The Wedding Party

The long awaited (and long since promised) Cast of Characters page is up on the site. A few people have yet to send in their information but we have a quorum which made it definitely worth getting it out there.

Sale Update

Not to be presumptuous about people purchasing wedding gifts, but for those graciously planning on doing so, I thought I would send an alert that the china at Bloomingdale's just went on a 50% off sale, so ... now would be the time to buy it if you're on the fence.

-DnL8Tar

Two Hour Tux - Done

According to Laura I apparently just spent more time picking out the tuxedos for the wedding then she spent picking out her wedding dress. That seems sad but I'm not sure on which side. The problem with the tux rentals vs the wedding dress is, with the wedding dress there is one decision to make ... with the tuxedos, there's 20 decisions to make. It was quite the 2 hour process but it's done.

Tuxedos are coming from Men's Wearhouse. The picture to the right is the groomsmen vest. The subtle gold perfectly complements the blue of the bridesmaids dresses. We're going with the long tie, I felt it was a less DB look that the bow tie.

Coat is straight black, 2 button, with flat front pants (pleats for some reason never sit particularly well on me). Shirt is white with the classic tux style pleats which we really don't get enough opportunities to wear (weddings and Dracula costumes).

-DnL8Tar

Mass Music

Met today with Maura (Laura's cousin and one of the vocalists for our wedding) and Mary (the organist at St. Mary's Parish) to hash through the music selections for the wedding Mass. Here's the final list we came up with after much less deliberation than anticipated:

• Prelude: Ave Verum Corpus (vamp)
  
• Parents: Ode to Joy
• Wedding Party: Cannon in D
• Bride & Father: Bridal Chorus
  
• Responsorial Psalm: 128
• Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia
• Mass Parts: Mass of Creation
• Unity Candle: Instrumental Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
• Preparation of the Gifts: Taste & See
• Sign of Peace: Prayer of St. Francis
• Communion: Panis Angelicus
• Prayer before Mary: Schubert's Ave Maria
  
• Recessional: Wedding March
• Postlude: Allegro Maestro from Water Music

Online RSVP Now Open and Registries Posted

Invites have officially been sent and the online RSVP is now open. Please wait until you receive your invite to RSVP. If possible we request that you RSVP on or before August 1^st. As noted in the RSVP form, e-mail paul.michelotti@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Also, I've posted our list of Gift Registries on the site so you don't need to dig through the historic posts or poke at random department stores to find them.

Crate and Barrel Registry Official

Alrighty, I've added enough to the Crate & Barrel registry at this point to make it worth looking at. For some reason I still haven't been able to coerce Laura into making any choices on there so I've just been going hog-wild picking stuff out on my own.

More stuff will be added I'm sure and a couple items might change once Laura actually looks at this thing, but for the most part it should be stable. In the next week or so I'll be putting up the official registry page on this site so that you don't have to poke through the posts for links to said registries.

Crate and Barrel Registry Started

Laura and I have been meaning to start gift registries at Crate & Barrel to go along with our Target gift registry, but with the move and work and other such activities time has simply not availed itself. In the spirit of pro-activity I've gone ahead and started a registry on Crate & Barrel's site. I'll link it in here when it's more complete (though if you want to look at it I suppose you could just search for our names) since right now all I've put on there are bar accessories.