Dear Friends and Family,

As most of you know, Rob and I are getting married! If you didn't know, then, guess what? We're getting married! Anyway, because of multiple requests from family members in other states, we set a date: July 30, 2005. The little problem with that date is that we more-or-less pulled it out of a hat. We haven't found locations for the ceremony or the reception yet, let alone contracts for said locations. And we're at a loss of where to look, to start, to beg for a discount.

So, we're asking for your help. Do you have any suggestions?

We're looking for places that are either beautiful, unique, or perfect--or all of the above. Because it will be July 30, we'd like an outdoor option. We don't have too much money to spend. And we'd like the whole shebang to be accessible by New York public transportation.

We would also love any suggestions about everything else: how to run a cheap wedding buffet without calling Pizza Hut, who will do our flowers without doing us in, if any of you know a cool photographer known for something other than porn, etc.
Also, being the blog-dorks that we are, we've set up a wedding blog: http://williams.gideonse.com. We'll be posting our missives as well as missive-ing them, so you can email us back OR put a comment on the blog. How's that for high-tech?

Oh, and this is the unofficial "save the date" announcement. We'll send postcards or something when we know the fuck we're doing.

Love and kisses,

Ted & Rob