I posted a request for ideas on things to do while we’re there, both on my blog and on Reddit and was floored by the response. By far I’d say the top suggestion involved…bedroom activities. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that was a given.

In the more helpful vein of suggestions, these were some either multiple people referred to or that sound particularly cool:

• Visit Old Montral
• St. Joseph’s Oratory
• Biking on the Lachine Canal
• Rooftop bar on the Hotel de la Montagne
• The Botanical Gardens and the Biodome
• Food, especially, poutine. Also multiple people have recommended getting smoked meat at Schwartz’s and bagels at Fairmont Bagel

Besides these ones, are there any that you would particularly recommend?

The biggest change is we’re no longer getting married in New Jersey. As much as we would have loved to use the chapel, it was simply too expensive to try and manage everything else related to the wedding and wedding festivities in the North New Jersey area.

Instead, we’re going to be having the ceremony near my home, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Although it’s not set in stone, in all likelihood we’ll have the wedding at St. Christopher’s Church (on Kent Island) and potentially will be having the reception at my house.

There’s some various other elements of our planning that have been slightly revised, but those are the biggest updates.

Good news for me:  wedding costs are apparently down 33%.  Bad news:  this seems to mean that I am going to have to hand craft invitations and centerpieces.  A gifted florist, I am not.

I’m no florist either, but still, savings are savings. Hopefully Reina knows more than I do on that front.