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[theducks]

Been doing weddingy-things today. It's kinda fun.

In our spare moments at work, we did some work on a guest list using a Google Documents Spreadsheet. It's nifty, since it updates in realtime as two people are working on it. Initial count is 127 people, which will probably have to come down a bit, since neither of our families are made of money. So, in advance, we're both sorry if we can't invite you to the reception, but you are all most welcome at the wedding ceremony.

Dropped by Cottesloe Civic Centre this evening after work. It looked nice, but we're not sure it's what we're after. Came home, had some dinner, did some web browsing of sites, and have been using a shared Google Notebook to store snippets on various venues.

Dropped over to uncle and aunt's house to swap Macbook Pro batteries and pick up a copy of their photos from the family engagement party. Turned out pretty well. To re-iterate, this is the family party. If you were thinking you were coming and missed it, you haven't - details are in this post, including date and time. Edit: Erk.. 58 people have RSVPed.

In more general terms, it's starting to get hot. This displeases me. My office at work gets really hot. Heat + randy peacocks = unpleasant office. Hopefully we'll be moving soon. We'll see how that goes.

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[silverai.livejournal.com]

58 people? Wowsers. I've got a bunch of beanbags and footstools I've accumulated along with the bunch of stools that I used for my engagement party that I can loan for extra seating should it be required. Also, said stools were $4 from Ikea - with a drill instead of a manual screwdriver, they don't take too long to assemble and they stack.

[theducks.livejournal.com]

We'll keep that in mind. For the family one, Elizabeth's dad borrowed a whole bunch of chairs from a high school.. worked out quite well.

[stephiepenguin.livejournal.com]

Have you taken into account that some of those people may be rsvping for two?

[theducks.livejournal.com]

thankfully, yes :)

[pennae.livejournal.com]

one of the physedders at school got married at the cottesloe civic centre on the weekend... it was gorgeous!!!

and you guys are so geeky... google docs indeed... :P

what about the swan valley? there's some beautiful small (hence cheaper than the big ones) wineries there... or are you more beach inclined?

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're totally getting a "Powered by Google" sign for the wedding :P

We're definately doing either/both of the wedding and reception in the swan valley, since that's where Elizabeth grew up.

[pennae.livejournal.com]

werhoo!! that'll be gorgeous!! (the swan valley, not the "powered by google" hahaha)

but you should have tin cans coming off the wedding car in google colours ;)

(snicker)

wow..

[gurubob.livejournal.com]

good news.. not on the heat though..
congrats to you and liz

[silne.livejournal.com]

It's so exciting planning a wedding!! I had a LOT of fun planning mine with hubby. We did it fairly cheaply and we don't know bogloads of people (or have bogloads of close relatives) so we actually had only about 50 people at the wedding and reception. Twas nice and I actually got to talk to everyone!

We had our wedding and reception at the same place. Cuz of having the reception at a function room at the pub (really nice pub btw, not a shady pub lol) we got to use their Rotunda and gardens for ceremony and photos and it didn't cost any extra. They were fabulous. Perhaps something like that might be what you're looking for? We did a per head buffet as the meal/dessert at the reception and everyone paid for their own drinks. We had folks offer to put down a bar tab for us but I didn't want people having a free bar and thus feeling they HAD to drink themselves under the table. Making people pay for their own drinks tends to limit what they'll chug ;-)

Must be nice to have the heat. It's been really blah here in Brisbane and not hot at all lately! Mind you I saw Perth was getting 39 the other day and I don't quite want to swap with you :-P