Cause Bob wrote it so sorry in advance.

Because we're not the best at planning these kind of things and enjoy having some procrastination pressure to help and so we thought we'd share that same sense of pressure with all our loved ones. You're welcome!

4518 Troost Avenue Kansas City, MO 64110

Fire House KC

It's an old renovated fire station off Troost that Bob used to run by and dream of getting inside. But it's worth pointing out that Kacie is actually the one who found it as a venue option.

There is limited parking right next door but they have a deal with the church across the street to use their lot which is more on the 45th & Forest Ave. side. We are required to hire security during the event to help guide parking and watch over the lot so your briefcases full of cash and jewels should be safe in your cars.

For a handy parking map go HERE AND SCROLL DOWN TO "PARKING MAP".

Sunday October 5th, 2025

Did you not see the handy countdown up top?! The whole thing starts at 5pm with the ceremony hopefully happening promptly at 5:15pm. So maybe try to plan and arrive accordingly. We were gonna do a bit of booze and food time and then do the ceremony but there's a whole thing about how long we can serve booze and blah blah dumb rules so we're doing the ceremony first thing right outta the gate and then doing food and booze all night.

Part of me wants to just leave some booze out laying around and be like "oh well we weren't actually SERVING booze before 5:30" but I think we do have a "helper" person from the venue there all night which I assume doubles as a total NARC so I'm not sure how much we can play dumb here. So I guess feel free to "pregame" in the parking lot and check out how brave we're feeling with the self serve option.

We'll be fairly traditional and formal cause we like to play dress up so there will be suits and dresses present. But really you can wear what you like. I feel like we don't get to be be fancy very often so I kinda enjoy kicking it up a notch but if you don't want to then feel free to be more casual. I'm hoping for at least one bolo tie and jeans.

If you need color inspiration expect to see lots of plants so think along the lines of "cozy fallish plant vibes" and "earthy" <<--- DIRECT QUOTE FROM KACIE.

This was addressed above ya goofy knucklehead but for search optimization I'll spell it out individually here as well.

There is limited parking right next door but they have a deal with the church across the street to use their lot which is more on the 45th & Forest Ave. side. We are required to hire security during the event to help guide parking and watch over the lot so your briefcases full of cash and jewels should be safe in your cars.

For a handy parking map go HERE AND SCROLL DOWN TO "PARKING MAP".

We've been around enough years where some of your kids are legitimately our friends and that's a beautiful thing and if they want to come then by all means bring em. That being said you feel free to take this as a well deserved adult date time and fly solo.

It's also maybe worth noting that it IS taking place in an old rennovated fire house and though it's been thoroughly updated there's still stairs and some solid potential for splinters and whatnot. I ain't saying the place isn't fit for younger kids cause that would be an extreme opinion but feel free to draw your own safety conclusions from these limited details.

TLDR; Sure if you want to. Just please let us know if you are so we can adjust the numbers accordingly.

Again I'll reiterate that we got some decent years under out belts and frankly we have plenty of stuff (probably way more than we need...) so we appreciate the idea but I think we're set. If you're feeling dangerously generous I guess we'd be open to tossing something towards our honeymoon/margarita fund (LOCATED HERE). If anyone is curious we're headed to San Diego for a bit after the ceremony to get outta town and thinking something completely nuts like Switzerland in the Spring of 2026. Or maybe if you got a favorite restaurant you think we should hit we'd figure that out or whatever.

Due to our tremendous amount of hispanic heritage we'll be rolling with a Mexican (probably technically Tex Mex?) layout of chow. We're talking like nachos, chips, salsa, queso, burritos, enchiladas, fajitas all on a serve yourself buffet kinda deal.

This started out as a joke because Kacie and I (and definitely her parents) do consume a statistically significant amount of Mexican food with a special affinity for Margarita's "Macho Nacho". Eventually the joke became very real and we rolled with it.

There will also be vegetarian options if you're not feeling the meat game. Vegan might be a bit more limited cause it's possible there will just be a ludacris amount of cheese but we haven't officially made the menu yet so if you're reading this just know I'll update this part when we have a more solidified version of what's going on.

I'm glad you asked. You bet your ass you can. You can also be a totally responsible and reasonable adult and consume alcohol at a rational pace while remaining hydrated. If you pull this off you will be admired and respected for exercising self control. I mean this sincerely. It probably sounds like I'm being a glib horse's ass about this but I promise I'm not. I genuinely love this approach to good times and will be impressed by anyone who can pull this off. We will also obviously have plenty of non booze liquids too. Probably some with bubbles and some without.

But now that that's out of the way it is my pleasure to announce that we're just gonna go to CostCo and be one of those people rolling out with a big ol cart full of booze. This has been a dream of mine for many years so I'm really glad it gets to be included on such a magical day.

Also since we're deep in a Mexican theme here you can expect an insane amount of margaritas. We're thinking maybe we can even do a keg of margaritas and have it on tap. This is still theoretical at the moment but we got high hopes.

But there is a legit "bar" area and we will have an official bartender (cause the rules dictate this as a requirement) so we'll also have beers and wines and some mixed stuff all available in a standard open bar situation. Feel free to bring some money bucks to tip this bartender if you're still open to that sorta thing since it'll be a friend of ours and we want them to feel good about the whole night.

OH HEY THANK YOU FOR ASKING!

You can go HERE

No and No. But I assure you this has been at least mildly discussed and explored.

But in case you need your kitty fix at any time even during the ceremony feel free to refer to the following image of Kitty (Janet Yellen) and Bruce Wayne relaxing in a condescending manner on our temporary railing in the loft.

It's funny we get the venue for seriously like 12 hours on the day. So you'd think "ohhh buddy let's get nuts" would be the working attitude. But again due to rules and blah blah we can only serve booze for 4 hours. I'm sure it's a liability thing with some type of correlation to degenerate thirsts so I suppose I get it but it still feels kinda like a bit of a bait & switch. But I digress....

So booze ends at like 9:30pm and guests gotta be gone by 10pm we gotta the joint cleaned up and cleared out by 11pm. If anyone wants to keep the party going we'd been kicking around the idea of going to Harry's in Westport since they're open late on Sundays. But we're open to suggestions.

We're operating under the assumption that if you're reading this you either are from KC or have extensive knowledge of the city. When you also couple that with there not being a whole lot of y'all in general we opted to not bother with the whole reserved "block of rooms" thing at a hotel of any kind. We'll be fairly close to the Plaza area if that helps. I dunno read a map and some Google reviews. I have faith in your ability to figure this out.

Assuming the weather cooperates the ceremony will be held behind the venue in this super cute little courtyard area. The average temperature for that time of year is like 72 degrees and we expect it to be relatively brief (like 15 minutes or so?) but please plan some outdoor attire accordingly if we catch an unseasonably brisk silly day.

If it's raining I figure we'll just toss together a Plan B somehow inside. I haven't even bothered to entertain this as a real possibility yet but obviously as the day approaches we'll learn a bit more. If only there was a weather model where we could get a sense of what the general weather conditions might be weeks or months in advance....hmmm someone should look into that.

And if anyone is curious at the moment Mark Lombard and Justin Nance are slated to be our tag team officients and perform the actual ceremony but it's possible Mark demands to dedicate too much time to a Q&A session about time traveling transgender dinosaurs and we have to pull the plug on the whole daggum thing. If that happens expect an even more insane Plan B. Let me know if anyone else attending is a registered officient in the state of Missouri please. I'd rather not have to perform our ceremony.