Too Many Color Combinations!

It's driving me crazy!  There's so many color variations and combinations that it's difficult to pick a few colors for a wedding theme.  Lake Union Cafe is mostly copper, golds, and black.  They decorate for the holidays with golds, coppers, and greens.  For my wedding colors, I've been thinking of a burgundy and gold.  But green would be a great color as well, especially with copper.  Burgundy, gold, and black?  Burgundy, gold, and cream?  Burgundy, gold, and green?  Green, copper, and cream?  Or just green and copper?  Oh, so many decisions!

I love the reds and golds together.  Don't forget the gerber daises!

Too bright red.  

I like this centerpiece.  It would look good with green orchids.

I love this green.  I like the bouquet with the copper tie.

It's 100% Official!

My dad drove to Lake Union Cafe and dropped off the deposit. So it's official! We are getting married December 6th 2008 at Lake Union Cafe. I've sent out the e-mail to start the Save the Dates. I've already found whose going to do those and our invitations. It's nice to have a date set as it gives me an endpoint and now I can start gathering more specifics on the wedding!

It's 99% Official!

Hilleri went to check out Lake Union Cafe and liked it a lot.  She thought it'd be a perfect place for winter wedding, very classic and with a warm feel.  From my research on-line, it got really good reviews about the service, food, and staff.  It was listed as a top-rated wedding facility for 2007 in The Knot Best of Weddings (magazine).  Plus, it was one of the lesser expensive venues on our list.  They don't charge a separate rental fee, but include it in the food charge.  And they have an option to bring your own alcohol.  Alcohol raises the price of the reception by a few thousand dollars.  So, bringing in our own alcohol will be cost effective for us.  Chuck's really happy has they have room for 2 kegs and supply the taps!  So, its almost official.  Victoria, director of sales and event manager, is holding onto the date for us until Hilleri sees it (which she did).  Now, we just have to give a deposit.  My parents are going to drop the deposit off and secure the date for us.  So by mid-week, we can officially announce our wedding date and location, The Lake Union Cafe on December 6, 2008!  Now the hard part (that's how it felt) is done and all the other planning can start!  Luckily, the Cafe does decorating for the holidays and Hill said we probably don't have to do much, if any, decorating.  That's nice.  We'll probably do a bit with floral arrangements and on each table.  Anyways,  I've talk to a few stationary places to start the Save the Dates.  I'll keep you posted on more.  Check out our wedding website  for posts as well.

Almost Official Wedding Plans!

It looks like we'll have a place and date finalized by the week's end!  I don't want to say yet where and when, but once it goes through I'll blog it.  But thanks so much to Hill who's going to check the place out for us.  We heard really good things about this venue and hope it works out.  It's a little later than we wanted or in the same month we wanted, but it'll be nice to have a winter wedding:)  Thanks so much Hill, I owe you one!!