One of the ideas we have for the wedding (I’ll leave it to you to decide which half of ‘we’ actually came up with this idea) is to name all the tables at the reception after famous spaceships from TV and film. Here’s a partial list:

• Enterprise (from Star Trek)
• Defiant (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)
• Voyager (Star Trek Voyager)
• Serenity (Firefly)
• Liberator (Blake’s 7)
• Scorpio (Blake’s 7)
• Moya (Farscape)
• Lexx (Lexx)
• Andromeda Ascendent (Andromeda)
• White Star (Babylon 5)
• Excalibur (Crusade)
• TARDIS (Doctor Who)
• Discovery (2001)
• Leonov (2010)
• Galactica (Battlestar Galactica)
• Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)
• Heart of Gold (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
• Valley Forge (Silent Running)
• Saratoga (Space: Above and Beyond)
• Prometheus (Stargate SG1)
• Roger Young (Starship Troopers)
• Nostromo (Alien)
• Narcissus (Alien)
• Sulaco (Aliens - yes, all the ship names in the Aliens films are Conrad references)

Some of these are great names but not really suitable for a wedding, some of these are really terrible names. We won’t know how many we’ll need until we work out the seating plan. Anyone got any other suggestions? I’m sure I’ve missed loads.

It would be fun to come up with wedding themed names along the lines of those used by ships from Iain Banks’ Culture.

The mysterious number on the right (on down the bottom if you’re not getting the full stylesheet for whatever reason) is the number of days left until September 3rd 2005. This is the date we’ve got pencilled in for the wedding. With luck we’ll be able to confirm it soon.

And for the benefit of those who prefer the revolutionary calendar that’s Décade II, Septidi de Fructidor de l’Année CCXIII de la Revolution.

… when you spend more time replying to your fiancée’s blog posts and comments than you do talking to her face to face.

We’re not quite at that stage yet. Are we dear?

… we may have found a wedding venue. Lettice has checked it out and loves it. I’m having a look on Sunday. With luck the search is over and we can fix the date. Then we have, oh, four million other things to sort out.

1. I’m marrying Lettice
2. Doctor Who is back on TV in March
3. The market share of Internet Explorer will continue to fall
4. Serenity hits the cinemas in the autumn
5. The fun of watching our beloved political classes go mental in a general election