Bumbershoot

As both of our mothers have noticed in the past couple of weeks, Seattle's annual music and arts festival—Bumbershoot—has been inconsiderate enough to pick our wedding day for its start date. This is actually both good and bad news.

The bad news is that once tickets go on sale, it might become hard to find hotel rooms in town. Last year the tickets didn't go on sale till mid-June, the line-up wasn't announced until July, and publicity didn't start in earnest until the summer, so it's no cause for panic, but it's another reason that it would be better to book rooms sooner rather than later. We have a block of rooms at the Edgewater, and Melinda's mum is kindly organising a block for us in another hotel about half a mile away, so please get in touch with us when you want to make arrangements.

The good news is that it's likely to be a good festival, with an impressive line-up, so you might want to go. I've never actually been, but Melinda had fun last year, and here's a review from a few years earlier. They will be selling one- and two-day tickets, and because the festival venue is really close to our reception venue, it would work well to stay in one place and spend Friday with us and the weekend at Bumbershoot.