B and I have been very blessed with a smooth immigration process. We are fortunate enough to live within the jurisdiction of fast offices for both parts of the visa journey. In fact, the timeline for most Fiancé visas are six months; we just found out we’ll have the visa in hand in as little as three weeks. That’s four months since I mailed off our visa petition. I am SO beyond excited! B will be here by the end of this month, and I’m not going to have to say goodbye to him again for a long time.
In addition to getting my house FMIL ready (B’s parents will be driving him down from Canada to meet their new ‘California Family’), I have our legal marriage to think about. We have to marry within 90 days of B’s entrance to the US using his visa.
My first instinct was to downplay our civil ceremony. I didn’t want to take importance away from our wedding in May when we’ll be exchanging vows in front of our loved ones. I figured the courthouse was the way to go.
Think Carrie and Big’s wedding(Sans Manolo’s)
After discussing this with MOH this weekend, I’m almost convinced to do a something totally different. Because, really, how many couples get to have two “weddings”? One that’s completely off the wall, and one that’s completely fabulous?
MOH stated that it'd be neat if she could be ordained to marry us. We were throwing ideas at each other and at some point Halloween was put into the mix. The more I thought about it, the more I loved the idea! I've always thought my little 100 year old country house would be the perfect setting for a halloween party. It would be a costume party, and of course B and I would be dressed in our best!
B and I could be a zombie bride and groom, a la Christina Aguilera
Jack and Sally would be adorable if we could pull these costumes off!
I'd have nearly two months to plan a spectacular halloween party/wedding. I'm imagining adorable invitations for a handful of our close friends and family, spooky decor, tasty food, lots of alcohol... maybe scary movies projected on the side of our house?
I'm still not 100% sold on the idea of planning any festivities around our civil ceremony, though. What would you do? Are you "making it legal" before your wedding? Are you going to do anything special for that?
I made it legal before my wedding! I think the Jack and Sally is so cute! I love, love, love that movie.
Posted by: brideonashoestring | 09/06/2009 at 03:08 PM