Mary's Wedding

My first friend, of my hometown friends, was married this past weekend. It was very exciting to see all my friends in one place at one time. It took awhile to get home though because Defiance, Chicago, and Detroit all got snow. I had to fly to Chicago to Detroit, but thankfully I made it home. It took us a long time to get there though. Rodney didn't come for the wedding because we are going there again this weekend. This weekend we have an Engaged Couple's retreat to attend. It is an all day thing, but our friends Lynn and Chris will be there so that will be fun! We also meet with the caterer and Fr. Todd again. I included some pictures of the wedding. The first picture is of Meghan, Austin, and Kurt. Meghan is my best friend and those are her brothers. Second pictures is of Meghan and I. Then my mom and dad. Then me, Meghan, Lynn, Ashley, and Erin. Then the last pictures is Meghan, me, Lynn, Mary, Ashley, and Erin. Ashley and Meghan are both in my wedding.

California

Whee! It has been a crazy couple of weeks. Rodney and I went and visited all of his family in California a couple of weeks ago. Rodney says "I went to California, yay!" It was fun while we were there but it was a very short visit. Wedding-wise we have bought out wedding bands, they are really cute/cool. We went to Jared, I have never been there. They offered us a bottle of water and cleaned my ring for free. It was very exciting. Today we wrote everybody down into one list, so we have a better idea of who all we are inviting. Friday night I went to Larry's Man shower (I teach with him, and he is getting married in March), but it made me excited to start getting into all of our celebrating. I can't wait!!!

Hotels

Rodney says "What up". We have blocked off some hotel rooms for the wedding. It is at the Holiday Inn Express in Defiance. I think you get a discounted rate if you tell them it is for our wedding. We also put down our deposit on our Honeymoon which was very exciting. Jamaica here we come! We also went and picked out the guys' tuxes; they are going to look very nice. Besides that it has been kinda calm. We received our invitations already so we have to start getting those ready, we also just received our Engagement pictures. They look really good. Now we have to go find some frames to put them in! We are heading to California this weekend to see Rodney's family so that should be alot of fun.

Airports

I heard some people wanting to start getting information for airports. There are a couple that are near us. The city the wedding is taking place in is Defiance, Ohio. The closest airport is Ft. Wayne, Indiana. I normally can't find cheap flights in to there, but it is only 45 minutes away from Defiance. Another airport is Toledo, Ohio. It is about 1 hour away from Defiance. Then Detroit, Michigan is about 2 to 2.5 hours away from Defiance. That is where I normally fly into because it is the cheapest. I will get directions from those three airports to the hotels as soon as the hotels are figured out. That will be coming soon. Let me know if you have any questions about them!

Invitations

Today we officially ordered the invitations. I was so worried that something would be spell wronged. We checked and checked multiple times. So if something is wrong oh well :) Tomorrow we are going to look for Tuxes, because I have the day off of school! Rodney is officially living here for good, so we should be able to get more work done.

Also I should be able to tell you what hotels we have reserved in Defiance. Then everybody can start saving rooms! In snowed in Cary yesterday which was very exciting!!

Busy Saturday

Today we went and registered at JCPenny's. We wanted to register at Sears, but their machine was broken. JCPenny did not have a lot of kitchen items at our store, but we went online and were able to add more items that way. We also went and added more items at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. That place is amazing. The lady we registered with remembered us and was so friendly. Everybody is so nice at our store, it is a lot of fun. Rodney and I had fun using the scanner while we were there. We also went and talked to Bob, our travel agent, and looked more into our Honeymoon. We know we are going to Jamaica, but are still getting rooms figured out. P.S. that's not the mixer we want, it is the only one I could find to put a picture up of :)

The first post

Hey everyone!

We thought having a blog would make it easier to give everybody information about the wedding. We can also keep people updated after the wedding with pictures and such. The first thing we have to report on is that we have engagement pictures online. Go to http://www.haasphotos.com/ then to online proofs, then we are under the heading "We're Engaged". The one we chose for our engagement picture is 9576.jpg. There is so much more to work on and we are very excited about it all. Well mostly excited about it all! :)