We'll have the rehearsal dinner the night before and hopefully set up the chairs. No ideas for this one yet. After which the Mr. and I will part ways. He'll most likely stay with his groomsmen (If he picks any by then). I'll stay wherever I plan on staying when it gets closer. So we won't see each other until the ceremony.
2pm - Guests arrive - We'll start off with a cocktail "hour" to ensure that everyone arrives before the ceremony, and gives them a chance to mingle. FH can choose to attend this or not, I'm leaving that up to him. I will be getting ready. There will be both beer and wine available. As well as various plates of foods; Cheese, Crackers, Meats, Fruits, Nuts... During this time we'll have background music going that consists of big-band styles of music and variations thereof.
2:30pm - Ceremony - We're planning on having a transition song so that people will know that we're seriously starting the ceremony now and they have to find their seats. Right now we have our transition song listed as The Final Countdown by Europe. (Teehee!) The song is drastically different than what would be playing prior, and it's long enough for people to find seats. I'm planning on saying something in the "program" about the transitional song, and I'm working on having ushers to ush. We'll be doing the spiral aisle that I've seen here and the smaller center row of seats will be reserved for specific family members. The rest will be free-for-all style. The reserved seats will have exclamation points attached to them, along with the name of whom it's been reserved for. The rest will have Questions marks. (The punctuation will be an ongoing theme throughout and is a throwback to a WoW reference, or MMO questing in general.) We'll only have one processional song, which will be my favorite; Sleep Walk by Santo and Johnny. I only have 2 bridesmaids and no one else to walk down the aisle accept me, escorted by my dad. Like I said before I'm not sure yet about the ceremony, but I would like it, if at all possible, for when the officiant says; "You may kiss the bride." For the music from Legend of Zelda to play (that short little bit whenever Link gets fancy new treasures... Don't know what it's called.) Then there'd be a recessional that we haven't chosen yet and the ceremony part will be over. In the little "program" do-hicky I'd explain that people can take their chairs and move them wherever they'd like throughout the room.
3pm-ish - Cocktail Party/ Reception - While the wedding party takes photos and things people will be allowed to get more comfortable. We'll have specialty cocktails available alongside the beer and wine, as well as a variety of special hor de vours. When the wedding party returns, the dancing will ensue. We know we want a first dance; Lucky by Jason Mraz featuring Colbie Calliet (sp). We'll have a Mother Son dance for him and his mom, which he gets to choose the song, or let her. My dad is choosing the music for our Father Daughter Dance, which he wants to be super fun and unexpected, and would like for me to choreograph. And a Dollar Dance, because we've liked that at every wedding we've been to that has had one.
5-6pm - Not sure if we want a two or three hour reception, but I'm sure I'll want to be done by 6 at the latest. I will enlist the help of specific people to clean up, because I know I won't want to.
The next day we're going to have a brewery visit day. We'll probably go to Milwaukee. I like the idea of the Sprecher Brewery, because they brew soda as well as beer and many of our guests don't drink alcohol. But I'd like to make sure that the tour is worth it before we choose. I'm not sure what else we're going to do yet, but it will be September in Milwaukee, so I have time to figure it out.
Then Monday; We leave on honeymoon! I'm letting the Mr plan this all by himself.
That's just the general outline that we've come up with so-far. Then I realized that we don't actually have the venue down in stone. But I'm 95% certain that the place I'm thinking of is the place we'll have it. The building is owned by a close personal friend of my dads, and since I've started asking about doing my wedding at his building, he's gotten super excited about offering his building for weddings, and is talking about putting in a kitchen off of the hall we'd use for festivities. We've also established that we only know who is on my side of the wedding party and no one else official. We have some options for officiants, but aren't drawn to any of them. They're all friends of family members. We don't have a photographer yet, but we can look into them once we're both out in WI, so Way after my move. We don't have a caterer, but I do have some ideas for foods. I'm going to have to look into that. My grandmother or my cousin both do wedding cakes, I just have to find out if either of them are willing and if we even want a wedding cake. I don't know about hair, nails, or makeup yet, but I have lots of time for that. I have my dress, it just needs to be altered, which won't start happening until 4 months prior. The bridesmaids have an idea of what I want them to get for their dresses (Cocktail dresses in any of our wedding colors with shoes to match). I have an idea of what all male party members are going to wear (Suits; Black, Gray or Navy. I'll probably buy them ties and they have to wear an appropriate colored shirt). I am making my own bouquets and decorations. I'm making the Save the Dates and Invitations. I've already made the website. We've ordered my "proper" engagement ring (FH chose it himself)... I can't think of anything else.
I think I'm trying to plan everything that I can before I move. We don't know yet when FH will be able to move too.
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