What day is it?!?

I think these past few weeks the days have just been flowing together. I can't believe how fast time seems to be flying. It seems like just yesterday Lamar proposed. Now I'm four months away from the "Big" day. Mom and I have talked on the phone about every night this week. We are starting to finalize some thoughts that we have had. I decided from the get-go that I wanted to design every aspect of our invitations. The design for the invitation itself is finalized, these days I am just working on all the little extras that go inside. They are coming together nicely though. I couldn't have asked for them to look any better. The next big step will be to print and put them together which could take a while. I'm having a future thought that mom and I will be sitting in front of the t.v. watching a movie and putting invitations together when she gets here. (I can't wait til next Friday!!!! I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Again I wish I had some pictures to put on the post, but I haven't been taking any pictures. One of these days I will get around to taking some pictures.

Guess Who's Coming Into Town.....

MOM!!!!!!! You all don't know how excited I am to have my mom coming to visit. I am finally going to have more than a few hours to look at dresses. I was having a really bad day last Wednesday, and I was about in tears because I haven't found a dress and all I wanted was to go shopping with my mom. Well, after a couple of hours looking for a plane ticket, talking back and forth with mom, and finally deciding, we have a plane ticket!!!! She is coming into town the weekend of April 4th and we are going to shop our little hearts out.

I called the dress shop I have been going to in New Orleans and they have been so kind as to order a sample of the dress I have been wanting to try on for some time. I made the arrangements so this dress will be in the store the weekend my mom is in town. In total I have about 3 dresses that I have pretty much narrowed it down too and they are all at this one store. So needless to say, I will be buying my dress that weekend whether I want to or not.

Shall We Dance

The other night Lamar and I started looking at music for our reception. Our DJ had a website and had the most popular songs listed for the different segments of the reception. It was so much fun going through and listening to the songs. Me being the goofball that I am of course had to start dancing and singing to all the songs, while Lamar in the meantime is just looking at me and shaking his head. "What" I would say, "I'm having fun." I can already picture our reception.... Me on the dance floor and Lamar sitting in a chair with Jack and Coke in hand. Needless to say, he is not much of a dancer.

While picking out the music I just got sooooo excited. I love dancing and I am definitely ready for our big night to get here so I can dance the night away.

When Is My Wedding

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Plans, Plans, Plans

The plans for the wedding are coming together even further. I have finally decided on centerpieces. I finalized the music for the ceremony today. Our wedding classes we have to take through the church are almost finished, we just have a weekend seminar left. The big things I have left are planning a rehearsal dinner...(If anyone has any bright ideas on how to do this that would be great.) Buying a dress of course. Finding bridesmaids dresses. Ordering the tuxes for the guys. Oh and buy plane tickets!! So not too bad of a list if you ask me. Things are starting to come together. 

I can't believe we only have 4 1/2 months til the big day. Things are starting to really feel real now. I can remember just like yesterday when he proposed and all I could do was talk wedding. Now I'm still talking wedding, but with more details in mind and more of a plan to go by. 

I would like that in ivory...

Well I told you last week I was going dress shopping this past Friday. I did go and guess what?!? I didn't find a dress. I am now trying to have stores around the area that carry the brand I am looking at order the one dress that I am REALLY interested so I can at least see it in person. It is becoming more of a hassle than anything, because the manufacturer won't call the stores back. All I want is to be able to try on the dress before I order it. I just can't imagine buying a dress that I have never tried on. But I am running out of time and I might just have to do it anyways and HOPE for the best. So one of these days I will actually just go into the store and suck it up and say order this dress please. 

Dress Shopping Again

So I've decided to go tackle the obstacle of finding a wedding dress. I am honestly running out of time. It is now CRUNCH time and I have to find one. I called Lamar's sister Amber yesterday and she has agreed to go shopping with me on Friday. (She doesn't know what she's getting into) So everyone please wish me luck on finding this dress. Like I have stated before I believe I'm just to scared to commit to anything. That's one big purchase and the thing is I'm pretty much stuck with it once I do it. I'll keep you posted on how things turn out.

Centerpieces

Ok so this past weekend after work I went to about 4 stores and bought a ton of stuff to work on my centerpieces for the wedding. Well unfortunately everything that I bought the first time just isn't going to work out. Mom and I got to talking and decided that what we needed was a square wooden tray with candles, pebbles, and twigs. I know this might sound crazy, but it goes with the whole them of the wedding (or what we have so far). So tonight, since I have so much free time on my hands these days, I decided would go look around some more. I found a square plate (not the right color) and some pebbles, and candles. And put it together in about 5 minutes and it turned out to look something like this.

Ok so imagine something like this, without the tealights, and with the branches more strategically placed and have it look a little more put together. I would love to hear any ideas if you have them.

Engagement Pictures

Lamar and I went to Nebraska this past weekend for my sister's wedding. (Two weddings in one year for my parents, yes we feel sorry for them). While visiting, we figured since our photography was from the same town as my parents, we had our engagement pictures taken. Our photography, Jenny Reichman Photography, was great. She was so much fun to work with. She is just getting her business started and did our family pictures in May. She hadn't done any wedding pictures until March 1 at Amney and Shane's (my sister and brother in-law) wedding. Our wedding will be her second. We were very excited when she told us she was willing to take our pictures. If anyone wants to see some examples of her work you can go to her website www.jennyreichmanphotography.com

*If you send me a comment with your e-mail I will send you the link and password to view our engagement pictures.

Getting Started

Ok so this whole blogging thing is extremely new to me. I was recently asked by someone if Lamar and I had a website for our wedding plans and our future wedding. Since I didn't have one I thought that maybe I should. It would be a fun to way to post some pictures, and let everyone know of our upcoming wedding and some of our plans.

Well most of you know that we got engaged September 27th, 2007. I know it has been awhile but I can honestly say it has been one of the best times of my life. Since then, I have been working on wedding plans almost nonstop. We found the location of our wedding, Estes Park Colorado, as well as the church, reception site, and honeymoon location. (We have been busy with all these plans). Most of these plans everyone knows, but for those of you who don't, I will keep going.

I have been trying to find "The Perfect Dress". This is a harder task than I EVER imagined. My best friend Rachel informed me of a television show on TLC called "Say Yes to the Dress" on that show one of the owners goes up to a girl trying on a dress and tells her "It is harder to commit to a dress than it is to the guy." I firmly believe in this statement now. I have been to probably 30 dress shops and still have not found "The" dress. I mean I always hear of these stories that once you put it on you just know. How come I haven't felt that yet. Hopefully it will come. It has to come because I only have 5 months til my wedding. I'm honestly running out of time to find the dress.

I am currently working on my centerpieces for the wedding. I don't want my wedding to be a typical wedding. I want people to walk in and not realize they're walking into a wedding reception. I am trying to find some cordless water fountains or something similar for my centerpieces. Anyone have any ideas??? Please share. I am becoming desperate.