Musings
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By Alyce Wilson

Over the next two weeks, as I'm busy with preparation for the wedding, I may miss a few Musings entries. Here's more about the wedding related activities we engaged in this weekend.

On Sunday, we ate breakfast at IHOP and then did a little shopping.

We went to Michael's to pick up some stickers to go on the backs of the escort cards to indicate what meals people are getting.

Since we are naming our tables after the planets, we had previously purchased some one-inch square stickers with pictures of the planets on them. The Gryphon designed the escort cards to leave a space for those stickers, which would indicate the table.

The hotel had also requested that we indicate on the back what people were eating. Our original event coordinator at the hotel had suggested using colored dots, but that would require the kitchen referring to a guide to the colors. Plus, since we're using colored LED lights on the tables, that sort of code wouldn't be helpful.

I wanted to find stickers of little cows, chickens and fish to indicate the meals, along with a fourth sticker for those with the children's entree. We walked through the aisle at Michael's, looking for appropriate stickers.

At first we couldn't find anything. We considered using letters, such as "B" for beef and "C" for chicken. But none of the packets of alphabet letters appealed to us, and we would have had to purchased several of them to get enough letters.

Finally, we found some packets that had exactly what we wanted. We bought several packets of a farm animal set, along with a packet of fish stickers. For the children's meal, we bought a packet of smiley face stickers.

Then I wanted to go up to the mall and pick up some more foundation from Clinique. I'd received a call that they were having a special, and I needed more foundation anyway. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that the Clinique counters at different stores hold their events at different times. So after I already selected my foundation and eyeliner (a darker one than normal, for a more dramatic eye on my wedding day), after I'd paid for them, the clerk mentioned their special was coming up.

"I got a call that it was this week," I said.

She said that the call must have come from the Clinique at Boscov's, which has its sale at a different time. But I didn't feel like arguing about it, or having her refund my sale. After I took a look at what they were offering as free bonuses, none of it really appealed to me anyway. Next time, though, I'll be sure to ask before I make the purchase!

Lastly, we stopped at Staples to get a binder for me to put together important information for Mom for the wedding. She's agreed to act as my representative that day, to help resolve issues and make sure everything is running smoothly. I've promised her that I will put together a binder full of information to assist her, including copies of contracts and the floor plan.

Once we got home, we worked on the escort cards. First, we established which table would go where in the room and determined the names for each of the tables. Then, I placed the stickers for the tables on each of the cards, handing the completed sheet to The Gryphon, who consulted the spreadsheet of responses I'd been keeping, to place a sticker on the back of the cards to indicate each meal choice.

When we finished that, The Gryphon looked through the restaurants at Disney World to determine where we should seek reservations. I never would have considered doing this ahead of time, but fortunately, my hair stylist told me that it's necessary for any of the nicer restaurants.

Together, we chose a few, and early this week, The Gryphon made reservations for us. I put the confirmation numbers and other information in the folder I have of all our honeymoon materials.

Then we ate dinner of leftover blackened tilapia, which I had made, along with veggies and rice. Afterwards, I dropped The Gryphon off at his weekly meeting of Philadelphia Area Game Enthusiasts (PAGE), stopping at the grocery store on the way home.

When I returned home, I did an 80-minute yoga tape. I try to do it once a week, since it's good stress relief as well as good for muscle tonight and balance.

Then I did more wedding related things, such as sending out e-mails to people about various concerns, including a group e-mail to those we are expecting at the wedding rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner.

Finally, just as The Gryphon came home, I rearranged the images in the image presentation according to the notes I'd made the previous day. He designed menu cards which were then printed on teal card stock. One of them will be propped on each table so that our guests can know what they're eating.

All in all, we'd crossed off many of the important things that would involve any amount of time to accomplish, or which needed to be selected together. Pretty much all the other tasks on our list are smaller ones which we're dividing up between us. Teamwork, baby!

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