It's Official...

I'm finally excited!

We've ran it past parents, I've ran it past my boss (for vacation/furlough day considerations) and we've reviewed our schedules. All things considered... this new plan is 100% doable!

In all of the excitiment of talking to parents and really thinking about moving forward... I started to get excited. I finally started to think about this happening... and how wonderful it is going to be!

So what is the next step?

1) Apply for our marriage license. Evidently, once you apply you have 60 days to use it, but you can't use it in the first 24 hours (I guess they want to make sure you have time to sleep on it?). Luckily, the downtown Chicago branch has Saturday hours from 9 - noon, so we can apply then.

2) Sign-up for the Cultural Center Wedding! We have to sign-up in person at the Marriage Court downtown. We also need to have our marriage license in hand. The Marriage Court also has Saturday hours as well, so we can knock these both out next weekend, since the "60 day" mark will be hit next week Wednesday.

3) Once we get the cultural center situation and our marriage license, we'll be booking the cruise and our flights. We figure we will wait until then JUST in case....