yes! yes! Muah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

All the pieces are in place. As of a few days ago, we have hired the major "broad strokes" of the wedding. Here they are:

Venue

Caterer

Florist

Photographer (still looking for a videographer)

Music

Someone to marry us

transportation

hotel

Gift registry

At this point I am felling like a mad scientist.....waiting for lighting to strike so I can yell out "It's alive!"

Throughout the whole process though I have thought of myself more like the GM of a baseball team. My job has been to go out and get the scouting reports, se them in person when I can, then hire the professionals for my team. If you hire the right experts, the rest will happen.

Now there are tons of details to sort out, the batting order, who plays where, the workout schedule, etc.....while I will be involved with those decisions, my fiance is really the manager of the team. She gets to make those calls and the day tot day stuff. I am the smartest GM in the world cause I found the smartest manager.

Now let's go win the pendant!

I, had, the tines of my life......

Yesterday we started did one of the "fun" activities of wedding planning, we registered for gifts! This is one of the most highly anticipated events in the process, I know this because since we signed up on theknot.com and weddingwire.com we have gotten at least one email a day from a retailer asking us to register with them. Some have offered us discounts, some just have kind words to say....but honestly I feel like we are being recruited to play football at a Division 1 school.

The actual process of registering for gifts was a good time, it combined the two things that we both love. Shopping, and playing with that zapper gadget that records your selections. I feel like with that zapper, this is how Captain Kirk must have registered for gifts as well (if he was not married to the Enterprise).

I heard from a bunch of people that registering for the diner pattern would be a battle between tastes (more on that to come), luckily I am smart enough to know that my fiance had tons more taste then me, and honestly the dinner ware I had been using for the last 15 years of my life was whatever togo container my food came in. I know that every plate is not made the same, but to me the differences were circle or square, white or red......did you know that there are over 40 different types of flatware sets? A fork is not just a fork anymore! They have names like Toronto (is that where the fork was invented?), Arctic (hmmmm, don't lick a cold spoon), Olympic (one gold, one silver, one bronze....alright I made that up). Go look for yourself.

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/dining-and-entertaining/flatware-sets/1

When you see them all in person it is quite daunting, glimmering, shimmering flatware for as far as the eye can see......they say that if you can count all the tines on the table you will learn the name of god.

we did not actually register for any flatware or diner ware...not because of any disagreements but because they did not have anything we/she really liked. we did register for a bunch of other things.....that we both needed and did not need. We had a blast and I realized why......while you are doing this as part of the wedding process, it has nothing to do with the wedding. You are planning for your life. What plates do you want to eat off of twenty years form now, sure you may only need a two slice toaster now...but will there be a day you wish you had the capability to do four slices at once?

One last thing, before we were on our way to register for diner ware I mentioned it on my facebook status, I am now posting the conversation that came from that...it boils down to "do what she tells you"...still my friends are funny and full of good advice

GUSYA! The DJ experience so far

So far the planning is going well, we have most of the major "broad strokes" in place and honestly most of it is common sense. Is the location where you want it to be? do you like the food the caterer made? Does the photographer have two hands? etc....

The one part that is kind of difficult is the reception music. We have chosen a DJ, although I love bands I always feel kind of sorry for them if people are not dancing....just singing to people eating can't be fun.....for anyone, so a DJ it is.

How do you judge a DJ? Their website can tell you their "philosophy of dj'ing", they can talk to you on the phone and yes you to death, so how? someone suggested going to a wedding they are working at and listening to them.....but wouldn't that be odd? If someone I don't recognize is at my wedding I will most likely tackle them and make them spit out whatever food they are eating (we may have to make "whose who?" flashcards before the date to avoid this).

So we are meeting with some DJ's this weekend, as if that will tell us anything. In addition to looking at their music catalog, and their equipment, maybe I can make them sing?
All I know going into this is three things.
1) you need a must play list (songs I want to hear)
2) you need a must not play list (songs that make my ears bleed)
3) the DJ must make people GUSYA! (A term stolen from the lovely and talented Darbi Worley....it means Get Up and Shake Your Ass!)

There will be dancing at my wedding regardless of the music......but just in case I am doubling the booze budget.