It's Official!

On Saturday morning, Jeremy and I signed a contract with our reception venue and gave them our deposit, so...it's official! No more changing our minds! We're getting married on June 26, 2010, and the reception will be at Jackpot Junction down here on the reservation. I'm still a tad panicky about the whole thing, but I'm also really excited. Now I just have to iron out the rest of the seemingly endless details!

In the immediate future, we have to pick out our photographer, our DJ, and our ceremony site and officiant. June is, of course, the most popular month for weddings, so if we don't book people soon, we won't have many options to pick from (not that we have many to begin with). I am actually considering hiring photographers from up in the Cities, because the ones that I've checked out down here aren't really up to my standards when it comes to quality. Unfortunately, most of the good photographers up in the Cities are waaaay out of our budget. I did, however, stumble upon Paisley Road Photography, and it looks promising. They're still expensive, but they're a LOT cheaper than most of the companies that I looked at...and they work as a couple, so we'd get two photographers as part of the package! They divide their time between Minnesota and Missouri, so I'll be setting up a time to meet with them later in the month when they are back in town.

I still haven't decided where I want to have the ceremony. I am Lutheran, but Jeremy isn't into the whole Christianity thing, so I'm not sure that a church would be the most appropriate place for us to get married. I think he'd be okay with it, but I'm sure he'd much rather have it someplace else. It would be nice to plan something outside--maybe here on the rez or over at Ramsey Park or something--but that's always such a gamble. Right now, we're considering having it at the ballroom where we'll be having the reception, but we're not sure yet.

I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure everything out. I really want to pick a theme (or at least a color scheme) for the wedding, but I've changed my mind a billion times over the past couple of months. How do people do this? I'm so bad about making decisions...

Guess I'm gonna go research some more stuff on the net. I'm sure I'll be posting a bunch of ideas and whatnot here over the coming months, so bear with me!