John And Francie

In case anyone’s wondering how to get to the rehearsal dinner here is the address of the Presidential Banquet Center and a link to directions from the church.

4572 Presidential Way
Kettering, Ohio 45429

EDIT: Updated the directions again to get rid of the u-turn caused by the divided road.

I’ve updated the directions to the hotel from the north because the exit to Route 4 north is closed from southbound 75 and I-75 is generally messed up from 70 to Miamisburg.   I also updated the directions to the church so they don’t take you through downtown Dayton.  Unfortunately it doesn’t make sense to drive around Dayton if you’re heading to the church from the North, so one just has to deal with the barrels.

Just jotting down some thoughts on songs we might like at the reception.

• (Everything I do) I do it for you – Bryan Adams
• Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman – Bryan Adams
• Summer of ‘69 – Bryan Adams
• Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler
• The Rose – LeAnn Rimes
• The Way You Look Tonight – Frank Sinatra
• Cherry, Cherry – Neil Diamond
• Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
• Have You Ever Seen Me? – Nobuo Uematsu
• Männer Sind Schweine – Die Ärzte
• Don’t Take the Girl – Tim McGraw
• Friends in Low Places – Garth Brooks
• Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash
• Katie Wants a Fast One – Steve Wariner
• Good Morning Beautiful – Steve Holy
• Devil’s Dance Floor – Flogging Molly
• I Hope You Dance – Lee Ann Womack
• Have I Told You Lately – Rod Stewart
• Apache (Jump on It!) – Sugar Hill Gang

Just thought I’d update the blog with a weekly activity report.

We met with Fr. Haemmerle on Saturday to get the paper work started and get details on the pre-cana preparations they require.  He gave us a whole bunch more stuff to read.  *ugh* I have enough scholarly work as it is! :X

Also, we’ve settled on Christy’s to cater our wedding.  Their pot roast is awesome!!

Finally, I think I’ve made a huge mistake with this pictures thing.  Maybe I’ll become numb to the embarrassment by May.  Maybe.  In the meanwhile, we need some pictures of F-bomb up there!  She won’t be embarrassed at all, but at least it will push mine off the front page!!  Let’s get working on that people!

So i was showing this awesome page to a friend at work the other day, and she said, “Ha, John and Francie to be, that’s cute.” I then had to explain that it was not “to be” but Tobe, John’s last name. But I think her mistake was pretty cool, I had never noticed that little play on words with my future last name before.

In other exciting news, we have a reception hall!! My parents and John and I had a fun day Sunday of going to see two halls that I had it narrowed down to, with Mass and yummy Chinese buffet in between. We really liked both of the halls, it was hard for me to pick one. Then we found out yesterday that one of the halls was actually reserved on May 16, so that pretty much decided for us. So our wedding reception will be at the Polish Club! I am very excited about it, it’s a great place. They just remodeled the whole place a few years ago and it looks wonderful. It’s not the fanciest place we looked at, but I was not really in the market for anything super-elegant. We’ll save money and have more available to do more important fun things. (I think a chocolate fountain would be sweet, just throwing that out there. Anyway, my favorite part about our hall is that is has a HUGE dance floor! I’m super excited to dance the night away with all of you on it!

It’s fairly standard at receptions to have pictures of the couple growing up, so I started a group on flickr to collect said photos.  If you have a flickr/yahoo account, join the group, upload the photos of us you’d like to add and add them to the group.  If you don’t have an account, I have two set up for general use: HessTobe@yahoo.com and HessTobe1@yahoo.com with the password of francie’s initials followed by mine. You can login to one of these accounts and upload via web browser, grab one of the tools to upload a bigger batch, or simply email them to higher74sip@photos.flickr.com or last05knew@photos.flickr.com.  If you have any questions email me or leave a comment. So start sending them in! Thanks!