Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Calendar

Here are some of the dates of upcoming "stuff" related to the wedding...

Friday, June 1 -- Bachelor Party
Sunday, June 3 -- Couples' Shower
Friday, June 8 -- Rehearsal @ 5:00
Friday, June 8 -- Rehearsal Dinner @ University Club @ 7:00
Saturday, June 9 -- Wedding ceremony @ 4:00
Saturday, June 9 -- Wedding reception @ Mangiamo @ 6:00

Weather Forecast

I'm always amused at the mock precision of the "extended forecasts" by some of the weather services. For instance, on May 29, with the wedding 11 days away, they are saying that it will rain on June 8 and be sunny with a 0% chance of rain on the day of our wedding, June 9.

I know that forecasts more than 4-5 days out are really no better than drawing bingo numbers, but I'll chronicle the Accuweather.com and other services' forecasts as the day approaches...

UPDATED 5/30 -- forecast has already changed drastically from yesterday...see below
UPDATED 5/31 -- Accuweather changed next Friday's forecast high by 22 degrees since yesterday!
UPDATED 6/1 -- Accuweather changed Saturday's forecast high from 75 to 63 since yesterday, and Friday's high from 86 to 76. They're all over the map...

(Forecasts as of today at the beginning of each line, followed by previous forecasts)

ACCORDING TO ACCUWEATHER.COM:

Friday, June 8
As of 6/01: 76 and cloudy
As of 5/31: 86 and partly cloudy
As of 5/30: 64 and sunny
As of 5/29: 67 and rain

Saturday, June 9
As of 6/01: 63 and rain
As of 5/31: 75 and partly cloudy
As of 5/30: 80 and rain
As of 5/29: 64 and sunny


ACCORDING TO THE WEATHER CHANNEL

Friday, June 8
As of 6/01: 80 and thunderstorms
As of 5/31: 81 and thunderstorms
As of 5/31: 75 and rain
As of 5/30: 74 and mostly cloudy
As of 5/30: 77 and rain

Saturday, June 9
As of 6/01: 80 and sunny
As of 5/31: 81 and sunny
As of 5/31: 79 and mostly cloudy


Tom

Friday, March 30, 2007

One more detail....

This morning I decided to update our blog because I knew it hadn't been updated in awhile and saw that Tom had the same idea yesterday... we tend to do that a lot. :) I can add one more detail .... we started registering last night at Bed, Bath and Beyond. It was exciting to pick out things that we both like (after a few compromises on both of our parts) for our new life together as husband and wife!! We still have to go back to pick out some things, but at least it's a start. Only 71 more days......I can't wait!

Thursday, March 29, 2007

New Details

Okay, we haven't posted in a while because we've had trouble finalizing certain basic aspects of the wedding, but in the last week or so, things have really taken shape!

We met Reverend Melody Johnson (pastor at Porter Hills) last night. She will be officiating our wedding, which will be taking place in Meredith's parents' back yard on Saturday, June 9 at 4:00pm. We are both excited that Reverend Johnson will be taking part! Hopefully the weather will be nice and the ceremony will be in the sunshine, but we will be prepared with a tent in case "Michigan Weather" hits us.

My Dad will be my Best Man, and Meredith's sister Sue is the Matron of Honor. Meredith's daughter Danielle and nephew Noah will be Flower Girl and Ringbearer, respectively (I don't think I really needed to say 'respectively' there -- you could've figured that one out). We're still working out others' roles, but we won't have any other groomsmen or bridesmaids.

The reception will start at approximately 6:00pm at Mangiamo (formerly Gibson's) on Lake Drive. We have reserved the Library Room, the one adjacent to the bar near the entrance, which seats about 50 people. Although there's no door to separate us from the bar, the room is fairly enclosed and should provide a very quaint setting for the reception!

After that, Meredith and I are going to Niagara-On-The-Lake and Toronto for our honeymoon! We've reserved a nice-looking Bed & Breakfast for Sunday and Monday night in N-O-T-L, and a very well-reviewed hotel in Toronto for Tuesday through Friday nights. So far our only plans there are a Leon Redbone/Madeline Peyroux concert on Wednesday night, and a Blue Jays game on Friday night. It was actually Meredith that stumbled on the fact that Leon Redbone (one of my favorites) was going to be there the same time we were. I love her!!!

Tom

Friday, March 2, 2007

How did we meet?

Okay, this question has come up a few times recently. I'll make the answer short and sweet.

Match.com.

She 'winked' at me first. I had viewed her profile about 160 times before that, but I was too chicken to initiate the match. Once she winked, though, I e-mailed her right back, and the rest as they say is history!

Friday is...

Meredith and I met 1,000 days ago today. When we were first dating, for some reason we kept count of the number of days. She recently dug up a Christmas card I gave her in 2004 which referred to the number of days. It was for that reason that I used it in the marriage proposal (979 days at the time). And today it was 1,000 days that I've known her. The date that we met is memorable for two reasons -- it was 06/05/04, easy enough, but it's also the date that Ronald Reagan passed away. We were on our first date at Festival of the Arts downtown, watching her niece Anna dance on stage, when we first heard of his passing.

Meredith wondered what I would give her for our 1,000 day "anniversary." If "annum" means year, and "diem" means day, I guess the correct word would be "dieversary." I told her she'd get nothing and like it. :)

Somewhere in my mind I had wanted a wedding date of 09/08/07, or 05/06/07, or something that had some symmetry with 06/05/04, but it looks like 06/09/07 makes the most sense for more practical reasons. We're trying to make the date definite by booking a reception hall and, oh yeah, finding someone that will actually marry us, but the date looks pretty solid at this point. And it looks like we're going to Toronto/Niagara Falls for our honeymoon! It should be beautiful in June!

TH

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Wedding Dress....

I got my wedding dress! I went shopping this past weekend with my friends Dawn and Shelly and bought a beautiful dress .... but I won't share any more details here. :) I also got a dress for Danielle to wear that is just darling! Tom and I made a list of all the things we need to plan/do for the wedding, but I think we've made a good start. Only 102 days until the wedding ....