I seem to hear this a lot, 2 years!? That is forever away from now! But really, with all the people who are going to be coming, and with mom running to be president of the ADA (elections aren't until October 2010) it isn't that crazy far away, and I get to work with people that I really like, because I am booking out so far in advance!
I started out being 100% sure that I wanted to get married at the Masonic Center downtown, and if it weren't for their strict catering and bar policies we would for sure be getting married there. It is crazy beautiful there, so we wouldn't need to decorate much at all. However, they gave me a list of 4 caterers that I could choose from, and only one of them is able to serve alcohol, the Glover Mansion, and I HATE the Glover Mansion Catering company so much that I am no longer even considering it at all. They didn't return phone calls or e-mails. When I did finally call I talked to a girl on the phone for 15 minutes and told her exactly what kind of food we wanted, then a month later still no word from them. Called back a second time, had to re-explain what I wanted, they finally sent me a proposal with spelling and grammar errors (awesome) it ended up being over the top expensive... This would have been the room we would have had the reception in.
Falls Room Masonic Center
... So here we are looking at a new place!
Instead we are thinking that we will have the ceremony and reception at The Lincoln Center, where it has free parking and an open catering and bar policy. I haven't heard from the yet about prices, but it includes tables, chairs, and linens per their webpage. They do have two ballrooms, so it looks like we will still be able to have the ceremony and reception at the same place. Which was one of the things that is really important to me, so people won't have to drive around a bunch, since we will have so many people from out of town.
Its a little 80's cheesy (nothing a little decorating can't fix), we can change the color of the neon lights to white, it does have the balcony and I have been there before with Sara for a sustainability spokane meeting, it is pretty nice.
The Lincoln Ballroom
I ordered Marshall's ring a few weeks ago, he is very excited about it. It is made out of meteorite (yep, really!) and yellow gold. I was able to find a custom jeweler on etsy.com to make it, it should be here any day now!
A little info about the meteorite:
The Muonionalusta meteorite is a rare iron that was originally found in 1906 near Kiruna, Sweden. This beautiful meteorite is classified as a fine (IVA) Octahedrite, and has spectacular etch patterns. Muonionalusta is only rarely found on the meteorite market as the strewn field is within the Arctic Circle, making searching for it very difficult. The total known weight of Muonionalusta is unknown, and until recently, most has been locked up in Museum collections, with very little in private hands.
I have been throwing around ideas with Sara mostly... I am pretty sure I am having a custom dress made by a family friend, but have gone and tried dresses on to get a better idea of what I want. I pretty much have it all figured out now, just need to meet up with Linda and nail down all my ideas :)
I think we will be doing monochromatic purple and a little bit of green for our colors. But the bridesmaids will all wear different dresses, whatever color purple that they want. I haven't seen anything that blows me out of the water, and would rather that my girls found a dress that they love, and would wear again.
Other than that I just like to poke around looking at different blogs to get inspiration. I love looking at flowers, and really like the idea of using succulents and different flowers that aren't the "normal" wedding flowers, a little bit more organic/funky looking, and some pops of color.
Thats about all that is going on at the moment in the wedding planning world. Marshall hasn't figured out exactly who he wants to be in the wedding (he has way more guy friends than I have girl friends) It was easy for me, and he started with a list of like 13 people, I think he is down to 6 now. I picked out 5 amazing ladies all from different steps in my life. I've got Stephanie my sister, Molly and Kendra from high school, Sara from massage school and Amanda from glen dow. It is going to be so much fun!