The Anticipation of a Busy Mailbox

There's a lot of excitement in the air lately. Our mailbox has gotten quite busy since the invitations went out last weekend. We've dedicated a special basket on our kitchen counter to put all the unopened response cards into as they come in. We're not allowed to peek until Wendie comes to open them up for us. The anticipation of waiting to see who's coming is almost unbearable!! We're SOOO excited to start that process!

ONLY EIGHT WEEKS as of tomorrow until the wedding.

Can you believe it?!

Plenty to look forward to in those few weeks. There's still lots of details to be worked out and final decisions to be made. Dress fittings, shoe shopping, odds and ends. There's the bridal shower, the rehearsal dinner and for the wild and crazy people...the bachelor and bachelorette parties!!! So much fun to look forward to!!!

Wedding Invitations

Last night we put the extra leaf in the dining room table and spread all the bits and pieces of the wedding invitations out. And let me tell you, there are a lot of bits and pieces to these things! It took us a few hours to get all 149 outter envelopes properly labeled for Mr. Postman, then correctly matched with the inner labels (which were checked 2 or 3 times by those with a touch of OCD! haha!). They were then paired with the directions & hotel info, the RSVP card and envelope and then, of course, the doohickey thing-a-ma-jig that all wedding invites have: the tissue paper!

Wendie will have the honor of bringing one of the completed invites down to the post office to have it weighed for proper postage. She'll slap all the stamps on them and throw them in the mail box.

Invitations should be in a mailbox near you in the next few days! Woohoo!!

A special Thank You to our envelope stuffers, our label stickers, our doohickey thing-a-ma-jig coordinators, our.....oh, you know who you are!!! THANKS so much for helping out. It took us a long time, but without you there to assist, we'd still be working on it!!!

***REHEARSAL DINNER INFO***

Hi everyone!

We had a great meeting with Bill Ransom - the wedding coordinator - earlier tonight and were able to nail down some details, such as times, for you.

REHEARSAL
Location: Glen Ellen Country Club in Millis. We'll meet in the main room next to the office.
Click here for directions: http://www.glenellencc.com/dir.cfm
Time: 5:45pm

Expect to be there for about an hour. Bill said he'd be separating the group up into sections (ie: bridesmaids, ushers, parents-of, etc.) and walking everyone through everything. We'll do one or two practice run-throughs. No sweat!


REHEARSAL DINNER
Chris's parents - Patti Hoey and Billy Martin - are hosting our Rehearsal Dinner.
Location: Mickey Cassidy's in Medway. We've reserved their function room in the back.
Click here for directions: http://www.mickeycassidys.com/contact.htm
Time: 7:30pm

Dinner, drinks and hopefully, some great stories about Wendie and Chris to share! Mickey Cassidy's has live bands Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights - what luck!

Nothing but good times ahead!!!

Please let me know if you've got any questions at all!! If you'd rather not blog your question, you may email it to me here: terrpisms@yahoo.com

:)
Terri

PS: Just over ELEVEN weeks to go!!!

Got Advice on Wedded Bliss???

Have you guys heard about this story?! I thought it was cute and thought I'd share it. Also, it made me wonder if any of our already-married friends and family had any advice for Wendie and Chris (ie: whiskey, sherry and 'sorry'!)

Secret to Wedded Bliss — Saying Sorry

British couple holds record for longest marriage at 80 years

Reuters
Updated: 1:23 p.m. ET June 1, 2005

LONDON - A British couple -- the record holders for the world's longest marriage — said on Tuesday their success was down to a glass of whisky, a glass of sherry and the word “sorry.”
Percy and Florence Arrowsmith married on June 1, 1925, and celebrated their 80th anniversary on Wednesday.
The Guinness World Records said on Tuesday the couple held the title for the longest marriage and also for the oldest married couple’s aggregate age.
“I think we’re very blessed,” Florence, 100, told the BBC. “We still love one another, that’s the most important part.”
Asked for their secret, Florence said you must never be afraid to say “sorry.”
“You must never go to sleep bad friends,” she said, while Percy, 105, said his secret to marital bliss was just two words: “yes dear.”
The couple have three children, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren and are planning a party soon.
“I like sherry at lunch time and whisky at night and I’m looking forward very much to my party,” Florence said.

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