After my foray into the world of linens, I realized two things. 1) I am really indecisive. 2) I needed a better picture/direction for the wedding.
I can't do anything about the first one right now but I did get to thinking about the second problem. This is what I came up with:
Sam and I like to travel. We've both been all over the world. We've also spent a lot of time apart and had to correspond via email, skype, and even letters when he was in basic training. Sam also works on planes, which links to traveling.
Ergo, our wedding is going to have a vintage travel theme. I haven't figured out all the details yet but I've got some cool ideas working in my head. My mom and I even found a great "antique" globe and some wooden bi-planes at Marshall's (on sale!).
I also tweaked my colors a little bit too. Imagine a deep reds and purples with some light buttery/lemon yellow to lighten it up. I'm excited to finally have a vision so hopefully I can pull everything together.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Happy Ever After
I just finished reading Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts (it's the fourth book in the bride quartet series) and I am so ready to get married!! The series is about four friends who use their individual talents to run an amazing wedding business called Vows. Each book is from the perspective of one of the friends and how they fall in love, etc. Total romance novel! Anyway- it just gave me all these warm fuzzies and I'm so excited about not just the wedding but BEING married to Sam- my happy ever after just can't come soon enough!
At the same time- I still have so much to do! Today I'm working on the Save the Dates and my wedding website and then going through my engagement pictures to figure out which ones we want to print! Here's a little sneak peek at one of my favs--
Mom and I went to the last bridal show I'm going to go to yesterday with the intentions of finding someone to make our cake. I'm not sure if I just ate too many cake samples but by the end of it I didn't want to even think about cake any more, BUT I did set 3 appointments to look at dresses in the next month! I finally have a theme in mind so I know what I'm looking for now. Hopefully I'll find it soon! wish me luck!
At the same time- I still have so much to do! Today I'm working on the Save the Dates and my wedding website and then going through my engagement pictures to figure out which ones we want to print! Here's a little sneak peek at one of my favs--
Mom and I went to the last bridal show I'm going to go to yesterday with the intentions of finding someone to make our cake. I'm not sure if I just ate too many cake samples but by the end of it I didn't want to even think about cake any more, BUT I did set 3 appointments to look at dresses in the next month! I finally have a theme in mind so I know what I'm looking for now. Hopefully I'll find it soon! wish me luck!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Less than 9 months away!
We've made it to 2011 and that means that I'm getting married this year!!! It also means that the wedding is less than 9 months away and I still have SO much to do! We did get a few more things done while Sam was home- including getting him fitted for his tux. He picked one with a mandarin collar- not my favorite but like he said- "I get to pick my dress, he should get to pick his tux" So I'm going to grin and bear it and let it go.
I went to spend some quality time with my MOH last weekend (partially for some much needed girl time and partially as a distraction from my recently returned-to-Japan fiancé). We went to a bridal show in SA- mostly to sample cake. We found out that there are some really NOT good cakes out there- flavor wise, which is way more important to me than anything else. Some were just kinda boring, a few were really dry and one- I kid you not- tasted like cornbread! However, there was one shining gem amongst the coals. Cakes and More brought samples of their citrus cake (mix of lemon, lime and orange) that was AMAZING! It was so light and airy and the frosting was a great compliment to the cake flavors. We liked it so much we even snuck back by and got a second sample (shh! don't tell!) : ) All in all, it was definitely fun!
Everything has gone pretty smoothly thus far but I did run into a little snafu last weekend. I had an appointment to pick out table linens and I could not make a decision. I had an idea in my head and they just didn't have the right shade of red. So then I was looking at all of these different colors and thinking about changing my whole color scheme but then I didn't want to do that on the fly- it was a fairly traumatic experience. Nevertheless, Jeremy, the guy that was helping us was very patient and let me leave with some samples so I could think things over. Still haven't really figured it out, but we're going to a show this weekend because we also need a cake and a few other miscellaneous things, so maybe I'll find something there... fingers crossed!!
I went to spend some quality time with my MOH last weekend (partially for some much needed girl time and partially as a distraction from my recently returned-to-Japan fiancé). We went to a bridal show in SA- mostly to sample cake. We found out that there are some really NOT good cakes out there- flavor wise, which is way more important to me than anything else. Some were just kinda boring, a few were really dry and one- I kid you not- tasted like cornbread! However, there was one shining gem amongst the coals. Cakes and More brought samples of their citrus cake (mix of lemon, lime and orange) that was AMAZING! It was so light and airy and the frosting was a great compliment to the cake flavors. We liked it so much we even snuck back by and got a second sample (shh! don't tell!) : ) All in all, it was definitely fun!
Everything has gone pretty smoothly thus far but I did run into a little snafu last weekend. I had an appointment to pick out table linens and I could not make a decision. I had an idea in my head and they just didn't have the right shade of red. So then I was looking at all of these different colors and thinking about changing my whole color scheme but then I didn't want to do that on the fly- it was a fairly traumatic experience. Nevertheless, Jeremy, the guy that was helping us was very patient and let me leave with some samples so I could think things over. Still haven't really figured it out, but we're going to a show this weekend because we also need a cake and a few other miscellaneous things, so maybe I'll find something there... fingers crossed!!
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