I hate getting near the end of the week. Well, I like it in terms that the weekend is coming up, but I hate that it seems everyone puts off their work until now, which given my function at work means more work for me. But I suppose that's how things go.
We've been thinking more and more about the date of the wedding and the "reception" party. I mentioned previously that we were considering June 26 to be the date for the party and at that time I talked about some of my concerns. In light of that, a few people mentioned that we possibly put the party off until later in the year, say early Fall. Even though I really like the June 26 date, I'm thinking the wisdom of holding the party later in the year might win out.
There are a few reasons for this, some of them I've mentioned before. June is the beginning of convention season here in Chicago, as well as festival season. For a good three months straight there is always something going on in the city, and most likely downtime. That also means that hotel prices will be high, and that catering companies will be booked, and rooms will be expensive. Now I'm not looking to be cheap, but I'm also not looking to put my friends and family out to come celebrate with us.
We could move the date up, but then we run into a concern of will it still be cold (this is Chicago Weather, the city that thinks it's reasonable to snow in April…) and whether or not we have the time/money to pull it off. So if we can't move it up, and we don't like the date we originally thought of, then all that's left is to move it further out. Want to know the added benefit to doing this would be? Not having the party on June 26 leaves that day wide open for us to do something else, like… possibly flying to Canada for a weekend retreat and exchanging vows. ;)
So that's where we are right now. We had to slow down the planning a bit because the fiancé's car needed some repairs and I've been distracted by a new game, but we'll get this planning back on track soon enough!
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