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Brilliant_Rock
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We are so busy preparing to leave from our home here in MA and fly to San Francisco, CA to get married on Tuesday evening! I thought I would make a thread outlining all of the details for those interested. Who knows, perhaps it will help me get organized...
We are leaving from home at 3:45am
on a shuttle that will take us to the nearest airport, which is in CT. Our plane leaves at 6am. We have one stopover in Michigan on the way there, and are scheduled to arrive in SF at 11:45am. The thing I am most terrified about going wrong is the plane. The last two times [only times] I have flown to CA I have been significantly delayed... and if we get delayed on this trip we will miss our marriage appointment. I don''t know WHAT I would do if that happened. Probably call City Hall and cry my eyes out? I try not to think about this since obviously there is nothing we can do about it, but it is stressing me out SO MUCH right now.
Once we arrive at the airport we will take the BART public transit system to our hotel. We are staying at the Hotel Union Square. It looks really cute and has pretty good reviews, which is excellent. Not so excellent is the fact that their usual check-in time is 3pm, and even though we have requested an earlier time of 1pm, they will NOT guarantee it no matter what we tell them, even though we are scheduled to be MARRIED just a few hours after our arrival. I am pretty frustrated with them, but fully intend to raise a huge fuss if they do not allow us into our room when we arrive because we should ideally be able to shower and do our hair in the hotel room. If not there is always the dressing room at Bloomingdale''s...
We have a 2:30 make-up appointment at the MAC makeup counter at the Bloomingdale''s store in the SF Shopping Center. Our hotel is only a few blocks from there, so we hope to dress in our room and walk to the shopping center, get our makeup done, and then either go straight to City Hall, or back to the hotel lobby for some pre-ceremony pictures.
Our marriage license appointment is at 4:30 in City Hall. This is the fun part!! We will be LEGALLY married and there is pretty much no way they can take that away from us once it is finalized. This is why we are flying all the way to SF on this fantastic trip to be married months before we''d originally planned, and is the most important part to both of us. We are meeting our photographer there at 4:50 so that he can catch some photos of us with our license and be there for the ceremony as well as some pictures afterward. We have him for a whole hour! This photographer also took Mia''s stunning photos from her elopement at City Hall. Thanks for the recommendation and suggestions about working with him, Mia!
Our civil ceremony appointment is at 5:00, which is directly after our license appointment. I hope they are running on time so we don''t miss anything! Yet another thing for me to stress over.
I secretly hope we get the rotunda for our ceremony, but knowing there are no guarantees means I have to not think about it.
After our ceremony we will do some sightseeing, probably in our dresses. Might as well get some use out of them! We are planning to have dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, which we always love. They don''t do reservations, but hopefully if we call ahead of time and show up in our wedding attire they will do their best to make the evening enjoyable for us...
Yaaaay! That is the end of the schedule of events as we know it so far. We plan to see as many things as possible while we are in the city. We leave the next morning at noon from the airport and travel allll the way back to MA where we came from.
WEDDING DETAILS
This is a thread about my dress. At the bottom of the first page is a picture of my Fiancee in her dress. She has decided on a thinner white sash, which is what she will wear Tuesday. Here it is!
We are both wearing veils and earrings, and FI is wearing a necklace. We are also wearing some "hair bling"
but I don''t have any pictures of them yet. More to come!
These are my shoes: http://www.davidsbridal.com/accessory_detail.jsp?stid=3839&prodgroup=167 Mine are white
These are FI''s shoes: http://www.davidsbridal.com/accessory_detail.jsp?stid=1430&prodgroup=167
This is the longest post in the history of the universe, so I will end it now. Thanks everyone for your help and patience with me along the way and for your kind well-wishes!
We are leaving from home at 3:45am
Once we arrive at the airport we will take the BART public transit system to our hotel. We are staying at the Hotel Union Square. It looks really cute and has pretty good reviews, which is excellent. Not so excellent is the fact that their usual check-in time is 3pm, and even though we have requested an earlier time of 1pm, they will NOT guarantee it no matter what we tell them, even though we are scheduled to be MARRIED just a few hours after our arrival. I am pretty frustrated with them, but fully intend to raise a huge fuss if they do not allow us into our room when we arrive because we should ideally be able to shower and do our hair in the hotel room. If not there is always the dressing room at Bloomingdale''s...
We have a 2:30 make-up appointment at the MAC makeup counter at the Bloomingdale''s store in the SF Shopping Center. Our hotel is only a few blocks from there, so we hope to dress in our room and walk to the shopping center, get our makeup done, and then either go straight to City Hall, or back to the hotel lobby for some pre-ceremony pictures.
Our marriage license appointment is at 4:30 in City Hall. This is the fun part!! We will be LEGALLY married and there is pretty much no way they can take that away from us once it is finalized. This is why we are flying all the way to SF on this fantastic trip to be married months before we''d originally planned, and is the most important part to both of us. We are meeting our photographer there at 4:50 so that he can catch some photos of us with our license and be there for the ceremony as well as some pictures afterward. We have him for a whole hour! This photographer also took Mia''s stunning photos from her elopement at City Hall. Thanks for the recommendation and suggestions about working with him, Mia!
Our civil ceremony appointment is at 5:00, which is directly after our license appointment. I hope they are running on time so we don''t miss anything! Yet another thing for me to stress over.
After our ceremony we will do some sightseeing, probably in our dresses. Might as well get some use out of them! We are planning to have dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, which we always love. They don''t do reservations, but hopefully if we call ahead of time and show up in our wedding attire they will do their best to make the evening enjoyable for us...
Yaaaay! That is the end of the schedule of events as we know it so far. We plan to see as many things as possible while we are in the city. We leave the next morning at noon from the airport and travel allll the way back to MA where we came from.
WEDDING DETAILS
This is a thread about my dress. At the bottom of the first page is a picture of my Fiancee in her dress. She has decided on a thinner white sash, which is what she will wear Tuesday. Here it is!
We are both wearing veils and earrings, and FI is wearing a necklace. We are also wearing some "hair bling"
These are my shoes: http://www.davidsbridal.com/accessory_detail.jsp?stid=3839&prodgroup=167 Mine are white
These are FI''s shoes: http://www.davidsbridal.com/accessory_detail.jsp?stid=1430&prodgroup=167
This is the longest post in the history of the universe, so I will end it now. Thanks everyone for your help and patience with me along the way and for your kind well-wishes!
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