No big update today

It was a long day and I’m tired so no big update today.

We went to Columbia, MO today to look at a handful of possible wedding venues and we met with a photographer.  Here’s the quick quick on what we found.

- Photographer was great.  Good personality that I think would mesh well with what we would want.  Now its just a question of how much we want to spend on photography and if everything would match up.  If you’d like to see some of their work go here.  One really interesting thing from our meeting was the sample album that she brought for us to look at was that of Tim Allen of Home Improvement fame.

- Le Bourgeois is a possible location for the ceremony and reception.  Beautiful outdoor space for the ceremony, pretty good indoor space, but some of the other logistics like time limitations on when during the weekend we could do it aren’t ideal.

- Last stop of note was Stephens College.  We’re very interested in the Kimball Ball Room for the reception.  I think it is the best space for a reception that we’ve found, but ceremony site options there aren’t as exciting to us.  They’re nice, but again, not sure they’re what we’re looking for.  We’d really like to have the ceremony outside and those options are limited.  The chapel they have is a unique and interesting space, but I’m not sure its exactly what we’re looking for.

We don’t have the quickest Internet connection here so no pictures to upload right now.  I’m not sure how much time we’ll have in Denver to upload stuff and I don’t know if we’ll have Internet at the Grand Canyon.  Be patient and I’ll try to post some as soon as I can.  Really long drive tomorrow so I’m gonna hit the sack.

Last Week vol.1

Well, this past week has been a pretty busy one.  I’ve been out of town visiting family and some friends and haven’t been near a computer so I’m going to take a couple of posts to talk about that stuff I did last week.

Last Saturday we had out first real weddingish thing that we did since Carissa and I got engaged.  My sister in Atlanta hosted a small engagement cookout for us at her house.  A lot of our friends and family have moved away from the area so it was a pretty small affair, but it was really great to see the people that were able to make it.  My parents came down from Greenville, Carissa’s brother, who lives in town, came, and my best friend from high school and his fiancee came.  It was really great to see everyone and visit with them over great bar-b-que.  I hadn’t seen my best friend in a couple of years and I had never met his fiancee so it was especially good to see them.

We also got our first couple of gifts as an official engaged couple.  My sister and brother-in-law gave us a really great cheese plate and spreader set.  I was never a cheese and crackers for a snack kind of person until I started living with Cris, but we’ve done that on a number of occasions since I moved in, and I know that it will be well used.  My parents also gave us a beautiful set of crystal toasting champagne flutes.  I’m a typical guy and don’t know a lot about domesticated kind of stuff, but I do know enough that they’re really nice looking and I’ll probably be afraid I’m gonna break them every time I use them.

All in all it was a really great time and I really appreciate everything my sister did to put it together.  Random surprise for the day, Publix (regional grocery store) makes some of the best cake I’ve ever had.  When I get back home I’ll see if Maybe I can get some pictures from the bar-b-que posted somewhere.