Planned Elopement
HEY, JENNA UPDATED. Go read her post. And if you need the link, email me.
When Jenna and I first met, we were convinced we’d be having a humongous wedding in Philly.
That was before we decided what our budget was for the wedding, and before we realized we didn’t want to have a wedding that was a pain in the butt.
Our first fallback position was to elope. We figured we could have a nice party when we got back, and we wouldn’t have to worry about planning anything. But, we worried our parents would disown us for not having them there.
Eventually it evolved into what we’re calling a “Planned Elopement” where we run off to Maine to get married and have our honeymoon, but we invite our immediate families. The advantage to this plan is we get to have the wedding in a pretty location, and afterwards we’re already on our honeymoon.
We made it “every man for himself” as far as getting to Maine, so there’s an element of survival of the fittest on attendance. We figured her family was close enough to drive, but mine would have to fly. My family seems game, and happy to have a vacation in Maine themselves.
Then, to include all of our friends and such, we’re throwing a FUN reception here in KC. Again, we didn’t want anything typical or pretentious, so we reserved 12 private lanes of bowling with an open bar. It’s a posh room, yet balances nicely with the fact it’s a blue-collar sport. Beer and bowling. Ahh.
We’ve also reserved a photo booth for the reception, so everyone that comes can get free pictures taken in the booth, which when combined with alcohol should be very entertaining.
Now, if we could just get our @#$@ together and send out invitations, we’d really have a plan! Oh, and if you can’t make it for beer and bowling (since you’re not invited), feel free to send us something expensive from our Bed Bath & Beyond registry.
I kid.
But not really.
Pete
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
