Wedding Schedule

We're only 20 days from the wedding, 16 from when it all becomes crazy. I thought you would all appreciate from seeing what this month is going to look like.

• Dec. 9th, Best Man, Joe's arriving and staying to help for a month.
• Dec. 16th, my Dad arrives and I have my hair practice run with Gabby in Castle Rock.
  
• Dec 17th, all the guys go to Al's Tux at Flat Irons Mall @ 6pm for their final fittings.
• Dec. 18th, Gina arrives from Chicago, the plain cakes are delivered to Mar to be sculpted, and we have our combined bachelor/ette party in Denver that evening.
  
• Dec. 19th Rehearsal in Boulder @ the church @ 1130am.
  
• Pick up tuxedos from Al's on the way to the
• Rehearsal luncheon 2pm @ Great Scott's Eatery in Broomfield
  
• 430 is when the ladies need to be across the highway at the Mokara spa to get their nails done for the wedding - we head to the hotel from there.
• The guys head over to Martin's place for the night.
  
• Dec 20th A.M. = getting ready for everything at our perspective places.
• 2pm SET-UP - they only have 2 hours between when we can occupy the space and when the ceremony starts. I've put each table's worth of decor in separate bags with cards detailing what goes where and how. There will be about 6 storage containers worth of decor for 3 halls worth of stuff. Nothing hanging, except pew bows - it's all on the tables. If they can't figure out what I'm talking about, they can ask Scarlet or Canadian Rachel. Food goes into the kitchen immediately, Becky is being paid to take care of making sure the food and champagne is set up and served, she's a pro and will grab people to help her if she needs it. Someone will set out the boards and platters, start the hot water and coffee, make the first bowl of punch - she'll take it from there. Scarlet is going to need all the hands she can get to help set everything up. There's chairs to move in the sanctuary, coat racks to move from the Sky Room to the lobby, tables to set up all over and decor to be put out on everything.
  

The flowers from Sturtz and Copeland should show up about then, we only ordered wedding party flowers, mine and the flowergirl's are in Victorian baskets - we did not order decor pieces, nor corsages/boutonnieres for the parents (I handmade those instead, so they can have them as keepsakes.)

Mar and Dwight will be there with the cake @ that time as well - maybe setting up the cake table first would be good, the wedding cake's going to be a lighthouse on a cliff over the ocean and large enough to feed 120 people... the least they have to move it the better. ;)

****In order to get our house back, so that we may more easily accommodate our out of town guests before the wedding, we're taking the completed decor containers and the food bank stuff up to my art space in Boulder. I'm praying someone will be able and willing to go pick it all up and make sure it's all at the church by no later than 1:45pm! No decorating can happen until those bins are at the church, so it's crucial that whoever volunteers is willing to commit to being on time. They'd need to get the warehouse keys from me on Saturday.*****

Ok! So, everything's all set up, John's ready to start playing his set in the sanctuary, people are being seated - the groom's party shows up at 3:30pm, and the bride's party at 3:45pm.
Hopefully we'll have everyone in and seated by 4pm, we'll find out the day before how long it's going to be in reality. There are programs - they are one sheet, folded in half and mostly thank yous.


Now the schedule for the reception.

Beginning somewhere between 445 and 5pm:

1. Ceremony lets out - people are ushered into Sky Room for "Cocktail 1/2hr" and Erika starts the kids songs, invites families to go ahead and start feeding any hungry kids, parents hand out the fairy wings - there's going to be around 30 kids, all between 1 month and 16 yrs old. (We'll all be back in the Sanctuary with Ara taking the professional portraits of everybody.)
2. Wedding Party Intro
3. Grand Entrance of Bride and Groom
4. Eat and Mingle
5. Blessing of the Marriage by Bride's Father
6. Toasts
7. Cake Cutting
8. Bouquet/Garter Tosses
9. First (and only) Dance - they can step in halfway through if they like, we don't have time to do a bunch of different dances.
   
10. Open Dancing
11. 7:00PM Bride and Groom Depart
12. Clean-up to take everything straight over to the hotel.
13. Head to after-party and put everything out on tables all willy-nilly.
14. RELAX and Have FUN!!
    

We have to be out of the church by 9pm, they don't have to be proper in putting everything back into the bins, just make it all fit, it's coming back out at the hotel in less than an hour anyway.

We've reserved two of the suites directly across the hall from the party room at the hotel for changing plus there's an indoor pool and whirlpool included. Our after party is going to be awesome. Here's hoping it doesn't get too big though!

One last, but definitely not least, thing: We need to figure out how to get Gina to DIA in time for an 815pm flight out, the day of - which means she has to leave in the middle of the reception. I'm hoping someone will be willing to help us out, or at least get her on a Boulder bus to DIA on time - we would be forever grateful, she's making a lot of really amazing gifts for everyone attending, as a present to us and is flying out from Chicago just for the weekend.

We're both nervous wrecks. My head's in the clouds and Martin's neck froze up again. On the plus side, my health is swinging up finally and I'm dropping weight fast - while Martin is rapidly making all the changes to his life that he procrastinated for so long.