Don’t be alarmed! Despite what some people might think, my wedding will not feature these:

At work today, I was telling one of my friends about some of our plans and how we are visiting the church next week. One of the guys in our department overheard us and he came over. He’s offered his “wedding planning and DJ” services once before and I politely declined, haha. He made the offer again and asked me what kind of ideas I had. This conversation ensued:

Me: “Well, I was looking at a lot of butterflies.” *points to picture of Martha Stewart cake*

Co-worker: “I’ll do you one better. Forget butterflies. Picture this – HORNETS.”

Me: *slowly backing away* Suuuure………

Yeah… it’s funny and has made for a good joke, but what scares me is if I told him yes, he would totally go through with it. Then my ceremony would end up looking like this:

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Did you ever get some really funny suggestions for your wedding theme? How did you handle them?

I’ve been doing my best to keep my anxiety in check while I waited to hear back from King’s College and I was rewarded today with an email from the priest in charge of the chapel.

FH and I are set to meet with him next Tuesday to go over the particulars, but it sounds like our ideal date in October 2010 is available. YAY!

Doesn’t some good wedding news just brighten up your whole day?

I first reached out to our potential ceremony venue about 2 weeks ago, then called 1 week ago. As of today I’m still waiting for a response. Now, I know my wedding is not the number one priority for everyone else on the planet (though honestly, why not? ). But after 2 weeks I was really starting to worry – did they not want to marry us? Did something bad happen to the priest I reached out to? He was very kind to me when I was still in school, so that thought worried me the most.

Well… I called another number at the chapel today and there was a message on the main line that explained everything. Due to classes being out for the summer, the college chapel was closed from June 1 – July 6, then operating on a limited schedule until classes began in late August. PHEW! I’m so relieved to find out why I didn’t get a call back, though it is a little frustrating that they didn’t change their individual voicemail messages as well. Since it’s July 3, I think I can hang on for these last couple of days.

Did anyone else ever get married at a college or university and run across this? Or did your ceremony venue ever go on ’summer vacation’?