The countdown to W-Day has begun! Well, I guess I've been counting down on here since we started this blog, but I've been posting relevant pictures on Facebook for the past ten days or so, counting down the final month of preparations. It's not official until it's Facebook Official.
The suits are in, and the groomsvengers are getting measured and tailored and are going to look awesome! We decided to go with George's Apparel, because it is a local landmark, and I'd always heard good things. I was not misled. They have been fantastic. Super helpful, affordable, fast, and just a great experience all-around. They are the type of neighborhood store that people reminisce about when complaining about the "big box" stores that have crowded our commercial landscape. Men's Warehouse and Joseph A. Bank may have slick commercials and constant sales, but neither match the experience we've had at George's.
On the subject of clothing, Sarah's dress is in and tailored and fits (that last one is kind of important). Her sister's dress never got sent home, so that is in our closet, waiting to be addressed just before the wedding. This isn't ideal, but George's is helping us out, so I'm not worried.
Our apartment is just full of boxes. Boxes from gifts. Boxes from centerpiece materials. Boxes that fit inside other boxes. Shoe boxes. The most important box at the moment, though, is the Card Box. Why? Because we built our own. Unsatisfied with boring boxes, with lace and crinoline, or with simple baskets, we decided to find something that fit better into our own idiom. Sarah quickly found one on Offbeat Bride, and sent me the link. I'm still not sure if she was entirely serious, or if she thought it was actually feasible, but I took the idea and ran with it. For those familiar with video games, you will recognize it. For everyone else, it has hearts on it. It took a while, with a few false starts (including buying molding materials, which I still think would have been the coolest solution), a lot of x-acto knife work, and way too much carving of styrofoam, our Weighted Companion Cube Card Box came to life! Well, not really. That would be weird. It looks awesome, though.
Other boxes in our apartment: boxes full of vases. Boxes full of lights. Even boxes full of decorative stones, as we gear up for the next challenge: assembling centerpieces for each table. Fortunately, there'll only be ten tables. Unfortunately, each centerpiece has three different parts!
W-18!
