Wedding planning in the new year!

Happy new year! Gosh, I can't believe my last post was back during Thanksgiving! December was a total blur. I now understand the need for a professional wedding planner when a bride-to-be has a full-time job. For some reason, my work load triples during December (based on the sample size of 2 years I've been at Clorox). Wedding planning took a siesta when I was getting no siestas myself. It also didn't help that the vendors weren't calling us back. Yeah, what's up with that? The whole vendor-managing thing is a whole experience in itself. I mean, shouldn't they want our $$s??? Anyways, now that we are in January, Mark and I are ready to refocus again on wedding planning. We are now looking at getting married at a chapel in the Presidio in San Francisco, followed by a wedding reception at a gallery in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. Wedding date wise, we are focused on a few Saturdays in August. Fingers crossed our meeting next Wednesday with the gallery goes well and that we walk away with a deal and a date available.

In the mean time, the parents are meeting each other in 2 days. Mark's parents are driving up from LA, where they have been the last few days visiting relatives (they live in DC), to do a formal meet and green with my parents. Mark and I believe good food is the answer to all questions and we are taking them to R&G Lounge http://www.yelp.com/biz/r-and-g-lounge-san-francisco in San Francisco to let those famous crabs do the trick. :) Since some relatives and close family friends will be joining as well, a banquet meal is in the works - yum! The funny this is that we actually have a wedding banquet to go to at Koi Palace Dublin tonight - I am definitely starting the new year the right way with two banquet meals in 3 days! Wedding dress fitting - here I come!!

Here is to a fantastic new year filled with love, happiness, laughters, and many of life's surprises!!