10 days to go and 3 years together!

Today is 10 days before our wedding! I am getting SO excited (have I mentioned that yet????) 

Tonight we are dropping off the final paperwork/payment for the caterers and I will get the payment for the Eisner together to be mailed tomorrow...then all paperwork and payments are in! That will be a huge weight off my mind since almost every night I have a dream that I forgot to pay someone and they cancelled our date because of it. Thank goodness that didn't happen!

***ROMANTIC STORY ABOUT KATE AND JIM!!!!*****

Today (Sept. 23rd) Is the day that Jim and I made our relationship official three years ago! I remember it fondly..It was right around my birthday and Jim took me to downtown Chicago (Millennium Park) and to the art museum for my birthday present/adventure...we hadn't really known each other long so I told him I didn't want him to buy me a gift, but if he insisted on doing something, I wanted an adventure! It was after we went through the art museum (Jim was the MOST PATIENT guy ever when I was so excited about a particular self-portrait of Vincent VanGogh that I stood in front of it for a solid 25 minutes examining every brush stroke and Jim did not once ask me if we could continue on and even let me revisit it for 5 more minutes on the way out of the museum. What a sweetheart) It was during those last 5 minutes with not even a protest of the amount of time that I spent in front of that one painting that I realized I was stupid if I didn't exclusively date Jim. On our way back to the car we walked through Millennium park and stopped at what I call "the Bean" - that large reflective sculpture-on what that year was the first day of fall, my favorite season, and told Jim (to his reflection in the bean) that I was "falling" for him and wished nothing more than for him to be my boyfriend. :) 

That seems like it was a long time ago! Funny though, if you would have told me then that, three years from that day I would be preparing for our wedding I don't think I would have been surprised. I just knew that Jim was going to be the one.

12 DAYS!

WOW only 12 days until our wedding!!!!! I can't believe 5 months has flown by so quickly!!!

I had the final walk through last week and I feel better about the details coming together now....we did have a change in schedule from the invitation....the event coordinators suggested that we cut the cake right after we are announced and right before the food starts coming out because we are doing a cupcake tree and that way none of the cupcakes "disappear" before we have the official cake cutting....I agree with that.

I spent the whole weekend getting little odds and ends for the ceremony and reception put together.

This coming saturday is my "Golden Birthday" because I am turning 27 on Sept 27th...I have had quite a few people ask me what I am doing for my Golden Birthday and I just tell them "I am getting married the weekend after....my present this year is a husband!" :)

I also think that my birthday being 1 week apart from our "anniversary" will make it easy for Jim to remember...not that I don't think he will be able to remember it... :)

We also applied for our marriage license last friday, and it will be all ready for us to pick up this friday! It feels like it is all "legal" and everything now!

Our final guest count ended up being exactly 100 people! That is the exact number that we wanted! How did that happen????

Still quite a bit of things to do before the big day, but I think it will all get done with time to spare. I am SO EXCITED to be Jim's wife and see all my friends and family all at the same time...some of which I haven't seen for years....and also to meet more of my new family! I think it is going to be a blast!

Cake tree trimming!

Well only 3 weeks to go now before the big day! Friday after work I stopped by the bakery to get the cupcake tree. Little did I know it came flat packed and I had to put it together AND decorate it! I spend a good 4 hours (and about 25 sticks of hot glue) putting the cake tier together, gluing ribbon to all the edges and gluing "precious petals" to the rest of the cake tier....but it is all ready! Now all I have to do is take it back to the bakery at least 3 days before the wedding!!!

This coming week Jim and I are applying for our marriage license, I have the final walk through at the Eisner with their staff and the caterers, and I need to tie up a few more loose ends mailing in payments and prepping things for the ceremony. I am getting really excited!!!!!


Putting together the tower for cupcakes!!!!


Leo watches from a safe distance to avoid having a "hot glue incident"
Finished! Can't wait to see it full of cupcakes!!!

ONE MONTH!!!!!

Well folks, it is CRUNCH TIME!

One month from today, I will become the happiest woman alive....Jim and I are SO excited that the big day is almost here! The wedding stuff is all coming together nicely (still a lot of work to do, but I am confident it will get done and everything will be great!)

WEDDING GUESTS:

If you haven't replied to the invitations yet, the deadline is tomorrow! Please let us know ASAP! We need to get in the counts for our cake and catering stuff shortly!

If you need to make hotel reservations, please do so ASAP! The block that we have will expire on SEPT 9th...that is this coming Wednesday. I want to make sure as many people as possible get the discount!!!

Jim and I can't wait to see all of you and have you share our special day!