I'm new too

lmeade62

Hello, I'm new, too...my name's Linda, and my wedding is scheduled for next August (tentatively). We're planning very, very small and intimate, combination church wedding and indoor/outdoor reception...

I won't say much since this is my first visit and I want to look through all the great posts before asking my questions. Just wanted to say hello!

Lisa50

Hi, Linda ... Welcome, welcome.  Congratulations on your engagement and good luck with your planning.  Enjoy the posts! 

emmitchell

Hi Linda, there are couple newbies on here including myself. Looks like a great group so far, sounds like you already got some great plans. Congratulations and good luck.

flower11978

Hi Linda my name is Mandie I am new too.. Welcome.

AdelphiTN

Welcome! I love this board, and i am sure you will too. I'm Lori and i just got married last weekend!

It's great to have a group like this to turn to... to ask, to vent, to reaffirm.

MikesAngie

Congratulations and welcome!  This is a great board and the ladies here have great advice and ideas!  We look forward to hearing about your plans!! (Also this can be a great place to vent since these ladies know their stuff!)

lmeade62

Thank you, everyone, for the lovely welcome...can anyone tell me how I can add my ticker to the bottom of my posts?

Our plan right now is for something very, very small - like 50 people total - 25 of which are our families, and the other 25 are our mutual friends from the trailbuilding association that was responsible for our meeting. We're looking at a small bed and breakfast nestled on 86 acres of woodlands, because the owner says we can have our reception there *and* have camping the night after the wedding. The peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower was the night we told each other we loved each other for the first time, so the wedding is somewhat loosely scheduled around that.

Our big "in the air" thing at this point is the church. We are both divorced and both Catholic, and we have had annulments in the works for a little while. We had pretty much resigned ourselves to leaving the Church, since his ex fought the annulment tooth and nail. We found a lovely little Episcopalian church that we both like very much.

Then yesterday he got word that his annulment had been granted! It's not completely over, since there's an automatic appeal to the next level up and then the ex briefly has the option to appeal it further. But this was incredible news, since we figured the odds were slim that his would make it through. Mine we feel somewhat more confident about, for a lot of reasons, but we still haven't heard the first decision.

So now we're just kind of in a holding pattern until we get a little more news. We're hoping that we'll have something by February, since that'll be the six months before the wedding that the Catholic Church requires...

Anyway, that's the plan at this point...I'm starting to feel somewhat overwhelmed by the food planning...we want a very informal reception...any ideas??

Thanks again for the warm welcome!

Linda