Run Around

As I said in my last blog post, I had a great time this weekend for my First Thanksgiving in America with Jim's family. Since Jim and I have limited time in Illinois to do things for our wedding, we decided to spend Saturday doing "wedding stuff".

We awoke bright and early to head to the bakery where we would be tasting our cake and deciding on a design. The bakery works with our venue, and is included in our price. We both found it strange however, that the bakery was almost an hour from the venue location. We had to be there at 10 a.m. We actually made it a few minutes early for once. I had never been to a cake tasting before so I didn't know what to expect.

When we arrived, we were brought into a little room to start the process. We had about 10 cake designs to choose from. Surprisingly, Jim and I decided on a design rather quickly. This is almost a miracle because Jim's personality rebels against making a decision quickly. But, when it comes to cake there really isn't a wrong decision. ;)

After we had settled on the design we had to choose the flavours. Jim and I didn't really know how this tasting was going to go. It turns out they brought out some small cake pieces and some fillings and we could try them both together to decide what would work best. It is hard to make this decision because we had to take into account not only our personal tastes but what we felt our guests would like best. We made two choices and were able to use both. I won't tell you what we ultimately chose, but it is going to be good.

Our next task was to go and meet with the DJ. Jim's sister Jenn had told me about how much she loved her DJ and I contacted him and I was so glad he was able to meet with us Saturday. We felt he was a great choice because Jim has already heard him DJ and knows that everyone had a great time dancing at Jenn's wedding. We really enjoyed our appointment with him and feel like he will be a great fit for our wedding.

After the DJ appointment we headed to Bed, Bath and Beyond to register for gifts in America. We have already registered at Sears in Canada. It is really difficult when you will be having two showers in two different countries. You have to make sure you have enough things on each registry and that you don't forget anything. We decided for warranty purposes to not register for anything with a plug in Canada. So we registered for a lot of small appliances and such at Bed Bath and Beyond. I think we have a good balance of things on each registry.

The funniest thing that happened was that our consultant at Bed Bath and Beyond had lived in Detroit for a number of years and actually knew where Leamington (the town where I am from in Ontario) was. He even knew it is known at the Tomato Capital of Canada. He kept coming to check on us while we were registering and it became sort of comical because everytime he would come by Jim and I would be disagreeing on the number of things we needed or having a discussion about whether we really needed something or not. He must think all we do is argue! LOL

After we were finished registering, we ended the day with a trip to Giordano's for some Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. What could be better than that! A great end to a great day! (Even though Jim felt the need to complain on facebook! LOL)