In terms of planning, our latest completed “task” has been finishing our music “must play” and “do not play” list. I wrangled two of my best friends to work on this aspect of the wedding as neither Ryan nor I nor our families are big on dancing, so I figured some outside input could be beneficial. When they delivered back a list of about 30 or more dance songs and about the same for dinner music, I thought for sure the DJ would kill me, but after researching online, I discovered that it appears to be okay to give an extensive list of “suggestions” to let your DJ know the kind of music you like, as long as you limit the “must play” to about 10 songs, which we did. So hopefully our comprehensive list of suggested dance songs and suggested background dinner music songs doesn’t send him over the edge.
We also filled out and submitted our pre-arrival checklist to our honeymoon hotel, Esperanza. I love filling out forms, so this was a treat! We let them know our flight information, what special occasion we are celebrating, restaurant reservation requests and also our sizes for robes and slippers –
I can’t wait to relax and be pampered!
Overall I am trying not to get too stressed out, but I did have a minor freak out when I found out that once our room block at our hotel is full, that’s it; they don’t have any more rooms to add to our block. Apparently we needed to have had all our family and wedding party book way in advance to fill our current “courtesy (i.e. held with no financial committment) block” and then get a new courtesy block. Alas, we did not, and now it’s closer so people are finally starting to book rooms and we can’t get any more. Fortunately we have two other hotels so there will be enough for everyone who wants to stay overnight, just not necessarily at the same hotel as us, which is obviously fine and no reason to fret.
Just about eight weeks now and I’ll be Mrs. Law!
