"Hey Baby let's go to Vegas, kiss the single life goodbye..."

Today is a very exciting day! The date has been set, and the ceremony location has been chosen! Say Hello to May 2011!

For privacy/security reasons, I will not publicly post the date here, but for those of you who are actually friends and family, you can visit our wedding website for more specifics:

www.mywedding.com/peteandgina

And, big surprise (not really), we will be tying the knot here:



At the Wynn Resort and Casino in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. The same place where Pete asked me to marry him five weeks ago! Yes, we are romantic and cheesy, thank you very much.

Now...it's time for some honesty.

Pete and I both expected, for quite some time, that we would have to explain and defend our reasoning for choosing Las Vegas to our families. We have been planning speeches and suggestions and even lists of shows to help ease the explanations for quite some time. We both come from conservative, religious backgrounds, and seeing as how Vegas is still outdatedly and inaccurately labeled as "Sin City" to some people, we expected there might be a bit of struggle. Luckily enough, though, there hasn't been as much of a struggle with the location as we expected (smile!)...

However, what we didn't expect, was that certain people would, (instead of questioning Vegas), question why we are even having a wedding celebration at all. I have to be honest and say that I have had just about all I can take of hearing people's opinions that we should just run off to Vegas and elope, and get it over and done with. This hurts my feelings. And it now brings me to the decision to not only publicly explain our choice of Vegas, but also our choice of a long engagement, and our choice to celebrate our marriage with our families and friends in a way that is, unfortunately, going to cost a large chunk of change.

Instead of one huge post, I am going to break it up into segments...so for those of you who care (and if you have at all voiced your opinion about our wedding plans, then apparently, YOU CARE), please stay tuned for my next couple posts that will hopefully make our plans and intentions more clear.

In the meantime, I hope you are all just as excited as we are, as we giddily look forward to next May. :D

Lastly, for the record, the modern name for Las Vegas is the "City of Entertainment." Look it up. And really, who doesn't want to be entertained?

"...Hey Baby let's got to Vegas, bet on love and let it fly." -Faith Hill