Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Hot and Sticky...
... with a chance of scattered thundershowers. I'd welcome any rain at this point, its better than drowning in my own sweat. The past week has had temps in the upper 80s and low 90s with dewpoints sending the humidity into the 85% bracket.
Now, before you berate me with "you don't know HOT until you've lived in..." as I have lived or visited THERE, Texas to Florida, in May to October. This is New England, and we are entitled to complain if we want to.
M has been with me for the past two days and left this afternoon for home. We spent Tuesday ordering flowers and invitations, and confirming her apartment for the next two months. As you can see, we are counting down the days on the blog here, lookee over to your right for the correct count.
My friend Brian at Hillside Nurseries and Florist (unabashed plug for you who live in or near Massachusetts) showed us his ideas on flowers and we presented our vision, which, for the reception, involves some flowers perched two feet above the tables. That requires some special vases, which when purchased at a florist will bankrupt a small country. Later that day, we ambled into A.C. Moore and found the vases for 9.99 each, praise God!
We then went to the printers to choose invitations, and realized that there are two classes of invitation buyers; those who have large weddings and those who have small. Of course, the choices for the small wedding buyers are thin, since you can order them in lots of 10 instead of 25 (we needed 30.) But, what we picked out was very nice, so they will be ready in a week or so.
On the subject of the vases, we first tried our local Christmas Tree Shop, which didn't have the vases but had a wedding section with do-it-yourself invitation kits (kick, kick!) but really, they weren't as nice as what we picked out (whew.) A book we saw gave us some more ideas, and when I saw a section dedicated to island weddings, I said "they should forget spending all that money on the Bahamas or whatever and go to Block Island." Well, this wedding in the book was on Block Island. That's off the coast of Rhode Island, which is off the coast of Massachusetts, which is attached to New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut but not Maine, even though Maine used to be part of Massachusetts. I know, I know, more than you wanted to know.
So, on our Wedding Checklist, we have picked out a reception venue, M has the wedding gown and is picking out shoes tonight, we've got the guest list, invitations and flowers done. And that's with 65 days to go. Can we take a break now?
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Now, before you berate me with "you don't know HOT until you've lived in..." as I have lived or visited THERE, Texas to Florida, in May to October. This is New England, and we are entitled to complain if we want to.
M has been with me for the past two days and left this afternoon for home. We spent Tuesday ordering flowers and invitations, and confirming her apartment for the next two months. As you can see, we are counting down the days on the blog here, lookee over to your right for the correct count.
My friend Brian at Hillside Nurseries and Florist (unabashed plug for you who live in or near Massachusetts) showed us his ideas on flowers and we presented our vision, which, for the reception, involves some flowers perched two feet above the tables. That requires some special vases, which when purchased at a florist will bankrupt a small country. Later that day, we ambled into A.C. Moore and found the vases for 9.99 each, praise God!
We then went to the printers to choose invitations, and realized that there are two classes of invitation buyers; those who have large weddings and those who have small. Of course, the choices for the small wedding buyers are thin, since you can order them in lots of 10 instead of 25 (we needed 30.) But, what we picked out was very nice, so they will be ready in a week or so.
On the subject of the vases, we first tried our local Christmas Tree Shop, which didn't have the vases but had a wedding section with do-it-yourself invitation kits (kick, kick!) but really, they weren't as nice as what we picked out (whew.) A book we saw gave us some more ideas, and when I saw a section dedicated to island weddings, I said "they should forget spending all that money on the Bahamas or whatever and go to Block Island." Well, this wedding in the book was on Block Island. That's off the coast of Rhode Island, which is off the coast of Massachusetts, which is attached to New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut but not Maine, even though Maine used to be part of Massachusetts. I know, I know, more than you wanted to know.
So, on our Wedding Checklist, we have picked out a reception venue, M has the wedding gown and is picking out shoes tonight, we've got the guest list, invitations and flowers done. And that's with 65 days to go. Can we take a break now?
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