Possible Wedding Reception Venue Found?

Amidst all my posts about the Patriots, movies, silly websites and sillier holidays, you'll find a post or two about our upcoming wedding. From what I gather, it's never too early to get a date and/or book a venue for the reception. Today we went to the Seaport Hotel and were shown three different rooms, though the one that stood out above all other we've seen thus far, by far, is one of their newest ones called The Lighthouse Room.


The place has lots of windows, views, and modern decor (did I just write that?). This picture does it a little justice, but TLM has more pictures on a post today over on the wedding blog (http://msgettingmarried.blogspot.com), including some taken by a photographer who recently worked a couple of weddings there. If that's not enough, there's an even more expansive collection of photos we took today here on Flickr.

Might this be the place?
 

Celtics/Raptors...in da club

As if TLM wasn't the best already, she arranged for us to have a
"secret date night" tonight. I write you now from halftime at the TD
Banknorth Garden, where the the C's have a 22 point lead over the
Raptors.

Oh, did I mention she's the best?
 

License to Wed

TLM and I tried to watch "License to Wed" tonight, and in short, we could not get through this movie. It wasn't long before we started skipping ahead to the next chapter (and that was her idea...mine was to quit watching it altogether). This movie was predictable (except for maybe the robot babies - didn't see that one coming), not that funny, and overly focused on Robin Williams and his creepy kid sidekick. It was a waste of time and I give it half a star, my lowest so far, and that's only because of the cameos by cast members from "The Office".

Thanks for the Announcement, Ledger

To our immediate friends and family, it's no secret that TLM and I are engaged to be married. We want to do the right things at the right times, and we told people like my parents the next day or as soon as we could. There is of course the traditional and more formal announcement, complete with an engagement picture, usually published in a local newspaper.

Now I'm trying to be as educated a groom-to-be as I can (I'm even reading books like "The Everything Groom Book" to prove it) and I know that this initial engagement announcement is a big deal. How we look in the picture has to be just right, the details about who we are and what we do should be honest and modest, and the timing of when it gets printed is important...a rule of thumb is 3 to 4 months before the wedding.

(Before I continue...no, we haven't set a date yet. I can tell you it will be a lot more than 3 or 4 months away.)

In step the Red Sox. They win the World Series, and TLM and I go out the next day to buy commemorative shirts and hats, remembering what a challenge they were to find in 2004. As we're shuffling around our local Sports Authority, apparel in hand, a soft-spoken man with glasses stops us, mumbles something as he takes out a notepad, and starts asking me questions. I thought he worked for the store and was worried we were going to make off with the goods (why that was my first reaction is telling...), so I gladly supplied him some answers with a smile. He asked my name, where I lived, why I was there, and then he asked the same of TLM.


It was after the fourth or fifth question that I realized he may not be affiliated with the store at all, and asked him if he was an employee there. It turns out he was a reporter from the Patriot Ledger, and was there to cover...you guessed it...people buying Red Sox World Series stuff. We even had some photos taken of us holding up our new shirts.

In retrospect I don't even remember mentioning that TLM was my fiancée (though I am not surprised seeing as how proud I am of the fact), though surely enough that fact was made clear in the next day's paper as TLM and I were the first people quoted and featured in an article about the scene at the store.

So the question is: does this count as an engagement announcement, albeit an indirect one?

TLM says no, and so do I...I mean, they didn't even print our picture.
 

It's Official

TLM and I are officially tying the knot. We spent a nice few days in Cape Cod and, after making sure to get the blessings of her parents, I found myself on bended knee Friday night, trying to get through something I had been preparing in my head all week. The good news is I did get the question out. The great news is that she said yes.