Heather & Thor’s Weblog

Wedding Update: Thursday Before… April 3, 2008

Wedding Updates…

We’re doing our best to get the ceremony to be outdoors, but with weather in New England a total crapshoot, we’re realistic that it might not happen. We’re also trying to be considerate to our special guests, because we wouldn’t want them to be inconvenienced. It’s a party — and there will be a ceremony — so we want everyone to be comfortable and happy.

Of everything, we have one regret. Our wedding song is a waltz. Neither of us has ever learned to dance the waltz, and we ignorantly let planning the wedding and life get in the way of us taking lessons or even learning ourselves. We tried on a few separate occasions but will resort to a regular arms-around-each-other waddle dance. Just not enough time. And it’s a shame, because we would have loved to learn and do the waltz. Regardless, it’s a small detail. The wedding will be a great party. We won’t dwell on it.

Weddings are very expensive. Ours will have just under 100 guests, which is small by some measures and medium sized by others. For us, though, it’s just perfect. I can’t even begin to explain the weight that has been lifted from our weary shoulders by selling BOTH of our old houses. We can no go on our honeymoon and drink and be merry. Thank you to whatever power I owe this magnificent aligning of good fortune.

I have completed the writing of my vows, which was actually pretty easy. The hard part will be memorizing them. I am now in the middle of writing down an outline for the number of people who deserve public thank you’s. That’s going to be a hard one to get out. Hopefully I’ll hit the ground with it running. Where I first thought it might run close to an hour (joking, but not really), I know realize, after a few basic words on down on paper and in my head, that it will be much shorter than I at first feared, which is a good thing.

Special call out to Lord John, who really has been outstanding. There has not been a day that has gone by when either myself, the Ironmate, or both have said: “That’s why we chose him to officiate our wedding.” He has taken the initiative to do much more than just the role we had for him.