Crunch Time

After a nice, long lull in wedding planning, the time has come to actually get stuff done! We're only 4 months out (aah!), and this week we're trying to get our caterer nailed down. Most of the wedding-how-to books say you're supposed to book much earlier than that, but...we like to live dangerously. So this week we're meeting with two local restaurants (Hungry's and Niko Niko's!) to get catering proposals, and then we're heading over to Three Brothers Bakery on Saturday to scout out The Cake. Plus we've got two or three more potential caterers and bakers in mind. It's all somewhat intimidating - can't we just order a bunch of pizza and get a keg?

In other news, Zoe's found the seamstress who'll be making her dress, and we're working on finding a calligrapher for our wedding certificate (a tradition in Quaker weddings). The paper that we'll use to make the invitations (yeah, DIY, baby!) should arrive any day now, too. Plus we've been scouting out registry stuff. I swear, Crate & Barrel must make 90% of their annual profits off of couples who go in there and go postal with the scanner gun. When we went last Saturday, it was couples & scanners as far as the eye could see...