It's all in the details...

OK, so I concede it's my fault by falling for a girl half way across the world....now I have to help more in the wedding planning then most grooms do. I think my fiancee is definitely more detailed oriented then I am about everything, but so far all I have to do is listen to her guidance and ask the questions she wants me to ask. I feel like such dummy sometimes about all of this, it's definitely outside the realm of comfort.

So it looks like we got most of the big details covered...

We got the date confirmed and the chapel ceremony booked. The deposit has been put down for a cool little glass "church" out in the West side of the island in KoOlina. Nice little place that primarily does weddings for Japanese couples, but my fiancee and I loved the KoOlina side scenery so much we decided that was a nice enough place to have it. The coordinator there is pretty hard working, but really "local-style" funny...I don't mean it as an insult but I can't help but think of "Aunty Marialani" from Rap's Hawaii when I talk to her. "We go COOK da chicken...go COOK em" She just has this very warm and old school local style to her... I like it.

It's pretty nice that it's all a package so that we really don't have to hunt around for the minister or do any setup.

Our day is going to be July 6th at 6pm. Not a bad date to remember...7/6/7 @ 6. Not bad huh? Apparently 7/7/7 is a very popular day for weddings... our day was relatively wide open for most bookings.

We booked the reception at Roy's. It's a nice fusion asian fine dining restaurant practically across the road from the chapel. Seems to be no problem there. Menu seems to look delicious....and the prices are actually quite reasonable for food that I think is quite nice. We'll have a little private reception room upstairs and I think so far it will be very casual for our party...no karaoke, no slideshows, no fancy speeches. Just EATS!

We booked our hotel stay. I figure my fiancee and I may be rushing around that day. So staying out in Ihilani resort the night of our wedding may be easier for us. Not too bad...they had local Kama'aina rates for us bit it still came out to about $299 for the night. Not too bad...I've seen the rooms there at Ihilani and they were pretty nice. I'll keep my fingers crossed the room has a jacuzzi *wink*

I don't know about our guests....many of them will be our overseas relatives so we may have to book some kind of bus shuttle for everyone. I have a friend or two that said they just might stay overnight at Ihilani as well. I told them that's fine....just don't come knocking on our door that night, we'll be in the jacuzzi.

We got our cake. Well, at least we have the person who can make the cake for us. She's a friend of a friend. I don't think we plan anything super fancy here...just something yummy to top off the dinner at the end of that night.

Photographer is somewhat taken care of. The wedding chapel requires that we use their photographers. Which is fine with us...less to worry about. I guess beyond that I may ask an associate to help do extra photos for us around the chapel ceremony if we feel like it. I know in Hong Kong we may end up hiring a photographer for the dinner. But personally I don't think that one is as big a deal....but it's probably more important for my fiancee because it's her relatives at that one.

I think my fiancee's just about booked our reception up in Hong Kong for her relatives. That's the one that's going to be about twice as large as the one down here. I'm a little freaked out about that one, but I'll manage. So I think that's taken care of. That's the dinner that's kind of grown in scope since we first thought about doing this.

Now we still got....the dress......the flowers.......deciding what I have to wear.....

Why do I have a nagging suspicion that there's still a lot more things to plan?