Sleep

As the days are counting down, sleep is one of the most important things that we need in our systems. We're trying to go to bed at a decent time for the next couple of weeks in preparation for the wedding. As you can see the time stamp on this entry, it's somewhat late and past the "bed time" that we're trying to keep.

Picked up the favours for the Sunday reception today! We're really happy with them, because they weren't overly expensive and we're hoping that our guests will enjoy them.

It's almost officially Friday, so I should post this before the clock strikes twelve so I can keep my 'one post a day' going.

- Dennis.

2w wknds lft

Wow, not being in Toronto for a week really makes a difference. I come back from my various trips, and all of a sudden, there's only 2wo more weekends left until the WW (wedding weekend)!

With fall officially here, the days seem to be shorter with less time to accomplish anything. We went over our master wedding spreadsheet, and it appears everything is on track. So far, we've talked about some wedding items, but we have yet to sink our teeth into the nitty gritty. There's only one more meeting left and that's with the photographer, which shouldn't take long anyways.

This weekend will be our last weekend in Toronto before the big days. Next weekend will be spent in Whitby for a few wedding related items, so that will be a busy time.

We will try our best to update everyday, even if it's a few lines.

- Dennis.

Cool as a Cucumber

I’m cool as a cucumber despite:

• the florist cancelling meeting with us on Sunday because she forgot to order our flowers to make a sample centre piece. I’ve booked another meeting with her on Thursday so we’ll see what happens
• Dennis being gone for the entire week . We worked hard last week and there’s not a lot of wedding stuff to do this week so I’m glad that he gets a break from planning.
• My mom telling me that the neighbors are attending the wedding although their rsvp card said otherwise. We’ve got space and I’m glad that they can make it.
• Work being so hectic. There’s only so much I can do in 9 hours of work because my brain turns to mush.

With almost three weeks to go before the wedding, I’m telling myself to take it easy and enjoy every moment.

Here’s a picture that has nothing to do with wedding but, it always makes me laugh.

1ne more month.

Today is September 16, 2010. By this time (4:30pm EST) in exactly one calendar month, we will be officially married. Rings will be exchanged, tears will be shed.

The whole wedding will be more of an official celebration for us. What I mean is, we've already been living together for the past 20 months, so we've already worked out those kinks of living together. We got used to each other's habits, trying to change those habits, and tolerating those habits. So to us, it's a time to gather all our family and close friends into one room and celebrate.

Although it's been a long year of planning, I wouldn't trade it for anything else. Only once in my life will I be a part of planning my wedding. You learn a lot about yourself, your partner, and the two of you as a couple, when you're given something of this calibre, and succeed. Devika and I often look back at what we've done in our lives together and the year of 2010 will be on the top of our list.

- Dennis.

WWW...again.

So the weekend was productive, I must say. We started a little later in the day, but it went for most of the day. We started off by making a list of things that we wanted to accomplish that day (Saturday). We ended up crossing most of the items off the list, except for maybe two items, which we finished yesterday, actually.

All in all, it was a productive day. We took breaks in between here and there. I'll be honest, there was laughter, moments of silence, and a couple disagreements -- I think we both realized that those were coming. But after, we were friends again :)

So that was Saturday, most of the day. Unfortunately, the scheduled star gazing had to be cancelled. Instead, we went to Metro(!). We ended off the night by watching the movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which was really good. Devika read the book so she wanted to watch the movie. The fact that I didn't fall asleep while watching the movie (we started watching it at 100am, and the movie is 2.5hrs) meant that it was a thrilling movie and I wanted to know what happened in the end.

Sunday had a few wedding related items, but it consisted of going out and picking up a few things. We went out for brunch with another couple, which gave us the chance to converse with outside three dimensional people. Later on that evening, we went to our softball game, which was the start of the tournament...we won! The finals will be this Sunday.

So that was last weekend.

WWW this time = Wild Wedding Week! It just never ends! Well, it will in a month, but from now until then -- it just never ends!

There won't be a day this week that either of us will go home right after work...

Monday, we went to the mall together to do some wedding things.

Tuesday, we met with the catering manager at Sunnybrook. The meeting was informative, and we have a better feeling now that the Sunday will be smooth. They have a maitre D that will oversee the entire day. These guys do this pretty much every weekend, so they've got the process down pat.

Today, we'll be meeting with our wedding planner at 600pm at a Greek bakery on Danforth. I think I'm looking forward to eating some Greek food rather than meeting with her! hah!

Thursday, we're going to Gerrard with my cousin to grab some clothes for the Friday/Saturday of the wedding.

Friday, we're going back to Whitby, which will be more relaxing since there won't be much wedding related items for that.

Then there's another WWW Part II!

On Saturday, we're meeting with the DJ. Sunday, the florist. Sunday night, softball finals. For me - Monday, I'll be heading to Seattle, getting back Thursday morning...then Thursday afternoon I'm off to Cuba to hang out with 'da boyz, back on Sunday. Devika will enjoy a time out with 'da girlz while I'm gone. We deserve a little time off from the planning, right? But after that, it'll be back to GO MODE!

I should get back to work.

- Dennis.

WWW

No, WWW does not stand for World Wide Web...but if you thought that, then give me a big computer high five!

WWW = Wild Wedding Weekend! That's right, tomorrow will be dedicated only for wedding planning purposes! Okay, maybe there will be a quick trip to Yorkville because Devika wants to do some star gazing, but other than that, Saturday will be mainly for wedding planning!

We finally got a hold of Sunnybrook's catering manager, so we're meeting with them next week, which brings us to a total of four meetings in six days. Tomorrow's WWW will consist of timelines, to do lists, and anything we can do now so that we don't have to worry about it later.

I will unfortunately be in and out of the country for a week in two weeks, so that's a lot of time lost in terms of planning, but I know we will get a lot done in the next week to make up for any lost time.

Sunday will not be so much planning since we have softball in the evening, and during the day will probably consist of home things, like grocery shopping and cleaning.

We'll update you over the weekend to let you know how everything turned out!

- Dennis.

Counting down

First of all, what's going on with the weather?! We have a stretch of humid days, then right after we get storm like conditions, and now it's fall weather! However the weather is now, we are positive that the weather in a month from now will be fantastic!

Secondly, with just about five weeks left until the big days, we are able to start working on a few things that we couldn't before, like making the labels for the favours, completing the RSVP list, or having the final meetings with the vendors. So far, we have three meetings booked with the vendors all within five days of each other, and we still need to meet with a few others, including Sunnybrook.

We find it weird that Sunnybrook leave the meetings so close to the date of the reception. We have not heard from them as yet and for two people that need to plan their wedding, time is precious! To us, meeting with Sunnybrook is one of the bigger meetings, if not biggest, as we have to discuss our food choices, drink choices, displays, setups, etc. We don't even know any details of what needs to be done, and if it's just the one meeting that we have to do, or if we have to go back. Hopefully they give us some sort of outline of what we need to prepare before going into the meeting.

And lastly, like I said before, time is precious. With not so many weekends left, we need to take advantage of the "free" time we have on the weekends. During the week isn't so great all the time, since we work and by the time we finish the day to day things, there isn't a lot of time to really get into wedding planning, BUT, we must. With little over a month left, we should try to squeeze in bits and pieces in the evenings during the week. We've been pretty good at doing that over the past couple of weeks, and I'm confident we'll be able to accomplish a lot in the next two weeks.

We'll try to update our blog more often from now until Octoberish...we wonder though; how many people actually read this? I personally wouldn't check a blog often if it hardly gets updated, so, since we're a proud owner of a blog, we should update often. Maybe after October, we'll continue on with the blog, called "Road after October 2010"!

We'll post some pictures soon of our fun filled weekend at the wedding favour sweat shop!

- Dennis.

September

It's September! Already, yes, we know. That means another calendar month closer to the big day. Our September is already looking quite busy with 3 of the 4 weekends already with plans, a. In my mind, once October hits, it's the final stretch...the last 100 metres...the final leg.

A new tip for future wedding goers; when you're ready to send out your invitations and you plan to have a RSVP card for your guests to send back, mark the RSVP card before you send it out. For example, put down a small number on the back of the card and mark it down on your list. We didn't do that, and you wouldn't believe the number of RSVP cards we received back without people's names on it! There's a spot on our card for people to write down the names of the people coming. If we had that number system, we wouldn't have to think of who it may be from, we'd just go to our list and cross reference it!

We had a productive weekend a couple weeks ago and we're planning for another productive one this weekend as well. We have some meetings set up already for some of the vendors as well. Also booked our hotel for our Chicago trip!

Blog to you soon...

- Dennis.