If any of you have questions about the wedding or related things, we have setup an FAQ section. Check it out and if your question isn’t answered, there is a form at the bottom where you can ask it. If it seems like something many people will ask (and by many, I really mean more than one), it will be added to the list.
On the off chance that you have any questions for us, you can e-mail us at wedding@3dgo.net
Once we start getting questions and (perhaps more importantly) answers to those questions, we’ll get an F.A.Q. section up on the website.
ALSO! If you are booking a room at the Crowne Plaza, be sure to mention that you want one of the rooms from the block that we reserved for you! You can either tell them you want a room for the Anderson-Steere Wedding, or you can tell them you want a room for group code ASW (hmm, wonder what that stands for?). Rooms are $89 for Friday and Saturday night, as I understand it. We are currently looking in to the cost of extra nights.
So, after a couple months of relaxing, breathing, and generally not doing anything other than telling people that we’re getting married on October 4th, we’ve once again put our noses to the grindstone. Realizing that the wedding is in less than two months is a little scary and a little exciting, and an effective flame under our bottoms to get us back to work.
That said, things are progressing nicely. We received our invitations today, and they look great. We’ll likely start addressing those and sending them out as soon as we can. You know, like, today. We met with Lynne (who did our invitations for us and is our “wedding coordinator”) and ordered useful things like our toasting flutes, boxes to put favors in, ribbons to decorate the boxes, brads to hold the ribbons on the boxes (some assembly required…yikes! And we don’t even know for sure what we’re going to PUT in these nifty little boxes!), table labels, and a wish book and cards to go in it. Later today we’re going to HyVee to figure out flowers, so that’s good.
The guys have all gone in for the tux fitting, as far as I know, and they look like they should be pretty nice. I think Dad has decided what he’s going to wear, after much debate. Mom has her dress, and it sounds like it’ll be very nice. As far as I know, all the bridesmaids have their dresses, and are looking at getting something warm to go over them, if they so desire. I’ve had my Dress since mid May, and I’m going in to have it altered on 9/6.
I should probably try it on before then >_<;;
The tasting has finally been achieved and the food selections have been decided. Guests will have their choice of three different entrees.
All entrees will include a Garden Salad with either Ranch or Raspberry Vinaigrette dressings. Also included are Green Beans, Oven Roasted Potatoes, Rolls and Butter.
Beverages
After much procrastination (and other similar type things), we have finally gone through our guest list to determine the number of invitations we need. From the looks of things, we will have ~73 to send out. In the interest of having extras for all the places we made mistakes, I suspect we will probably order about 100. The person we found to make the invitations has quoted us extremely reasonable prices which means we can afford to get enough extras to handle mistakes.
So…we’ve been busy. As of now, we seem to have a DJ, a ceremony site, a reception place, catering for said reception, a photographer (!) and most recently a honeymoon (I’m excited about that one.).
Maybe this whole wedding thing isn’t so hard after all. Of course, there’s still flowers, decorations, bridesmaids dresses, gifts, invitations, MY dress (gah!), various grooming things that are supposed to be done to me… and a whole host of things I’ve probably never heard of, let alone planned for.
So. The only advice that I have at this point? Start planning as soon as you’ve figured out the date. And figure out the date…as soon as possible. Preferably at least a year in advance (when we started looking in mid January, there were a lot of reception sites and photographers who were already completely booked for October).
We have a reception place booked (mostly). We will be having the party in a portion of the Grand Ballroom at the Crowne Plaza Five Seasons hotel. One of the most exciting parts is that they will do a large amount of the work for us. Setup, teardown and everything in between. Basically, it just removes a lot of the stuff that we were having to think about.
It seems to be a requirement for blogs to have a welcoming message and this is no different. This site is hopefully going to provide a behind the scenes look at what goes on in planning a wedding (specifically, our wedding). Hopefully it will prove useful to people interested in both our wedding and people trying to plan their own.