Music: DONE!

Guess what, peeps?  We are flying from Denver to Philly in less than 12 hours!  Our big day is on SATURDAY!  Ahhhhhh!  Unfortunately, I'm not sure the weather is going to cooperate.  There's a 40% chance of rain on Saturday.  :(  Oh, well.  The show must go on!  We'll be dancing in the rain!  :)

Speaking of dancing, I finalized our music playlist for the reception.  Ready?  Here goes!

• Only You Can Love Me This Way - Keith Urban
• My Little Girl - Tim McGraw
• Forever Young - Rod Stewart
• The Twist - Chubby Checker
• Magic - B.o.B
• Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas
• Sparks Fly - Taylor Swift
• Shakin' - Eddie Money
• Electric Feel - MGMT
• That's the Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band
• Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
• Y.M.C.A. - The Village People
• Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
• Around the World - Daft Punk
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
• Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People
• Legs - ZZ Top [Garter Toss]
• Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) - Bill Conti [Bouquet Toss]
• God Gave Me You - Blake Shelton
• Summertime - Kenny Chesney
• Dirt Road Anthem - Jason Aldean
• Cotton-Eye Joe - RedNex
• Staying Alive - Bee Gees/Coolio Remix
• All I Want To Do - Sugarland
• Sweet Thing - Keith Urban [Cake Cutting]
• Love Song - 311
• All Over You - The Spill Canvas
• CrushCrushCrush - Paramore
• Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
• Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
• the rockefeller skank - Fatboy Slim
• I Like To Move It - Reel 2 Reel
• Shake It - Metro Station
• Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys
• Chain Reaction - Ke$ha
• Come What May - Moulin Rouge
• Red Button - Mike Posner
• Mas Tequila - Sammy Hagar
• Jump Around - House of Pain
• Song 2 - Blur 
• Tootsee Roll - 69 Boys
• Da Dip - Freaknasty
• Electric Boogie - Marcia Griffiths
• Crazy Girl - Eli Young Band
• Chicken Dance - Bob Karnes
• On The Floor - Jennifer Lopez
• Then - Brad Paisley
• Where the Blacktop Ends - Keith Urban
• Here's to the Night - Eve 6

I tried to get a good mix of genres.  I think it's definitely all over the place!  Hopefully it will get people out dancing.  :) 

Let the weather stalking begin!

It's that time, folks.  Our wedding day is finally on the 10 day forecast for the Weather Channel. And guess what!?  It's glorious.   :)

Saturday is supposed to be 75 and sunny with a 0% chance of rain.  That's my idea of perfect weather!  I realize that it's still over a week away and weather forecasting isn't an exact science.  However, it makes me happy that everything looks good so far!  And now I will begin stalking The Weather Channel website every day!  


Also, the sunny days leading up to the wedding should help dry everything out for us from all of the floods.  So, hopefully we won't be knee deep in mud!  If that's the case, I hope my bridesmaids know that a new task has been added to their duties for the day: carrying me down the aisle!  LOL  just kidding, ladies!  ...sort of.  ;)

Thank goodness we changed our minds!

(Breezyview Gazebo at Chickies Rock Park in Columbia, PA - our ceremony site)

I'm sure that most of you are aware of the flooding in Pennsylvania and New York.  It affected the area that Philip and I are having our wedding in.

When we first started wedding planning, we intended to have the wedding on 09/10/11.  That didn't work with his work schedule, so we changed our date to 09/24/11.  Thank goodness!  Otherwise, our wedding would have been very soggy!

Also, when we first started wedding planning, we planned to have the wedding reception at a pavilion in the park where our ceremony is being held.  Well, I got a call on Friday from  Lancaster Parks.  The pavilion is flood damaged, it has no electricity, and the road leading to it is completely washed out.  It will be impossible to have it fixed in time for the wedding.  Thank goodness we decided to have the reception in a tent at Philip's aunt and uncle's house!  Otherwise, we would have been in a panic trying to find a very last minute venue!  Not cool!  

I had just kept the pavilion as a back-up plan.  I'll just keep my fingers crossed that we don't need any back-up venue space!  Fortunately, our gazebo (ceremony site) is high on a cliff and wasn't seriously affected by the flooding/rains.  And, our reception site is a bit soggy but will hopefully be all dried out by the time our wedding rolls around in ELEVEN DAYS!  XD

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for good weather for the wedding.  We're not on the 10 day forecast yet:

But Accuweather has a 15 day forecast:

Do you see that there?  September 24th says "abundant sunshine."  Doesn't that sound like a great day for a wedding??  I'm not going to panic even if the weather forecast changes.  At this point, I don't care what the weather is doing.  We're going to have a fantastic party, rain or shine.  We've come this far; I'm not going to let anything ruin our day.  :)

The "R" Word

I was just watching an old episode of Whose Wedding Is It Anyway and the couple was having an outdoor ceremony.  It was really pouring rain.  The groom was really upset, but I felt that he summed it up beautifully:

I don't want to move this ceremony inside.  That's a lot of rain though.  On a scale of 1 to 10,  I would say that's a f**kload of rain.  

Wow.  Words of wisdom right there!  After that episode, I thought about our own wedding.  Since we're having an outdoor wedding, I get this question a lot: "What about rain?"  

For the most part, I have been choosing to ignore the possibility that it might rain on our wedding day.  We do have a back-up plan for the ceremony, but it's not ideal in any way.  If it is raining, we will be moving the ceremony just down the street to a pavilion (also a part of Chickies Rock Park, but not nearly as beautiful).  

I am desperately hoping that it doesn't rain for our ceremony (I'd also like to hope that it doesn't rain for the reception either, but at least there is a tent there!).  But, even if it pours a "f**kload" of rain down on our ceremony (since September is one of the rainiest months in Pennsylvania -- If we were getting married in Colorado, this wouldn't be an issue!), I know that it will still be beautiful.  

After all, one of my absolute favorite real wedding shoots features a bunch of the wet stuff:

Aren't they beautiful??  I love all the photos!  So, even if it does rain on our ceremony, I'm sure it will still be picture perfect.  :)