Me and DH are planning a renewing the vows ceremony this summer. We're also wanting to get tickets to see Avenue Q. We're wanting to invite friends and family to both. My question is this, how in the heck do you plan a ceremony and get tickets that are going to be sold out if you wait and make plans with everyone when you aren't 100% sure when they are coming home. I have a rough idea and that doesn't work very good. Plus, he will be returning to Fort Lewis before he comes back to Ohio for his 28 days of leave. How do we even buy the plane ticket to get him from Seattle to home? I could just really use some help with other peoples experiences so we have some idea of how to go about things. I ask DH and he just isn't sure of how anything is going to work since this is our first deployment.

Sadly...you dont. And I dont recomment planning anything till you have exact dates. Which can be as little as days before he gets home. I would just have him keep asking around on a for sure date. I see that you almost 2 months into your deployment and I am pretty sure they wont have a date for you right now...Sorry )-8

Unfortunetly I think you have to sit tight for a bit! I know it sucks! I can't offer any other advice for you becuase this is my first go round also! Good luck with everything though!

Hmmm.... for the Avenue Q thing.... can you just have your relatives RSVP by a certain date? If they're paying for their own tickets, have them send checks or something? :thinking

Otherwise maybe you two can make it a date night.... get dressed all nice and go to a fancy dinner beforehand... then get a hotel room and order some champagne or something for afterwards :)

I can only imagine how anxious you must be trying to figure out all the planning and stuff... but I'm sure everything is going to work out just fine. Plus, I'm always here if you need to vent :D

:hugs

I'm the type of guy who likes things planned out. The military doesn't exactly help me in that department :D I think we are just going to have to do the vows in Windsor instead of Toronto so we can get everyone on shorter notice since that's closer to home. It will just be really nice to have a "legal" marriage even if it doesn't come with any legal rights in Ohio. Did you know to get a divorce one of us would actually have to live in Canada and be a Canadian for atleast 12 months. And neither of us can marry anyone else even in the US. So, it's a real legal marriage with zero rights for the time being. I think we are going to have to just wing the Avenue Q thing as well and maybe that will be our little honeymoon wherever they are playing when he comes home. It isn't all exactly what we dreamed but it will still be just as important to us. If a bunch of people can't make it to the ceremony I figure we will just have a big party when we get back. I just wish I could have a real date but I know that I can't bank on it.

Hmmm.... for the Avenue Q thing.... can you just have your relatives RSVP by a certain date? If they're paying for their own tickets, have them send checks or something? :thinking

Otherwise maybe you two can make it a date night.... get dressed all nice and go to a fancy dinner beforehand... then get a hotel room and order some champagne or something for afterwards :)

I can only imagine how anxious you must be trying to figure out all the planning and stuff... but I'm sure everything is going to work out just fine. Plus, I'm always here if you need to vent :D

:hugs