A note regarding the request for your attendance…

We love you. We want you to come (we wouldn’t invite you if we didn’t!) We are planning on a great celebration and a fun party. Also, Portland is pretty darn beautiful in July and this is a rare opportunity for friends and family to come together at the same time and place. And it is a really important day for us – a once in a lifetime event in fact! So it would be really wonderful to have you join us.

But we understand if you can’t make it. Gas is expensive. Flights are expensive. Hotels are expensive. We know money is tight and time is even tighter. We are genuinely trying to make this wedding simple, easy, fun & not break the bank – anyone’s bank! So if you can’t make it, or it is just too hard for the whole family to make it, don’t worry. Do what you can, and maybe that means you just send a flower and think of us on July 19^th.

(A preview of Brooke & Chris at the Wedding Meadow - site for the ceremony.)