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:: Wedding Timeline ::

 

 

 

 

November 5th, 2007

Met our photographer at Deerfield Beach

for our ENGAGEMENT PHOTOS.

NOTE: Creative Focus is great at Nickel and Dimeing their customers for money.  We ended up spending an additional $1000 on top of the original $7000 making our total a wonderful $8000 for pictures and video.  I would use another studio if I had to do again!

  

 

November 4th, 2007

Finished our WEDDING PROGRAMS.

 

Finished making our Eiffel Tower chocolates for our WELCOME BASKETS.

 

Started creating our SEATING CHART.

  

 

 

October 30th, 2007

Started building our WEDDING PROGRAMS.

Started putting together our WELCOME BASKETS.

 

Jo visits the HAIR STYLIST again for another trial run. 

This time she was wearing her vail.

 

Confirmed REHEARSAL DINNER food and drink menu. 

Signed and faxed all details to Maggiano's

 

 

October 26th, 2007

Went to Kinkos to to cut our PROGRAMS and TABLE LOCATIONS.

 

 

October 25th, 2007

Went to the COURT HOUSE to obtain our marriage licence.

 

 

 

October 18th, 2007

Went to Over the Top to pick our

table OVERLAYS for our reception.

 

 

October 16th, 2007

Confirmed our WEDDING PROGRAMS for our ceremony with Father Vivian. 

Also reviewed the finial details for those programs

so I can start putting them together. 

 

We also asked various family members to READ at our ceremony. 

 

Confirming REHEARSAL DINNER plans

 

Started our SEARCH for glasses, unity candle set and cake knife server set

 

October 15th, 2007

Started searching for ideas of how to arrange our PLACE CARDS.

 

We contacted the woman at Passion for Pastry about our WEDDING CAKE.

 

We contacted the BAND to go over the flow of our reception.

 

 

October 14th, 2007

We started going CRAZY. 

 

We also started gathering items for our WELCOME BASKETS.

 

 

October 13th, 2007

We met with Jody at the Delray Beach Marriott

We discussed the flow and details of our RECEPTION

 

 

October 12th, 2007

I confirmed my LIMO for my bachelor party. 

We are using A1 Limo bus for that night.

 

 

 

October 12th, 2007

Jo went to the MAKEUP SPECIALIST to have a test run of how

she will wear her makeup the day of our wedding.

 

 

October 11th, 2007

Jo went to Miracle Mile in Miami for her third and final WEDDING DRESS FITTING.

 

 

October 2nd, 2007

Spoke with Creative Focus our PHOTOGRAPHER and VIDEOGRAPHER

We setup an appointment for our engagement photos to be taken.

We also went over all of the details of the wedding day.

NOTE: Creative Focus is great at Nickel and Dimeing their customers for money.  We ended up spending an additional $1000 on top of the original $7000 making our total a wonderful $8000 for pictures and video.  I would use another studio if I had to do again!

 

October 1st, 2007

Gathered baby pictures and other details for the

PHOTOGRAPHER and VIDEOGRAPHER

Look a Jo when she was a baby!  Awww!

 

 

September 29th, 2007

Spoke to Tropics Entertainment, our BAND to review our contract,

pronunciation of names and various types of music.

 

 

September 27th, 2007

Jo went to Miracle Mile in Miami for her second WEDDING DRESS FITTING.

 

 

September 22nd, 2007

We met up with DALSIMER FLORIST again to review our contract.

 

 

September 15th, 2007

We went to the very first UCF Home game in their new on campus stadium.

 

September 11th, 2007

We sent out our INVITATIONS for our wedding.

 

 

August 30th, 2007

We booked our LIMOS for our wedding.  We are using Millenium Limo

 

August 22nd, 2007

We MOVED into our townhouse to live :-D

 

August 18th, 2007

We MOVED our belonging into our townhouse

 

 

July 25th, 2007

We ordered our INVITATIONS for our wedding

 

 

July 11th, 2007

A GIFT from Jo's friends

 

July 11th, 2007

We started working on creating the WEDDING PROGRAMS

 

 

July 11th, 2007

We confirmed out REHEARSAL DINNER location

 

 

July 7th, 2007

We started looking for restaurants for our REHEARSAL DINNER

 

 

July 6th, 2007

We went to Bed Bath and Beyond and REGISTERED for our wedding

June 27th, 2007

Jo visits the HAIR STYLIST for her first trial run.

 

 

June 25th, 2007

We started our search for INVITATIONS and PLACE CARDS

 

 

May 31st, 2007

We had our TASTE TESTING and selected all of our food

for our wedding at the Delray Beach Marriott

 

 

May 24th, 2007

Our ONE YEAR PROPOSAL ANNIVERSARY Jo baked

me this beautiful cake!

 

May 14th, 2007

Jo and her mother went searching for BRIDESMAID DRESSES

they looked at Bill Levkoff and David's Bridal

 

 

May 6th, 2007

We ordered our WEDDING CAKE today from Passion for Pastry

(Dessert Design)

We are excited the cake is going to look good!

:-)

 

April 14th, 2007

We went to Macys and REGISTERED for our wedding

 

April 7th, 2007

Jo and I went to DALSIMER FLORIST to sign our contract.

They will be providing all of our flowers for our wedding.

 

 

March 24th, 2007

We went to Williams & Sonoma and REGISTERED for our wedding

 

March 23rd, 2007

Finally, Jo and I CLOSED on our first townhouse.

 

March 22nd, 2007

We ordered our SAVE THE DATE magnets from Magnet Street.

 

March 15th, 2007

Jo and her mother went to DALSIMER FLORIST to view the flower

arrangements the florist designed for our wedding.

 

 

February 17th, 2007

Jo and I signed the contract to purchase our first TOWNHOUSE

If all goes well we will close in a month.

 

February 17th, 2007

Jo and I drove a total of 80 miles to hear the BAND we booked

(Lovechild) play at someone's wedding.  Ha, we crashed their wedding.

 

February 15th, 2007

Jo and her mother went to DALSIMER FLORIST researching

various flowers for the church and reception hall

 

February 11th, 2007

Went to a BRIDAL SHOW at Fort Lauderdale Convention Center

 

 

February 5th, 2007

I was accepted to NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY to the Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship to obtain my MBA.

 

February 3rd, 2007

After a few months of looking around for wedding dresses. 

Driving all over South Florida, from Boca to Miami.

Jo has purchased her WEDDING DRESS.

 

 

February 1st, 2007

We booked our HONEYMOON with Journey Pacific.

We are going to spend four days in Australia's Great Barrier Reef (Cairns)

Four days in Sydney, Australia and five days in Fiji

   

 

February 1st, 2007

Spoke with Jay again the PHOTOGRAPHER and VIDEOGRAPHER at Creative Focus.

And we were able to negotiate a price that was more in our budget.

NOTE: Yes, we were able to talk them down $1,500.  I didn't matter b/c of the following comments.  Creative Focus is great at Nickel and Dimeing their customers for money.  We ended up spending an additional $1000 on top of the original $7000 making our total a wonderful $8000 for pictures and video.  I would use another studio if I had to do again!

 

January 30th, 2007

Spoke with Larry from Photography By Imaginations for our PHOTOGRAPHER and VIDEOGRAPHER.  He has great credentials, good quality photos and a fair package.

 

January 29th, 2007

Spoke to Steve from Tropics Entertainment about the BAND Lovechild.

We were able to book them for our wedding and we were lucky to do so.

 

 

January 27th, 2007

Went to a BRIDAL SHOW at Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale

 

 

January 25th, 2007

Jo and I visited Mangos a very nice restaurant in downtown Fort Lauderdale, to see another BAND (Lovechild) by Tropics Entertainment that played live.

They were very good and we are in talks to book this band.

 

 

January 25th, 2007

Spoke with Howard another BAND at Manhattan Music and we were one hour to late.

The couple just before us booked this band for the same wedding date!

 

 

 

January 24th, 2007

Spoke with Colette at Journey Pacific about our HONEYMOON

We are thinking Australia (Great Barrier Reef & Sydney) and Fiji

 

 

January 24th, 2007

Spoke with our first BAND (Beth & Command Performance) at Music Associates.

They seem like a good band we will see this band in person later in the week.

 

January 23rd, 2007

Spoke with our first PHOTOGRAPHER Jay at Creative Focus.

Seems like a great person to work with however very expensive.

Not enough tangible product for the money.

NOTE: Yes, they wanted to originally charge us $8500.  Creative Focus is great at Nickel and Dimeing their customers for money.  We ended up spending an additional $1000 on top of the original $7000 making our total a wonderful $8000 for pictures and video.  I would use another studio if I had to do again!

 

 

November 24th, 2006

Our engagement PARTY was held at Maggiano's

 

November 4th, 2006

We BOOKED the Delray Beach Marriott

as the location for our reception

 

October 18th, 2006

The search was BACK on for a different reception hall.

 

 

October 17th, 2006

Bridal Show at the Signature Grand where we CHANGED

our minds about having our reception at that location.

 

 

October 14th, 2006

PRE-CANA at Saint Gregory's 8a to 3p

 

 

October 13th, 2006

Saint Marks Church was selected as our location for our CEREMONY

 

October 1st, 2006

Maggiano's was selected for our engagement PARTY

 

 

September 25th, 2006

FOCUS Meeting for the church so we can get married. 

We learned if we were compatible in the following areas:

budgeting, parenting, and communication. 

We were deemed compatible and allowed

to get married in a catholic church ;-)

 

 

September 15th, 2006

CHOSE the Signature Grand as our

reception hall for our wedding

 

 

September 5th, 2006

Our SIX year anniversary in Key West, Florida

 

August 8th, 2006

Was the day we started our SEARCH for churches

and reception halls in and around South Florida

 

 

August 5th, 2006

Jo GRADUATES with her masters from

Florida State University in Clinical Nutrition

 

June 20th, 2006

Was the CREATION day of the Gretoville Wedding website

 

 

May 24th, 2006

Was the day when I PROPOSED to Josephine in the

park right next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

 

September 5th 2000

Was the day when Josephine and I had our FIRST DATE

 

August 25th 2000

Was the day when Josephine and I FIRST MET each other

 

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