I'm back! It has been a WHILE! Very eventful couple of months I'll try and be brief with but there's been so much happening. Firstly, we live in our own house! That was part of the holdup, we live in a new area and it wasn't yet internet-capable but we got switched on this week and we're getting settled in nicely.
Jess continues to recover well from her surgery, besides some numbness it's really not affecting her anymore. The braces came off on her birthday and she'll be ready to eat Mickey Waffles and EVERYTHING ELSE in less than three months time.
Oh, one minor thing. We had our
PLANNING SESSION. Our planner called us at around 11:45pm local time on a Thursday night (we'd arranged this, it was fine) and we spent just under 1 hour and 40 minutes going over a lot of details. We're waiting on our BEO so we can look at prices and take some things out because we basically came up with a total wishlist of everything we'd like but we came up with a lot of things to be excited about.
A few of our favourite details? We're really interested in having the Dapper Dans at our ceremony to sing Jess down the aisle and to entertain for the cocktail hour. That's something we wont know for sure about until 6 weeks before the date, such is their booking schedule. Our cake flavours are chosen but we're still tackling a design. The flavours will be yellow cake with strawberry mousse and chocolate with amaretto crunch. We're designing a totally custom menu so more details on that later but the keywords we gave were 'fun comfort food'. Oh and 'waffles'. And moving back to Jess' entrance, the black Model A Ford is another item we're enquiring about, we love the look of that on the Boardwalk.
I think your little getaway sounds wonderful and it is surreal to realize (no matter how short the vacation was) that the next trip you go on will be your wedding trip! Makes things seem that much closer (though I'm sure you'll agree with me that things are moving fast enough!)
You are absolutely right, you do owe us some pictures
IT'S GETTING SO CLOSE! As well you know, you're up first! Now that we're under double-figures in terms of the countdown it's just flying by. Ahhhhhh can't wait!
Also, here's one - our wedding bands!
Have just read through your whole PJ and have to say I am impressed! It's cool to see things from a groom's perspective. Love your colors as well! Your writing is very engaging and I can't wait to read more and see more photos.
Thanks! That's so nice of you to say, thank you for reading! I had thought of getting input from Jess but I'm kinda excited about leaving lots of surprises on her end until the ceremony - when I find out too!
First of all: Congrats on moving back together! What a huge step in the wedding process! I'm also glad all your pets made the trip safely!!
Thanks! Our little furry family is getting along well and making themselves at home together in our new house. And it's so nice to be living with Jess again, we talk about our wedding every day and just love spending time together. We're trying to get as fit as we can, we're really preparing together in every way we can to make sure this trip is absolutely perfect in every way.
Oh! I was going to mention, you talked about how you really liked having a small bit of time in between pictures and going into the reception to just relax with friends/loved ones - I think Disney generally does this by default if you finish up with pictures early. I've heard of a lot of people who go to a different room than where their cocktail hour is, and their planner has a drink and some of their food waiting for them away from everyone else. Not sure if it's because they planned it that way, or because they just finished up earlier than expected though - have you talked to your planner about that yet?
Looking forward to your next post! Hopefully it'll even include a pic or two of your new place!
Ahh! That's great then, we spoke briefly about the order of the day and I understand that there'll be somewhere at the Boardwalk that we'll get squirrelled away at times. I know I'm to arrive there around 1 for photos with my groomsmen and then go hide for a while when Jess comes down and has hers with the girls so it definitely seems they're gonna look after us in that way. Oh & about our house, we had been collecting lots of items over the last few months so we'd gradually get it ready. We bought a couch months ago, then a fridge, a desk, dining table and so on. We also brought in a lot of things we already owned and some things from each of our parents'. Also Jess has been decorating, there's a lot of red, black and yellow in this house! It's still in progress but I'll definitely add some pictures soon.
Excited about the house yet? Don't forget, you'll probably want to make sure Disney (and every other company that has/needs your address to send you stuff) gets things like your contract updated with the new address! 
We went through that 3 years ago (almost to the day now - Raist likes to joke that it's our "engagement house" as opposed to an engagement ring
). Getting all the documents updated took a bit, and I think I still haven't updated my passport....which luckily doesn't list my address, so we're probably just going to be lazy about that. Raist still hasn't updated his drivers license and renewed his passport though, and that's a bit more important at this point. If you can't tell, your post made me think of the things that still aren't done, haha. There's so much stuff. Are you guys getting all new furniture, or just moving the stuff you already have to the house, and updating as you get money?
