4 Months to go!

These months are flying in all too quickly! 
We can't believe the speed at which this year has gone - next week will be September already and it's as exciting as it is terrifying.  For sure.

We haven't really done much this month except think a bit more about locations for the ceremony and photographs.  We would still like to get married on the Sheraton roof terrace but we'd be stupid not to have a back up plan should this fall though.  I think for photographs we're leaning more towards heading over the Brooklyn Bridge and into Brooklyn because the views of the Manhattan skyline are the best from here.  There are a couple of art installations in Brooklyn Bridge Park which we've fallen in love with, so providing that they're still there, we'd love them to feature in our photos. 

The photos are literally the only one thing that I get palpitations over - I want them to be great, and I have all the faith in the world in our photographer Amber, Michael and I are just terrible at getting our photos taken.  I've literally never found a photo of myself that someone else has taken that I like.  We're both horribly self-conscious and I do worry that we won't be able to relax.  Tips welcome!

I accessed my Facebook account from a computer for the first time in months and noticed that I had a string of unseen messages in my "other" folder.  These are usually messages that come from people who aren't on your friends list.  Amongst the messages from people asking me questions about things I'd been selling months ago on a buy-and-sell page, there was a message dated February from a lovely lady from Ireland who was also planning an elopement to New York.  A quick click onto her profile told me that her wedding had taken place last month and she had some truly fab photographs to show for it.  I sent her a quick message to congratulate her and ask her how she found the experience and she absolutely gushed about how amazing it all was.  She sent me a link to her photograph album (which was stunning, New York is just the best backdrop) and she told me some stories and answered some of my questions. She's promised to be a valuable source of information for us and has been so great to chat to - how lucky that I checked my messages on a whim!

We're just too excited :)