Food Tasting

Mircea and I decided to change our catering plans for our reception, so we went up to Famous Dave's in Waldorf to have a tasting. We met with their great catering director, Jackie, and she provided us with some yummy treats to taste. The food was incredible! Oh my gosh, I can see why they are so Famous. Fantastic. Mircea and I were both really impressed with all of the food, particularly the beef brisket and the corn bread. Man, that corn bread was fantastic. And, I even ate baked beans-up until now I've only ever had one or two bites of baked beans my whole life, but today I ate the entire little cup. Yum!

Here's some fuzzy camera phone pics of our yummy treats-thanks Jackie!

65 Days to Go!

Wow, I looked at the calendar today and realized that we're super close to being Mr & Mrs! And it's only 60 days until we leave for St Lucia so I'm basically going on an all water diet for the next two months. I'm only slightly kidding!

Most of the stuff is done for the event, just one final payment next week and lots of exercise to look better in my bathing suits! I think we're both really excited about the vacation aspect of things as well as the wedding, but it will be nice to just relax. While our trip to Romania was super fun, it was really all about R&R , we traveled around the country a lot and took in a lot of sites. The honeymoon will be much more low key. And a lot warmer!

The invitations have arrived and I'm busily addressing them in my free time. The invitations are only for the reception and I want to qualify that if you don't receive an invitation to the reception, it's not because we don't love you. In fact, it's because we DO love you and don't want you traveling all the way to Maryland simply to enjoy a pork BBQ and a couple of hours sharing us with other people. I'm selfish, but I want to spend quality time with those that are far away and hopefully you'll just want to visit any other time...I'll even make you BBQ if you want!

Perfect Wedding Song

While Mircea and I won't really be having a "first dance" as a married couple, simply because I can't see putting him through that, I've selected one of the songs for the montage of pictures from the wedding and honeymoon to play at our reception.

The song is called Today, by Joshua Radin, and I first heard it when Ellen Degeneres played a montage of photos from her wedding to Portia de Rossi. It really is a beautiful, simple song, and I think it's just a perfect wedding song. I've posted the link to the video, for some reason blogger isn't accepting youTube videos anymore. Click here for the song.

**note the subtitles. I'm not sure which Asian language they are, but I think it's funny that I couldn't find the U.S. version of this video.

The Reception

On March 27, 2010 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the new Mr. and Mrs. will host a reception at the Chesapeake Ranch Community Center for their friends and family.

The attire for the event is akin to "business casual"-there is no need to dress up, but jeans might be a little out of place as we'll be taking photos. Your own discretion is all you need-but there will be cameras all around!!