Short Day

Today looks like it's going to turn into a short day for work, so I think this afternoon I'll be calling churches and finding out the info I need to know. Finally!

Jesse and I will be going to the golf club tomorrow morning to see what it has to offer, and I'm honestly thinking it might work out better than the other choices I've been looking at so far. We're both interested in finding a venue that has an attached terrace or patio that people can go out on to get air, have a smoke, just look at the night sky, etc...And the venues downtown that I've looked at don't have that option, unfortunately. Yesterday, I went to visit The Clubhouse on Baltimore, and it is lovely. Very pretty rooms, very pretty building, and right smack in the middle of a very good area of downtown. Tons of hotels around it, plenty of parking available (especially after the construction clears for the H&R Block headquarters that is about a block away from the location), and in general a really top notch choice. Except it doesn't have any place for people who smoke to go and do their thing. They'd have to go outside the front doors, and that doesn't work for me. I want people to be able to relax and have a nice place to hang out, and not to have to leave their drinks inside to go stand by the street and have a cigar or cigarette. Especially since the groom is such an avid smoker, I'd hate to keep losing him throughout the night and have to go downstairs to find him for the cake cutting or the first dance or to do whatever. So I'm afraid that one might be off my list. Lovely place though...

This is helping, though. Going to see places and checking them out, seeing what they have to offer...it's opening my mind to other possibilities. And, it's fun. I can't wait to see how it all turns out!

Happy Friday everyone!