Love. Live. Laugh. Wed.

That's the sound you would have heard if you were in our apartment last week while we made some minor adjustments to our budget.

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We finally picked a reception venue! That means we now have a reception venue, a caterer, a date  and even a possible ceremony venue!

I cannot even express to you how excited I am about this!

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I'm sure most of you are going to skip the previous long and wordy post leading up to this one and I gotta say, I don't blame you. But, I felt like it needed to be said, and it's important stuff! Now we'll get to the good parts (and the pictures!)

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You guys are lucky you're hearing this because I don't think I've ever told anyone the entire story truthfully. Now, before you go thinking I'm a compulsive liar or something, I have a few reasons. You'll see.

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or as I'd rather title this "You have got to be kidding me!!"

A few weeks ago I was chatting on the Weddingbee boards with local NY brides about their wedding locations and my venue searching woes. One nice Rochestarian mentioned that she was getting married at the White House in Webster Park. Intrigued, I looked it up. It turned out to be a gorgeous (white) house on a bluff overlooking the lake with tons of trees and gorgeous scenery. My first thought? "ohmygosh I love it!"

 

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So I know I haven't been around much lately, but life has been crazy. Normally I would post that crazy stuff but it's nothing I haven't posted about before (job hunting, deciding where to live, trying to find a freaking venue) and I really don't want to bore you with all of that. So until I get some new news, I'm staying quiet.

Well, after this post.

Have ya'll heard of Weddingbee? I'm pretty sure all of my readers (all two of you) found me from weddingbee but just in case you haven't heard of it, let me tell you a little bit. When I first started getting interested in wedding planning (which I will shamefully admit was much before our engagement) I found TheKnot. Now, I'm not here to poopoo all over TheKnot. The actual informational section of the website is pretty good. I love to go there for inspiration pictures and articles, and their tools are pretty useful as well. However, if you mosey on over to the boards, it's a different story. Some of the local boards are pretty nice, but the main boards can get really really nasty. And I just can't stand that crap. I mean really ladies, we're adults, must we act like it's 9th grade all over again?!

Anyway, back to Weddingbee. Eventually I found the site through some googling and it was like I found the fountain of youth! There are so many inspiring bee bloggers and they are all so down to earth! There are some bees I follow because their wedding ideas are similar to mine, some I follow because they always have great relationship advice, some I follow just because their posts are hilarious and fun to read. And the boards! If you post a question on the boards, 99% of the time, someone will answer it for you or at least try to help you. Even if that question has been asked 989,583 times before. The ladies on that board are incredibly kind and helpful.

So, the ladies on the Upstate NY board are trying to plan a meet up for everyone in the Central NY area. Right now, we're thinking the meeting place might be Syracuse, since it's between Rochester and Ithaca/Binghamton. We have a few responses but we would definitely like to get more people to join!

So if you're in the CNY area and want to join us, hop over on this thread and let us know!

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