That's right! Just 145 days til my handsome man and I walk down the isle. That's only 4 and a half months!! We've made some huge strides this past month and with just two big things lefts to cross of the list (florist and chair/linen rentals) we will soon be cruising into the smaller details and a less stressful time of wedding planning...or so I hope!
This past weekend was particularly awesome simply because 1) I got to spend it with some of my favorite people and 2) it was filled with lots and lots of wedding stuff :) My mom, papa, Graym, and I made the hour long trip out west to Front Royal to visit with a couple florists, check out a hotel for our out-of-town guests, and eat at our potential rehearsal dinner spot. Both florists were absolutely wonderful and extremely helpful. They loved that I came in knowing exactly what I wanted for the bridesmaids and centerpieces and were able to suggest some ideas of there own. Now we just have to wait for a quote from each and pretty much go with the cheaper of the two haha We then heading over to Stephens City and not only found the hotel to be great but the management as well! The woman we met with, Veronica, was absolutely delightful and more than excited to be showing us around. Even before we saw the rooms we knew this was a great choice due to the friendly, outstanding service. The hotel turned out to be very nice as well and included deluxe continental breakfast and a pool at half the price of other hotels in the area. Hopefully our guests will like it as much as we did! We then headed over to Roma's Greek and Italian Restaurant for lunch and once again we were blown away by the kindness and generosity of the manager and wait staff, plus the food was delicious! You can check out their website here. It has a great little space for small parties that is just the right size for our rehearsal dinner and we are so excited to be back there so soon. Oh, and did I mention their cannolis and chocolate cake (served to us on the house just for coming to check them out!) were AMAZING!! Those most definitely will be served at the rehearsal :)
It feels so great to finally have those things checked off our list. After looking at the checklist on theknot.com, we are drawing close to the little details: decorations, invitations, picking the menu, and finalizing other ideas. It's really starting to feel like the wedding is just around the corner and we couldn't be happier!
I'll be sharing more with you guys in the next few weeks. A lot has been running through my mind but with all this wedding stuff I haven't had much time to write! Plus I'll need your feedback on some ideas, so make sure you check back soon :D
Boy oh boy, we can't wait to be married!
Poll: Registries!?!?
Monday, March 12, 2012
Ok guys and gals, I've got a question for you all. Lately Graym and I have been in registry overdrive. We started last month but my gorgeous bridesmaids informed me that they'd like it done sooner rather than later since the bridal shower planning is under way and they'll need that info for the invitations. We've been quite busy putting things together but I've been left with a few questions that perhaps those of you who have been married, are getting married, or have gone to a wedding might be able to help me with...
Firstly, and the biggest question, can you have too many registries? And if so, how many registries are too many? We are currently working on registries at 2 stores and have put together a "general" registry at myregistry.com (I'll get to that in a moment). We're also putting together a honeymoon registry where guests can buy us, for example, a dinner on the water, a snorkeling trip, or horseback riding at sunset instead of the typical dinner plates, mop, or bedroom set. That brings us up to four and am tossed as to whether that is one too many. So ladies and gents, let me hear your thoughts. Do you prefer more registries where you have options instead of being limited by the items on a single or two registries, or can a limit be reached where there are just TOO many options that leave you wondering which is the best thing to buy?
Second: what are your thoughts on a "general" registry? Let me explain. Graym and I have these 2 store registries that are great and filled with various items, but one thing we just haven't been able to find at a store are dinner plates that we love. Graym and I have two different styles so finding the perfect match has been tricky. Instead, we found this site called myregistry.com where you can put items from a bunch of different places on to one registry so that as a couple you are not limited to purchasing everything from just one or two stores, just like many of us don't buy all of our household items in one place. We are using this site to put the dinnerware that we want from Pfaltzgraff so that we aren't confined by the options at the two other stores. We could also put all the registry items from the other two stores on this one place (this site can link all different store registries in one place), but weren't sure if that would be confusing. So, once again, what are you thoughts? Is a "general" registry a good idea when you have those few items you love that aren't located at the other stores? As someone buying a gift for a couple, do you find it easier when all the registry items are located on one site or does it make it confusing trying to figure out which items are from which stores?
Lastly: honeymoon registry. We think this is a great idea. I personally would love to do this for another couple and think its wonderful to be able to purchase someone a lifelong memory instead of an item (not to say that we don't need things, because we do!). What do you think? Do you like the option of being able to buy someone a honeymoon activity and would you do it? Or are traditional registries best?
Thanks everyone. You all rock :) I look forward to hearing what you all have to say!!
Firstly, and the biggest question, can you have too many registries? And if so, how many registries are too many? We are currently working on registries at 2 stores and have put together a "general" registry at myregistry.com (I'll get to that in a moment). We're also putting together a honeymoon registry where guests can buy us, for example, a dinner on the water, a snorkeling trip, or horseback riding at sunset instead of the typical dinner plates, mop, or bedroom set. That brings us up to four and am tossed as to whether that is one too many. So ladies and gents, let me hear your thoughts. Do you prefer more registries where you have options instead of being limited by the items on a single or two registries, or can a limit be reached where there are just TOO many options that leave you wondering which is the best thing to buy?
Second: what are your thoughts on a "general" registry? Let me explain. Graym and I have these 2 store registries that are great and filled with various items, but one thing we just haven't been able to find at a store are dinner plates that we love. Graym and I have two different styles so finding the perfect match has been tricky. Instead, we found this site called myregistry.com where you can put items from a bunch of different places on to one registry so that as a couple you are not limited to purchasing everything from just one or two stores, just like many of us don't buy all of our household items in one place. We are using this site to put the dinnerware that we want from Pfaltzgraff so that we aren't confined by the options at the two other stores. We could also put all the registry items from the other two stores on this one place (this site can link all different store registries in one place), but weren't sure if that would be confusing. So, once again, what are you thoughts? Is a "general" registry a good idea when you have those few items you love that aren't located at the other stores? As someone buying a gift for a couple, do you find it easier when all the registry items are located on one site or does it make it confusing trying to figure out which items are from which stores?
Lastly: honeymoon registry. We think this is a great idea. I personally would love to do this for another couple and think its wonderful to be able to purchase someone a lifelong memory instead of an item (not to say that we don't need things, because we do!). What do you think? Do you like the option of being able to buy someone a honeymoon activity and would you do it? Or are traditional registries best?
Thanks everyone. You all rock :) I look forward to hearing what you all have to say!!
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!!
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!!
Say YES to the dress: Bridesmaid edition
Last weekend all of my beautiful bridesmaids were here in VA to do some shopping for their wedding attire. A group of 6 girls dress shopping was guaranteed to be a good time, and it was! We had a blast trying on different styles and it was wonderful seeing my cousins getting along so well with my friends from Maine. They enjoyed traveling in the car together while I drove separately with my mama, and ,amazingly, in the span of that day they managed to piece together the bridal shower AND bachelorette party. Oh the things ladies can do when you put us together :) I am so blessed to have those 5 girls in my life and I couldn't imagine anyone better suited to fit their role of bridesmaids.
To see just who these lovely bridesmaids are, check out my previous post here :)
2 days!!!
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Til I get married!?!?!?!?!!!?!?!?!
Ha. Noooooo :(
BUT IT'S SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD!!!! :D :D :D
Joanna aka Cheeks (on right): Maid of Honor, best friend of the bride
Lorraine (left) and Nicole (right): Bridesmaids, cousins of the bride
Christina (left) and Maria (right): Bridesmaids, friends from Maine :)
ps: My best male friend, Monthe, is also a part of the wedding party. Graym and I decided we wanted to do something a little more ceremonial with the rings so Monthe will be presenting them to us at the altar along with the bible which we will use for readings/say our vows over during the ceremony. It's going to be so beautiful! I can't wait! You can check out his photo below :)
Less than 7 months to go!!
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Yesterday, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 marked 7 MONTHS until Graym and I say "I do"!!!!! However, I like today ALOT more because now I get to say that there are LESS than 7 months to go :D
This past month has been an exciting one indeed and the pressure to get everything ready in time is starting to build. We visited hotels to booked rooms for our guests, ordered our wedding bands (mine came in already!), and my wedding dress is currently waiting for me at the bridal boutique. I'll be going with my mom to try it on tomorrow (insert an uber giddy gal who can't sit still in her seat and is squealing with delight here).
We've also began working on our registries and woah is that tough and surprisingly exhausting! Since Graym and I will not be living together until we're marriage, that also means we won't have an apartment to call our own until then. Without a clue to the size, colors, or design of our apartment, it's tough to determine just how much stuff we can fit in there. Currently we have gone to various store and clicked pretty much everything that we think we'll need, resulting in about 3 different dinnerware sets, 2 bathroom sets, multiple pots and pans, and other random items here and there because I was really excited to use the scanner :) We browsed through the store, stopping at every aisle to look at and ask one another:
"So, do you think we need these?"
"I dunno. Let's just put it on there just in case. We can always take if off later"
"Yeah, true."
"How many do you think we need?"
"I dunno."
"Two? Three?"
"I dunno."
"Well I'm putting three."
So there is currently two or three of everything right now haha. We now have to go through our lists, decide what we want to keep and take off, which ones we like best, and figure out what we still need to add. There is so much thinking involved and both Graym and I have gone home drained after doing the registries. It'll be so nice when it's no longer just a picture on a computer screen but an item to put in our very own apartment :)
With 7 months left to go, there is still so much to be done. My beautiful bridesmaids from up north will be heading this way in a few weeks to join my gorgeous bridesmaids from VA so we can pick out the dress that they will be wearing. I'm still working on my bouquet and florist appointments need to be made for the other flowers. The rehearsal dinner planning is underway, and some of the littler decorative details are falling in to place. Things are really starting to come together, and every day that goes by just brings more and more excitement and anticipation.
I can't wait to be his bride!!
This past month has been an exciting one indeed and the pressure to get everything ready in time is starting to build. We visited hotels to booked rooms for our guests, ordered our wedding bands (mine came in already!), and my wedding dress is currently waiting for me at the bridal boutique. I'll be going with my mom to try it on tomorrow (insert an uber giddy gal who can't sit still in her seat and is squealing with delight here).
We've also began working on our registries and woah is that tough and surprisingly exhausting! Since Graym and I will not be living together until we're marriage, that also means we won't have an apartment to call our own until then. Without a clue to the size, colors, or design of our apartment, it's tough to determine just how much stuff we can fit in there. Currently we have gone to various store and clicked pretty much everything that we think we'll need, resulting in about 3 different dinnerware sets, 2 bathroom sets, multiple pots and pans, and other random items here and there because I was really excited to use the scanner :) We browsed through the store, stopping at every aisle to look at and ask one another:
"So, do you think we need these?"
"I dunno. Let's just put it on there just in case. We can always take if off later"
"Yeah, true."
"How many do you think we need?"
"I dunno."
"Two? Three?"
"I dunno."
"Well I'm putting three."
So there is currently two or three of everything right now haha. We now have to go through our lists, decide what we want to keep and take off, which ones we like best, and figure out what we still need to add. There is so much thinking involved and both Graym and I have gone home drained after doing the registries. It'll be so nice when it's no longer just a picture on a computer screen but an item to put in our very own apartment :)
With 7 months left to go, there is still so much to be done. My beautiful bridesmaids from up north will be heading this way in a few weeks to join my gorgeous bridesmaids from VA so we can pick out the dress that they will be wearing. I'm still working on my bouquet and florist appointments need to be made for the other flowers. The rehearsal dinner planning is underway, and some of the littler decorative details are falling in to place. Things are really starting to come together, and every day that goes by just brings more and more excitement and anticipation.
I can't wait to be his bride!!
My first wedding nightmare!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Yes, I'll admit it. Last night I had my first real wedding nightmare. I've had dreams before where things might go a little bit awkward during the wedding or Graym and I couldn't find some "alone time" post-reception, but those I found much more humorous than frightful. Last night, however, left me completely freaked out!The wedding dress is a huge part of the girls wedding day. When I found my dress, I fell in love and have been so excited to put it back on ever since that day in October. One thing I did do though was order my dress in a different color than I tried on. The dress in the boutique was an off-white/ivory when I wanted the traditional white wedding dress. I'm still a little bit worried that the dress may look different, as does happen sometimes when you try dresses on in different colors, and apparently this has subconsciously left me majorly tweaked out.
In my dream I was heading to the boutique to try on my dress since they had just received the dress in store and I was eager to try it out, see how it fits, and make any alterations if needed. My mom, and for some reason Graym, came along. When I tried on the dress, I almost died. It wasn't my dress! It was a weird variation of my dress that had some crazy brown and tan design on the front and was only as long as about mid-calf. Though I insisted this wasn't the dress I ordered, the woman and man who worked at the boutique claimed that it was, and even my mom said that it didn't look that different. I made them check the paperwork, and lo and behold they had never written down the particular details for my dress and so they just kinda guessed as to what I wanted. I demanded that they order me another dress free of charge, and as I waited for her to call the bridal company in China (because apparently in my mind that's where they make wedding dresses haha) I was left pacing in the boutique. I was fuming! And THEN the woman comes back all cool saying, OK, no problem, we'll have your dress here and ready by November. So I flip out, saying that my wedding is in September and that she needs to figure something out since they made the mistake and I need my dress. Graym this whole time is just sitting in a corner with his eyes closed since he doesn't want to see the dress, which is also driving me crazy because I wanted his support.
Then I woke up. I'm not sure it that's a good thing because I wanted to know if I ever got my dress on time, but perhaps it also saved me from continuing such a bad dream. I should be getting my dress in (my real dress) sometime this month or next so I have been quite anxious lately. That topped with a late night that didn't end too great is probably what triggered this catastrophe, but hopefully this doesn't evolve from a dream into real life!
So there you have it. My first, and definitely not my last, wedding nightmare. Just 7 more months til I can kiss those all good-bye :)
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- I'm a 23 year old tea drinkin', ice cream lovin', Jesus servin', all around bubbly gal who likes to play chef, spend too much time in craft stores, give her husband sweet kisses, and blog about my crazy, wonderful, nonsensical life. I'm a wife, sister, daughter, friend, and delighted mommy-to-be.
