Well. Here I am, sitting at my day-job desk, getting ready to leave for the day (a bit early) and head upstate for Nena's bridal shower, which is Saturday. Don't worry, it's not a surprise.
Tomorrow, our day is filled with meetings...with the florist, with the caterer, with the tux shop...even one with the pastors performing the ceremony.
Saturday, instead of hanging around during the estrogen-filled gift-giving festival...I'm heading to Cooperstown with whatever guys are around and up for it to check out the Baseball Hall of Fame and maybe a Belgian-style brewery up there.
I have to admit...even though it's her shower...I'm pretty excited too. After all, a lot of the stuff on our registry was put put there by yours truly...and I'm hoping we pick up some new wine glasses and other fun items.
Oh...and there will be some fine wines poured (we're taking about ten bottles up), including the current releases from Pellegrini Vineyards (Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay and Merlot) and some current Bedell Cellars selections, including a soon-to-be-released 2001 Reserver Merlot, their 2003 Viognier and a Gewurtz from their sister winery. Full notes to come next week.
Congratulations! Good luck with the wedding and remember - the key to a happy marriage is two fold:
1) Nothing makes her look fat
2) Yes, you do have to let her have the last swallow for that killer cab!
;)
Posted by: Joel | March 10, 2005 at 06:49 PM
Hey, Joel, I resemble that remark!
Lenn, congratulations... when is the big day, if I may ask?
Nena, regardless of how cool, calm & perfect she may be, will turn into a remarkable facsimile of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde in the days before the wedding.
My husband recognized what was going on maybe 3 or 4 days into things...
"Oh, I see," said C, "you need to have a nervous breakdown sometime around noon, wherein everything that's wrong is somehow my fault, and then I get my Fatemeh back?"
He still teases me, nearly two years later, but knowing the "schedule" seemed to allow him to take it all in stride.
Best,
F
Posted by: Fatemeh | March 10, 2005 at 07:04 PM
Going to Cooperstown? Let us know what comes about if y a come across any pleasant finger lake varietals.
Posted by: | March 12, 2005 at 10:24 AM
Thanks for the comments. Our wedding is July 8th...so it's definitely sneaking up on us. Nena is quite the organized young lady...so I'm not sure she'll be TOO crazy in the days leading up...but I guess you might know better than I :)
I'm not arriving (our wedding is about 4 hours from here) until the morning of the rehearsal...so I'll dodge much of the "fun" :)
We went to Cooperstown...but didn't have any wine. It was more a Guiness and hot wing excursion :)
Posted by: Lenn | March 14, 2005 at 10:22 AM
L.T.
Congratulations. Your's is a name I haven't heard in about ten years. I stumbled across your site when looking for some information about local wineries for my wife. I hope your wedding day is as wonderful as mine was.
A word of advice: Don't drink too much that day, and you will appreciate the memory more.
All the best-
Lutz
Posted by: Dave | March 15, 2005 at 02:47 PM