OMGosh!! It's almost here!

The Best Man, Joe, arrived last week, my Dad arrived yesterday, my Doctor (& family friend) today, my college-years best friend, Gina, and his 2nd oldest brother and nephew, Brian and Charlie - all tomorrow.

Tonight most of the family was at our place, boy, talk about crowded and 5 people were still missing!

We're starting to load the vehicles for the wedding. The Volvo Wagon has all the decor for the church stowed in it, and Saturday, Martin takes it to my other best friend's house. She and her partner don't have a car and needed one for all the festivities - we had a car full of stuff and nobody to drive it. Her partner, Shaun, made sure his license and personal driving insurance are all current for it - which is awesome, most people wouldn't even think about it. So we helped each other out in a very awesome way. (They're also happy to be driving a metal tank from the 70s around, they have a 13 month old and are both paranoid about accidents. )

Tomorrow, he closes on our mortgage refinance and picks up my newly fused wedding ring set, while I finish wedding shopping, afterward we'll go visiting bed-ridden elderly relatives who can't make it to the wedding. Then I pick up Gina and come home to get ready for our bachelor/ette party. He and Joe are going to pick up his costume for our party (we're going as the Easter Bunny and his chocolate confection! woot!), pick up the wedding cakes and deliver them to the cake sculptor, along with the board and dowel she requested for the base. (She's making a lighthouse, on a cliff over the ocean... out of cake!)

At the cake sculptor's place, they are also having a potluck - so the guys are staying for that. While Gina and I meet up with my Dad and go to Sobo 151 early for a Czech dinner. At 9 the guests for the party should arrive and by 10pm we'll be on the party bus ride for the night.

Saturday, we have the rehearsal and set up a couple of things early. The guys go pick up the tuxes, while I take the rest of the family to the restaurant for the rehearsal luncheon. This is where things start getting fuzzy and slow. The ladies and I are going to the spa to get our wedding nails done, while the guys deliver things to the hotel, get the wedding party people settled in their prospective places and deliver the Volvo to Rachel and Shaun. (It may not seem fair, but I've done a bulk of the work on the wedding, early on and mostly by myself, so that I can relax the night before and Martin procrastinated his end of the planning, so he gets stuck with the last minute stuff while I get pampered!)

Sunday is the Wedding!!! O.O
OMG!!
I'm getting married fo' realz yo!
lol

The Bachelor/ette Party

We got a party bus - it seats 47 people. If we fill it up, that's only $10 per person to pay for it AND we'll give a good tip to the driver!

It's the same party bus company that the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls use.

We'll start @ 9pm at Sobo 151
http://www.sobo151.net/

The bus picks us up at 10pm and we head towards Capital Hill. We're still needing people's opinions on which places to go between the Baker District and Capital Hill. We will hit Charlie Browns and Netherworld at some point, the final stop on the bus will be back at Sobo 151.

We know money is tight these days. If you're trying to decide between a cool wedding present for us or using the moolah to join us for this - we'd prefer your company partying up on a cool bus, than more material items in our already crowded house. ;)

See you in a few weeks! We're so excited (and Nervous! We're Getting Married!! O.O HOLY!!)

♥
The Colonel and Future Mrs. Mustard