Michael's craft show

It's not a true bridal show, but Michael's is apparently spreading the creative wedding-related love with a craft day on April 1. I'm so there.

Coincidence

We were in Austin from Friday to Tuesday and it just so happens that there was a bridal show that day in the very same convention center where the geeky SXSW Interactive conference was taking place. So I skipped out on 2 sessions and partook.

Then I thought, I really need one of these for MY area (Austin sounds like Boston to a lot of people until you repeat it with an exaggerated B). Upon searching, all the bridal shows (or 99% of them) for the Boston (even the MA/NH/RI area) take place in January and February. It's a bridal bummer. But I found a few shows that list their vendors, which, frankly, is what I really need. So maybe I'm not as out of luck as I thought I was.

Not a bad bunny idea...

It's been 9 days since I posted (I feel like I'm in confession). I'm blaming our weeklong 2-conference trip to Vegas and Austin and me with no computer!

So Vikki, a fellow bride-to-be, posted to our request for bunny ideas during the wedding and she made me think that maybe they'd be wicked fun for the kids. So I'll think about having them in some sort of enclosure on the lawn. Could make for some cute pictures, too...

Engagement photos

Steve Eis is a magician with the camera! We're so glad we hired him to shoot our wedding. See some Coolwater brilliance in our engagement photo shoot slideshow. Some are goofy, but that's entirely our fault. We're goofy people...

What we're NOT going to do...

In "borrowing" ideas for our two ring bearer pillows, which I'm going to make, I came across these pix. None of the 4 bunnies will be carrying the rings down the aisle in the fashion of these dogs:

This big 'un looks just humiliated by the whole idea!

Bagpipers

Has anyone gotten married in Metrowest and had a bagpiper at their ceremony? I'd like to get a good reference. I've looked online (can you believe there's a Durant McCurley who pipes? Trouble is he's 120 miles away...) a bit, just started tonight, actually. I have a card somewhere from some guy we saw playing at the King Richard's Faire... I heart Google. Off I go to do some more research!

Two become one

No, I'm not talking about how wonderfully romantic it is to join two lives in marriage (not right now, at least); I'm talking about the decision we made to forgo the cruise for our honeymoon. Two weeks in France (one of which in Paris) is the way we'll go, I believe. It gives us more flexibility as to when we can leave and return and also gives us a day after the wedding to open presents (should we get any!) and have a nice bridal brunch and then go see Buffett that night. So who knows when we'll leave...?

Speaking of "who knows," we're toying with the idea of booking the Paris hotel (through our vacation club), but then just winging it throughout the French countryside. Just get some little inn here or there... We like adventure. ;-) Not sure we'll do it just yet, but we're thinking about it.