T minus...

2 months and counting!

The invitations went out Thursday (I figured it's better to be early than late) and we've already had several people RSVP.

So exciting!

AIM romance

I teared up when Chris IMed me this:

Chris: Putting this on my syllabus

October 26 – I will not be here, due to some pretty lady having laid claim to me and us getting married on October 24. I will be back on October 28 to share my experience of both a wedding and being a new husband.

Equal Rights

See this blog post.

Then note: we've chosen a minister to perform our marriage ceremony who has refused to sign all marriage licenses in protest of NC laws that prohibit same-sex marriage. That means we'll have to go get married by a Justice of the Peace before our actual ceremony.

A small price to pay in the fight to award all people equal rights.

Unity Ceremony

We have plans to do a "ring-warming ceremony" in our wedding. I had envisioned it a little differently, however, so now I'm re-thinking the plans. The way I thought of doing it was actually have a space of time set aside for it, so have the minister start the rings around and we all just stand around looking at each other while a "musical interlude" is played (instead of starting the rings at the beginning and going on with the ceremony while they're being passed). I think the latter may work better though. But I still want a musical piece done, so maybe the former is the best way to kill two birds with one stone. I don't know! I'll mull it over.

P.S. Almost a week later, my wasp sting is still "smarting". I wish it was over already!

What to do with cans (besides recycle them)

This green idea is super cool.

Changing names

This post from The Broke-Ass Bride is one of the few posts on name changing that is actually worth something.