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Venue is booked

The wedding planning is officially underway, and Golden Gardens has been booked for the wedding venue! I called ahead to get the information on reserving the Golden Gardens Bathouse for our wedding ceremony and receiption, and the parks department informed me that applications were taken on a first come first serve basis, and that she had seen people line up as early as 4 am to reserve their date. So at 3:30 am on Friday morning Hannah and I woke up and headed over to the parks department to reserve my day. When we got there already two other brides were in line, luckily they were reserving different dates than the date I wanted, so by 4 am 3 of the 4 Saturdays in July were already spoken for.

As the morning went on more brides showed up, and the early morning swimmers going to the pool next door entertained us with their speculations as to why a line up of 10+ women were camped outside the parks department office. We were asked if we were protesting, having a bible study, or tailgaiting for the pool! My favorite was when someone told me I couldn't possibly be getting married because I looked only 16! Maybe I should go out with out make up more often... :)

Around 6:50 am the office opened and by 7 am I had successfully reserved our date of 7/7/2012! Now the real planning can finally get started!

Moving to July!

Phil and I have decided to move the wedding date to July 2012! We originally were planning on Memorial Day weekend in May 2012, however after realizing some scheduling conflicts we have decided July will be a much better time for a Seattle Wedding. We are still planing to go to Golden Gardens, and now the chance of it being a warm sunny beautiful day are much better. The 4th of July is on a Wednesday this year, so we'd like to piggy back on the holiday festivities and hold the wedding the first weekend in July. Now I just have to figure out how to work in some fireworks to the ceremony... :)

Engagement Pictures

Here are my ideas for some interesting places to go:

Pike Place Market
Green Lake (by my favorite tree)
Alki Beach
Queen Anne look out over the Seattle Skyline
Seattle Center fountains
The Great Nabob (our favorite neighborhood bar)
4th Ave in front of Hotel Andrea (the trees all have really interesting LED lights wrapped around them)
The light park in lower Queen Anne
Sculpture Park
Pioneer Square

Anyone know of any other places that have great scenery this time of year? Let me know!

Dresses

I have narrowed my search down to several Vera Wang dresses! Now I just need to figure out how to get a deal on them. Anyone up for a sample sale in NYC this fall...

Ethel

Francesca

Freya

Fern

Fawn