Enjoy some of the moments of our wedding!

Thanks to all of you!

Title: Give Yourself to Love
Words and Music: Kate Wolf

Capo: 5

Verse 1

Kind friends all gathered round, there’s something I would say
What brings us together here has blessed us all today
Love has made a circle that holds us all inside
Strangers are as family and loneliness can’t hide

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Poem: My Way
Author: Mario Benedetti
From the book: Witness The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti

Translated by Louis B. Popkin

Hope so gentle
so polished so sad
a vow so lightly taken
is not my way

hope so docile
is not my way

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Poem: Your roots
Author: Banio Carpenter

reflexions swept past your brow
as they sampled what is to come
you may ask what follows now
revelry, dancing, and fun?

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There are only 18 days left before the big day.

Check out the schedule below and the map of activities to the right. 

Notice that, in order to accommodate all the activities, we changed the start time of the ceremony to 3:00 pm (the original invitation said 4:00 pm). 

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The Minnesota State Parks system has announced that starting Wednesday March 28th, reservations for arrival dates through July 21, 2012 can be made.

Once the system goes live, reservations can be made at mdnr.gov/reservations or by calling 866-857-2757 (TTY 952-936-4008).

Also, I have confirmed that as of today there are:

22 cabins/lodging spots available for Friday July 13th, 2012

22 cabins/lodging spots available for Saturday July 14th, 2012

124 campsites available for Saturday July 13th, 2012

121 campsites available for Saturday July 14th, 2012

Mark that date: Wednesday March 28th, 2012.  That’s the first day you can make your reservation.  I would recommend booking on that date if possible.

The Minnesota State Parks Reservation system is still down.  But you can submit your email address on this page (http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/reserve-faq/index.html) if you would like to get updates.  I assume they will email you when the site is back up.  I’m on the mailing list and plan on emailing everyone I have emails for when I here the system is back up.  However being on the mailing list directly is probably a good idea.

The Minnesota State Park Reservation system is still not available.  They were offline for 3 months, and then got several thousand hits in the first hour (what a surprise!) of coming back online.  Guess what; the new system couldn’t handle it, so it’s still not available.  You can read their response here: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/reserve-faq/index.html

Minnesota State Parks Reservation system will be temporarily unavailable from December 26, 2011 to March 1, 2012.

So if you are planning on staying at the park, we recommend that you make a reservation very soon!

The ceremony will be held at the Mississippi Headwaters on Saturday July 14th, 2012 at 4:00 PM. The reception will be held right after the ceremony, probably in or around Douglas Lodge. We will be making a weekend of it, and we invite you to as well! We’ll be arriving on Friday July 13th, 2012 and staying through Sunday July 15th, 2012. There are many accommodation options in Itasca State Park, including cabins, suites, and camping which can be reserved by way of one of the following links:

Suites and Regular Cabins:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/itasca/lodging/index.html

Camper Cabins:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/camper_cabins.html

Campsites:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/reservations_campsite.html

If you would like to stay within walking distance of the reception we recommend staying in one of the following cabins:

Douglas Lodge
Douglas Lodge Four-plex
Douglas Lodge 4-season six-plex
Douglas Lodge cabins