Thank you for helping!

It is, in my opinion, a perfectly good time to panic. As teh bridezilla in this particular partnership, I believe it is my prerogative, non? There would, however, be more pure terror in my heart if Morgan wasn't such a sweetie with such a nice family, or if so many of our friends hadn't stepped up to help us out and support us. So I just wanted to say, in case I don't see people in the mad dash to catch good weather and precious photographer time, thanks for helping! Thanks for all those little reply cards, emails, faceplant messages, etc. and a special thank you to all those who were able to fill the spots we needed filled. Whether you volunteered or were volunteered or voluntold, I'm so happy and relieved to have your assistance. So, from Morgan and myself, thank you, thank you, thank you! Diane

Fortnight plus a day

The little countdown meter on the right side of the page has cleverly informed me that there is a scant 15 days to the wedding! Needless to say, we're pretty excited. A lot of the pieces are falling into place for us, but there's still lots to do. The past few weeks have been insanely busy for both of us. Between work and the many extra-curricular activities we're up to, there hasn't been a lot of time to sit down and just do nothing for an evening. It's good in a way, since it can help keep myself from panicking since I'm too busy to panic. On the other hand, every so often I feel like I'm losing a handle on what's going on. Between organizing the wedding and getting our bots ready for two big competitions in the next two months, AND getting ready to move to Ireland, we've got a lot of balls in the air as it were.

But, this is no time to Panic!

Gifts

The wedding is coming up very quickly now! We're now a month and a few days away from the big date, and there's still lots of little details to nail down. One of the things that we need is volunteers to do setup and takedown of the hall. If you're interested in helping out, please let one of us know soon so we can give you a task. // Diane's comments follow

Also, does anyone want to usher or possibly babysit a video camera?  I have made a list of tasks and descriptions that you can look through and decide from the available jobs what you would prefer if you decide to give the gift of helping our big day run smoothly, kind of like a little registry for volunteering.  This would make a very good gift!!

// Aaand back to Morgan

We've been asked by a few people what we'd like for gifts. We're just starting to send the word out that I've been hired by a company in Dublin to start working over there starting August 1st. That means that we're not going to need a lot of "stuff" since we're going to have to be pretty choosy about what we bring with us to Europe.

For those that would like to get us physical things, we've setup small registries at The Bay, and Linens-n-Things. However, the traditional wedding gift for Chinese weddings is cash. If you would like to go along with this, then that's a perfectly good solution too.

We thought about trying to setup a travel registry for our honeymoon, but we heard that many travel registries take a percentage cut of that which didn't really seem fair.

The wedding is in just over a month. If you haven't returned your RSVP cards yet, please do that soon! We'll start bugging people about that soon so that we know if we have enough space to invite a few more people.

Happy spring everyone!

Morgan

Invites

The wedding is getting close, so here's a quick update. Diane and I are now starting to pass out invitations. We're hoping to be able to invite everybody who would like to come, but there are space considerations in the hall and we're likely to hit the max there. Everyone is of course welcome to come to the ceremony. The space considerations are only on the reception hall. As we get replies, we'll update our status and send out invites for spots that are freed up in the hall. If you've already got your invitation, you might be wondering what the symbol on the cover is. It's a Chinese symbol which means double happiness. It is a pretty common word used on Chinese wedding invitations, although Chinese wedding invitations almost always use red. Here's a wikipedia page on the character for double happiness.

The plans are going smoothly, but there's still lots of little details to do!

Morgan

Tux Shopping

On Saturday, the bulk of the wedding party gathered at the big mall (read: west ed) to spend some time shopping for wedding apparel. We wandered a bit, and eventually us guys found tip top where we gathered looking at the selection of tuxes that were available. It took me quite awhile to come up with a choice. I'm not too good at this sort of thing -- you might know that I'm not exactly fashion conscious, so many of the options looked the same to me. Maybe they were! Anyways, it took awhile, but we selected our options and showed the girls our selections. It seems they were okay so we've got another things checked off that list. Diane and the girls spent a fair amount of time looking at different dress options. It sounds like Diane's found some fabric to use to make the bridesmaid's dresses, so that's exciting.

The next big thing on the plate is wedding band shopping. I'm not really looking forward to this, although I am kind of excited about getting the bands. The trouble is that I've never been in a jewelry store that has made me feel comfortable. They are very careful about only revealing prices to you when you ask. There's very little window shopping you can do besides "ooh, that looks pretty". Ugh. Anyways, any suggestions on where to go? We're looking for some pretty simple white-gold wedding bands. Diane will probably want one that'll go well with her engagement ring.

Morgan