We have a band!

We're sooo excited! Why, you ask? Because we've got the best dang PA Dutch hoedown band booked for our wedding! That's right, Keith Brintzenhoff and the Toad Creek Ramblers are going to play. Can I get a woot woot? (Woot woot!)

Back in the day, Keith (that's him on the far left) taught me how to play guitar, and later I worked in his store, PA Dutch Hobbies and Music, for a spell. (Which was a fantastic job, by the by: on down time I got to hang out and play all the instruments that we had in stock.)

For those of you keeping track, that means that we're going to have a great hoedown in a barn with a custom built dance floor! Can I get a woot woot?

Ring!

This post is a bit behind, but we thought that you should know that we bought my ring a couple weeks ago. Yes! Another major piece of the wedding is solved, set, and done! It's all coming together...

We found the ring at the Fourth Street Art Festival over the Labor Day weekend. We didn't go to the festival intending to buy any thing, really, but I suppose that rings were on our minds because we wound up perusing every jewelery stand at the fest.

In Michel Plumail's stand we found a ring that I really liked. Michel is from France and his Viviana is from Chile. The ring is pretty simple - a silver ring with a gold band running through the middle - and it looked and felt good on my finger. After mulling over the purchase at Taste of India, we decided to go for it.

Right now the ring is with Michel, who is going to engrave it before sending it our way. It's a good thing that he has it - otherwise I think it'd be on my finger and instead of typing I'd just be staring at it.

We are going to have "Bound for Shady Grove" engraved in the inside of our rings.