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We Have A Date!

This has been a very, very long time coming, but we have formally signed a contract with a reception venue, the Best Western Plus / Wyndham Garden Inn in Schaumburg. Our date is…

Saturday, October 10, 2015


This is exciting and terrifying in approximately equal proportions.

- The Bride

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Signing Our First Contract

Today, Jim and I are meeting with Gina at One Fine Day Events to sign a contract with her for month of coordination (including day of), and a few other coordinating attributes for now until then. Her pricing is reasonable, and she has a TON of excellent reviews online on a few different sites. I’m hoping that she will be a big help to Jim and me, since we’re less than a year away from our probable wedding date at this point. Part of her wedding coordination package includes reviewing contracts, which is why we are signing with her prior to signing with the Best Western Plus / Wyndham Garden. The somewhat unfortunate part is that Gina herself will not be available to do the day of coordinating, though she can help us with the rest of it. We are meeting with one of her other coordinators today who will be with us on the day of the wedding, and I believe she also comes with an assistant or two. I like that Gina has 10 years of experience, dwarfing our BWP/WG event coordinator’s 2 years (which I also suspect is mostly business events and not weddings). I hope the meeting tonight goes well and that we get some good feedback from Gina on the BWP/WG contract so we can move on that as well. It’s all happening…

- The Bride

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