countdown: our wedding is in 59 days! believe it or not, we got our first 5 RSVPs. FIVE! it's been 3 mail days since we sent them out. wow, just think. invitations got sent out saturday... probably received monday... RSVPs stuck in the mailbox yesterday... and got to us today! our friends are so on top of things. i'm impressed. and i'm also excited! there's smthg cool about seeing those blue envelopes waiting to be opened, and smthg even cooler about finding out that so far, everyone has RSVPed yes. :)
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
countdown: our wedding is in 60 days! we had our taste test today and now i seriously feel like to barf. we each ate a piece of 6 different hors d'oeuvres, a mini version of each of 3 entree choices, and a piece of 3 different cakes. we also each drank some red and white wine. everything was sooo good. at the end we brought home 2 of the cake toppers. (we decided to leave behind the 3rd one, b/c who the hell has 3 cakes in the fridge at a time?!) actually we could've taken home the entrees too, but our server had already taken them back to the kitchen, and we were too bloated to ask for them. taste tests are fun though, aren't they? i mean, you sit there and get to try a whole variety of stuff and decide what you like the best! (btw, the appetizer w/ foie gras was totally the best. it outdid the crab cakes by a mile. i want to up the number of foie gras hors d'oeuvres now!)
Saturday, January 27, 2007
countdown: our wedding is in 63 days! on theknot.com -- yes, my bible -- it seemed like other ppl didn't have any problems either getting the post office to hand cancel their invitations or hand cancelling them themselves. s'posedly sometimes the ink from their machines bleeds through, thereby ruining the beautiful invitations you spent so much time and money on. we have tissue in ours, and we also have double envelopes, but i figure we should get them hand cancelled just in case. plus, someone at work said that she once got mail that had a big shrek all over the front, when the post office was going through their shrek phase. we definitely didn't want that! but of course, the closest post office said they couldn't do it. so i sent tim to a larger one, and he was told that it'd be ok. but when we showed up today, the guy said they don't normally do that many by hand, but since someone had already said it was ok, he'd let us do it, just this time. whatever. in any case, we finally ended up in the back of the post office, hand cancelling 97 invitations. (it was s'posed to be 98 invitations, but someone *ahem* didn't get his cousin's address in time!) tim handed me the invitations and i was the stamper. at first i was like, hey this isn't so bad! how come they can't do this many by hand? however, at one point my hand/wrist was starting to ache and i thought we were done... only to be informed by tim that we were in fact only halfway through! :( the second half wasn't as fun as the first. but, the invitations were sent out, and that's what counts! it feels good to get that off our chests. now we can get on w/ our evening.