Mark Your Calendars!

We have a wedding date! May 30, 2009!

This is a photo from this morning at 8 am! My dad left the house at 5 am to line up outside our hopeful reception site. He got in line with all of the other bride's and mother of the bride's and waited patiently for the 9 o'clock opening. Fortunately, he only had to stay out in the cold for about 30 minutes, because they opened up the building for everyone to wait inside with their paper numbers. Dad was number three! Woo hoo! He made me promise, along with my mom, not to come until 8...at which time we promptly arrived shocked to find him chatting it up with all the other MOTB's and bride's. It turns out, one of the catering companies provided coffee, tea, bagels and warm raspberry chocolate chip scones! Rough! We had a great time talking until the 9 o'clock opening of "the 2009 books." We got into a single file line and waited our turn (only two spots...thank you Dad!) until we could ask for our hopeful date which was still available (have I said "Thank you Dad!" yet?). We filled out the paper work, turned in the down payment (ouch!) and headed to breakfast, our treat to him! Here's a shot of us waiting for the clock to strike 9. I am so excited and I feel so blessed to have secured this date for our wedding. May 30, 2009 is eleven years to the day that Nathan and I met...collective sigh...now to plan the rest!