The Count Down Continues

Today is 1 year, 4 weeks and 1 day until I marry my sweetheart....that's 394 days and counting

13 Months To Go

THIS MONTH'S TOPIC Asking Your Attendants

#1 Set expectations (for you and them)
Your maid of honor, bridesmaids, groomsmen, and best man may be called in for pretty active duty throughout the planning process. So as you choose your inner circle, keep in mind what you can reasonably ask your attendants to do: Can you ask them to come shopping with you? Absolutely. Can you ask them to spend more than they can afford on a head-to-toe ensemble that they’ll never wear again? Try not to.

#2 More isn’t always merrier
You have six best friends, three sisters, and five future sisters-in-law -- and you’re envisioning a great big gorgeous group at the altar. That’s all fine and well, as long as you keep in mind that having 14 maids involves some extra effort (and some extra expense): 14 bouquets, 14 gifts, and 14 people to consult about the dresses, the shower date, and the bachelorette party.

#3 The “new rules” of attendants
These days, many weddings feature bridesmen, groomsmaids, men of honor, and best women -- a gentle bending of tradition that we love. Brides, if you want your best guy friend in your wedding, he doesn’t necessarily have to stand on the groom’s side just because he’s in a suit.

Taste Testing

I just confirmed our taste testing with Celebrations. I called this morning to make the appointment, we are set to go for our taste testing on June 27, 2008 at 2:00 in the afternoon. I can't wait, it's going to be exciting!!!

Bridal Shower

I know that it is a little early to even be talking about the Bridal Shower however my mother and I were talking about my Bridal Shower last night. We did not want to have it at my house because we don't want to have to clean up the mess afterwards. I decided that I was going to start calling around to find out different prices and different places for a Bridal Shower. After calling around to a few places I found one place that was beautiful and at a reasonable price. I made an appointment this afternoon with Adelphia's, they have an amazing private room for our Bridal Shower. We have decided that we want to have the shower on a Sunday afternoon. Adelphia's has a wonderful Sunday Brunch buffet with tables and tables of food. Their private room is just as amazing as the rest of Adelphia's. My parent's were so impressed by the food and the room that not only did we book Adelphia's for the Bridal Shower but we also booked it for the Sunday after the wedding brunch. My Bridal Shower will take place on April 26, 2009 from 11:00 until 2:00. I can't wait!!!!:):)

Grandpa's Gift

I was talking to my grandfather a few days ago and he wanted to know what I wanted for the wedding. Not only is he giving me and Mike money for the wedding however he also wants to give us something we can remember him by. After talking for a little while my grandfather we agreed that he would buy us our fancy place settings. That is one thing that we don't have to worry about now

Happy Birthday To Me!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!

The other day I was thinking "What should I get myself for my birthday?" Every year I buy myself something really nice, so this year I thought that it would be a great idea to buy myself something nice off of my registry. Thursday was my day off from work so I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond and bought myself a few nice things off of my registry for my birthday

Bride's Emergency Kit

For the day of the wedding I have decided that I'm going to need what is called a Bride's Emergency Kit just in case something was to happen. I am just getting a few Rubbermaid boxes and throwing the following in:

Medicinal Container:

Pepto-bismol
Tums
Immodium
Excederin
MigraineTylenol or Advil
Hard candy
Smelling salts
Tampons/Pads

Repair Items Container:

Chalk
Black Sharpie
Blue Sharpie
Earring backs
Buttons
Extra black socks for the boys
Duct Tape
Pantyhose (extras in case anything happened)
Safety pins
Masking tape or sewing tape (last-minute ripped hems)
Thread for all dresses of wedding party & white thread
Small flashlight
Spare hat pins (in case florist forgets them for corsages)
Duct tape (works on falling hems, broken bouquet handles, wobbly unity candles)
'Throwaway' garter
Clear nail polish
Lint remover
Kleenex
Contact Solution
Safety pins
Bobby Pins
Bandaids
Small scissors (for thread)
Small sewing kit

Beauty Container:

Deodorant
Extra Contacts
Nail file & Nail kit
Dusting powder for before pictures are taken
Hand lotion
Handi-wipes
Makeup
Baby powder (also works great for spills on your white dress--just dab with water and then baby powder)
Makeup remover for face and for clothes
Perfume
Nail polish in shade worn, & remover
Hairgel
Hairspray (good for runs in hose too)
BrushWater mister
Toothbrush and toothpaste
Brush-ups

Important Papers:

Directions to reception - extra copies
Phone numbers of all service vendors and cell phone
A list of outstanding to-do's that can be turned over to someone else (e.g. call ahead to the reception site to tell them that we are on our way; pay clergy and organist; etc.) - Maid of Honor and Best Man

39 Days!!

39 days until our ONE YEAR MARK!!!!!!

Bridal Party Gifts

A I was at the same boutique where I bought my earrings and I noticed a pair of earrings that would go great with the Bridal Party dresses. I thought it would be nice if I bought all the girl's matching earrings and necklaces. So here is the earrings that I bought the Bridal Party.

First Bridal Party Fitting

Saturday, May 10, 2008 was the first fitting for the Bridal Party. It It went well, I had such a great time. The only problem we had was that the first dress I has picked out was pricer then I thought. The first time I asked for the prices of the dress I was told the price was $250.00. When we went on Saturday they rechecked the price for me and it turns out that the dress is really $300.00, they had made a mistake in prices. I was not prepared for that, so we had to pick another dress. The Bridal Party had fun trying on the different dresses. I did find a different dress which was great!

Here are a few pictures of the Bridal Party Fitting on Saturday...The first picture is the new dress that I have picked out for the Bridal Party. The colors are going to be the same as on the model.

Here we are on Saturday afternoon trying on different dresses......

Here everyone is in the dresses that I picked out for the Bridal Party.....

My Flowergirls....

Other pictures that were taken from Saturday's fitting.....

Bridal Party Fitting

BRIDAL PARTY GETS FITTED TOMORROW!!

I am very much excited for tomorrow's fitting session....everyone will be there.....I can't wait for 2:30 tomorrow afternoon....I geet to see my dress as well (the one that I tried on back in February)

Earrings-N-Things

I JUST BOUGHT MY WEDDING EARRINGS AND PURSE

I just got back from a store right in Haddonfield, it is called "A Beautiful Touch" I heard of them through the Bridal Shows that I have been to. They are an amazing boutique. I fell in love with my wedding earrings and purse so I bought them right away. I knew they were the one, and that is all I needed

These are my earrings :)

My purse is in the ivory....you can't really tell by this picture, however this is what my purse looks like.

For the children......

For all of the children who will be attending our wedding I have decided to make them a nice basket filled with all different kinds of goodies. I'm not sure if it will be a basket or a bag, however it will be some sort of a welcome gift for all the children who will be attending. What I plan to fill these bags with are:

1. A coloring book
2. Crayons
3. Markers
4. Stickers
5. Colorful paper

That is all I came up with for right now.....so the next few months my mission is to look out for different sales on crayons, markers, etc; for our little guests:)

Bridal Party

Bridal Party is going to get fitted on Saturday, May 10, 2008:)

Jean M

MY ORDER FROM JEAM M CAME TODAY!!

About two weeks ago I order a few of our Reception supplies trhough Jean M. I LOVE her site and she has such great favors, ceremony supplies, reception supplies, etc; I highly recomend it http://www.myjeanm.com/ Here is what I ordered....

Here are our favor boxes....we will be filling them with light blue and light green M&Ms (our wedding colors)



These are our labels that will go on the favor boxes....the labels that I ordered have our monogrammed R on it with our names in the front. The font and the label are printed in light blue



Since we are having a candy buffet at our wedding I ordered bags to be put at the candy table for our guests to fill. In the middle of the bag is engraved "Live Laugh Love" and at the bottom is our names and our wedding date. The engraving on the front of the bag is in light blue as well.



At our front table Mike and I are having "Share A Wedding Wish" so I ordered the little note cards that our guests will sign and write a wedding wish on. Our names and our wedding date is engraved in light blue on each card. I also ordered the booklet that they will be kept in.



Lastly I ordered two pens to be placed on our front table for guests to sign our guest book and our "Share A Wedding Wish" note cards. I had the pens engraved with our initals "MRC"

Talking to an agent tonight.....

After dinner tonight Mike and I are headed to the travel agent to talk to them about our honey!:) We already know where we want to go so now we need to get more information on different sites to see, different hotels, the flights, the different tours they offer etc; So hopefully by tonight we'll know what is going on with our romantic honeymoon:)