Final Planning Trip

Last weekend, we made the crucial final Wedding Planning Trip to Detroit. Unless something crazy happens, we will not be back until the Wednesday before the big day. It was essential that we made the most of our time in Michigan and finalized as much as possible. In just four days, we did catering tastings, met with the wedding planner/coordinator, visited the ceremony and reception site, visited the rental showroom and picked out linens and chairs, revised our floral plan with the florist, met with our photographers, visited the hotel where we are staying, looked at our suite, picked a Rehearsal Dinner restaurant, met with the Minister, picked our cake flavors and design and even spent some quality time with friends and family. Can you believe we did all that in four days? Me neither.

None of that would be possible without Jane, my future-mother-in-law, who drove us all over the Detroit Metro area, Jessica, my future-sister-in-law who drove down from Northern Michigan a day after she returned from four months in Thailand and Uncle Brian and Aunt Julie who fed us and let us sleep on the Murphy bed in their basement on every trip we have made in the last 3 years. We were also really excited to be able to stay with friends, Jeff and Kim Munro, who the week before had been in a snowmobile accident that sent them both to the hospital with broken bones. That did not stop them from providing us a delicious dinner, a generous amount of beverages, a cozy bed to sleep in and a ride to the airport.

I didn’t get a ton of pictures on the planning trip, but this is one of me posing in the food court at the Detroit Renaissance Center.

After this trip, I have a lot of things to blog about, so stay tuned this week for updates!