99 percent sure

We think it's safe to make this announcement..we have a date for our wedding! Write it down in your calendars in ink. Our wedding will be...

FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2009!

There will be many, many more details to follow, but here are some of the particulars:

The wedding ceremony will take place at St. Joseph University Church. This is Kristen's home church, but Kenny has ties to it as well, because his sisters attended St. Joseph's Elementary school (so he's seen many a middle-school concert there!) It's a lovely church, with a progressive, welcoming congregation (and a 'rocking' choir every Sunday morning at 11:30...speaking of music, we're looking for musicians for both the ceremony and reception, so if you know anyone, feel free to email)

Here's where the 99 percent comes in...we are almost certain to have the reception at Asbury Hall, which is a beautiful space in a converted church in downtown Buffalo. Recording artist and native Buffalonian Ani DiFranco bought the church, and converted it into a event/concert space and the hub of Righteous Babe Records, which is her record label. (In Buffalo the building known as Ani DiFranco's Church or Babeville, but Kenny refuses to acknowledge this with any wedding matter!)

As you may have noticed, the wedding will take place on a Friday, which will give you out-of-towners the opportunity to explore the city that we both love, or even to take an excursion to our friendly neighbours to the north, Canada (aka America's Hat!). And don't worry, we will be giving you plenty of ideas in the coming weeks and months for fun activitites

Up at 7am on a Saturday

Kenny started this blog and I thought this morning since I am up so early that I would add something to it. Wedding planning is underway- unfortunately I was REALLY sick last week so, we are a few steps behind where I would like to be-- but, such is life! I can tell that I am feeling back to normal since I am up this morning thinking about everything that needs to be done!

To give all of you a heads up, we are looking at having the extravaganza at the end of July or the beginning of August 2009. People keep saying that is not enough time to plan a wedding but, I cannot imagine that we will not be able to plan a great party in 7 months! As soon as we have a date set, we will post it on the blog! We are down to a few options for reception locations and just need to set up a meeting with Father Jack at St. Joe's and then we'll be on our way.

I am going to leave it up to Kenny to tell you all the engagement saga, I mean, story! Hopefully, he'll post that soon...

Welcome to the wedding blog!

So we've decided to use this blog to give all of you information about our wedding. Eventually we will have details (like the date), and interesting tidbits about our reception, wedding favors, etc. We might also share some of our story (not all of it..just the really really good stuff). For example, we..well...I decided to start the blog in addition to our free website from The Knot, because I thought it was cheesey..and we only get to submit one picture...one picture! We're way too cute to limit ourselves to one picture!