stranger danger

i guess i should tell you a little more about us, eh?

• no, we are not alcoholics, first of all. we are bourbon fans.
• second, we are also not pregnant [shotglass wedding was just a rad name that mike suggested - he's my idea man. i call him this all the time. it is in, no way, affiliated with the shotgun wedding or unexpected babies].
• we are an early-30-somethings couple who reside in a small historic 'hood in cincinnati.
  
• this is #2 for both of us, actually, as our former spouses were not of the faithful variety.
  
• we have been together 3 years this june.
  
• we met twice, both times through the same mutual friend [hi jason!], but something like 4 years apart. the first time, we were both spoken for by others. not the second. woot!
  
• i have a 10 yr old son from husband #1. he is a-mazing. he is also going to be walking me down the aisle, and this, so far, is my favorite thing about impending nuptuals, aside from the man i am marrying, of course.
• i was a bartender for 8 years [further explaining the shotglass]. so i know a lot of people, and a lot of people want to come to our wedding. this is not happening, however. a lot of people are coming to our reception. only our immediate families and a handful of our super closest are getting an invite to the ceremony. it was really, really hard to make this list, but our budget just doesn't allow for our massive extended families and equally massive list of friends. we hope they understand.
• we are tenatively planning a september 18th wedding. the location has yet to be determined. we're working on this. i'm actually creating a spreadsheet on this, not kidding.
• this event is my personal mission to do the following: marry my awesome fella, not spend a ton of money doing this, and having the event go in a way that is not cliché/tacky/taking ourselves too seriously/showing our poverty hand/hurting anyone's feelings.
  

well, i guess that should be fine for now. no more stranger danger.