Time

Time passes! We now have 9 months til the big day - great if we are cooking up a baby, but shockingly short to cook up a really fun weddin' :). Or maybe just enough time. Twinkie and I have been immersed in things non-matrimonial, and also in Newfoundland and are just now back getting our Southern Ontario bearings. Sadly, one of our friends' parents died in August. We were able to have a lovely dinner party with those friends and to celebrate our friendship - some, like T.P. and T.W., I have been friends with 30 and 17 years. Time. I can't believe I have been friends with T.P. for two years longer than Twinkie has been on this planet. Time. Passes.

So, wedding updates:

1. We may have a caterer - have sent her info and details and are waiting for some info and details coming back from her, and prices. Since nobody has stepped forward to offer to pay for the shindig, it turns out Twinkie and I are doing it. And it will be so worth it to have all the people we love together to celebrate love and luck and joy and family. blah blah i digress

2. We may have an officiant - we are trying to firm that up - again, needs money, so great

3. We have the venue, we think, but as yet, no contract.

Uh oh. terrified now.

Some sweet wedding things/moments:

1. We received our first engagement gift from L.S., a lovely lucky bamboo - totally unexpected and quite sweet;
2. We received our second engagement gift from L.D. and S.W. - Bulgari perfume - which we both adore (lets just say L.D. left her sweater at our place and she wears this perfume and we would periodically sniff the sweater for the month we had it at our place). Sweater sniffers no more, we now have our own bottle - thx L.D. and S.W.; and
3. G and D. O. have said they will have an engagement party for us. How incredibly sweet.

We didn't/don't expect engagement gifts, parties, nothing - we don't expect it and don't think about it. But it was/is awfully sweet that people thought of us.

Weddings are sweet events! And seeing as we hope this to be the last wedding for either of us, we want it to be wonderful!

So - "to do" lists in hand and checking our Martha Stewart checklist, I remain
Yours in Matrimony
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