Decision One: The Date

Upon news of our engagement the first question we were asked was, have you set a date? Here's how we picked August 28th, 2010...

~Originally I wanted a fall wedding, I love the fall, it's my favorite time of year. Fall of 2009 and 2010 wouldn't work because I'll be in the middle of semesters at U of M. We though about waiting until fall of 2011, but we don't know what will be going on then. Where we might get jobs, whether or not I'll start a Ph.D. program. We didn't feel comfortable playing a waiting game that could potentially go for years.

~The next decision was, do we do it while I'm still in my master's program, or wait til I'm done. Again, question of not know what comes next made us decide against the after graduation idea.

~I checked U of M's academic calender for the summer of 2010, and the summer semester ends August 20th, and the Fall semester begins September 7th or 8th. The weekend immediately following the end of the semester didn't make sense, so we went for the next one - August 28th, 2010.