Drumroll Please.....

We booked our venue! Those of you who read regularly know that this has been an ongoing process, and we're glad to finally have a location set and paid for. We're having the ceremony at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. While the rules of the church are a little difficult to deal with, being married in a place this beautiful is definitely worth it.

And now I'm ready to finally reveal our new reception location: War Memorial Plaza for cocktails...

...and Auditorium (dinner and dancing)! We're super excited about this venue, it's everything we wanted, and we can't wait to begin planning the details!

all War Memorial photos are by David Wright

Color Palette Conundrum

I'm at a total loss for our color palette. After changing venues, we're back to the drawing board. Our new venue has a gold ceiling, just like the Cathedral- so I'd like to keep gold as an accent color. I'm drawn to the warmth of a gold/champagne/peach palette, but I've always loved blues and I'd like to incorporate that on our wedding day. Here's some palettes I'm into right now.

I'd love to hear your opinions. Can I do teal/gold/royal without looking like Mardi Gras or too gaudy? Would peach/apricot/gold be too muted for the end of summer? Please help me out. Any suggestions for palettes using gold would be greatly appreciated!

{Gold, Peach, Apricot}

{Gold, Royal Blue, Teal}

and perhaps accents of purple

{Gold & Navy}

Houston We Have A Date

{at least we'll have longer to practice our dance moves}

Mr. SE and I have officially set a date. Our first date (April 10th) encountered several snafus with Cathedral availability and a very short engagement. We're much more comfortable with this date: mama SE will be retiring at the end of next school year, so she'll be available to visit and help over the summer, Christmas and Thanksgiving won't take up 2 months of our engagement, and hopefully we'll be settled in our new house.

So for all of you ladies getting married so soon (I can't wait to see pictures!), you'll get to enjoy blogging from Chez SE for another year! Yes, I love you too!

*Louise kindly pointed out that I didn't specify the date...it's August 14th, 2010.