We're getting married...

Whitney and I are getting married. It's Jan 26, so it's been exactly one month since I asked her to marry me at her Mom's house. What's happened since?

 • We have books from friends and the library, and researched online
 • We found several venues we're interested in
 • We found an engagement ring
 • We started our guest list
 • We picked our wedding party
 • We had lots of discussions and traded ideas with Whitney's Mom, Bette
 • We attended our first Wedding Expo at the Minneapolis Convention Center

We still need to visit venues, narrow down our choices, pick a caterer, and then settle on a date (Spring 2014). Then we can design and send announcements / save-the-dates. It will be a small wedding, but hopefully we'll find a place where more people can come to a post-reception dinner dance — we have to see what the policies are at the place we ultimately pick.

To keep costs down, and also because we think it's a great idea, we're investigating DIY projects. I like the personal touches DIY can bring, such as unique invitations, or table centerpieces, or whatever. So that's taking up some of our time, too.

Whitney also needs to find a Wedding Dress. I'm trying to help out as much as I can in all areas of planning, but I think I'll leave that to her, the bridesmaids, and her mom.

Whitney has started moving in with me, which requires lots of time in itself!

Finally, there's this Wedding Website (Blog) which we've put together. As of this first blog post, it's not complete, nor official (no one knows about it yet!), but it will be soon.

Yay!