As promised, our Newfoundland friends and family will soon have the opportunity to help us celebrate our recent plunge into married life. On Saturday, September 15, we will be hosting a ‘Post-Wedding Soirée’ at our humble abode in Torbay (this date also happens to mark exactly seven years since we first met).
We enjoy expressing things in point form:
- Starts around 7:00pm, [EDIT]
- We managed to bring back a few bottles of our wedding wine for everyone to try (red and white)
- We’ll have some finger foods to go with your wine
- If you don’t want to drive, and can’t find a car to pool in, Torbay Taxi offers a good flat rate from the city.
- Children are welcome
- If it’s a nice evening we may light up the fire-pit. So be prepared for indoors and out (camp chairs, warm clothes, blanket, etc)
Hope to see you there. No need to RSVP, just come over, relax, mingle and be merry.
It’s raining it’s pouring the old man is …. getting beer for the wedding. No worries, they are calling for sun on Friday and Saturday. Keep your fingers crossed.
Good luck to those trying to get on the ferry from Newfoundland, apparently they are full until the 13th. Hope you can get on, if not, we will drink your beer and wine for you.
So we’re here on our last day in Newfoundland, cleaning the house, and getting ready to pack. And as usual, CBC radio is on in the kitchen. This is when the announcer announces that a bomb threat has been made to Marine Atlantic, and passengers have had to wait up to 7 hours for their ferry to leave or land.
We expected to run into some trouble with the wedding, but bomb threat wasn’t on the list. It’s a good thing we have two weeks in NS before the big day, so a couple hours now doesn’t matter much. It’s just a surprising thing to hear.
No, I’m not talking about that TLC show. We want to give everyone some hints on what they should wear to the wedding.
I answered this question a couple days ago, and here’s what I said: “We’re mixing the traditional with the practical in this wedding, with the goal being ‘a good time’. So we want everyone to wear fun summer-y colors, and whatever they find comfortable. The wedding party will be formal, but probably not for long after the ceremony if it’s too hot. Nobody will look out of place in either suits or shorts.”
If you do want to wear a suit, we recommend a funny tie, or colorful shirt. We will have some disposable cameras for a photo guest book, and we have some back-drops with colorful prints. Click here for the kind of thing we’re going for.
I think that image sets the mood nicely.
Less then a month til the big day, and less then two weeks before we leave for NS. The rings are ready, the dress is being fitted, and yurt has been confirmed (what’s a yurt?). We’re waiting for tragedy to strike, as it normally does when planning any event…. something like a drought that kills all the flowers, or the avian flu moving to pigs.
Thank you to everyone who has RSVPed. We have about 70 people confirmed, plus another dozen we know are coming but didn’t feel the need to tell us formally (like some family members that will remain nameless). So that gives us a good estimate for preparations. If more people come then we expect, you’ll just have to fight over food and seats - but we’ll be sure not to run out of booze.
No one gets to see the bride until she walks down the isle, so I have no idea what she’ll be wearing. That’s not the same for the groom, everyone knows I’ll be in a tux, and no one really cares which one. So, since there’s no anticipation, here’s what I’m wearing: (Amy wanted me to photoshop my head in this one, but I think there’s already enough of that on this site)
(click for slightly larger image).
“The Matteo Maas tuxedo collection is the highest quality tuxedo available. It’s made of a high grade, super 120 wool for a silky soft, light-weight feel. Unlike the shiny satin found on tuxedo jacket lapels and leg braid, this tuxedo is made with a material called grosgrain, a silk like fabric with crosswise ribs. The buttons are also covered in grosgrain for a luxurious look”
Once you wipe away the marketing BS, you’re left with… a nice looking tux? Hope so. My tie will be a lighter color blue, with dots instead of lines. And the other members of the wedding party will have the same tux with a different color tie. Angus wants to wear a hat with his, any suggestions? I’m thinking some sort of Derby.
Posted by Peter on June 20th, 2007
The invitations were send out on Tuesday, and people started getting them the next day…. It will be nice to hear back from everyone, and find out what kind of crowd to expect, but we just found one little problem:
It’s to do with the RSVP page; it has been recording nothing up until now. If you filled out the page before this post, please do it again…. if you’re not sure when you did it, do it again anyway (we won’t expect two of you). We have no way to tell how many people submitted that broken form, so we’re just hoping it doesn’t throw the numbers off too much.
Apologies,
Management
We’ve got a band booked. It took some time to find one that was not busy…. there are only so many in the area.
They call themselves Rust Bucket. They have a MySpace page where you can listen to some of their tracks - check ‘em out, I think they’ll be a lot of fun - then leave a comment to let us know what you think.
They have a bunch of their own songs, plus they sent us a list of the ones they cover. I’ll post it here later.
Well, here we are and it’s April already! My recent trip home helped a great deal with everything. For one I got to see and try on my actual wedding dress and talk to them about my options for getting it ready for the big day there but doing the alterations in Newfoundland, etc. Let’s see, I also got to apply for our marriage license (kind of important) so now we don’t have to mess around with doing that by distance. I also got to meet with the hair dresser in Annapolis and make appointments for everyone… but the biggest ease on my mind is that the flower shop (that was going out of business last time I was there) has been taken over by a lovely lady who I met with and am now enthusiastically planning my flowers with. Woohooo! Amy is going to have flowers at her wedding! (and I don’t have to rely on flowers coming up in the garden at the right time, making my own boutonnieres and what not).
In other news, my Mother and sisters will no longer be bald at the wedding. This was a big scare that happened shortly after Christmas…Mom and Erin were planning on shaving their heads for cancer one month before the wedding…also at this time, Josie (who had shaved her head for the cause in the Fall with plans to grow it out for the wedding) suddenly decided that she liked having the buzz cut too… I had invisions of my wedding party looking like this:
but all is OK now…after a couple months of complaining, and some words from Josie on my behalf (she is the peace maker of the family), the plans to go bald have been postponed until after the wedding. So goodbye Mr. Clean, Fester and Dr. Evil!
Instead for your viewing pleasure we will have three very large ladies who may entertain you with a live birth… My sister Erin, Peter’s sister Julie, and my friend’s wife Dana will all be approx. 8.5 months pregnant at the wedding. 
