Savannah Scouting: The Important Stuff

Mr. B and I spent a few days in Savannah to work on wedding details, eat too much delicious food, and enjoy beautiful weather.  This is an entry in a recap of that trip. 

The most important part of this trip was meeting with the man who will marry us, Reverend Enoch Hendry.  During our search for the right church, we did not even think about finding a church with a good pastor.  We did not know who would marry us but we knew we didn't want it to be a "stranger."  Well, once we found Trinity United Methodist Church, our officiant became a no-brainer.  The service we attended was so powerful.  It was rare for a pastor to move me as much as Rev. Hendry did.  We both left the service wondering if this was it - if this was the man who would marry us. 

The outside of our beautiful church

We thought about it for a few weeks and finally decided to see if it was even an option--deciding that if Rev. Hendry was willing and able, we would use him as our officiant.  He was!  In an effort to not feel like strangers we decided that we would visit with him whenever we were in town.  This trip provided the perfect opportunity and we met him for coffee at one of the best coffee places I've been to, The Coffee Fox.  In order to give him some background, we emailed him a letter outlining a lot of our major milestones and details about our lives.  We met with him for about an hour and had such a great time.  I already feel like he knows us pretty well and I am excited to meet with him again.

A history of the church

Although we were not able to go inside the church, we did get a good view of the outside and the square where it is located, Telfair Square. 

I think this square will be a beautiful place to take family pictures before we take the bridal party elsewhere for portraits.

One other item we attempted to handle during the trip was parking.  In Savannah you can rent metered spaces for a set period of time and we thought this would be helpful in front of the church for our families and Day Of Coordinator.  The address we found for where to go do this was an empty field near train tracks in a very sketchy neighborhood.  Hmmm...  Looks like we need to just mail the form in.




































The final item we crossed of our list before heading out of town was a major one - we got our marriage license!  Ack!  Georgia does not have a waiting period and they also do not require you get married within a certain number of days of getting your license.  So--we did it!  It was rather uneventful--just hand over your license and some money, say you are not related, and there you have it!  I just need to make sure I don't lose it in the next few months...

We headed back to Tallahassee, confident we were ahead of the game.  It felt so good to get a lot of these things done and I am getting more and more excited for October to just be here already.

How did you decide who would be your officiant?  Anyone else get their marriage license five months before their wedding? 

(All photos are personal.)