Are we still a go for your knighting ceremony on the 23rd James?
I contacted RQP last week to inquire about getting my spurs strapped, I did indeed order them without straps and didn't notice (since the straps are on another page than the spurs - thank you for mentioning that with Sir Nathan's spurs or I wouldn't have known until they got here). I am shooting for the 16th since I will be in NJ the 22nd for a birthday party and going straight to MD Renn Fest from there (getting up at 6am and driving 5 hours straight will likely leave me a bit haggered, if I can even make it up and out that early). I'm planning to bring the kids (our "semi-adopted nieces/nephew that call us mom & dad but aren't technically ours"), and I may have the nephew on hand and in soft kit for part of the ceremony as a standard-bearer. The 23rd is also "day of wrong" so I was planning to wear a non-medieval kit.
I wanted to get Allan to modify/replace my greaves from my kit so that they would fit to "finish off" my kit (I got my fancy metal shoes yesterday and a helm a few weeks ago), but that isn't an option now
and a local armorer I contacted never responded to me for over a month now. I had no luck getting BJ (who did Sir Nathan's surcoat) to respond to me from 6 weeks ago, even with Sir Nathan prompting her, so I'm trying to find someone who could do a surcoat, and time is quickly ticking away with little success.
If the 16th isn't possible due to lack of spurs/unfinished kit the 23rd is my fallback date. I've got my ceremony about 90% written, just need to revise and review some of the little details and will post it for feedback and approval once I finish that. If things still aren't ready on the 23rd I'm not sure what to do from there; I'm crossing my fingers and hoping the 16th or 23rd pans out. I wish I had a definite answer.