Uh oh, looks like there is a major competing event for the August 28-30 weekend. "Outside Lands" is a massive multi-stage concert held at Golden Gate park in San Francisco. It's huge.

This year's headliners are the Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Dave Mathew's Band, Incubus, Black Eyed Peas, Thievery Corporation, and MIA, just to name a few. If you're too old to recognize any of those bands, please note that apparently Tom Jones is performing (live), too. (Check out the full lineup on the Outside Lands website.)

Those of you on the fence about attending our wedding have another reason to come to San Francisco.

What this also means for our guests is potentially a large influx of people coming to the City this weekend, which means you should all book your hotel rooms ASAP, or you'll end up in a van down by the river, or worse, the Holiday Inn without free WiFi or continental breakfast.

Finally some progress to update everyone. This is a "Wedding Blog", after all. We can say with pretty good certainty that we have the following items finally picked out, after much research and debate:

• Photographer (Marc & Phoebe of This is iT Photography).
• Musician for the ceremony and cocktail reception
• Floral centerpiece arrangement (this one, oddly enough, was the subject of much debate)
• Invitations (ok, we're close...very close. )

More information than you could ever want about the Event. This is mainly for out of town folks, and anyone who has the time to read this and tolerates excessive verbosity.

1. Can you tell us more about the rooms at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel?