Wedding insurance

Today we decided to cover the worst case scenario and paid for a Wedding insurance.

Do we get cold feet? Nooooooo!!!!!
I think the reason was my shoulder and arm that I thought you never know what happens.

But be re-assured, we will do everything to go ahead as planned and celebrate our big day on August 23rd, 2008.

See you at our wedding on August 23rd!

A list with links to potential activities in Vienna

My parents have been active and collected a list of links to potential activities in Vienna.

Here it is....

http://www.imagevienna.com/ Konzerte / Concerts in Schönbrunn MOZART und STRAUSS

http://www.hgm.or.at/ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, ~Museum of Military – Homepage auch Englisch

http://www.drittemanntour.at http://www.thirdmantour.at/ eh klar, a given

http://www.karlsplatz.org Übersicht diverse Veranstaltungen, Overview of different activities and events

http://www.khm.at/ Kunsthistorisches Museum Art History Museum – Homepage auch Englisch

http://www.albertina.at A Museum and special Cinema (where the Third man is playing quiet regularly)

http://www.wienmuseum.at Link zu „anderen“ Museen, z.B. Uhrenmuseum - link to a variety of museums, e.g. the clock or watch museum

http://www.wien.gv.at/ma53/museen/museen.htm#a Alphabetische Linksammlung aller Museen in Wien (unglaublich viele) - alphabetical selection of links to all museums in Vienna (unbelievable how many)

http://www.tschauner.at/ Original Wiener Stegreifbühne ist wohl eher nichts für Engländer, ad hoc Viennese Theater, but most likely not for English speaking people (even non Viennese might struggle)

http://www.bodiesvienna.at Die präparierten Original Menschen Körper - brrrrrrrrr gruselig, nix für mich , original human bodies 'prepared' (??) - brrrrrr awful, not for me

http://www.alte-musik.co.at Musik für Insider in der ältesten Kirche von Wien St. Ruprecht, Music for Insiders in the oldest church in Vienna, Church St. Ruprecht

Jetzt brauchen sie nur noch einige Monate da bleiben und schon kennen sie Wien besser als wir.

Now you need only to stay some months in Vienna, and you will know Vienna better then the Viennese people.

Certificate of no impediment - we have it!! Finally

Today we finally got THE document to ensure that we can get married.
The famous 'Certificate of no impediment'.

The envelop looks very nice - we think to frame it - the document itself is sooo legal. The text is nearly amusing. Things like on the 6th day of May (instead on May 6th or 6th May) and even more legal text which I can not even understand easily.

That is obviously to ensure that translators have a job. Monday is translation day in London for Stu.

Today in 3 months is the big day!

Hihihi, it is only 3 months from now.
Then I am Mrs. Alexandra Fawkes.

How exciting is this?

Most of the invites are gone!

Long, long story with the invites. The good news is that most of them have been sent now.

First response cards - all positive!!!! - have arrived and we are happy.

Change of rules to get our legal documents

Hahaha! The rules have changed! After we invested quiet some money in our advertisment in the newspaper, the rules have changed. This announcement did not necessarily fall into the category 'romantic' - the text was clearly given by a public authority. Therefore you can imagine that it was not the one thing we wanted to do. We would have found better ways - more fun, more exiting - to spend our money.

Now in the middle of the process, they changed the rules. This means unnecessary spending on a strange advertisement but even worse we start from the beginning and adding another x weeks to get our papers.

I could highly recommend change management and project management courses to improve the process of changing the rules.

We can not even find out easily what has to happen after step 1 - because website says on top of the page step 2 has changed and is NOT xyz anymore, if you look for details further down the page, step 2 describes what it is NOT anymore according to the top of the page.

As my new manager always says 'Hi Ho' we will find a solution.
Hi Ho ..... we will see.