SHOES! (I hope!)

After a successful day of dress shopping last friday with "the moms" (my mom and Jim's mom) I can only say that I found a dress at David's Bridal, it was not the one that I posted way back in April, and all three of us cried when I had it on so it must be the right dress, but it will also be a surprise to everyone but the moms and my bridesmaids....gotta keep somethings a secret!

Both the moms and I thought that hot pink shoes would be really cool peeking out from under my white dress, so I have been on a search for those (I need them before my first fitting on the 11th!!!!!) Unfortunately, it seems that they stop selling hot pink satin shoes everywhere after prom season is over..so I turned to the place where you can find almost anything- EBAY!- and just ordered these shoes. Hopefully they look good in person and fit well, otherwise I think the pink shoes are out and I will have to go with white or silver...I paid for quick shipping so hopefully they get here ASAP!

We are so cute!

Here are some of the engagement photos that we really liked. By now you should have seen the save the date cards so here are the rest!

Also about 1 week till dress trying on with Mom and Mrs. Battle! Hope I can find something!!!!!

We have someone to marry us!

Yay! We met with Rev. Roger last night and he was VERY nice and very willing to help us create a ceremony that reflects what we believe and how we feel our ideal wedding ceremony would be. He has a whole library of readings/vows/things we can do in our ceremony that we can look through, get ideas, and use in any combination that we want! Yay! I think I am going to cry at my own wedding because I almost teared up last night when he was going over different things he would say.....

The Save-the-date cards are on their way to me as I type this! Hopefully they turned out well and I should be able to mail them on monday! Whopee!

So at this point I have:

The place booked

Caterers booked

cake booked

photo booth booked

photographer booked

officiant booked

dress appointment made

bridesmaid gifts purchased

invitations 90% ready to print

save-the-date cards printed and on their way to me

registered at Macy's

Wedding bands purchased

Address list done!

Still within budget!!!!!

I think we are doing pretty well considering the short time we have been engaged!

:)More later including the best couple of engagement photos! (I want to make sure everyone sees the save the date cards first before I post the other photos!!!!

Engagement photos/meeting with Rev./Save the Date Cards!

I have been productive once again! We got our engagement photos on friday (they turned out nice!) and despite the fact that neither one of us is very photogenic, there were at least 5 really good ones and we were able to find one that we wanted to use for our save-the-date cards and for our moms to put in the paper! Yay!

I also finished the save-the-date cards and uploaded them to the printer, I should have them in my hands in 7 days or less and can then stick the labels on and mail them...yay!

I also researched printers for the invites, and looked at envelopes at Broadway paper (love that store) and they have orange envelopes! yay!

Tonight at 5pm is our meeting with Rev. Roger...hopefully it goes well and then we will have the officiant checked off too!

On a side note, I had a nightmare two nights ago that no one used the traveling photo booth at our reception! AHHH! I was so upset and I woke up angry that I paid for something so cool and no one used it.....so please make sure to get into the photo booth at least once! For my sanity's sake!!!!!

Someone to marry us!!!!

Well after a mini-freak out (calling 6 different places only to find that every person who I have found so far that might be able to be our official is BOOKED on our date-the horror!) I finally found someone who, though they have another wedding earlier in the day, is available to marry us on Oct. 3rd. I had just about everything else major figured out and this seemed to be the sticky point! He has another wedding at 3pm on our day, but we were thinking of having ours at 5:30 and it is a mere 4 miles from where his first wedding of the day is, so I think everything will be fine. We are meeting with him on Monday to discuss possible stuff to include in the ceremony and other questions we might have. Hopefully he works out! He seemed really nice over the phone-unlike many of the other officials I talked to that were semi-rude! YIKES! You would think if they were the person you may have leading the ceremony for your wedding that they would answer the phone in a much nicer way! But, this guy (Rev. Roger) was very warm and friendly on the phone and chuckled at my "jokes" about freaking out.....fingers crossed!

I also called and got the appointment to try on dresses at one of our local David's bridals. The dress I am eyeing may be in stock at the store, but if not it is a 12 week wait which would put my dress in on September 26th...a mere 7 days before my wedding....eeeekk! why would it take so long?????

All that aside, things are going pretty well. That's all for now!

We got some wedding bands!

This weekend was a productive one for Jim and I! We got our address list almost completely done for the wedding stuff, I did our cost/budget in a spreadsheet instead of on pieces of paper and post it notes (excel sheets do all the math for you!), we picked out and purchased our wedding bands and we started our registering at Macys....which we will finish online because the store didn't have all the colors of stuff that we were looking at and also we did get tired of walking around with the scan gun (although it was fun at first). I think we lucked out with the registry stuff cause the lady there told us we should have gotten an appointment (who knew you needed one for that!?) but there was no one there when we got in and when we left there were like 5 couples waiting for us to finish! sheesh! We also plan to register at Lowes, probably mostly for gift cards, but maybe some tools too!!!! Anyway, it was fun.

Now for the wedding bands....Jim's is titanium so it should never dull or scratch. I think the design is very manly, which is good for a guy who doesn't wear jewelry all that much (ok, EVER) but he likes it and that is the important thing.

Mine is cool because the "dot engraving" on the edges of the diamonds matches the edges of my special ring Jim had made for me...and there is engraved leaves on the side that kind of go with my ring...plus the thickness of the ring is about the same as mine so it doesn't look too small or overpower my engagement ring. I like it. Plus it was on sale! and it came with a lifetime warranty so if anything happens to the diamonds or whatever, we can bring it in and they will fix it for free (or if my finger gets fatter and I need to have it resized) so that is cool.

We are really making progress! 

Should get the engagement photos this week and hopefully send out the save the date cards next week! Fingers crossed!!!!