Update

The full staff was back at work today so I was out the door at 4. Add to that the Caps being out of the playoffs, the Wiz being off and the O's playing on the West Coast I had few things to distract me from bringing the site a little more up-to-date.

But as Murphy's Law would have it, Blogger was down for a good chunk of the evening. Nonetheless, you should notice a couple updates.

1) I added an agenda on the right side of the page that will become more completely filled in over the next two weeks.

2) I updated flight info and included instructions for reserving a room in the "useful information department."

3) Please note the post below for info on a couple shower hosted by my parents on June 21 as well as the bachelor and bachelorette parties.

Meanwhile we picked a DJ last night. Got song requests now? Post 'em in the comments section or send me an e-mail. We're also starting to plow through that damed Knot checklist – the one that's always showing me items with explanation points. I know it's overdue!

As I finish writing this post I'm being told that I can not contact Blogger, so we'll see if anyone reads this.

I'm hoping to put together a line-up of the official wedding garb up here Thursday.

--Nate

No news from me, but check out what the Brits think

Not much to update you about our wedding, but I don't want the blog to become stale simply because we are not meeting wedding planning benchmarks.

As a news man myself, I'll turn to the papers to entertain you.

Here's a story on British attitudes toward marriage with several interesting findings — including that Brits don't necessarily believe what they read (or are illiterate) and that most people see weddings for their party-dom more than their commitment-dom:

The survey exposes the decline in the importance of marriage with the finding that most people see weddings as an excuse for a party rather than a public declaration of lifelong commitment.

The average cost of a wedding may have soared to £17,370, but 53 per cent of people regard it simply as a celebration.

Despite a Government-funded media campaign three years ago, half of adults still wrongly believe there is such a thing as "common law marriage", which gives cohabitants the same rights as married couples.

If we in "the States" are anything like those in the U.K. I guess we have high hopes to live up to.

However, there's no way we're spending £17,370 — even if the economy is down. We also plan to say at least something about commitment during the wedding; hopefully that won't bring the party down too much!