Dress!

Yay! My wedding dress has arrived! It's great!

Now Melinda just has to find something to wear, and we'll get hitched! Heh!

Photography!

We have secured the services of Lauren McGlynn, a local Austin photographer for our wedding! We are very keen to work with her, and love her journalistic style.

Reclaiming the word "Wife"

Over at A Practical Wedding, a site I've been reading for a few months now, there's an interesting article about 2 married gals and their take on the word wife. It spoke to me because neither Melinda nor I are "stereotypical" lesbians. We really don't even call ourselves that. (I don't know what we call ourselves, actually. We're not into labels.) I have been wondering what to call her after we marry and what I'd like to be called. "Partner" is very dry-sounding, and "spouse" is so generic.

"Wife" is a loaded word, but it's also the best descriptor in the English language for what we'll be after we marry: a woman who is married. Just kinda makes sense.

"Houston, we have a venue!"

Wow! After seeing this place and that place, and being told crazy digits of how much it would cost to hold a reception there, we finally toured the space a coworker told us about: The Emerald City Cabaret. He runs it AND he's offered it's use to us for free! (We just pay the bar tab!) Talk about a life-saver!

So we not only have a venue, but a date as well -- November fifth. It's 8 months away but I admit, the pressure is on.

Breakfast

Melinda made me some eggs before my trip home for the holidays.

Our Engagement Pictures!

These lovely shots were taken by our friend, Aaron Katy Brock, in Austin, TX.