon will get more of a kick out of looking at thousands of flowers, colors, dresses, etc. than I would. That's just not my style. HaHa!

We have set a tentative date of June 26, 2010. Here's hoping that our bridal party and guests don't have plans for that weekend yet. :-) (If they do, they need to cancel and be available for our big day!)

We've already started putting together a guest list. As of now, it has almost 250 people on it! I've got a rather large and rather close family, and we both have oodles of friends from all aspects of our lives, including family friends, high school, college, and work. The hard part will be narrowing the list down to a reasonable number. After all, we're not extremely wealthy people, so we can't afford to invite everyone that we know! (As much as we would love to, by the way!)

We're looking into two churches: St. Joseph's Episcopal in Boynton Beach and First United Methodist in Boca Raton. We're going to check on the specifics that each church offers and go from there. We're pretty much set on having the reception at The Elks Club because they offer a fantastic room with a dance floor, stage for the D.J., well-stocked bar, and plenty of room for tables. However, we don't know the price of everything yet, including the option of having an open bar.

We've also been thinking about honeymoons... One of the good things about getting married over the summer is that we'll both be able to take a week or two off and enjoy a honeymoon right after getting married. Our absolute dream honeymoon would be a two-week stay in Europe, where we can travel to as many places as we can in that time period. However, if we can't find reasonable rates, we're interested in California or Hawaii.

As you can see, we have a lot of work ahead of us, so we're trying to pace ourselves and get as much done as we can without going crazy!