Are you checking our main wedding page periodically for updates? I hope you are. It's good for you, like eating your vegetables.
We are both thrilled that many of the details are falling into place. And I don't think we're getting soaked budget-wise either.
Rings have been purchased. Fancy they are not; fancy they need not be. (Perhaps I should take this opportunity to remind myself that my ring size is 9.5.) I won't throw a fuss about how expensive our rings aren't. I figure that if we've been good for some multiple of five or ten years, we'll agree to buy upgrades for each other. If we're lucky, more than once.
Perhaps Cindy and I should look at our whole cake tasting experience as a good sign. I admit that it was amusing having to endure a small platter of tasty sweets for legitimate research purposes -- oh, the horror and duress -- but more interesting was the decision-making process on what we liked and what we didn't.
Cindy and I are not afraid to talk to each other, ask questions, and negotiate.
We went through that platter, took some notes about what we liked and what we didn't, and found three types of cake that we could bless. And then we did a similar process for the presentation of the cake, with books of photographs: we each went through and marked what we liked, then went back and reviewed the ones where we agreed. And then we decided. (We're deciders!)
I hope that the events of that decision-making process bode well for the future of our marriage.
And for those of you who think long-term marriage success is boring and just want to hear about the cake again: technically, the order is still on hold, pending further research on other bakeries. But unless the next bakery really knocks our socks off, I think we'll stick with the first one we tried.