Major Checks for Us this Weekend!

kellya01

Hey Ladies!

I've been a bit busy this weekend... and here are the results!

1) We ordered our invitations!!! 

2) We have selected our music!!! (Listed below)

Prelude Music (by brass quintet):

Quintet by Kamen

Largo from Dvorak Symphony No. 8 ("New World")

Rejouissance from the Royal Fireworks

Brass quintet version of "Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral" (from Lohengrin)

and a few others still to be decided with brass quintet.  

Grandmothers: Evening Hymn from Hansel and Gretal

Mothers: Rondeau by J.J. Moret (Theme from Masterpiece Theater)

Bridesmaids: Rigaudon by Andre Campra (if they can't do it, our second choice is Grand March from Aida)

Bride: Wagner Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin

Vocal Solos (my uncle playing piano with live singers)

"When I Say I Do" (Matthew West) - friend of groom singing

"When God Made You" (Newsong and Natalie Grant) - duet husband/wife singers

The Lord's Prayer (to be sung by a friend of MOB who is a classically trained mezzo-soprano!!)

Recessional: Mendelssohn Wedding March, and Handel's Hornpipe from Water Music

I just wanted to post this here in case you wanted to use any of this.  We have taken a lot of time to figure out what we want.  

Next on our Check List: 

Rehearsal Dinner

Reception Music!! Gotta start on DJ's list sometime soon. 

I'm so glad I can share this with you ladies!!  Hope your WR planning is going well too!  I'd love to hear about your checks and accomplishments too!  That keeps me motivated for sure.  :-) 

amongthelilies25

congrats on the checks! thats awesome!!!

i got some checks too. we booked our caterer and the rental place for the chairs. (: 

we will be eating meat balls for apetizers. and for dinner: chicken, tri-tip, red potato salad, green salad, baked beans, rolls and butter with water, ice tea, and strawberry lemonade!!! (: 

bourgehm

amongthelilies, I want to come to your wedding! YUM!!

And Kellya, sounds great!!! Good choices.

amongthelilies25

haha of course you can!!!

i am very very excited for the food! lol. and the caterer said there will be TONS of food and NONE of my guests will be hungry! (;

and they were very afforadable and soooooo sweet! 

kellya01

Gimme some meatballs!  Yum!!!!!! :-)

I'm so excited for your menu!  

We also figured out the cake too, and FAVORS!!!  I'll wait until we hit a "QOTW" to post those things.  I'm a bit "gushy" tonight feeling like we've accomplished so much.  

Anyone else have checks you want to share??  Go ahead!! 

amongthelilies25

that is awesome!!!

we kinda had a panic last week and switched EVERYTHING around!

we were gonna do all the cooking ourselves but my FMIL felt it would be too stressful, so thank God we found a caterer who we LOVE!!! everything was booking in our price range. 

my FI's grandma was gonna do our favors and our cake..but i HATED them both when she showed me what she was gonna do. but i didnt want to hurt her feelings and she was doing them for free...so i was trying to just go with it. after much talk with my FMIL we decided to tell her that i didn't really like what she had in mind and wanted to go with something else. she got her feelings hurt and long story short...she isn't doing them. so now i have to figure out favors...and we just started talking with a cake person.

i am sooooo glad we decided to go with a wedding planner...whom we ADORE! we have had soo much favor in this wedding process! My wedding planner is normally $2,000 for full service...but she only charged us $800 for FULL service! we are soo blessed! i would be LOST without her! she told us the venue, the caterer, the cake place (which i had found before...but dropping my wedding planner's name gives us a discount!), the florist, and the cash bar! (:

also the hammer dulcimer that we will be using for our ceremony music! (: 

i feel so accomplished too,  kelly! its SUCH a great feeling!

-monica

AshNoel8

Awesome! kelly- We are having When God Made You sung at our wedding too! 

My only check this weekend is that my dad and I chose a father/daughter dance song!