It's been a hectic couple of weeks. Just before Casey and I started our "year" count-down, The Austin City Limits Music Festival announced that the festival will be the weekend of the wedding next year. This spells big trouble for us. They sell something like 65,000 tickets. Right away I started to panic - how am I going to find lodging for guests? I immediately tried to book a hotel room for myself at Hotel San Jose for 10/09 and 10/10 only to have them tell me it was a blackout date, and I could call back on May 1st at 1 PM. That is when I cried. Left and right I was being told that places were booked. I finally found one place that I loved that wasn't booked, but had paperwork drawn up with another bride. We decided to go and look anyway, and I LOVED IT. The coordinator there called out to the bride letting her know that she needed to know one way or the other, and I contacted the caterer for an estimate. I still haven't heard back from the caterer, unfortunately, but I got an e-mail yesterday saying I have the venue.
A couple of other possible decisions made - Cup Pies (ever seen Pushing Daisies?) instead of wedding cake for the most part, though we will have a cutting cake, that I hope will be a small version of the steampunk wedding cake featured on OffBeatBride.com , and a robot cake topper! Fantastic!
No dress yet, but soon, I hope!
