We’ve been eyeing the weather forecast like a hawk.  Now that it’s less than 10 days away, weather.com has more specific predictions for the weather.  So far, so good—pray that it doesn’t rain.  Pray that it doesn’t rain.  Pray that it doesn’t rain.  It rained today and is supposed to for the next few days….I really do hope the rain clouds lift by next week as they predict it to!

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I’ve gotten some questions after my recent post about things left to do on my plate….including planning the day-after brunch.  No worries–y’all are invited.  I didn’t put anything in the invitation.  I wasn’t sure if I was going to have one until recently.  But yes—it is going to be from 11am - 2pm at our home, 615 E Pike St #404 the day after the wedding.  It will be very casual, we’ll have pastries, fruit and smoked salmon there.  Drop by when you can and see our home!  Hopefully the weather will be nice and we can even head up to the rooftop.  Super thanks to Phoebe to helping me plan this!  For all of you out-of-towners staying downtown, our home is an easy 10 minute walk up the hill so you don’t need a car or anything.  Hope you can make it!

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I’m so excited to truly recycle my bridal magazines as I unloaded all of these onto Sandra tonight, who recently got engaged to Wally! (congrats!!!)  What’s sad is: this isn’t even all of them.  This is the pile after doing some recycling of my own over this last year.  It’s pretty pathetic how many wedding magazines I acquired over this last year.  With going to the grocery store and all the random flights we took this last year, it was so easy to just grab a wedding magazine to read.  Well, now, they’re all with Sandra so she can get mentally stimulated with wedding dresses galore!  Have fun!

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179 is our final guest count, including the two of us and pending 1 person who should let me know by end of week.

This number has been instrumental in this last week or so in determining the number of tables, number of centerpieces, number of placecards, number of programs, number of menus, etc.

This weekend is the last that Matt and I have to ourselves and to do random errands before family rolls in—his parents get here on Tuesday! (primarily to catch the Red Sox)

I’m proud to say that placecards and menus are complete as of 15 minutes ago.  Woo Hoo!  Double-sided tape is my friend and I think we (yes, we–Matt helped assemble today) went through about 4-5 rolls of tape putting together the menus today.

What else is there left?
- put together favors
- make programs
- determine music for other special dances
- pay off vendors
- fill out form for photographers
- make tablecards
- put together slideshow & scan photos
- plan brunch for day-after
- buy bubbles for after ceremony
- get red envelopes
- pack for honeymoon!

There’s more, I’m sure. Eeks! 2 weeks!

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I don’t know how the rest of y’all married couples organize your schedules together, but Matt and I do EVERYTHING in Outlook.  Since we both use Outlook at work and we both have Windows Mobile phones, every social activity we plan together is done in Outlook….even if it’s not an activity we are doing together!  For example, Matt will let me know if he plans on watching a Red Sox game on Saturday so I know not to plan anything during that time by sending me an Outlook meeting request.  In any case, with the wedding in about 3 weeks, I was going through my calendar at work and planning out what needs to be done before I leave when I came upon the week of the wedding, which looks pretty hilarious.  Oh, and I’m a total “categorizer”–everything in that purple color is categorized as a wedding-related meeting/event. And yes, I actually sent an all-day event request to Matt titled “Let’s get married”.

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Tonight, Matt jumped on a plane with Derrick and Petey to head down to Lake Tahoe to begin their weekend celebrating Matt as a bachelor.  Apparently a good 16-17 guys are going!  So I’m solo for the next few days, likely catching up on random details of the wedding…

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What a freakin’ awesome surprise it was to have the work delivery man bring not one, not two but SIX boxes of wedding gifts all in one day!  How exciting!  Can’t wait to go home and see who they’re from!  My officemate has been rather amused by the daily deliveries.  Here’s a picture inside my office earlier today after the first 5 packages were delivered…

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Last week (on June 3rd), Sri & Asayo organized and hosted a bridal shower for me at Sri’s parent’s house in Bellevue.  It was an amazing event where many women from all parts of my life attended.  The theme was “Honeymoon Sendoff” and the gifts, food and decor were centered around going off to Tahiti!  I had such a wonderful time!  Here are some photos from the event.

Party favors for guests

Mimosas & Pomosas greeted guests as they came in…

The entryway as guests came in…

Delicious food and fruits…

Everyone sitting and eating…

We then played “Bride Bingo”

Time to open presents!

I got lots of wonderful gifts to use on the honeymoon…

The whole group of attendees!

Thanks to everyone that attended!  I had such a wonderful time catching up with everyone!

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Hey everyone—for all those out-of-towners that need a shuttle, I have now updated and posted the shuttle information schedule on the Event Details page.  We have also rented a bus to take guests home at the end of the evening with 2 pikc-up times.  On the Event Details page, I put a link to a map I created to give a sense of walking distance in the downtown Seattle area.  All shuttles will be going to and from the Pike Street Suites so I’ve tried to indicate on the map where this is compared to hotels that I know people are staying at.  If your hotel is not shown here, just e-mail me to let me know where you are staying and I’ll add it to this map to help you out.

Anyway, I’m back from Vegas and had a fabulous time.  I have many photos to post, including photos from the very beautiful bridal shower the weekend before that Sri & Asayo planned for me.

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In about 7.5 hours, I will be on a plane with Phoebe, Jigna, Asayo, Sri & Jessica over to VEGAS to spend the weekend for my bachelorette 48-hour party.  I absolutely cannot wait—we’ll be staying at the Venetian and visiting my parents Sunday afternoon….and that’s the extent of what I know that’s in the plan (the rest has been kept secret from me).  Thanks to Jigna for organizing this!

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