It has been a week since the transfer of the ring and I feel like we have an outline of a plan. On Saturday, we met with friends of ours, who are getting married in July, and I was given the Real Simple Weddings Book. It is beautiful and also insanely overwhelming. It details all that there is to do and really puts a wrench in my theory that this was going to be well, really simple. Ahem.
But since last Monday evening, we have picked a date. This was probably the quickest decision to make as there is a narrow window of time between the day Paul stops working as a med student and the day he starts working as a real-live doctor.
We have reserved (at least I think it is reserved… Dad?) a ceremony location. It is the church that my parents currently attend and the same place that Paul's parents were married (plus it has a fabulously long aisle).
We have two-thirds of a guest list, though after hearing what a wedding costs per head, I am nervous about having to go at that list with a red sharpie and make some cuts.
We have arranged flights to go back to Sacramento in early May to look at reception venues. I am anxious to learn more about this place.
I have decided to consider just buying hundreds of pretty flowers and tossing them into little Ikea vases for decoration at the reception.
And of course, I have already come up with a sketch for the handmade programs, invites, save-the-dates and guestbook. But, let's be honest, that I have had mapped out since January.
enJOY it 
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