When we receive our digital copies, we will upload them to our site as well. If you are interested in such things, you can order prints from either location. The prints from our site are a bit cheaper, but probably not as high quality as those from Mark’s site. If you are interested in a DVD with the images on them, let us know and we will see what we can do.

Carly and I are both really happy with how the pictures turned out!

As pictures appear, they should be tagged with the people who show up in them. So if you are looking for someone specific, search for their name and you should see all the pictures with them. If I missed someone, let me know!

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.

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 >_<;;

1. Maple Glazed Salmon: Crispy Salmon Filet topped with Spice Pecans and Maple Bourbon sauce
2. Tuscan Chicken: Tuscan Chicken Breast wrapped in Prosciutto and stuffed with Fontina Cheese and Sage. Served with Madeira Sauce.
3. Boneless Pork Loin Medallions: Finished with Burgundy Mushroom Glaze

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

• With Dinner
  • Coffee
  • Tea
  • Milk
  • Wine (Red and White, 2 glasses hosted)
  • Sparkling Grape Juice

• Throughout the night
  • Soda (Pepsi Products)
  • Beer (1 keg hosted)
  • Cash Bar

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).