Due Amici

In Italian, due amici means 'two friends'. In Brian & Erin talk, due amici means 'we've got a rehearsal dinner site'! Both meanings fit the title well because not only have we really found a great rehearsal dinner site - Due Amici (had you any idea that it would be called that?!), but Brian and I both are two wonderful friends to each other. So, with 228 days til the wedding (227 til the rehearsal dinner) and 5 days til Christmas (4 til I fly home), we are still making headway with our wedding planning!

What's even better, folks, is Due Amici and The Venue at Smith Brothers have some very similar characteristics which Brian and I have both been drawn to. The exposed brick, the lovely lighting, the elegant atmosphere, and without really even trying I think we're kind of stumbling upon a 'theme'...almost. (I suppose it could just be a common atmosphere...)

Nevertheless, we are excited to have one more item checked off of our list of things to do. Still on that list are the DJ, the florist, the bridesmaid dresses, the groom and groomsmen attire, oh, and the honeymoon, among other things. With 2010 right around the corner, I think we are doing quite well with our planning.

On another note, as 2009 is wrapping up, we have decided to expand the family with the addition of a new puppy!

He will be arriving on January 8th or 9th, and along with our preparation of a new puppy - gathering of toys, putting away shoes, reading about puppies, thinking of names, purchasing a bed, rearranging for a kennel - we have also been preparing Bun for his new puppy friend. We've yet to determine Bun's reaction to the situation, time will only tell, but it's sure going to take some transitioning to get used to this one.

All in all, we are extremely excited for our puppy to be here. Even though we still don't have a name picked out, and we will be house training and walking our new puppy in the middle of winter, we are just ecstatic about his arrival, and are looking forward to introducing him to Bun and all of our other family members.

(And hopefully, just hopefully, we will later be able to add a new dynamic duo to the due amici list: Bun & Puppy. Either that, or the title of our next blog post will be Due Nemici - two enemies.)