Sneak Peek: The Reception

Now, we all know that I’ve been planning this wedding in my head for years. I’ve been tucking away ideas and thinking about how I want to personalize every aspect of it.

Mike and I have some really big ideas about what we want to do. Lucky for me, he’s a graphic designer. We’ll be designing the invites, save-the-dates, seating cards and anything else we can personalize.

I’ve also been perusing this blog, 100 Layer Cake, and getting ridiculous ideas for really unique touches. Special thanks to Katie Solan for showing it to me. It’s made me very unproductive outside of wedding planning for the last week or so.

We’ve chosen a venue. We can’t book it until a year out, but we’re sure this is where it will be done. Because I really can’t imagine doing it anywhere else. I fell in love with it the first time I was there. The Grove in Discovery Green. Ceremony on the upstairs deck overlooking the park and downtown, reception in the adjacent glass room. Gourmet food and an incredible view. I may be eating pbj and Kraft mac-n-cheese for the next year to pay for it, but that’s where it’s gonna be.

I’m giddy, y’all. Gid.Dy.

-Ali