Good morning!!!
Dan and I have been overwhelmed with the amount of love and excitement we have been shown after mailing out our announcements!
The letters of congratulations and the warm welcoming from family members on either side of our families have just been wonderful!
It seems that as of now the fun parts of the planning are through, we know where we are going, where we are staying, and we know who we will get to see along the way, we've created out announcements, and we've mailed them out!
So right now in the planning process I simply am working the numbers....
I have a very large Excel worksheet titled: Wedding Budget. And it is filled with numbers and what specific thing each number represents, and each number is a part of an equation that leads to a larger number that represents a general item while those general numbers lead into the largest number of them all... the total cost of our elopement.
WHEW!
We have a separate column for our savings plan, a plan with will ultimately lead to our having saved enough money for all of this to actually happen!
To the left is our Wedding Booklet
This is a 45 page booklet I am creating. Each day that we are on the road has its own page (or two!) with a list of things for us to see on our way there, sites at each destination, as well as all of the reservation information. I am hoping to laminate this booklet for us to keep as a small reminder of our trip.
I think one of the most entertaining parts of our planning right now is making the reservations!! We are staying in very diverse hotels/B&Bs/hostels/campsites each of these places takes reservations differently and at different times. By the time I began making reservations places like the Grand Canyon and the California Redwoods were full up, where as some of the B&Bs would laugh at how far in advance we were calling about.
"For when?... August?.... You know thats 8 months away right?... Well, let me go down to the basement to get the other reservation book..."
Some would just laugh and tell me to call back in June.
We've completed all reservations that we can as of now, and things are looking good!!
We have a lot of planning a head of us, but we are also getting married in 7 months!!!
"For when?... August?.... You know thats 8 months away right?... Well, let me go down to the basement to get the other reservation book..."
Some would just laugh and tell me to call back in June.
We've completed all reservations that we can as of now, and things are looking good!!
We have a lot of planning a head of us, but we are also getting married in 7 months!!!
