Ready... Set... Go!

It's eight weeks until the wedding and you know what that means...

... all our deposits are now truly non-refundable. (In b-school terms: sunk costs.) There's no backing out now!

The eight week mark also means that the wave of invitations has begun. As our little envelopes make their way across the country and globe over the next 4 weeks, we expect a spike in our web site traffic as the rush of last-minute wedding madness begins. So... Hello new visitors! Welcome to this lovely little web site of ours! We hope you enjoy our random ramblings and silly stories.

In this epic wedding planning journey, the next two months will prove to be the busiest of all. In mid-June, I'll be graduating from Chicago Booth (the #1 b-school according to Business Week... I can't help but brag) with an MBA and a 6-figure debt. I'll be packing all my belongings (for the 8th time in my life) into little boxes and shipping them all back to California where they will reside in my parents garage until further notice.

In the meantime, I'll be headed to Miami for my long-awaited bachelorette party where 11 of my closest girl friends and I will do many of the same things as Jeng did on his (or will we?). But unlike him, I plan to come back in full health and just a tad shade darker. (Crossing my fingers that I don't cross into sunburn territory!)

Then the craziness begins as all the last-minute details consume my life -- final dress fitting, final priest meetings (yay!)... final this and final that. I have a lot of paper products to design and a lot of DIY projects to master. And of course the dreaded seating chart. Juggling the singles, the couples, the friends and the enemies in order to avoid drunken brawls is sure to be a great time.

And somewhere in-between the crazy 3 weeks between my arrival in CA and our wedding, I will also celebrate a bridal shower and bachelorette party #2. I'm exhausted just thinking about it, but excited at the same time. While we enjoyed an engagement party last summer, all other wedding-theme celebrations have been absent. And surrounded by 20+ other engaged classmates, I feel like all wedding events just happen to other people. It'll be fun to feel like its our turn too.

Finally, what I look forward to (almost as much as actually being married) is the fact that many of the Tinios and the Buenviajes will be in one place, if only for one weekend. With my family spread out all over the world, it is rare that we all get together. I cross my fingers that my relatives pull through so the reunion I hope for takes place. And as an added bonus, they get to meet this crazy Nazario clan. I should take bets on which family will party the hardest...