A date like no other

Encouraged by:

1. The amazing time we shared with Jen and Russ and our crew at their wedding;

2. The impending one year anniversary of our engagement;

3. Desire to answer the questions: When's your date? Do you have a date yet? When are you getting married? posed to us by every single person we encounter every single day;

we picked a date for our wedding! This whole process has been very organic. We've had time to simply enjoy being engaged. On the drive home from R&J's wedding two week ago, the moment arrived for both of us, but Nils voiced it first: We really need to pick a concrete date.

Cell phone in hand, I scrolled through the calendar, running my eyes over the numbers of the days, saying them out loud, envisioning them on hundreds of pieces of paper, and as a day we'll celebrate each year...We vowed from the get-go to stay away from mid-summer as we don't want our shindig to be a "summer ruiner." But, the weather last spring was too dreary to imagine for a beach wedding. And, fall, well, that's turning out to be a cold one yet. We narrowed it down to June. Nils objected to 6/6/09 as he thought his mom would rag on him for obvious reasons. Then we just did it. We made a choice.

June 20, 2009

I admit to getting all girlie and jumpy in the car. Oh here we go, he laughed...

With this date, we will plan. Now, it seems so very real and solidified. I like that I've had just shy of a year to compile many tearsheets and printouts from The Knot and Etsy. I even have purchased the first of the bridesmaids "fun" gifts. Now, the real planning can begin, and we've both stored up enough ideas and contacts to get the ball rolling quickly.

That's that. The save-the-date cards will be out in January, but I just want to give you all the scoop.

That's our final answer.