7/19/2005

Because this is, apparently, my personal checklist site

Filed under: — Aprille @ 4:25 pm

I got several things from yesterday’s list accomplished. Yay!

  • Get something to put drinks in. Galvanized tubs are pretty but expensive. What to do??
    • UPDATE: I got a good lead at KMart last night for some big plastic planters that are a very impressive imitation of stone (a little pricier than I want, though). I also saw that Ace Hardware may have galvanized tubs like I wanted in the first place. We’re going there after work tonight. And if all else fails, I’ll go to Theisen’s in Cedar Rapids like Linds suggested.
  • Go to museum and examine amplification possibilities. Drag an AV-savvy coworker with me.
  • Buy and prepare a whole bunch of fruits and vegetables. Bag them. Note to self: buy gallon-sized zip-lock bags. DONE. Sucker friend or family member into arranging them artfully on platters on wedding day.
  • Figure out what the rules are regarding moving tables/chairs after the reception. Do our friends/family do it? Do the museum staff do it? DONE. The museum handles the stuff inside, we or the caterers handle what’s outside.
  • Buy supplies and make directional signs so people know to go to the main entrance. DONE.
  • Assign people to tasks: making sure the music keeps playing, making sure the food and drink remain replenished, making sure the generator keeps generating, making announcements, etc.
  • Take dress to dry-cleaners. DONE.
  • Pick up dress from dry-cleaners.
  • Call bakery with final headcount DONE.
  • Get passports from safe deposit box (though I guess that could be done in the couple of days between the wedding and honeymoon)

I am so accomplishy.

11 days

Filed under: — Aprille @ 12:59 pm

I woke up stiff and sore this morning with a headache. I don’t like waking up with a headache. It’s difficult enough to haul my butt out of bed under normal circumstances.

I took my dress to the dry cleaner’s today. They said it would take two weeks to clean. I said that wasn’t cool (since I need for, you know, the wedding). Next thing you know, it’s going to be done on Friday. Weird.

The stupid thing is that it costs $55 to simply be dry cleaned just because it’s a wedding dress. A regular dress would be like $20 or something. And my dress is not all that much different from a regular dress; it just happens to be white. It’s not one of those gigantic poofy things with tons of fabric and beading and sparklies. Grr. I hate the price-gouging that goes on every time the word “wedding” comes into a conversation.

Denny: STOP READING NOW if you don’t want to hear about my planned ensem (pronounced ahn-sahm, and the cool way to abbreviate “ensemble”).

I’m also suddenly worried that I’m going to be wearing too much jewelry and I’ll look like a little girl playing dress-up. I love all my jewelry items independently, but I’m afraid that all together it will be overdone. I have dangly sparkly earrings, a sparkly brooch, a long pearl necklace that goes down my back (my dress is backless), and a rather dramatic feathered hair comb (no veil). Is that too much? Keep in mind that my dress is totally (and I mean completely) devoid of ornamentation, except for the brooch.

I don’t know. When I have it all on, I don’t really feel like myself. Plus the earrings are heavy and will no doubt hurt my earlobes by the end of the night. On the other hand, perhaps one’s wedding is the best opportunity one has to be a little over-the-top. Thoughts?

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