Invitations

Invitations are on the way!

A Decision from the Decision Challenged

After much debate regarding the various pluses and minuses between our two reception space finalists, we have come to a conclusion... the Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center.

Now we can move on to the myriad of other things to figure out!

Reception and Stuff

One of our many devoted readers has made it known that we need to post more frequently (you know who you are!). I will try! ;-)

We have narrowed our reception search down to 2 locations... the reception room at the Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center, and The Troutdale House.

We also met with our caterers to work on some menu options. Once we get quotes on our options from them it will help us decide which reception venue we go with.

Working out the Details

Sometimes I forget we started a blog :)

Now that we have the ceremony location nailed down, we are working on all the other details.

We are still looking for the right reception location. We visited The Marshall House, which is literally right down the road from the chapel, but it doesn't seem like what we want. We also visited historic Norse Hall, which has a nice big ballroom, but we weren't too excited about it either.

We have started a list of photographers we are going to look into. We have some simple requirements - no tilted pictures, and no lens flares. Well, sometime lens flare is OK, but mostly not.

It's A Date!

October 17, 2009. The Academy Chapel, Vancouver, Washington. 1 o'clockish (precise time TBD).

Be there.

The Latest

We're very close to a definitive date, I swear! The pieces are (hopefully) falling into place.

We've been doing some registering, which is more fun than I thought it would be.

Despite it's founder being somewhere in my family tree, Macy's would not give us a discount, or any special treatment. They did give us a nice Victorinox bag, but everyone registering gets one of those. Don't they know who I am?!

JCPenney was easy, it's all do-it-yourself. Sears was kind of a fiasco. Granted, we got there 30 minutes before closing, but it took 15 minutes for someone to find a scanner. When we did try to scan something, the scanner said something about unable to add to registry. Great. At that point they were closing, so we found a nice guy that apparently just finished a bong load on his break - quite a character. He didn't know what we were supposed to do with the scanner, but he lead us around the store to find someone that did. We have to go back at a later date.

Bed Bath & Beyond - the guy that helped us was great. When I cut my finger on a box he took me up to their office where the security cameras were (incidently, no one was watching them - not terribly effective) and hooked me up with a band-aid. He kept checking back with us to see if we needed anything, and he also let us stay in the store an hour after closing so we could keep on scanning.

We also hit up Crate & Barrel. I think Karisa would live in that store if she could - she loves it there. We still have to go to REI - I think it's last on our list.

The next update will hopefully be a date!

Still Looking!

I know my cat is cute, but it's time for her to give up the top spot on the blog ;)

We've been slacking a little on finding a venue, but we visited one last night - Zion Lutheran Church in Oregon City.



We spotted this one back when we took that leisurely drive around Oregon City. It has a nice sanctuary that would do the job. It also has a somewhat passable area downstairs (ok, basically the basement), but they don't allow alcohol. We have to at least have Champagne!