We have another big check - Marcus and I have picked out and ordered our ketubah! For those who don't know, a ketubah is the Jewish marriage contract, and it's also a work of art. Each one is individually hand-made by the artist. Our ketubah is called "Serenity in Nature: Two Trees" and the artist is Risa Aqua. You can get an idea of what it will look like here.
In other news, I have started working on my bridesmaids' gifts. You may remember that I ordered the actual gifts a while back, but now I am working on the other part (which I can't go into detail about, because it's still a surprise!).
We have two more engagement parties coming up! One on November 13 at Marcus's aunt and uncle's house here in Atlanta, and one on December 19 in Florida (purposely planned for the day after Marcus's stepbrother Jon's Bar Mitzvah, so that his out of town family will already be there). After some debate, we decided to call them all engagement parties rather than showers so that people who are not necessarily invited to the wedding can come celebrate with us at the parties without then feeling snubbed when they don't get an invitation to the actual wedding.
We have also finalized the Rabbi's travel plans, and booked his tickets. And we've been ironing out the little details of a whole bunch of stuff, including RSVP card design for our invitations, ceremony music, stamps for our invitations, and my parents' travel plans for the upcoming engagement party in November.
Another big thing that happened since I last posted is that my mom decided to switch to a different coordinator person for our venue. The person we had been working with kept screwing things up (like the food options we had at our tasting), and wasn't very good at responding quickly to communication, so my mom decided enough was enough and finally switched. She says that the new person seems much more communicative and organized, but we'll really find out when we go to our second tasting over Thanksgiving.
We're still kind of in a lull as far as planning that needs to be done right now. It will be picking up again in earnest starting around Thanksgiving! But for now, we're enjoying the break!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Food (and other things)
It's been a while since I've posted anything. Wedding planning has slowed down considerably, but it's starting to pick up again. A few items of note have happened since my last post.
Three weekends ago, we went to Florida for Marcus's grandfather's birthday. While we were there, we met with the rabbi and firmed up plans for the ceremony, as well as his meal and travel plans. He also directed us to a great website for finding a ketubah, which we have looked through and narrowed down a list of ones we like.
This weekend, we went to Maryland to do our menu tasting! We were very excited, and the food itself did not disappoint! However, our coordinator person had went off the wrong email (an earlier list rather than the final one), so we didn't get to taste all of the things we had selected, but we did get to taste some that we hadn't selected. Everything was good, but we will be going back again when we're up there for Thanksgiving to taste the remaining items we had wanted to taste. It seems like nothing we do for this wedding can go right the first time! *Sigh*.
We also had a little pow-wow with Frieda (one of the Schwartzes, who I've mentioned before) to talk about music for the ceremony. After much discussion, we have decided to enlist her help in finding musicians to play at our ceremony. She used to play in a klezmer band, so she knows a lot of appropriate people in the local music world. We also narrowed down a list of songs that we want played before and during the ceremony, and further discussed the actual procession and the order in which people will walk down the aisle.
Also, we finally got our engagement photos back! They are on the photographer's website - we are in the process of finding out if the photographer will let us have the jpegs (for facebook posting/easier sharing), but for now, if you haven't seen the pictures and you want to, let me or Marcus know, and we can send you a link and login info for the website! The pictures came out GREAT!
We have also pretty much finalized the wording and colors for our invitations. Now we just have to wait until we finalize our menu so we can add the meal options to the response cards. That will all be happening very quickly, as we won't know our menu until after Thanksgiving, and we hope to order our invitations by the first week of December (and plan to send them out in late January)! Such is life...everything comes in bunches!
Three weekends ago, we went to Florida for Marcus's grandfather's birthday. While we were there, we met with the rabbi and firmed up plans for the ceremony, as well as his meal and travel plans. He also directed us to a great website for finding a ketubah, which we have looked through and narrowed down a list of ones we like.
This weekend, we went to Maryland to do our menu tasting! We were very excited, and the food itself did not disappoint! However, our coordinator person had went off the wrong email (an earlier list rather than the final one), so we didn't get to taste all of the things we had selected, but we did get to taste some that we hadn't selected. Everything was good, but we will be going back again when we're up there for Thanksgiving to taste the remaining items we had wanted to taste. It seems like nothing we do for this wedding can go right the first time! *Sigh*.
We also had a little pow-wow with Frieda (one of the Schwartzes, who I've mentioned before) to talk about music for the ceremony. After much discussion, we have decided to enlist her help in finding musicians to play at our ceremony. She used to play in a klezmer band, so she knows a lot of appropriate people in the local music world. We also narrowed down a list of songs that we want played before and during the ceremony, and further discussed the actual procession and the order in which people will walk down the aisle.
Also, we finally got our engagement photos back! They are on the photographer's website - we are in the process of finding out if the photographer will let us have the jpegs (for facebook posting/easier sharing), but for now, if you haven't seen the pictures and you want to, let me or Marcus know, and we can send you a link and login info for the website! The pictures came out GREAT!
We have also pretty much finalized the wording and colors for our invitations. Now we just have to wait until we finalize our menu so we can add the meal options to the response cards. That will all be happening very quickly, as we won't know our menu until after Thanksgiving, and we hope to order our invitations by the first week of December (and plan to send them out in late January)! Such is life...everything comes in bunches!
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