7/30/00
Acronym Hell
The last five days have been tumultuous. In fact, our planning (and the negotiations involved) seems to be mimicking the Israeli-Palesteinian negotiations. Compromise without upsetting some involved party cannot be achieved. I just hope we can work this out before the U.N. has to send in a group of Indoneasian peace keepers. So, the current D.O.W (Date of Wedding) is May 13, 2001. (Still within 1 week of Andrea's birthday. Which, I believe, is a plot to make sure she gets the large, combined occasion gifts for the next 50+ years.) The current P.O.W. (Place of Wedding) is the 12th floor of the Belvedere Hotel (Changed from the 7/13/00 note). The current G.O.W. (Groom of Wedding) is Adam. However, we are seeing if we can get someone cheaper to fill in for him.
In other exciting news, Andrea has purchased a dress. As far as I can discern (since I am not allowed to see said dress) it is white. I was handed the bridal gown catalog and told to guess which dress will be donned at our wedding. I guessed the white one, I think.


7/23/00
I decided that I cannot go to the "caterer interview." I still contend that as long as we don't have pop music and I don't have to wear a pink tuxedo, I'll be OK with any decision that gets made.


7/21/00
Pop goes something...
I have been talking to the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble as a band. Why do I have nauseated nightmares about a pop band singing post-menopausal lite-102 like music at my wedding? Luckily, the Ensemble made it very clear that they DO NOT sing pop music.


7/13/00
Looks like the Peabody Library is going to be the hitching location.


7/12/00
The Lox-Cream Cheese-Chupah Clause
After hours of tense negotiation, Rabbi Steve Schwartz has joined our "wedding team." To close the deal, we traded two meetings with him now, the Bar Mitzvah of a first born child, and a three year Hebrew school attendance contract for a child who will be named later. (And though there was pressure from all sides we did not agree to the standard lox-cream cheese-chupah clause now found in many such wedding agreements.)


7/9/00
Tinitis?
Yesterday I ringed Andrea. Today, the phone is ringing, my head is ringing, and our parents our buzzing. I had no idea engaging my girlfriend would be so noisy.