After some research we just launched our wedding website. I settled on a site hosted by WeddingWindow.com. We have tons of information we want to post, but right now it is just a shell. I bought www.mcandscott.com for us to use. No date has been set for the wedding yet but we are aiming for Winter 2011/12. Once we have more information I am sure I will be blogging about it.
Month: June 2011
Wedding Venue Research Tuesday
Today after work M and I took a ride to brooklyn to check out another venue for the wedding. We looked at Giando’s on the water. Overall it was a great place. The view was fantastic of the bridge and the Manhattan skyline. We weren’t super sold on the ballroom layout and some other details. At first I thought that the View on the Hudson and Giando’s were contenders but after talking with M we both agreed Giando’s was not the place for us even if it was really cool.
Walking back to the subway we decided to goto Dressler for dinner. It was a fantastic meal. Then we headed home.
Wedding Venue Research Weekend
Today was a very busy day. It was our first day of research for wedding venues. M had done a ton of research and we narrowed down our list to 3 places north of Manhattan. M’s parents were meeting up with us to visit 2 of the 3 locations so we were really excited.
The first place was the FEAST at Round Hill. We both liked it, and we left the venue having generally good thoughts about it.
The second venue was the Clubhouse at Patriot Hills. The ballroom was really nice, and the view was great but otherwise we weren’t that sold on the location so we passed on it.
We ate lunch with M’s folks at the clubhouse and then we headed off to our 3rd venue. At first we weren’t going to even go, because I was fighting a migraine and already took meds for it. After lunch i was feeling a bit better and the venue was on the way home so we figured it was worth it to swing by and check it out. We were both glad we did.
The last location was the View on the Hudson. M and I both liked it. it had a great ball room that the first location was missing, it had a spectacular view of the hudson river and overall it was a good venue. We both left knowing that was the place to beat in our search for a venue.
I am Engaged
Today was a huge day for me. It was the day I moved into M’s apartment. We had been planning to move in together since mid April but with our planned vacations in May it really wasn’t feasible to plan a move until June. i had been packing for weeks. I was very excited for the move but also a bit nervous since it was my first time moving in with someone since college. That wasn’t the only reason for being nervous. With all the moving craziness aside (and there was a decent amount of it) I also proposed to M.
She knew I was thinking about it. We had talked about it. We went to do some research at a jeweler while we were in DC. She also knew i went with my mom to the jeweler last weekend to look for a ring. I dropped a little mis-direction earlier in the week when I told M that i didn’t find anything I liked when in fact I found the perfect ring. I was originally going to propose one weekend in July if we went away. My sister gave me the idea of doing it when we moved in, since she wouldn’t be expecting it. i thought about it a lot and had a great idea on how to do it, so all I needed was the ring.
My mom brought that to me yesterday since I couldn’t get back to the jeweler before the weekend.
The proposal was very simple. I was only really nervous when i tried to run through what i wanted to say in my head before hand. Otherwise i was surprised that i wasn’t totally going crazy.
Once the apartment was in decent shape we got dressed to go out to dinner and celebrate our finishing the move. Before we went I gave her a huge hug and said there was only one way for this day to be any better. At that point I went to go down on one knee. What was funny was M wouldn’t let me go from the hug so I brought her down halfway to the ground before i got her to let go and then I pulled out the ring to propose. She said yes obviously or else I wouldn’t be writing about it now. My mission was a success and she was totally caught by surprise.
We then went out to celebrate our moving in and the engagement at the great sushi place by the apartment.