Hooray! It's a date!

I have an idea... maybe go for a whole nautical theme with the wedding.

You've got your ropes, you've got your knots, you've got your fabulous [link] fabulous [link] admiral's uniforms...

Oh, yeah, all the ropes and gold fringe and feathers... it's a nautical theme. In Ohio. Midwest Nautical. In two years EVERYONE will be doing it.

maybe learn to make paper so I can MAKE the invitations

Now THIS is an idea.

And I'll learn to smelt so that I can make Tim's ring! (Maybe not smelt -- whatever one has to do in order to make a ring. I suppose I might have to travel to Mt. Doom to forge it there.)

Rope ladders... flogging...

Rum sodomy and the lash. It's Anglophilic.

Oh god, I don't want sodomy at my wedding.

Tim might be okay with it, though.

, maybe learn to make paper so I can MAKE the invitations

One of my cousin's actually did this. Kind of. She knew how to make paper, so she made paper, and then they had the actual invitation printed, and then attached to the paper she made.

My big DIY dream (which I know I'll never do) is knit or crochet flowers and make pins for the guests to wear and as favors. The rate I finish projects I'd have to start now and hope Will doesn't propose for a couple of years.

I got a kind of odd wedding invitation today. For one thing, the invitation reads that you are invited to join them as they "extend their friendship to include vows of marriage". Which, okay. Kind of odd framing, but whatever.

Worse, the reply card is fucking madlibs. As in "when C & R [VERB] down the aisle, [name] will/will not be there to [VERB] them. We are so [ADJECTIVE] for C & R... and on and on.

Do you think you'll be indoors or outdoors?

If you're outdoors fans are nice favors. I think most favors are pretty goofy, but fans are practical and pleasant.

I seriously am not going to DIY anything other than those mason jar/photo things.

Okay, maybe my bouquet. For reals. [link] (That is something where I will DEFINITELY do a practice run or three LONG before the wedding, so that if I suck at it, I can hire a florist.)

And I'll learn to smelt so that I can make Tim's ring!

Only if you then inscribe the ring with "One ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them". Or bind him. It goes with the knot theme.

Do you think you'll be indoors or outdoors?

If you're outdoors fans are nice favors. I think most favors are pretty goofy, but fans are practical and pleasant.

Definitely outdoors for the ceremony (because of the size of the B&B and the size of the guest list). Undecided on indoors vs outdoors for dinner. (There is a large patio, but if we have the ceremony on the patio, I need to check with the B&B manager to see if they have people who will quickly set up tables and such for dinner. Even for only 6 or 7 tables, that seems like too much to do quickly, what with needing to put down linens and 50 place settings, and all my DIY blown-glass favors.)