Mark your calendars

Brian and I have selected a place and date for our wedding. We will be getting married on July 9, 2010 at the Newton White Mansion in Mitchellville, MD. We'd looked at it online a few times, checked out a bridal show onsite and then went back for our own tour yesterday. I love it. We'll have our ceremony outside on the lower patio, which overlooks the woods and a golf course (but mostly the woods). The picture below shows the back of the mansion and the brick courtyard, the wedding party will be in front of the fountain and the audience will face away from the building on either side of the fountain. We'll probably have cocktails and hors d'ouerves on the upper patio after the ceremony.

And then we'll move into the atrium, shown below, for the reception, although we'll have access to the whole mansion (including a side room that we think will be for the kids to hang out on their own if they want).

Now that we have that big detail out of the way, I think we'll slow the planning again. We talked last night about starting to look into caterers this June and I'll probably go dress shopping in July when my mom comes to visit. Honestly, now that we have a date and a place, I'm nowhere near as stressed as I was before. And besides, as Brian pointed out last night, we have nothing but time...or, at least, 465 days of time. :)