Wedding planning, week 5
The big milestone this week is that Em bought her dress and decided on dresses for her bridesmaids.  I, of course, know nothing about the wedding dress other than where she bought it and how much it cost, so I don't feel like quite as much progress has been made this week.  On other fronts:

Photographer:  We met with Tricia from Island Girl Photography last weekend.  I really liked her work and think she'd be a great photographer, but we're going to try and meet with one more photographer before deciding for certain.

Cake:  We met with Ginny McGavin (who works on referrals and has no website or anything like that) to go over cake ideas and taste some samples (which were delicious).  We basically need to find a cake design that we like, and then call Ginny to set it up...everything else is taken care of.  Emily is collecting cake designs and other ideas here.

DJ:  We've called a bunch of people who all sound like scary coke addict DJs, and so we haven't called any of them back.  There is one guy who Emily knows from past weddings that did a good job, so we're trying to get hold of him and plan.

Officiant:  We asked Lawrence Winnerman last weekend if he'd be up for the task of marrying us and he said yes.  We just need to start talking about ideas, but Lawrence is starting a company and so might be a little short on time between that and his other commitments.  We'll see how that goes.

We've ordered our save the date magnets, so those will be in the mail shortly.  We are also playing around with invitation designs and text, which is far more complicated than it probably sounds.  For example, we discussed this morning whether it should say "the marriage of so-and-so TO so-and-so" or "the marriage of so-and-so AND so-and-so".  I voted for the latter because the former makes it sound like the two people are being welded together.  We also have argued over discussed cute RSVP card ideas--I'm worried that certain unnamed people on my invite list won't get the joke if we ask them to RSVP "in body or in spirit" and those people will check both or spend so much time scratching their heads that they'll miss the wedding.  So we're still working on that stuff.

We've also made some changes to our website--namely, adding a tab for the wedding party with bios of our bridesmaids and groomsmen, etc.

Has it really only been five weeks?  16 weeks to go!