Denny and I went out to the reception site the other day with reps from the tent-and-other-stuff-rental company. We figured out that we really only need 1 40×40 tent, because there are only two possible situations:

1. The weather is good. People spend some time dancing and hanging out under the tent, but they also roam around the grounds and by the river.

OR

2. The weather is bad. People hang out under the tent or in the Atrium, and the combination of those two areas is plenty of space.

So, there’s really no reason we need more than one tent. Today I called the rental place to confirm the reservation and put down a deposit. We had included three different tents in the quote, because that was back when we were going to have the reception on the patio, which meant no Atrium access during the reception. Now that we’ve moved everything, we have both spaces available to us. When he gave me the quote, I was very pleasantly surprised. Cutting from three tents to one tent makes a HUGE price difference–it cut off about 1/3 of the price, and that’s still including all the stuff like tables, chairs, linens, etc.

Yay! More room in the budget for food and wine!

So I was scanning through one of our online registries today, and it turns out that someone got us the square plate and bowl sets! I’m so excited, because I really, really love those. Whee! It’s a little creepy of me that I’m going through the registries, scanning to see what’s been purchased. Oh well, I guess I’ll just be creepy. It’s handy, because we have some items that are basically duplicates at a couple of different places, so if I see that it’s been purchased at one place, I can take it off the other list.

Can you believe that people used to do this all by hand and in person? Yikes.

This is cheering me up after the dress incident. Oh, also I am going to make banana bread. I just found out that Denny loves banana bread. I, too, love banana bread. I had no idea we had that in common. I already knew we both love morels, and we’ve been enjoying that particular pleasure over the last couple of days. Banana bread can mesh nicely into my healthy eating plan, because the bananas are moist enough that it can be very low-fat.