To Do List (December 1st, 2008)

With just 4 months till the wedding and 5 months till the reception, I know I'm in a bit of a crunch to get everything planned.

Tomorrow, my goals are:

• find a venue
• do a first visit to find a wedding dress (at David's Bridal)
• call Rabbis and possibly find a location for the ceremony
• possibly book the string quartet we wanted at the reception

We are highly considering Martin's, a locale caterer/all-in-one MD/Baltimore/DC chain to host the reception. Our goal is a sit down classy meal, with a string quartet in lieu of a regular DJ.

The colors I have selected are:
either a mint or spring green
chocolate brown
ivory or white
and an undecided accent color

For a dress, I will be visiting David's Bridal and am highly considering purchasing bridesmaid separates in white since I am looking for something with sleeves and our budget for a dress is not particularly high.

I know there are tons of other things to do! We have already registered at Bed Bath & Beyond (though it's rather bare so far) and Amazon (nothing selected yet!). Stay tuned. I'm sure we'll be adding more items in due time.

Introductory Post

Welcome to Stubber Wedding!

This is the blog where I'll be ... blogging about our wedding plans for myself and my fiance, Eric. Stubber is a combination of our last names and no we won't be doing that legally. We are planning a March wedding and an April reception (only having immediate family at the ceremony and then a larger 'bash' as it were for the reception) and I am in the midst of planning it all.

So here I will be posting what they call, inspiration pictures, what needs to be done and my progress. I know we are very much in crunch mode but hopefully everything will work out if it's meant to be!

A little about us:

I am in graduate school working towards an MS in Management with a concentration in Human Resources and graduated from Penn State University with a BA in Integrative Arts. I am hoping to use my art background to keep our budget in that area low so we can use it for other things. I love to cook, read (aside from textbooks) and budget! Hence Stubber Budgeting!

My fiance is a librarian for a major pharma company and holds 2 Master's degrees. He loves books, possibly more than me though he'd never admit it (our apartment is filled with them).

We've been dating for a bit over a year and moved in together in July. I knew he was the one after only a short amount of time and I consider him my best friend (we have a great time together even when we're just hanging around the house or out and about). We are both really excited about getting married and will be having a Jewish ceremony.

Well that's a pretty decent intro then. Next, what is left to do and my plans for tomorrow.