It's Starting to Come Together

January 9, 2014 (yesterday) happened to be our 16 month anniversary AND the day that a lot of pieces to this whole wedding planning business turned over!  I'm feeling pretty excited about it now. 

We have a date

Saturday, August 30, 2014
Afternoon ceremony
Evening reception

We have a place 

As previously posted, we will have the ceremony at Fair Oaks Church in Oak Park

The reception will be at the 19th Century Club, just a quick drive from the church.  We have the whole first floor from 6-midnight.  

We will have favors

Custom designed squished pennies!!! I realize this is a minor part of the wedding and not the most important in the planning scheme but they are perfect and now that box on the to-do list is taken care of well in advance. I thought about posting a picture but then again I kind of want it to be a surprise.

We will have pictures

Since last week was a major weather fiasco, we had to reschedule our mini photo shoot to get some pictures for our Save the Dates.  Now that we have a date and the weather looks to be nice this Sunday, those will be ordered soon. 

We will have bliss

Dan coordinated and we have our paperwork in order to do the per-marital counseling assessment and sessions at Redeemer in the next several months. Joy! for hard things.

We had burgers

To celebrate this date and finally getting some things to click, we got us some delicious burgers with fries last night from a favorite local burger bistro.  I got us a Crumbs cupcake to share later in celebration.