DAYS REMAINING: 62
Here are two interesting perspectives on the Ring Road around the entire island: the scary and the even more scary.
(For anyone still interested in a post-wedding road trip, you can check out the tour we're taking or just plan your own road trip, as some have decided to do.)
(Thanks to Meesh for the links!)
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Fairy Tale 2: Rise of the Fairies
DAYS REMAINING: 69
It is now 69 days until our wedding and, at the moment, there remains a distinctive lack of helpful elves and task-aware dwarves planning it for us while Eric and I have been spending twelve hours a day at work. Luckily, I have one more week at my current job before a luxurious two-week break, during which time I have a “to do” list consisting of exactly one item: PLAN THE ENTIRE WEDDING. Within that one item lies about a billion terrifying details.
Back when we sent out our invitations (what seems like 100 years ago), we kept falling back on a reassuring stump speech that went something like, “At least we got one huge thing out of the way. Think about all of the people who haven’t even started planning ANYTHING at this point in the process!” But as the months have peeled montage-style off of the calendar, we have run out of excuses, and are getting perilously close to running out of time. And so this morning, we returned to the only actual place we can get anything done – our old friends at Fairytale Affairs – for the next stage of the planning. Because any great Icelandic event must run first through Massapequa Park. You think the 10th Century Norse explorers who discovered the place didn’t first stop at All-American? You’re wrong.
First a reminder about this business: Fairytale Affairs is a stone’s throw from my mom’s house on Long Island, smack in the middle of a town not know for its stark liberalism or cultural acceptance. My mom had worked with Tracey on invitations for events such as my grandmother’s birthday party, and approached her with skepticism many months back to make sure “it would be okay” for the store to take on the lightning rod issue of printing wedding invitations that had TWO BOYS’ NAMES ON THEM. Tracey laughed that idea right off because she is a nice person and a hell of a pro as a businessperson, and has since added our gorgeous invitations to her stable of samples she shows her other clients. Yay, Fairytale Affairs! You should all support local businesses who know what side their bread is buttered on, is all I’m saying.
For today’s excitement, programs for the wedding ceremony. We wanted a simple design with the straightforward information of the ceremony (if only we know exactly what those details were going to be!), and that is exactly what we designed. We briefly thought about not doing programs for the ceremony, but, y’know, people are coming all this way, why not give them a little keepsake they can leave in their hotel rooms or tuck in a mail sorter when they get home and then throw away when they move to New Jersey? And we’re having it bound together with a ribbon! You fly to Iceland, you get a ribbon. It’s just polite party hosting is all.
So now we were on a roll. Tracey is definitely not an upseller in the standard “let me help get you guys into this 1987 Datsun that runs just like new” way, but once the programs were done, the three of us collective started poking around for what other visual elements were going to help tie the look of the day together. And right then, the words “Well, I guess that’s it, then…” collectively vanished from our vocabulary. Place cards! Monogrammed napkins! (Yes, really.) Specially-designed gift bags for our welcome packages! (Yes. Really.)
In the end, the best part of the day was starting to get really excited about the plans for the wedding again. Which is good. Because now that we crossed one thing off of our list, all we have to take care of is shuttleinformationfromairporttoguestswelcomepackageathotelfinalheadcountforrehearsaldinnerchoosemenusendinvitestorehearsaldinnerarrangeshuttletoandfromrehearsaldinnerfromhotelgetalllegalpaperworktogethercheckinwithBryndiswriteceremonychoosesongsbuysuitsfinalizeheadcountseatingchartflowerstablecenterpiececakeaskaboutsoundsystemforipodfigureoutfavorspoolpaymentarrange shuttletofrompool. Oh, and figuring out day care for the cats while we’re out of town for three weeks.
And that’s it!
It is now 69 days until our wedding and, at the moment, there remains a distinctive lack of helpful elves and task-aware dwarves planning it for us while Eric and I have been spending twelve hours a day at work. Luckily, I have one more week at my current job before a luxurious two-week break, during which time I have a “to do” list consisting of exactly one item: PLAN THE ENTIRE WEDDING. Within that one item lies about a billion terrifying details.
Back when we sent out our invitations (what seems like 100 years ago), we kept falling back on a reassuring stump speech that went something like, “At least we got one huge thing out of the way. Think about all of the people who haven’t even started planning ANYTHING at this point in the process!” But as the months have peeled montage-style off of the calendar, we have run out of excuses, and are getting perilously close to running out of time. And so this morning, we returned to the only actual place we can get anything done – our old friends at Fairytale Affairs – for the next stage of the planning. Because any great Icelandic event must run first through Massapequa Park. You think the 10th Century Norse explorers who discovered the place didn’t first stop at All-American? You’re wrong.
First a reminder about this business: Fairytale Affairs is a stone’s throw from my mom’s house on Long Island, smack in the middle of a town not know for its stark liberalism or cultural acceptance. My mom had worked with Tracey on invitations for events such as my grandmother’s birthday party, and approached her with skepticism many months back to make sure “it would be okay” for the store to take on the lightning rod issue of printing wedding invitations that had TWO BOYS’ NAMES ON THEM. Tracey laughed that idea right off because she is a nice person and a hell of a pro as a businessperson, and has since added our gorgeous invitations to her stable of samples she shows her other clients. Yay, Fairytale Affairs! You should all support local businesses who know what side their bread is buttered on, is all I’m saying.
For today’s excitement, programs for the wedding ceremony. We wanted a simple design with the straightforward information of the ceremony (if only we know exactly what those details were going to be!), and that is exactly what we designed. We briefly thought about not doing programs for the ceremony, but, y’know, people are coming all this way, why not give them a little keepsake they can leave in their hotel rooms or tuck in a mail sorter when they get home and then throw away when they move to New Jersey? And we’re having it bound together with a ribbon! You fly to Iceland, you get a ribbon. It’s just polite party hosting is all.
So now we were on a roll. Tracey is definitely not an upseller in the standard “let me help get you guys into this 1987 Datsun that runs just like new” way, but once the programs were done, the three of us collective started poking around for what other visual elements were going to help tie the look of the day together. And right then, the words “Well, I guess that’s it, then…” collectively vanished from our vocabulary. Place cards! Monogrammed napkins! (Yes, really.) Specially-designed gift bags for our welcome packages! (Yes. Really.)
In the end, the best part of the day was starting to get really excited about the plans for the wedding again. Which is good. Because now that we crossed one thing off of our list, all we have to take care of is shuttleinformationfromairporttoguestswelcomepackageathotelfinalheadcountforrehearsaldinnerchoosemenusendinvitestorehearsaldinnerarrangeshuttletoandfromrehearsaldinnerfromhotelgetalllegalpaperworktogethercheckinwithBryndiswriteceremonychoosesongsbuysuitsfinalizeheadcountseatingchartflowerstablecenterpiececakeaskaboutsoundsystemforipodfigureoutfavorspoolpaymentarrange shuttletofrompool. Oh, and figuring out day care for the cats while we’re out of town for three weeks.
And that’s it!
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