our location is a tornado shelter. and that's not symbolic of anything. It's on top of and outside a tornado shelter, really. It's two doors down from the location we were originally considering, and has a big walkaround porch the whole way around, and nice stairs on the front, which can be decorated with christmas lights and/or luminaries. The interior upstairs has small-nap carpet that is perfectly good for dancing on, and is huge, and has big wood beams going across the tall ceiling that isn't a cathedral because it's wood and not artsy. Big wood beams are going to have more christmas lights (go Boxing Day sale and Aunt N, woo woo woo!) and possibly tulle or flowers or some random alternate thing (hooray for Aunt C!). Lots of round tables, several sort of arc-shaped tables, several old-school rectangular tables. Lots of electrical plugs, by which i mean, on top of every 3rd beam or so, there are boxes of 4, every couple of feet. They planned this place right. But. The bathrooms are downstairs (in the tornado shelter part) and the only way to get downstairs is to go outside. Which is okay. But just kind of funny.

The ceremony will, weather permitting, which it really ought to be, take place outside under the nice grove of trees. Which is only a little bit of a walk, nothing really. And we like trees. And the ceremony probably won't be very long so we're not going to do many chairs except for, well, m's grandma, really. Maybe some others. But probably not many. (Bring blankets to sit on if you like.) If weather is not permitting, there are a couple of options, which would be decided depending on exactly how the weather is not permitting. There are assorted porches and other areas. But, hey, we've got a tornado shelter, here.

The reception will be immediately following - and possibly preceding as well - in the upstairs half of the tornado shelter, and will feature barbecue and salads (which will be vegetarian, i made sure) and nice breads and cheeses and as soon as we get around to it beer and wedding cake. There will probably be music of some sort. Dinner at 5. Reception will continue until, um, everyone passes out or goes home.

The Postwedding Brunch will be in Plymouth, Indiana, with more information posted as, i, um, get more information.

The Texas Reception will be at Revolution, which has a street address at 211 S Main in downtown Bryan, but which is really on Carnegie Alley. Revolution is a lovely little bar with great sangria and, now, it has fat tire (as well as guinness, i think) on tap. We're going to organize sandwiches or fruity trays or something, and of course it's a bar, so there's that, too. :) Note that Revolution is not very big and is mostly outdoors.