Progress.

Tonight we should be receiving the final draft of our save the dates from our friends, Claire and Kait. Tomorrow we have plans to go to old downtown here in Daejeon to print a test card. If everything looks good, this weekend will be go-time. We’re thrilled, envisioning cozy nights on the couch with some good music and perhaps a beer or two while cutting, stamping, writing and sealing. Of course, it might end up being more annoying than not, but we’ll stay optimistic until we start :). The goal is to mail them out from here no later than the following weekend. They should arrive in one big bundle to my mom’s house, and they she will mail them out locally from Maine. If all goes according to plan, people should receive them before Thanksgiving. That was what we hoped for, to avoid the holiday rush of mail. Fingers crossed we can get it all organized!

Less than 300 days to go!

Here is a quick list of the progress we’ve made in planning so far:

Dress: sending in measurements this weekend to Vietnam!

Officiate: my childhood priest has agreed to marry us :)

Ceremony location: church has been booked (months ago!)

Reception location: also booked (months ago)

Tent/tables/chairs: sending in deposit next month

Music: in contact with DJ, awaiting quote

Flowers: in contact with local farm, awaiting quote

Photographer: Thank goodness for awesome cousins!

Food: vendor confirmed and booked.

Cake: thank goodness for friends/bridesmaids!

Paper products: Save the dates almost done, invitations to come

Ceremony details: awaiting pamphlet from church in the mail

Ceremony musicians/readers: still need to coordinate

Honeymoon: home is our honeymoon! The real trip begins 3/1/2013 when we’re done in Korea. More on those exciting plans to come!

That’s all I can think of for now.

The sun is shining today, albeit cold. My fingers are numb from giving speaking tests in the freezing hallways. Because construction in Korea constitutes building from concrete and slabbing wallpaper directly over it, to say that there are mold problems here is an understatement. To try to keep mold growth at a minimum (and to "better your health"), schools keep most of the hallway windows wide open, even on the coldest of days. That's all well and good, except for me, the lonesome English waygook teacher who is stuck sitting in the hallways for the next two weeks of classes. sigh. Such is life here: you have to roll with the punches. Tomorrow I'm donning a hat and gloves :)