Who Cares What Color the Napkin Rings Are? I Just Want to Marry You!

Holy cow planning a wedding is a lot of work.

Our original plan right off the bat was to do a whole traditional ceremony & reception here in Omaha because... That's what I thought we would do? I had not spent much time picturing my wedding in the past, but I guess I had always assumed it would be fairly traditional with all the expected bits & pieces. So that's where we started.

After attending a local bridal fair and taking a good hard look at the logistics (and finances) involved in planning a big fancy wedding, neither of us were too excited about it. It was something we would do, but seemed incredibly daunting and overwhelming. So we started discussing alternatives.

What we came up with was a super-small ceremony at my parents' place on Keuka Lake, followed by dinner at a local restaurant, followed by hanging out back at the lake for cake, drinks & conversation. We were both REALLY excited about this scenario as we talked about it and fleshed it out, so I'm confident we made the right decision. Also, since we're now headed the small/informal route, we decided our initial time line of spring/summer 2012 was more time than we needed, so we began targeting July of this year instead.

Because of the nature and location of our wedding, it forced us to make some tough decisions regarding the guest list. We're basically sticking with immediate family and just a couple friends. In an effort to include more people in the festivities we're inviting anyone in Rochester to The Old Toad on the Thursday night before the wedding for an unofficial bachelor/bachelorette party. For Larissa' extended family in New Jersey we'll be flying out there in the fall for an informal gathering so I can get a chance to meet them all.

So that's the plan. We got engaged on January 18, 2011 and we'll be married on July 23, 2011. A wedding in six months? Sure, why not!

We've actually got a lot of the major planning done already, but that's for another post.

~T