Rachelle and Ryan

Monday, June 1, 2009

Hello Dear Family and Friends,

We hope that you are all able to come celebrate our wedding with us. We have decided to have a wedding to acknowledge our lifelong commitment and passionate love for each other. Many of you know that we have already been committed to each other for many years. We are now formalizing that commitment and would love to have our close family and friends with us.

However, we know many of you are coming from long distances and/or busy schedules. Please do not feel that you "must" come. We will be thrilled if you are able to attend, but completely understand if you are not. Either way, you will be in our hearts, and we are grateful that you are a part of our life.

For anybody who does not yet know, our first baby will be born in July, so she will be at the wedding with us!

Much Love,
Rachelle and Ryan

Friday, April 24, 2009

In Case of Rain, alternate location & directions

In Case of Rain:

If the weather is rainy or windy and cool, the wedding and reception will be at our church: Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (QUUF). The website is listed below:

http://www.quuf.org/

yahoo maps location of QUUF:

http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=48.116455&lon=-122.778069&zoom=11&q1=2333%2520San%2520Juan%2520Avenue%2520%25E2%2580%25A2%2520Port%2520Townsend%252C%2520WA%25209836&gid1=22228546

Attire

Attire:

Please dress comfortably and as nicely as you wish. This will be outside, with the ceremony in a grassy meadow and the reception at the beach with a large grassy field. The walk from North Beach to the ceremony site is about .3 miles. High heels are not advised.

What to Bring

What to Bring:

BRING YOUR OWN EATING UTENSILS: SILVERWARE, PLATES, CUPS!!

· A dish for the potluck

· Clothes for warm weather or cool

· Sunscreen

· Frisbees, soccer balls, hacky-sacks…

· Bathing suit (We will be at the beach!)

· Water bottles

· Directions to North Beach AND to Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (the rainy day relocation spot)

· Blankets or chairs to sit on. There will only be seats provided for the most elderly guests.

Attire:

Potluck Signup

Potluck:

The reception is a picnic potluck after the ceremony. Please sign up to bring one of the following. Please guide your choice of item to bring based on what other people are bringing. As much as I love dessert, it would be nice to have main dishes too! Please comment at the bottom of this post to let us know what you want to sign up for, that way you can see what others are already bringing. Thank you!

Appetizers and Snack food

Main Dishes:

· Chicken

· Beef

· Vegetarian

· Casserole

· Other meat/seafood

· BBQ

Fruit and Veggies

Desserts:

· Cake

· Pie

· Cheesecake

Beverages (alcoholic and nonalcoholic):

Gift Ideas (Wish List)

Gifts

Please don’t feel that gift giving is necessary. We will be happy to simply have you come and participate in our gathering to recognize our permanent union.

If you would like to bring a gift, we love getting items that are used!

We could put the following items to great use, (if you have an extra laying around, this could be a good gift idea). As many of you know, we are starting a small sustainable farm

Drill (12V or larger if battery-powered)

Chainsaw (minimum of 24” bar)

Ladder (three legged pruning ladder, 12 ft. minimum)

Circular saw

Post hole digger

Blueberry bushes

Fig tree (variety that can grow in a pot)

Wheelbarrow

Hoe

5 gallon buckets are always needed! Dirty is fine.

We would be happy to receive gift certificates from the following places:

Territorial seeds: We can’t always find the plants and seeds we want in Port Townsend, so we mail order many of our them.

http://www.territorialseed.com/?r=tscadwords&gclid=CK6yxqK87pkCFRxNagodckU4Rg

Henery’s Hardware in Port Townsend: This is the best and most helpful hardware store we have ever been at. We visit them regularly to build our many farming contraptions.

http://henery.doitbest.com/home.aspx

Food Co-op: The best grocery store around! They sell local, organic yummy food.

http://www.foodcoop.coop/

Gifts of cash will go to the purchase of a dairy cow and associated supplies. We were going to get a cow this year, but figured a new cow and a new babymight be a little much for one year. Here is a photo of the type we will be getting:

http://www.geocities.com/lawnviewfarm/calf1.jpg