We're done here

All married and closing up shop. My regular blogging will be moving to Wordpress in the next week or two, so we'll see you there.

Zero Hour Reminder

It's almost that time Folks!

Join us on Wednesday July 21st 2010
Ceremony beginning at 11:00 am

Oaks Park
7805 SE Oaks Park Way
Portland, OR 97202

Ninja Challenge: Bring flowers from your garden so we can use them in the ceremony. It will be special & awesome!

Festivities will commence immediately afterwords. We invite you to bring along a dish that you have with your family during times of celebration.

If possible, the wearing of a single color or hue would be appreciated, and fitting to our color theme of Rainbows.

If you are a musician, feel free to bring your acoustic instruments and we'll see that you get to play!

The After Party

Same day, starting at 8:30 PM at Vertigo
4260 SE Hawthorne, Portland, OR 97215

(We have space reserved, but we don't have the whole bar)

Ninja Wedding Assignment + After Party!

Wow, how time marches on. Last minute preparations are being made, a hundred little details are being ironed out, and Sarah needs shoes.

Sarah's shower is Today, and our bachelor/ette parties are this week. Still plenty left to do, and a dwindling amount of time to do it.

OK attendees, I have a ninja mission for you to complete: Bring flowers.

Don't spend any money on them, just pick a few from your garden (or someone else's , it is a ninja assignment after all) and bring them the morning of the ceremony. It will be awesome, trust me.

And of course, now we can talk about the after party.

Come to Vertigo Pub, and continue to help us celebrate our nuptials!

July 21, starting at 8:30 PM and running until it's time for the bartender to go home, we'll keep celebrating our best day until it's way past our bed time. Records will spin, a good time will be had.

Registry Madness and other Stuff

Our registry has grown, it's now Target, Sears, and our nontraditional list. The original traditional one had some holes in it, and we wound up filling them at a different store.

We've both made concrete lists of our to do agendas. Sarah's is huge, mine less so (typical bride vs groom responsibility levels I suppose), but we're working on getting the done.

We've got a shout out here for some help we could use. We had planned on planting & giving seeds to friends for easy grow flowers that bloom in July. Great idea, but our rainy June has kind of killed it. So, if you have some stuff that you got in the ground early enough that will be blooming by the 21st, and you feel like making a donation to our flower pool let us know. Any thing but Azaleas will do (Sarah's allergic).

We'll be busy as caffeinated bees for awhile. More soon!

**Whew**

It's been hectic at we're getting married central. There was a screw up on some paper invitations getting out (caused by yours truly), so a couple of you might be getting them in the next day or two. Most of the "you" I'm referring to are on Sarah's side of the equation (not intentional, just a horrible coincidence and a reminder to my self to be thorough)

We are entering "We're getting married in six weeks and __________ isn't done yet" mode, so you can actually expect to see more posted here, as well as the possibility of you getting a phone call asking if you have access to plutonium and 400 gallons of blue paint.

I kid, we don't need paint. But, all sorts of other things might come up we'll need a hand with, so we might be calling on some friends to ask for minor, non financial, possibly just moral support, help.

First Wave of Paper, and the Wedding Party

The first wave of paper invites were mailed off in the last couple of days, so watch your mail boxes. There was no rhyme or reason as to who was in the first wave that went out, but wave two (final) will be out by Thursday or so.

We'd now like to announce the wedding party:

Us (of course)

Officiant: The Reverend Robert Scott

Best Man: Erich McNaughton
Groomsmen: Zach Barbery & Matt Mitchel

Bridesmaids: Cami Kaos, Rosie McKinlay-Mench & Sara McNaughton

Our friend Mark Savage has agreed to be our music poobah

More updates as they develop!

RSVP Here!

Hello beloved family & friends, check out the RSVP page! Feel free to use the comments to let us know if you can come or not. Feel free to email us at droidwhisperer at Gmail dot com as well!

If you've marked your self as attending on Facebook, there's no need to post here.

Wednesday, July 21st at 11:11 AM

It is set in stone: We will be getting married on July 21st at Oaks Park. Mark your calendars, call in sick to work, and haul yourselves here for the event of our lives.

It will be awesome.

My Dad is Awesome

My Dad has agreed to get ordained and officiate at our wedding. This is awesome.

I am in no way suggesting that the rest of The Five are any less awesome of course, but Dad really stepped up to the plate this time.

Another piece of the wedding puzzle has fallen into place, now if we could just nail down a date we could really get the ball rolling.

OK, News, and a Date Window

Our official window to wed has been narrowed down to July 5th through the 23rd. Some time in that span we will be having the ceremony.

As with most things, we're going nontraditional on wedding registry. There will be a list here on this site coming soon. I'll leave, and not read, the comments field on for discussion amongst the group.

We have also made a few other decisions: We'll be taking a jewelry making class to learn how to make our own wedding rings (take THAT wedding industry), the cake will be chocolate with raspberry, and the food will be something different as well.

We figure, if you're asked to come to the wedding, we want to share this special part of our lives with you, that you are part of our community. When special things are celebrated, people tend to make special food...so we want every one to bring that special celebratory dish in a huge wedding potluck extravaganza!

We're also trying to figure a lot of other things out. Location, Music, etc. If you have any suggestions, drop a line, we'll gladly take any input!