Wedding planning, week three
We've selected the Yacht Club On Lake Union as our venue and July 5, 2008 as our wedding date!

The Yacht Club is a cool space underneath the I-5 ship canal bridge right on Lake Union, and it is both big enough and a great deal!  Since it is also the home base for Ravishing Radish catering, we can get our food from them and save money by bringing in our own beer/wine.

The Moss Bay Event Center disappointed.  The ceiling was really low and it had the general ambiance of a conference room.  It also had a view of a parking lot and was downstairs from a singles bar (which, for a Saturday night wedding, would have sucked royale).

In the end, choosing between the Sanctuary and the Yacht Club came down to several factors, not the least of which is that we're getting the Yacht Club for half price.  And we'll have fireworks for our anniversary every year.  It is a good space and has good energy and yes, I'm super-excited about it.

Now, we're starting to look for invitations and save the date cards and such.  We went to Costco this week and left with some good ideas (although I think we both were mostly just stunned that we could buy a case of Bridgeport IPA for $23).  We are looking at places to get save the date magnets and trying to make a photograph of ourselves look presentable in magnet form. 

As the geek boy in this whole equation, my primary job has been to create the website.  I've stolen content and layout liberally from other wedding websites and generally gotten my nerd on whenever I start to get stressed out about something.  It has proven to be a useful distraction--hopefully, it will become more useful once we start notifying people, sending invitations, etc.

Someone told me that once you pick a date and a venue, everything else just falls into place.  I'm not finding that to be exactly true, but it is definitely a big milestone!