Wedding

Honeymoon!!!

We’re going on our honeymoon!

That’s right folks, 4 years later we’re finally getting a honeymoon! ^____^

Josh is in a wedding party for a wedding happening in Australia in January. We figured since we’re going to Oz anyway, we’ll make a nice long honeymoon trip out of it.

We’ll be going for a month-ish, spanning December and January. Anyone have any suggestions for travel booking sites? Most of the big cheap ones (RedTag, iTravel2000, SellOffVacations) don’t fly to Australia for some reason (Austria, yes, Australia, no. WTF?)
Ideally, I’d prefer to rent a cottage or something instead of staying in a hotel room for so long, but it’s peak season there so I don’t know if we can afford to do that.

Suggestions? Tips?

Ta da!

After much coercion from a certain Charlotte I know, I (finally) proudly present: wedding photos!

With commentary, no less! Not a real write-up about the wedding, but all the comments I’d make if you were flipping through my actual wedding album with me. It works out to be a fairly thorough write-up of the wedding, actually.

Go lookie! I even made it work with my non-standard WordPress layout here. Go me! ^_^
Preview: 513819

Addresses

Ok everyone – Address Check time!

1. Is your address on the NegaStone up to date?
2. Do I have your address some other way (e.g. did you recently send me a letter)?

If you answered “no” to either of these questions, please email me your mailing address!

It’s almost time to send out wedding invitations, and you know you want one.
Party of the century, baby.

Email addresses to caitlin.brown [at] gmail [dot] com

Updates on the past two weekends forthcoming.

Clothes to wear next year…

I bought my wedding dress! ^_^

My parents were in Guelph last week getting my dad fitted for his tux (he’s buying, not renting, since he wants to own a tux) and we went dress shopping. Found a couple dresses that we liked.
I was up in Kincardine this weekend, and my mom and I went dress shopping again, in Tara and Hanover, in two stores owned by the same people, apparently.

Found a dress I absolutely adore, and it so happened the one they had in the shop (that’s been there less than a week) was my size, so we just bought that one! No stupid waiting 6 months for me! I’ll still need to get the normal alterations done, of course (apparently, no women under 5’8 or with busts less than D ever want to get married).

I’d post pictures, but I’m still undecided if I want to let Josh see it.

Grrr… Layouts :P

So I’m trying to pull together a wedding website. Kinda lame, I know, but at least I don’t want one of those shitty pre-made fill-in-the-blanks and pay $100+ to some company for it sites you see, so I’m trying to do it on my own. Yes, I know this blog doesn’t even have a real layout yet. So sue me.
At the very least, it’ll help keep me organized, plus be a good place to put registry links, and maps/directions for our not-from-Kincardine guests.

I’m using WordPress, because I know the system and I think the backend is flexible enough to do the things I want, and in theory will take less work than building a plain HTML site from the ground up.

The trouble is the layout. I found a great open-source no-frills layout that I love and would be easy to tweak to have the look I want. Trouble is it doesn’t work in IE. Like, at all.
Not that I’m planning on having a big audience for the site or anything, and I’m pretty sure none of my friends use IE anymore, but I’d been hoping to send around the link to my family, most of whom don’t even know what a “browser” is, let alone that there are other ways to view the internet than Internet Explorer.
Firefox = Good. (and still looks good in smaller resolutions)
IE = Bad.
IE less than 1024×768 = Terrible.

Anyone happen to know any good WordPress themes that look roughly like this, that has cross-browser compatability?
Basic requirements:
3 column
100% width, not fixed
Clean, simple to alter

I’ve found a few that are kinda close, but they’d all require almost too much editing to be worth it. With this one, basically a colour change and a few images gives me exactly what I want.

Grr.

Sidenote: I may just end up using that layout over here in my real blog, though. I like it. Does anyone who reads this blog, at all, use Internet Explorer? Anyone? Beuller? Beuller?

Announcements and Changes

As some of you probably know, Josh and I are now officially engaged! ^_^
The wedding is set for September 23rd, 2006 and will be held in Kincardine. Save the date!
It’s going to be pretty small, only about 50 people at the ceremony, but that’s how we want it.

We’re having the ring custom made, so we don’t have it yet (thus no pics), but for now I have a silver “engagement necklace” with a little amethyst pendant. It’s too hot in here right now to drag out the camera and set up lights to actually get a good shot of it, so no photo of that yet either. Forthcoming.

I got tired of Geeklog, so I’ve switched to WordPress. I like WordPress better; it’s easier to manage on the admin side of things, and easier to customize on the public side of things. ^_^ I managed to snag all my old posts from the geeklog blog, but I wasn’t able to port over the comments, unfortunately.

This is probably not the final layout, though, since I still don’t like fixed-width layouts, but for now this’ll do. I like how I did the top image. ^_^
It works best in Firefox, I think IE messes it up a little bit. Do any of you even still use IE?

Ii tried to make it so an email address is not required to post a comment, but I haven’t been able to get rid of the text that says (required). If someone could let me know if it’s still requiring an email address to post a comment, that would be super, thanks.
That didn’t work, but I think it’s just the theme I happened to choose. :p
It’s now set back to needing an email address.
It also apparently likes to duplicate comments. Whee.