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Get Marriage Licenses
So here's how it'll go for Stu.
He needs to get an Impediments for Marriage certificate with an Apostelle stamp from the British Consulate. He'll need to phone up before hand and book a time. He'll need to take both of our passports and cash with him. Then he'll have to fill in some forms and swear with his hand on the bible that he hasn't been married before (is that a crime?). After the visit an announcement of our marriage plans will be placed on the noticeboard at the consulate. In three weeks time he can go pick up his marriage license - he'll need to book a time for this as well.
Instructions from someone who's already been through it. :P I'm glad we won't get married in a church as it'll get even more confusing then.

I think I'll just get one from the registry office.

Book the ceremony at the registry office (or somewhere else?)
The original date was 20.07.2007. Then we changed our mind to 07.07.07. And now I'm thinking of going back to the original again (which pleases me more) and pushing the road trip to October. It's still quite warm in most of the middle parts of America then isn't it? We'll have to make our mind up about the date this weekend really.

Also need to think about in what language we should do the ceremony.

Research and book a venue
We have some possibilities in our mind and hopefully we can go look at some of these places this weekend. Especially if the date would be 07/07 I think we'd need to book fast as that Saturday is going to be in high demand... It's tricky trying to find a venue for a very small amount of people that would still be somewhat festive.

Book catering
Let's get a venue first. Hopefully we could get catering in the same deal.

Transportation & accomodation
How to get all the English people (and us!) to the venue and where to accomodate them.

Guest list
By far the trickiest and most stress-inducing one of the lot so far. We want to (and need to) keep it small, original goal was 20 guests tops. But what with Stu's big immediate family and my two sets of parents + brothers there wasn't really any room for friends. And I'd like to have my closest/oldest friends there... but god damn is it difficult to decide where to draw the line. Who's closer than who? And if you invite that one will the other get offended? Ack. We just have to try to keep our feet on the ground though, every extra head costs money we don't have. Also, quite a handy tip from my mother: 'Remember to include yourselves in the headcount for catering and venue'. :| Well damn. I suppose mother's do know some things best...

Clothes
Stu wants a suit. My 'dress' depends completely on the amount of weight I manage to shed by next summer. :| I know I don't want a traditional wedding dress though. But something gorgeous obviously.

Rings
Have to find a wedding band for me, Stu's ring needs to be engraved with the wedding date.

Photographer/s
I've got an idea. Will let you know later if it's feesible.

Invites
Something simple. I've got plans for utilising the skills of the maid of honour here.

Gift(list)
Well, after living together for seven years we certainly don't need anything. Apart from money towards the road trip. Have to think of an eloquent way to ask for some...

Paperwork
Need to change my name on a whole lot of different things, starting from my passport and driver's license. Pushing the honeymoon to October would make things a lot easier on figuring out these things as well... (my passport runs out in October and when going to the US it needs to be valid for 6 months after the trip, which would mean I'd need to get a new passport twice next summer if we were to leave instantly after the wedding...)