I wanted to let everyone know that if for some reason it is raining the day of the wedding we will be having the ceremony at the Unitarian Church along with the reception. The British think its good luck to have rain on ones wedding day but I would rather go with out that kind of luck so keep your fingers crossed!

I have also been getting questions about the events in the days leading up to the wedding that were mentioned in the invitations. I had hope to have the list of things ready to post by this point but we are so behind on all the things we need to get done in the next few weeks it hasn’t happened. The events we are thinking of having will be fairly low key and mostly just to spend time with our friends and family who are coming to help celebrate with us. There is nothing overwhelmingly exciting just meeting up at some interesting places for dinner and some ideas of places to see and go to learn about this area of the world. We know some people will be traveling a long way to come and we didn’t want them to only have one days worth of things to do. So what Im trying to say is if you want to come early and want some things to do we will be able to keep you busy and hopefully entertained but if you cant come early you wont be missing anything to important (besides seeing us of course!).

More later!

I wanted to let people who are not familiar with this region know what kind of weather to pack for. Although so far this July seems to be cooler than usual, August is typically one of our hottest months as well as most humid. However according to the farmer’s almanac we are suppose to be at the beginning of a drought at the time of the wedding so hopefully the humidity will not be to bad. Also keep in mind that the wedding ceremony will be out side so it may be quite warm though we are planning it late in the day to try avoid as much of the heat as possible.

Once again Aliza has pointed out a lack of details that we should share! We are planning to have events for guests who wish to come early starting on Wed (8/12) we will have the wedding on Sat. (8/15) and a brunch or lunch on Sun. (8/16) which will be the last official wedding event. However if you want to come earlier we would love to see any one who can make it (though you may be put to work)! More details will be posted later about what will be happening in the days leading up to the wedding.

FYI some travel info has been added to the wedding page of this site, however you must be logged in to see it. If you don’t have an account set up yet please do so to access important info that has and will be posted. I’m busy finishing the last details for my thesis show and after that I will be back in full BRIDE mode and will be posting on a more regular bases.

I’m sitting in my apartment listening to cds in the never ending search for great music for our wedding.   I took a break to listen to our President’s address tonight.  He talked, among other things of course, about the economy and it reminded me of  a conversation I had with my grandmother last year when I asked her about her wedding.  She told me that she got married at the end of the depression and that her wedding dress cost all of $11 and the dress was the most expensive part of the wedding.  Today the average wedding costs $27,000.  I’m not saying there is anything wrong with spending that much on a wedding, its just an interesting comparison.

I have started the search for the perfect dress and have found a few that I like but there is always something about them that is not quite wright for me.  I have been very busy getting ready for my thesis show which is in 7 weeks and counting so have not been able to dive into planning quite as much as I would like.  However, rest assured that after I have recovered from the hard work I’ll be putting in in the next two months I will be a bride on a mission.  On that topic I will probably be recruiting some of my lovely friends to help with a few fun craft projects to get things ready with out breaking the bank.  One way you can help now if you feel the need is to suggest songs to have at the wedding.  I know that I hear songs and think, “Why didn’t I think of that! That would be perfect for the wedding!” so if you have any suggestions post them as a comment after this post.  No promises that they will make it to the wedding but you might get me to listen to songs I have never heard before and that is always a good thing.

That’s all for now.  I hope you and yours are all doing well.

If you are visiting our website for the first time then welcome!  If you are here in reply to the email I sent, thanks for taking my advice.  I was to reiterate for everyone that if you do not register for this site you will not be getting more information through our mass emails, so please register.  If you for some reason don’t want to register then please contact one of us and we will make sure you keep getting info if you want it.

I forgot to say this in my last email, but once again if you know people that you think would be interested in our wedding please feel free to forward the email or tell them about the website.  We both have so many friends from all over the place that it makes it hard to notify all the people we want to hear about our news.

As you may have noticed we posted our wedding date yesterday. However as our lovley friend pointed out, it might be helpful to know where we are getting married! We are getting married on August 15th 2009 in Brown County, Indiana. The closest town to my house (which is where the wedding will be) is Nashville.

I was up all night following the elections so Im very tired and will keep this short, however I wanted to post this lovely photo of Bob and me cutting the cake they got us.  The folks at the British Community Association (BCA) have been our family here in Egypt and it meant a lot to both of us that they wanted to help us celebrate our news.  Thank you guys you are the best surrogate family a girl could ask for!

Dear friends and family,

I’m afraid this is going to be a bit long but bear with me; it will be worth it in the end.  As you know, I spent a year studying in Cairo, Egypt at the American University in Cairo (AUC).  I met lots of amazing people and had great adventures, but there was one person in particular who is was very special.  His name is Bob George and we kept in touch after my time in Egypt was over.  He is an undergraduate student at AUC and so our continued friendship was all thanks to the wonders of the internet.  We had LONG conversations (sometimes up to 12 hours long) and on November 2, 2006 we admitted to each other that we had more than just friendly feelings for each other.

I’m back in Cairo for the semester to spend time with Bob and so we were able to spend our anniversary together for the first time.  Bob took me to a wonderful restaurant on Zamalek, an island in the Nile in Cairo, and asked me to be his wife.  Naturally, I said yes.  After coming back to our flat and sharing a bottle of sparkling wine with our flat mates, we called our parents as well as a few others.  We would have loved to call everyone, but we’re in Egypt and that would have gotten a bit expensive.  We are probably breaking all kinds of rules of etiquette with this e-mail, but we just wanted to share our news with everyone ASAP because we are SO excited!

In answer to the question we were asked most last night, we do not know for sure when we will actually get married.  We would love to do it this summer but are not sure how well that will work with less than a year to get everything together and both of us being in school.

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