Happiness

Let the Planning Begin

I really have no big news to report today, however, I still feel compelled to write.  I'm at home alone while Matt works at the Rec Center until midnight or later.  I should probably be grading papers, but can't bring myself to do that just yet.  This seems to be pretty standard behavior for me as of last Tuesday.  Matt and I have been engaged for one whole week today and my general state of euphoria does not seem to be waning :-)  

After teaching all four hours of my block class, I cut out and took a half day to view our two choices for our wedding reception.  I know that seems early, given that it's only been seven days since our engagement, but we've been talking about this for much longer than that.  Now that we're "official," it's time to get some things booked and we're running out of time if we're serious about getting something scheduled before next summer's spots fill up.  

Mom and Olivia came up to view both Reichmann Pavilion at Stephen's Lake Park and the Orr Street Studios art gallery.  Matt met us for lunch and some wedding talk and Sommer came over to my place after she got off work.  It really meant a lot to me that they came to look with me, and I was sad to see them have to leave at the end of the day.  Today's visits were my second time at both venues, and I thought I'd leave feeling more confident about a choice.  No such luck, because I like them both!  The only problem is that we don't know how many people the art gallery can seat and we aren't sure about how many people from our guest list will actually be in attendance.   Mom liked both places a lot - each for different reasons.  What it will boil down to will be price and even more crucial, the amount of seats each will hold.  

Whatever about all that.  Matt and I will make that decision and won't look back.  Tonight, I'm sitting at home, a little sad that the day is over, but very glad I got to do some wedding talking with Mom and Matt and Sommer and Olivia.