Kay & Packy’s Wedding
Not just a wedding–a musical theatre experience
47% reponse!
15 years
by packy
in Invitations
We’ve almost got half the RSVPs back! Hopefully, we’ll get a lot more this week…
Some questions about the Honeymoon registry…
One of our relatives wrote to us to say they had questions about the honeymoon registry, so I wrote back with the following:
The prices listed at our Honeyfund registry are generally “each” – ie: 2 tickets for Billy Elliot at $90 each. For things like the hotel, it’s $65/night for both Packy and myself, so essentially each purchase of $65 will fund one night of our 7 night stay in Chicago.
For checkout, from the “Quantity” drop down menu beside each item you select to purchase however many of an item you wish. The total will be put in the cart for you. No paypal? No problem. After you’ve clicked ‘continue’ you will be taken to a page that gives you three options for checkout. Click on the icon for whichever method you choose- check (which you can mail or bring to the wedding), cash (which can be given to us directly at the wedding) or Paypal.
One of the best parts of Honeyfund is that, upon purchase, you can also select to print a ‘certificate’ for the couple which lists exactly what you purchased for them. You can stick this certificate in a card and give that to the couple on their wedding day. I really love the idea of guests being able to say that they contributed a *specific* part of the Honeymoon rather than just added their money to an anonymous collection of checks.
Hope this helps! Let me know if anything else is unclear! 🙂
I figured I’d post it to the blog in case anyone else had these questions.
The Honeymoon Registry is UP!!!
It took a little research, but I finally found a honeymoon registry that a) didn’t insist that Chicago isn’t a “destination honeymoon” and I really wanted to go to Cancun or Aruba, and b) didn’t charge an arm and a leg.
Then I ran across Honeyfund, specifically this page. Once I saw that, I knew that was the site for us.
So go check out our honeymoon registry!
Honeymoon? Chicago works for us!
This video is for our friends who will be attending our wedding on April 17th. So, you wanted to know where we’d like to go on our honeymoon?
Here’s the answer! We visited Chicago two summers ago and had an awesome time. We’d love to go back and spend some more time in the City of the Big Shoulders!
We picked a honeymoon date!
Kay and I are going to be heading out on our honeymoon on July 17, 2010. Yes, that’s three months after our wedding… but it’s five years to the day after I first asked Kay out in that dressing room trailer next to the stage in Clifton Commons during the intermission of Guys and Dolls.
Kay agrees that it’s the perfect date.
We’re getting responses!
15 years
As of the mail today, we have 23% of the people we’ve invited accounted for (we have a yea/nea vs. no response whatsoever). I’m still nervous, because if everybody who hasn’t responded yet tells me they’re coming then we’ll have to have them overflowing into the kitchen of the hall, but of all the problems I could have, too many people wanting to come to my wedding is a good one. 🙂
HOTEL EMERGENCY!!!
I just got off the phone with the Fairfield Inn, and not a single room has been booked out of our reservation block yet. They said that if people don’t book rooms in another two weeks, we’ll lose our block.
So, if you need a hotel room, you must call before March 26th or you’ll wind up having to pay the regular rate!
Oh, and one more thing…
15 years
If you’re a relative, and you haven’t been invited, it’s because we don’t have your address, and our mothers are going crazy trying to find your address.
So be a dear and drop them a line.
Almost all the invitations are out…
15 years
Some people have been making a big deal of who got invitations before other people, and Kay and I would like to set the record straight: the first invitations to go out were the ones for people who lived furthest away from the church where we’re having the wedding, not who was more important or who we wanted to see most. In fact, our parents’ invitations just went out, and I don’t think anyone will take offense if I say we love them the most.
We prioritized people who lived the furthest away because we knew they’d need to make travel plans, book hotel rooms and the like. Our friends and family who live in the Capitol District can just wander over to the church the afternoon of the wedding. 🙂
Honeymoon registry coming soon!
Let’s talk about the big white elephant in the room: where the H#%% is the other wedding registry?
Ok, you may have noticed that the Target wedding registry says it’s not the primary registry. Packy and I are setting up a honeymoon registry—since Packy’s been living on his own for the past 20 years, our apartment is pretty well stocked with flatware, dishes, pots, pans and other useful household items (he even has his own silver flatware!)—what we really need is help having a nice honeymoon…
But both of us have been so busy stage managing Judgment at Nuremberg for the past few months that neither of us have had time to set up a honeymoon registry. However, we just struck the set this afternoon, so I’ll be setting one up as soon as possible.