only half the problem is my lack of a clue

civil ceremony — will be in our town, either one week or two weeks before the big shindig. negotications continue between me and frogboy as to how this will go down (will we have only our “temoins” — our witnesses, or will we also invite locals or family members). i vote witnesses only. although if it turns out later that there are locals we’d like to invite to the big shindig but can’t (for money or whatever reasons), perhaps i’ll change my mind.

religious ceremony — we found our priest, from the neighboring parish to where the big shindig will be. we still haven’t decided which of his churches (despite our recent camping extravaganza!), but we did pick a time, 2:30.

the big shindig — the 11th century hospice, despite the fact that the dining room holds 50 and we’re looking more at 60. there’s a backyard that’s quite pretty, so perhaps a tent?

food — still planning on asking seb to do it. frogboy even phoned him yesterday and left a howyadoin message.

drinks — frogboy’s mum went all out, and has bought us about 100 bottles of wine (champagne, a white alsace, 2 red burgundies, and a white dessert wine), despite the fact that we still haven’t chosen the menu and are adamant that we’re not doing a traditional french 874-hour meal. no biggie, we’ll find use for the wine!

timing — we’ll show up at the hospice on wednesday, and are hoping family & helpers & random americans (to give themselves time with the jetlag) will turn up on thursday. i’d like to have a rehearsal dinner thursday night, but, um, they don’t do rehearsals here. so, perhaps a “bridal party” dinner? the rest of the guests show up on friday, and there’s a big laid-back BBQ friday night. saturday — wedding, cocktail party, dinner. sunday — brunch?

invitations — we are SO close to sending out those save-the-date cards. SO close i tell you.

music? yeah, that’d be nice.

theme? yup, want one of those too.