Em and Jon’s Wedding

Struth! Stress!

Lots of checklists to write, never mind check things off!

I could do without this here deadline at work, too…

Cool green grass… ommmm….

Well, here I am with my future wife and Mother-in-Law at the John Lewis cafe, having just scanned all the things for the wedding list. It was really well-organised and all round almost painless. just a bit of low blood-sugar related angst towards the end. Now I get to do my own thing while Em and Tricia go and look at dresses. No prizes for guessing, given that there’s a sushi establishment in the building…

I haven’t yet ‘blogged’ which I believe is the correct term for putting words on a website or on the interweb. What a great idea to do a wedding website in this age of technology - although a bit of a bugger for the Luddites!

Anyway it was all Jon’s idea. He disappears into his geekery palace and then suddenly there is this amazing thing for people to get all the information they could possibly need about our wedding. How fab is that? It’s great for me because I can then concentrate on looking at shoes and dresses and colours, flowers and all the important stuff.

It seems there’s a rendering bug with this theme under Internet Explorer. Whilst I can’t expect everyone to see the light and switch to Firefox, I can’t find the problem at the moment. For now you’ll have to put up with bits of the headlines disappearing when you hover over a link elsewhere on the page. Flippin’ Microsoft.

Lots more work on the site today: finally I think we’re ready to start telling people about it. Hopefully it will be useful to our guests: we appreciate that coming to a wedding is actually quite a lot of effort!

They may be starting to look like an unstoppable corporate juggernaut, but Google really do have some very nice toys at their disposal. Google Maps really is very clever, and the published API makes it easy to do stuff like our map page.

How fastidious is this? We’ve actually checked how much daylight we’ve got to fit in the photos before the light fails - and the geek in me knew exactly where to look. Now all I have to do is reccy the garden at the Gonville and see which direction it faces so I know if it’s already going to be in shade by the time we’re done with the champagne…

Well, this feels like a business meeting. A very pleasant one, it has to be said, but still - we’re sitting on our deck in the glorious Spring sunshine, having an earnest go at getting some of the details for the wedding nailed down. The table is covered with paperwork, and the laptop is working overtime. We need to get the invitations out very soon. Got some ideas there - including the utterly pretencious quotation, but I think we’re both agreed that we’ve kept our powder dry in that regard: if you can’t have some pretension on your wedding invitation, when can you?