So, it took us awhile to get together the engagement announcement to go in both the Holliston and the Athol local papers. At the beginning of April we finally had a picture I was happy with. I was being very picky about this and I think that’s why it took so long. We didn’t have formal pictures taken – and of course our photographer just emailed me yesterday asking if we wanted to do that and now I’m thinking about it – so I just wanted a nice candid where I didn’t look silly or have like 8 visible chins. Is that too much to ask?!

So I filled out all the information for the Athol Daily News and from their website you can submit it via email with a jpeg version of the photo. I thought, “This is perfect!” yeah, I was wrong. So weeks have gone by now and still no picture or announcement in the paper. Not that this is a huge deal, but I started to worry. I mean there was a large event in my town this month – The 45th Annual River Rat Race, so I figured we had been put on the back burner. I just got an email from Mom and apparently they can’t find the email I sent.  Their quote to her was “yeah, we lose them a lot”. WOW, hilarious.

I have just REsubmitted the announcement and hope to see it in the paper soon. I’ve been joking to Mitch that they were just waiting until they had enough room on the front page for us – Local Celebrity To Be Married – apparently I’m not as popular in Athol as I thought.

-Molly