Hey everyone! Not much new on the wedding front. I CAN'T WAIT to confirm my date in July! I think it will really feel real at that point. Plus, I can start making save-the-dates, invites, programs....all the stuff that may have the date included on it.
I am a little bummed, though... I just realized my wedding date falls during Lent. And it's a Friday.
Now, I'm not Catholic, nor do I adhere to any rules regarding Lent. BUT....over half my guest list is Catholic. My DF, his parents, sister and neice; my MOH; my BM... I've been drooling over the main course options at the California Grill, all excited to pick a couple...but I wanted a filet and chicken options... I guess I'm going to have to do filet and a fishy option. I don't know why...I just have a hard time paying $100/plate for fish. lol. Maybe that's because I don't think it's worth the newspaper it's wrapped in! (Unless it's Tuna or Swordfish steaks...mmmm!)
Funny part is my dad's dad, who is attending, is a Greek Orthodox priest (yes, he'll be doing the wedding ceremony, hopefully). The Greeks are even stricter than the Catholics...no meat at all during Lent...so that would rule out my Papou, Yiayia and aunt, too. Luckily, my Papou decided a few years ago he was too old to be giving up meat as often and as arbitrarily as the Greek Orthodox church wanted him to.
So at least I'll be getting my money's worth with them....filets all around!!
Other update, I guess... Heard from my wedding coordinator!! She seems super nice and very helpful. Also, very quick to respond to my first e-mail...so that's a good sign. I confirmed with her that for $500, I could invite 5 extra guests. I'm INCREDIBLY pumped about this. We can now include our MOH and GM's significant others. Prior to this news, we were thinking we'd invite them to dinner, but not the ceremony. I know that seems really rude...but in all fairness, I haven't even met my MOH's new boyfriend and our GM's wife is horrible! (I've only met her once and she was incredibly rude to me...and she's not all that nice to my DF, despite the fact that her husband is one of my DF's two best friends....If we were having a large wedding I wouldn't care...but to waste one of 18 spots on her, when that would mean eliminating my best friend from college REALLY pissed me off.) BUT...now with the new limit, we can invite them without eliminating people we actually like.
So that's all for now... On Monday, I made ADRs for my August trip...booked California Grill! I'm excited to try potential wedding dinner items!
. I wanted to do red shoes as well, but my DFi won with the colors and our main color is blue. 
DF was so cute... because I did sort of scold him for going to so far over the limit we'd set ... "I was so excited when you said you wanted to make our invitations and things...I think that's so cute...I wanted to help!" He's the best!
