January 28, 2008
*WHEW*
Wedding invitations are out!!!! 2 days late but they're OUT! That's a huge load off my back. Now I can just check all the little detail things off the list over the next 6 weeks. I'm going in to get my dress altered this week as well as meeting with the florists for both ceremony and reception. Two weeks ago I finalized music with Justin (oooo boy am I excited for that!). We're also doing a cake tasting this week!! I'm REALLY excited for that haha! We went through old pictures of Matt this past weekend and next weekend I'll go through old pictures of me for our slideshow. I'll have to post some of my favorites (Matt in tights anyone?) Bridesmaids' & groomsmens' gifts are ready and we've almost reached a decision on tuxes :)
January 16, 2008
January 15, 2008
Invitation disasters :-/
So my concept was good, my execution just was lacking. So I sucked it up and ordered invitations today. That actually relieved 99% of the stress and reason I've been in a bad mood for the past few days. The remaining 1% is worrying about the budget but I know that that will work itself out too. Here's what the invitations will look like now...
The thought of leaving this week for 5 days is rather disconcerting but I just keep trying to remember what Matt tells me when I tell him how stressed I am "in the end we'll be married and THAT'S what really matters". *sigh*
The thought of leaving this week for 5 days is rather disconcerting but I just keep trying to remember what Matt tells me when I tell him how stressed I am "in the end we'll be married and THAT'S what really matters". *sigh*
January 6, 2008
On the fast track to a wedding...
Apparently 3-month engagements are so rare that Jr. Highers needed to start the rumor that I'm pregnant and that's why we're getting married so fast! But oh well, that's their problem (although I do wonder why they would think that with me still serving in Student Ministry but maybe they just didn't think through the rumor).
In other news...or maybe not so "other" since it also has to do with the wedding (what doesn't nowadays!?) we got a huge chunk of my to-do list done yesterday. We registered at Target & Macy's (although everything we registered for at Target in store somehow didn't get saved so I have to do it again, unless they can fix it when I call tomorrow), I got my little black dress & Matt got a formal jacket (items we figured would be good to have on the honeymoon), I took Matt to meet our reception coordinator and see the reception location, we bought our wedding bands, and we bought our attendants' gifts.
Awesome story about Matt's jacket too (I told so many people at church the story, I know, but I get excited about bargains like this!!!). When we went to register in store at Macy's, the lady told us about their rewards program that you can have if you have a Macy's credit card (you get 5% Macy's cash back on everything people buy you off your registry) so we opened one just to get that. Well, because we opened a new account, we got 20% everything yesterday and today plus yesterday they had their huge "One-day Sale". So we didn't think to use it until we stopped at the Stonewood Mall (we did our registering at the Brea Mall) to visit Zales for our wedding bands. Then we realized "oh we should look for his jacket and my dress NOW while we have the 20% off". It took a while to find jackets that weren't outrageously priced (even with the discount) but we finally found some that were 75% off. They were really nice cashmere blend Alfani (I'm guessing a name brand???) and they were in the men's formalwear department and their retail was $295. They only had charcoal or black in his size (they also had brown, but all L or XL) or else we would have gotten him two...why? Because being 75% off and then adding our 20% we ended up paying $15 for a $300 jacket!! I joked that we should get them as groomsmen's gifts they were so cheap! Anyways, we took a brown one up to the cashier and asked if they could search other stores for it in his size and they supposedly had two there at that store and Brea had 6 but the sale was only yesterday and we're NOT gonna pay that much! lol
ANYWAYS...This week on my to-do list is:
Make invitations
Start working on the handmade portions of my bridesmaids gifts
Pre-marital counseling homework (verse memorization)
Buy supplies to make the ring bearer's pillow like this
In other news...or maybe not so "other" since it also has to do with the wedding (what doesn't nowadays!?) we got a huge chunk of my to-do list done yesterday. We registered at Target & Macy's (although everything we registered for at Target in store somehow didn't get saved so I have to do it again, unless they can fix it when I call tomorrow), I got my little black dress & Matt got a formal jacket (items we figured would be good to have on the honeymoon), I took Matt to meet our reception coordinator and see the reception location, we bought our wedding bands, and we bought our attendants' gifts.
Awesome story about Matt's jacket too (I told so many people at church the story, I know, but I get excited about bargains like this!!!). When we went to register in store at Macy's, the lady told us about their rewards program that you can have if you have a Macy's credit card (you get 5% Macy's cash back on everything people buy you off your registry) so we opened one just to get that. Well, because we opened a new account, we got 20% everything yesterday and today plus yesterday they had their huge "One-day Sale". So we didn't think to use it until we stopped at the Stonewood Mall (we did our registering at the Brea Mall) to visit Zales for our wedding bands. Then we realized "oh we should look for his jacket and my dress NOW while we have the 20% off". It took a while to find jackets that weren't outrageously priced (even with the discount) but we finally found some that were 75% off. They were really nice cashmere blend Alfani (I'm guessing a name brand???) and they were in the men's formalwear department and their retail was $295. They only had charcoal or black in his size (they also had brown, but all L or XL) or else we would have gotten him two...why? Because being 75% off and then adding our 20% we ended up paying $15 for a $300 jacket!! I joked that we should get them as groomsmen's gifts they were so cheap! Anyways, we took a brown one up to the cashier and asked if they could search other stores for it in his size and they supposedly had two there at that store and Brea had 6 but the sale was only yesterday and we're NOT gonna pay that much! lol
ANYWAYS...This week on my to-do list is:
Make invitations
Start working on the handmade portions of my bridesmaids gifts
Pre-marital counseling homework (verse memorization)
Buy supplies to make the ring bearer's pillow like this
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