So life is continuing here at a relatively normal pace. Although things are still a little up and down with the issues here in Japan, and concern from members back home. But all in all life is normal.
So it was back to folding paper cranes again! By tonight I will have folded 400 cranes! Yea! That's like 1/5, 4/10, or 40% done! Woot! I'm really excited! I wasn't folding them for a long time because we were busy with the English Musical over here (click to see the final fight scene). So basically life in general was on hold.
But I have completed about half of the name cards as well. Been busy stamping the names of people who I KNOW or at least strongly hope will come. People who we are iffy about, or the plus ones I will do later.
Been thinking about the invitations... I have no idea what time to make the ceremony. Both Mike and I are a little stumped about what time exactly to make things. How long do things take? How much time should we allot for pictures, and receiving line, and everything else? What should we do with the guests in between it all? Anyway things we need to iron out but nothing that has to be done ASAP, got some time before the invitations need to go out.
Otherwise things are moving along but need to make decisions about portable washrooms and things. Which brings me back to the previous point in other posts, you slap 'Wedding' into the name of a thing and it JUMPS in price. This is a proven fact of life, and I would like to point out that NO service or good is immune to this idea, portable washrooms included!
Just food for thought.
The question of when to start things is certainly a big one. All I have figured out is sometime after lunch and sometime before dinner. If we have the ceremony start between 2-3 and takes 30-40 mins with everything then we have the recieving line and organize everyone moving chairs to the tent where there will be snacks and punch (maybe an activity). While that happens we have an hour for photos plus then we get the photographer to do family portraits and a big group shot in the half hour to hour after that. We sit everyone for dinner then get introduced. Dinner in my plan starts around 6 and lasts an hour with everyone getting up to get their dinner/dessert/tea or coffee. We then have an hour for speeches putting us around eight finnaly clearing everything for the party and first dance by 9. This is very spaced out because I am not sure how long everything will take nor do I want to rush or squish everything together. Mike
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