Vending MACHINE-- The DJ

I feel like a little kid who hasn't done their homework.

Tonight we have an appointment with our DJ. He didn't give us any explicit instructions, but S. and I had both agreed we should have a tentative music list ready to go anyway.

Notice I said "agreed", by which I imply that we haven't actually accomplished said task. I've been putting songs on the list for a little over a month now, but S. hasn't added anything. Odd, because music is definitely more his thing than it is mine. So, we shall go before the DJ tonight with only a sparsely-populated list of ideas, and hopefully he won't give us detention for not having done our assignment.

Our DJ was really a simple decision-- he's a co-worker of S's. It's actually quite funny how many people he works with that do wedding stuff on the side (see future posts about a possible day-of-coordinator). S. has seen this guy's work at parties before and agrees that he's quite capable, so I have confidence that he will give us his all on our wedding day.

Was your DJ an easy choice or a hard one? Did you have to look very long to find them? Did you have your music list picked out fairly early?

Vending MACHINE-- The Venue

It's time to talk about our vendors. Today's vendor is our venue.

This was a pretty easy choice. If you remember, S. and I met and got engaged at a local community college that also happens to have an on-site garden that can be rented for special events. A really, really gorgeous garden. Take a look at the few pictures we got:


That's us, and that gorgeous white thing behind my right shoulder is the gazebo where we'll be getting married.



This is part of the plaza, where we'll be having our reception. There's a much larger, open space right around the wall from this area, but I like this little spot. It's more like a private garden.



They have a ton of arches all around. The place is actually quite large, though we'll only be renting a few parts of it.



This bench-- we love this bench. I see some great wedding day photos coming from here.

I'll post some more pics when we get them, as we appear to have failed at that the day of our engagement (we were distracted, to say the least). We were supposed to go out again this past weekend to meet with the event coordinator there (and take more pictures), but alas, bad weather approaching means our coordinator will not be able to meet us.