And it begins...

So I gave Evan a "homework" assignment. Right now we need to figure out our budget and an estimate of how many people we want to invite. So far, by myself, I have 98 people and thats not everyone. I've thought of like 10 more just sitting here and most of them are definitely gonna come to the wedding. So I told him to do 2 things. His dad offered to give us money as a wedding gift so I told him to find out how much (he said like $5000!!!) that would be amazing but we need to know a rough estimate there so we can add it to whatever my parents want to spend. So I asked him to try and figure out how much money his dad was gonna give us and give me a list of family/friends/co-workers that he wanted to invite to the wedding. I told him that at 5:00 PM today. When he called at 9:30PM he had already forgotten. Now I know, he's a guy and this wedding stuff prob. isn't that big of a deal to him, especially since we've been engaged liker 4 days. But I want to be ready to start looking at reception halls/banquet places etc as soon as my parents get back. Everyone has told me booking the reception and the flowers are the most important. Hopefully he remembers to do these things, but we'll see. Then I emailed my mom 2 days ago (they have internet on the cruise ship, NICE) and she emailed me back today. As previously mentioned, Evan's sister wants to be our wedding coordinator. Now I think it would be nice to have a "go-to" person, but her fee is 10% and I didn't think my parents would go for it. In my email my mom was really sweet but she defn. said "you KNOW me, I don't need someone else telling me how to spend my money." Yikes. Sounds like a defn. no the wedding planner, but we'll see. If Lindsey sits down & talks to them, they might change their mind, but prob. not. Anyway, thats all for now. I think I've narrowed down the color palette. Well I've settled on using fall colors. Oranges & wine/berries. It's gonna be great!! More later...