Having a difficult time being present. I had a big meeting yesterday…and a road trip coming up. It’s hard to think of anything else but the big stuff. Other things get done…but it is hard to put the effort in when my mind is elsewhere.
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Day 163: 365 Grateful, planning
Friends came over to plan for our upcoming vacation…super excited to get away, relax, explore and hang out. Ahhh, looking forward to it
Day 122: 365 Grateful, married!
Mike and I are attending a wedding in Ithaca, NY this summer with some folks we worked with at Bradford Woods.
We thought we could be cool and rent a house for everyone…then we ran into issues with cost and distance.
Then I remembered how much of a pain it was to plan our wedding…and didn’t like that part (though it was worth it). Glad we don’t have to plan any more weddings!
In the end, we are going with the hotel with the block of rooms!
A quick update
Camp is around the corner, as in 2 weeks, so for the last 2 and a half weeks, I’ve been pretty much focusing on nothing but that. In the middle of it all, I did manage to make a call to the Woods to see if I could get a hold of the retreats coordinator who I’d been emailing. It ends up that she quit, and her last day was a couple days after my last contact with her, and she never passed the info along that we were looking.
In the interim at least, our friend Shane has taken responsibility for retreats. This is very good, as it not only means that we are actually talking to someone who cares, its someone we know in the first place, so we feel much better about it. We are just waiting to hear back from him regarding a few dates, and then next thing you know, we may have some dates set!
Also, over the weekend, you probably heard that the Midwest took on some heavy flooding in some areas, Bradford Woods and Martinsville included. below are some photos Jaime Head sent us who in turn got them from someone else. The funny thing is, all these photos are of spots that we were talking about having the ceremony or the reception of both. So, here is a sneak peak of whats (maybe) to come for our gala event:
Back where the cars are…thats one spot
Here you can see the dam, which overlooks the lake, a very pretty spot
And heres the pavilion by the beach, which is also a wonderful spot. the dam would be about in the upper left corner of the photo.
So, so far so good, right?
We’re better at this than you think
So, obviously, if you have been paying attention to this site, you will notice the significant lack of updates in the last two months. Unfortunately to say, there has not been much to update on regarding our impending wedding of the century(!). One of our catchups is that we do not know where we would like to have the wedding, since I’m from Illinois, Becca is from Connecticut, we live in New Hampshire, and we met in Indiana, which pretty much sums up our 4 most realistic choices (the 5th being Pennsylvania, but I think I have been outvoted for that one)
Of those four, Indiana is our first choice, as it is where we met, we’ve had a lot of great experiences there, and it would bring things back full circle. The biggest concern for us is that we were not sure if we would be able to get married in Indiana, because if we were to, we would want it to be at Bradford Woods (www.bradwoods.org), and when we used to live and work there, there was a semi-strictly enforced “we don’t do weddings” policy that varied depending on who asked to be married there. So we thought that the best course to take was to get in touch with my old boss who still works there, hoping he could pull some strings if need be. Well, if you know Jim, its no surprise, but he is a very difficult person to get a hold of. I first started calling him around mid February, and finally got a hold of him about late April.
It was great to speak with him, and find out more about whats been happening since we’ve been gone, and he was very excited to hear that we were engaged and very excited for us to want to get married at the Woods, and that yes, it was a possibility for us to do, we’ll just have to speak with Karen in retreats. Which leads me to this thought; no one in Indiana knows how to use a phone because I started calling and leaving messages for her, only to have to email her to get a hold of her.
So, long story shortened, we are now in talks with BW over the possibility of having our wedding there. I’m thinking it’ll be a “Journeys to the Watershed” thematic event.
Stay tuned for details.
Planning? You mean we have to start planning?
So at this time we do not have a date, location, or really much of anything planned. We do have some ideas of when, where, and what we would like. Stay tuned for updates as we actually begin to have some sort of clue of what we are doing…suggestions are welcome!!
Adventures of Becca 