Rollin' In Style...

Miah booked the Limo today. Aristocat Limo's will be our wheels for the wedding day! It would have been cool to have the limo and the limo driver from the movie The Wedding Singer, but alas, that is just not realistic.




(the limo pictured above is NOT the actual limo for our wedding, it is merely Miah wishing for a limo like this at our wedding).

Making Progress....

A lot has been happening as the days countdown. We have been very busy, and it's only getting busier:

-We've just been emailed the proofs for our wedding invitations and we love them. We can't wait to get them out! Hopefully we'll be sending those out in early August.

-The tuxedo's have been picked out and the fittings will commence. We got a great deal from President Tuxedo because:
1. Ang went to a bridal show over a year ago and got a big coupon (and we all love coupons).
2. We have a large bridal party, and because of the size, we got an ever larger discount!
The tuxedo's are sharp. We wanted something a little different, but nothing drastic.

-This weekend we finally came up with our table centerpiece's for the reception hall. We were stumped! Through the help and creativity of Miah's Aunt Claudia, we have something really beautiful and simple to decorate each table. Plus, it's extremely inexpensive!

-We've met with Pastor Smith a few more times! Our marriage class is actually a lot of fun. We scored off the charts on our compatibility test. We're learning a lot more about each other too, which is great and we're growing in our faith together--which is priceless. We have a couple more meetings to attend. Pastor Smith has arrainged a meeting for us with a member of the congregation who is a professional financial investor to go over finances, budgeting, etc in the life of newlweds. We're both fiscally conservative, but we have a lot to learn and this will be a great way to gain some valuable advice. It should be a lot of fun. Our pastor is a great guy, we absolutely love him--even though he's a St. Louis Cardinals fan too (but we believe he is a Tiger's fan first, which is a good thing). We have many Tiger/Cardinal rivalries in the Hoehner family! 2006 still haunts us....

-The shower is just around the corner. Ang's mom has been working her butt off and has come up with some awesome games and prizes, and some beautiful and fun decorations. We're very excited about the shower. Ang's cousin is catering the event, so we know the food is going to be great. Plus, Miah and the men will be serving the ladies, which will be very nice!!!

-We also have settled on the wedding favor for our guests to take home. It's a surprise!

-We had an official taste-testing at the reception hall. We were blown away at how good the food tasted. Being that we're both "food lovers", this might be the most exciting development for us over the past few weeks!!!

-Miah ordered his bridal party gift for his Best Man and groomsmen. Being a large group of guys with all different backgrounds and interests, he wanted to find something interesting that all the guys might enjoy and get some real use out of. Something different than the usual men's bridal party gift. It too is a surpise! Ang also ordered her gifts for her Maid of Honor and bridesmaids! Guess what? That is also a surprise!

-The wedding rings have arrived! We have to pick them up from the jeweler, but they are beautiful. Cameron, our jeweler, is amazing and if you live in the Metro-Detroit area and want a terrific, personable, creative, honest jeweler with absolutely gorgeous jewelery, go to Premier Jewelers. Tell 'em Miah sent you!

PREMIER JEWELERS:

13474 15 Mile Rd Sterling Heights, MI 48312 (586) 268-0260

There is still so much more to do! We'll do better at updating this thing, we promise!

We look forward to seeing you all very soon!

God Bless!

-Miah & Ang

HOTEL ROOM INFO

Wow! We really haven't updated this since January? So much is happening right now with the wedding plans. We're just trying to tie up all the loose ends and get things ready since we are only 81 days away! AHHHHH!!!!!!!! Ang had her bachelorette party a few weeks ago, the shower is coming up in about 2 weeks and we found a place to live! All good things with many, many more to come!

We have booked a block of hotel rooms for the night of the wedding at the Residence Inn for our out of town guests and anyone interested in staying the night. The hotel is an all suites hotel which full kitchens and seperate bedrooms from the living room. They are very nice rooms and we got an extremely great deal! Each room has 1 queen size bed and a pull out sofa. The hotel does have an outdoor pool but whether or not it will be in open in October is still unknown. We're hoping to reach our minimum of 15 rooms so that the hotel will provide a shuttle to and from the reception. Here is the information that is needed in order to make your reservations:

Residence Inn Warren
30120 Civic Center North
Warren, MI 48093
800-331-3131
****Mention the Mrowka/Hoehner wedding to get the discount!!!!!!
The reference # is 1-WHMAMH.

http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dtwri-residence-inn-detroit-warren/

The cut-off date for the booking is September 18 so please start making your reservations soon in order to get a room before they are all booked up! If you do call for a room and they tell you that the block is completely booked let one of us know before making your reservations. We should be able to add rooms to the block for the discounted price. If you have any other questions please let us know.

Well stay tuned for lots of new things happening!!!!!!!! We'll see you all soon!

Love,

Ang and Miah

Rose Are Red, Violets Are Blue, We've Found Our Florist...

We booked our florist today! After meeting with different companies the last several weeks, we booked the first person we met with: Katie from Courtyard Flowers. That seems to be a trend so far...the first vendor is usually the one we like.

We knew that she was the one, but we did our due dillegence by interviewing other florists to compare prices and to gather more ideas. Eventually, none could compare with Katie.

We look forward to working with her. Her prices are the best we've seen in Metro-Detroit and she has a wonderful personality. Another big factor was that she is young, but experienced, and owns her own business.

With the all the economic problems we've had in this state, it was important for us to seek out small-business owners or family-owned vendors instead of the big corporate names. We are both big supporters of small-business owners and Katie's business will most definitely be booming in the near future. She is hip, young, personable and very creative.

Feel free to check out her site at: http://www.courtyardflowers.net/

That's one more thing to check off our list!

That's all for now!

The Latest Happenings....

Now that we've survived the month of December, we're settling into a grove and getting back on track with our wedding planning. There hasn't been a whole lot of major developments, but some small things we've accomplished:

Miah designed our Save The Date cards! We found a cheaper way to do it ourselves and save a ton of money. We bought our own paper (Joann Fabrics), our own card stock (Joann's again), our own envelopes and labels (on sale at Office Max) and we used Kinko's to mass print in high quality color. The bulk of the cost will be with postage, but we have some ideas to save there as well. We'll post a pic of the card soon! It's not as fancy as the professional wedding graphics/invitation designers use, but we like it and we didn't feel like spending $300-$400 on save-the-date cards. We've been assembling them the last couple of weeks, which has been quite a fun experience. Miah has a cutting board, so we've been cutting and glueing in our "free" time. Ha, free time. Ang is a master with glue, Miah is the master of the cutting board. We are happy to report that he did not lose a finger in the process.

We were shopping at Target this week and came across some neat items in their clearance section, all of which were "fall themed." Among the cool little items were these glass pumpkin candle holders, so we bought a couple on the cheap to add a little flavor to the hall decor. We're keeping our eyes open at many places for little things like this.

We met with our first florist. We really like her. We're going to check out other florists, but we have a feeling this first florist might be the one. There will be more to report on the Flower aspect soon.....

There was some more good news (i.e. saving money). We contacted the hall about discounts for kids, and we found out the kids eat at half price! That's a huge cost saver. Not only that, kids who are younger than a determined age eat free! Even better! With the hall constituting the largest part of our budget, we have saved some nice coin. Good news!

That's pretty much it for now. We'll have more to report pretty soon....

Until next time, take care!

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR!

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. With 2009 almost upon us, we would like to wish all of our friends and family a safe, happy and prosperous New Year!

We are about about 10 months away until "The Big Day." 2008 was a great year and it flew by fast. Thanks to all our friends and family who made 2008 such a memorable one.

Here's to a great, exciting year!!!

Love,

Miah & Ang

OUR ENGAGEMENT PICS HAVE ARRIVED

We have just received our engagement pics and are excited to share them with you! They were taken at the Henry Ford/Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI. We hope you like! Please let us know which ones you really like!

http://www.pictage.com/client/event.do?event=581806

Our photographer did a great job, we are tremendously pleased.