180 days left to go!

That's right everyone! Only 180 DAYS LEFT TO GOOOOOO. That's 180 days too many if you ask me, but, alas, I do not have a time machine and must resort to praying for patience, patience, and more patience. You should probably join me on that one because so far it isn't working hahaha :)

I apologize for my lack of blogging the past month or two. Planning was in a bit of a hiatus until last weekend when Graym and I looked through a planning checklist and discovered we were a bit overdue for a few things. Now, once again, wedding mode has kicked in I have become the planning Nazi. Poor Graym; every free moment we have I try to fill in with wedding stuff: from registries to flower and cake appointments, invitations to honeymoon reservations. You name it, we've worked on it this past week. The biggest things are the flowers, cake, chair rentals, and honeymoon reservations. I have my bouquet designed (see it here) but I still have to order the dahlias for the bridesmaids as well as the corsages for the other members of the bridal party. Thankfully Graym decided he liked the look of pocket squares more than boutonnieres so we get to save a little money that way. The cake...who knows whats going on with the cake right now haha. We have one appointment set with a lady we loved but whether she can do it is still up in the air and I have no clue what I want it to look like. As long as it's delicious and doesn't look like a 4 year-old made it, I'm a happy girl. For chairs, we would like to rent gold chiavari chairs instead of using the yucky black chairs that our venue provides us with. However, those puppies rent for an average $6/chair and since I can't find any rental facilities within 45min of our venue we'd have to pay quite the delivery/pick-up fee as well. We'll see what happens with those guys... Lastly, but never least, the honeymoon. We have our room booked but flights are still in the air. Tickets are going to cost around $1100 for the two of us but we're hoping to score something a little cheaper. We've begun scoping out some fun things to do on our trip, like horseback riding, jet skiing, and snorkeling, so that we can come up with a budget and decide what we'd like to put on our honeymoon registry (that's right folks! Instead of buying us a vacuum cleaner or bed spread, you can buy us dinner on the beach or scuba lessons. How fun is that!?). Soon we'll have to start making those reservations and really begin planning out our trip.

Wow, that was a lot...and it's only the beginning. Registries have been asked to be completed sooner rather than later now that my girls are getting the bridal shower under way and I have learned that Graym is not quite as decorative a person as I am. He finds my need for extra pillows, wall hangings, pretty vases, and napkin rings quite silly and feels our registry should be filled with necessities and not luxuries (ok, I'll admit we have no use for napkin rings and I put them on there just to drive Graym crazy, but we only have about 120 things on our registry right now which is less than the number of people we're inviting. I think my decorations are perfectly legitimate (if anything they bring the registry count up) and who wants a boring house anyways??)

Now that planning is well under way I'll be blogging more often to keep you all informed :) I'll definitely be needing a few opinions here and there too so make sure to keep on reading!!