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Hello all!

Just in case anyone is checking this site, please start watching us on our family website, casadekraft.com

Thank you all.

Just a very quick message to say thank you to everyone who shared in some aspect of our wedding weekend. You all are in our thoughts and prayers. We're about to skip out of town for a few days, but we look forward to seeing your pictures, calling and writing to you and sharing our lives with you.

God bless!

With 6 days left until the wedding, weather forecasts are starting to show us what to expect for the big day.

As of Sunday, it looks like the high will be in the upper 80's with lows dropping to the upper 60's at night with a 10% chance of rain.

More available at weather.com

8 days!

We have the rings, we have the marriage license, most of our liturgy is planned, the caterer is waiting for a seating chart... we're almost there.

Keep us in your prayers as we go through the crunch of the final details.

Our countdown clock is now at 12 days. 12! It seems like yesterday we didn't have a date to count down to.

We're starting to add a little more information to the Wedding Events page--namely, rehearsal information and for our Sunday brunch.

Yup, on Sunday, we're inviting everyone over to our place to enjoy breakfast tacos, or whatever else we rummage up. Details are forthcoming, but want everyone to know about it.

With Vanessa now in the midst of her first semester teaching, time to plan the wedding is now very "expensive". There's always a million and one things for her to grade, plan or something else for school. I always had respect for my high school teachers, but it has increased ten-fold in the last six weeks.

I digress. I hope you all are excited about sharing our special day with us. We are just as excited to see you all as we exchange vows and rings, beginning our new life together.

37 Days to Go!

I wanted to give a shout out to Matt Maye. Matt is a friend of ours that we met earlier this year through a discussion of Catholic thought by various young adults in the Austin area. We learned that he moved to Austin to continue a music career.

After listening to some of his tunes and while Vanessa and I were thinking about the reception, we thought yes! Let's put these two things together. Matt will be playing the cocktail hour and a song or two during the dinner/dance portion of the evening.

Check him out!

Wow, so only 41 days left until the BIG day. 

Please, don't forget that RSVPs are due this Friday, August 29th.  So if you haven't sent us your RSVP, whether it's an "accept" or "decline," please be sure to mail that by Aug 29th :)  A lot of our final preparations require the exact # of people that will be attending the wedding so it would really help us out :)

Thanks so much!

Brandon, Erin, and I just returned from a weekend in El Paso.  It was quite a whirlwind trip but it was so wonderful to see the family!  My mom hosted a bridal shower on Saturday that was a load of fun :)  My mom, with the help of her good friend, Tessie, put a lot of work into planning the shower and it turned out great!  The food was very good, the games were fun, and everyone seemed to have had a very nice time.  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful and generous family that is so willing to help us start building our home.

Truly, thank you to my mom and Tessie for all their time and efforts!  I love you!

Thanks to my dad and the gang for entertaining Brandon while we did all the girly stuff!

Also, thank you to Erin who spent the majority of the weekend explaining that she does in fact speak and understand Spanish :)

This last week all of the t's were crossed and the i's dotted, meaning Vanessa and I officially have our first home! Vanessa's lease ends soon, so she'll be moving into it soon. I'll be remaining where I'm at until the wedding day.

We decided we're going to repaint most of the rooms; today, we started with the guest bedroom. Let me tell you--it looks quite spiffy. I don't want to give away details now, but be sure to check it out at the brunch on Sunday, October 5th at our place. Exact time to be determined, but details soon (if nothing else, in the wedding program!)

As we look at our wedding countdown (94 days at the moment), it's hard to believe it is so close, but at the same time, October 4th seems like it will never come.

Marriage preparation is awesome. There are few, if any, things I enjoy more than discussing my future life with Vanessa. Where are we going to live? How are we going to combine finances? How are we going to keep God at the center of our marriage? What are we thinking regarding making more little Vanessas and Krafts? I'm truly excited to talk about the new reality that we'll begin to experience on October 4th.

Wedding planning, on the other hand, is not the most exciting thing. I can't wait for the wedding to be here to celebrate with family, but I truly can't wait to wake up the next day married.