So, yesterday on Facebook I announced that Joe and I had officially decided to postpone our wedding until October 2010. This was really more for the benefit of my close friends and family than the general public, but since my LiveJournal posts feed into my Facebook page, I figured I'd elaborate here for their benefit as well. (I say all of this because I don't want anyone thinking that I think information about our upcoming nuptuals is Big News or anything remotely close to that, because it's not and I don't.)

Anyway.

The long and the short of it is this: the current economic climate has left us in a financial pinch that would make it difficult to pull off even a small, intimate wedding and semi-fabulous honeymoon in Mexico. We've chewed this over every which way we can, and it's just not happening. We found ourselves making compromises that felt uncomfortable, like cutting our best friends' spouses from the guest list just so we could meet a smaller quota. We even brainstormed alternatives to taking the Mexican honeymoon, like the possibility of a quaint road trip to Myrtle Beach or some such instead. After hours and days and weeks of discussing all of these compromises, we realized that there was no plan that would make us truly happy. Which is why, despite the fact that it's already been a year since we got engaged, we decided it was in everyone's best interest if we push the wedding back to fall of next year.

The upside: Joe and I have chosen 10/10/10 as our new wedding date. Joe's really into numbers and codes, and in binary, 101010 = 42. Fans of Douglas Adams will recognize the significance immediately, but for the uninitiated, you should check out this Wiki entry here. A fall wedding also opens a lot more possibilities than a winter one; for instance, we can now hold the ceremony outdoors (something that wouldn't be wise in February). And the biggest boon of all is that it gives us more time to save up for the wedding/honeymoon we truly want, instead of something we're just settling for.

Anyway, yeah. Nothing too terribly sexy about the story, and obviously we're not thrilled about waiting another 15 months to officially become husband and wife. But at the same time, we don't HAVE to tie the knot anytime soon; it was a preference more than a necessity.

As to why I've been off the grid for a few days: I'm swamped. It's been a couple of years since I've had to usher a new book into this world, and I'd forgotten how completely exhausting all of the prep is. My web site overhaul should've gotten started months ago, but per usual, I was Last-Minute Lara, and am only just getting the last bits of content needed to slayground today. This for a site we're relaunching on Monday, in anticipation of THE SWEET LIFE OF STELLA MADISON's Tuesday release.

But finally - finally! - the bulk of the work is almost complete, and I think I might actually get to have a non-working weekend for a change.

Squee!