The Countdown is on

There are only 46 days until our wedding. I cannot believe it!!! Time is going by so fast, and I know that before we know it August 2, 2008 will be here. There are still so many things left to do, but yet they are so small that it just seems like there isn 't much, and I already catch myself putting things off. I am such a procrastinator, and always have been. I think it runs in the family. My lovely maid of honor and sister, Kaytlyn, sent out shower and bachelorette party invitations, but the poor recipients have less than a week to RSVP. But hey, at least we got out the letter and its better than nothing and I know we will have a ton of fun.



This past weekend Lamar and I attended the wedding of Brad and Katy McDaniel. It was such a simple yet elegant wedding. Here are a few pictures from the wedding (more of the after party, called the reception)...


Lamar and I, waiting for the bride and groom to arrive


One of my best friends Jenn and I

Kim and myself, double fisting it :) Alcohol in one hand, water in the other... Doesn't get much better!

Kati (the groom's sister) and Katy (the groom's bride) dancing

The bride giving the lovely Mrs. Palmer - The Princess Palmer's mom a lap dance.

Both of my sister's are coming into town on Wednesday. I am so excited to have them both here. We are going to have my bachelorette party on Saturday and a shower on Sunday. I can't thank Kaytlyn, Rachel, Crystal, and Michelle for being such great friends and doing all of this for me. I have the best friends in the world!!! I will definitely keep everyone posted on the upcoming events and hopefully get pictures of my tea party shower posted soon.

My labor of love

The invitations are finished, mailed out, and most everyone has received them. So I figured why not go ahead and show everyone the final product. I am so very proud of these. I did everything you see myself. Everything was made by hand, including the envelope (which I actually don't have a picture).

So without further ado....

This is the folder that I created for the invitations to go into.

Once opened this is what you saw. The invitation at the top with the RSVP, Accomodation, Event Details, and Directions card on the bottom. I don't have a close up version of the cards, but if you would like to see any of it better, just let me know.

As stated in the title, these truly were a labor of love and I hope everyone enjoys them as much as I do.

My apologies...

for not being a good blogger lately. I can't believe it has almost been a month since I've posted anything. I have just been so busy with moving back to Memphis, changing jobs, unpacking, planning a wedding, and the list just goes on, that I have forgotten to post.

Well, let me get you up to date on all the happenings.

1. The invitations are finished and have been mailed out. These were truly a labor of love. I will post a picture of them in a couple of days. I want to make sure that the guests receive them before I put a picture of them here.
2. Kaytlyn (my maid of honor and sister) recently threw me a Tea Party Bridal Shower in Nebraska. We had so much fun. I will also go into more details about this later and post pictures (once she brings me her camera with the pictures on it).
3. Planning is still going full speed, we are working on finalizing details with the church, DJ, photographer, and attire.

Well I believe that is the gest of most things going on. I cannot believe we only have 52 days until the wedding. This month and a half are going to go by SOOOOO quickly.

Again, sorry it has been so long since I've posted. I promise next time I will put some pictures on here so I won't bore you with all the wording.

Wedding'mare'

So last night I dreamt my first wedding nightmare. Although it wasn't horrific, I still woke up a little nervous. The dream started out with a nice wedding, then of course afterwards we went to the reception. It was dinnertime, and no one was receiving any food, because the bride (yes, that's me) forgot to assign placecards letting the staff know which entree they were to receive. So I had to do a quick improvise and cut different colors of paper to represent each entree. (Where the colored paper came from, I still don't know.) ...Then I woke up.

Like I said it wasn't horrible or anything, but it was my first wedding nightmare. I know it is very unlikely for these events to happen, but it still makes you think, what things you could forget to do. I mean I do'nt think I'll ever forget anything, because I'm "Miss Planner" and everything planned to the "T's" (or so I think/hope).

Happy Mother's Day

Ok so this title has nothing to do with what I'm going to write about, but I had to wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day!!!

So Lamar and I have been working on our invitations all this week. It has been a lot of fun ;) (No reallly it wasn't bad) Things are drawing nearer and these things have to go out by the 1st of June. I needed some inspiration for one of the invitation projects so I went to a local scrapbooking store called Anthologies. This place is so neat! I love it, I just wish I was going to be here longer so I could get to know the wonderful owner as well as this great store. Ok, well where I was going with that is this....We (Jennifer and I) decided that I needed the letter "R" to complete the look of what I was going for. Instead of me buying this cool little machine (which I would love to have) that was going to cost around $100 she told me she would cut out the "R's" for me. So last night I finally got them, and they look GREAT!!! I am so excited to get to use these. I'm actually just excited for the entire invitation to come together and for everyone to see all the hard work, time, patience, and love that went into these.

So for all you mother's out there have a Happy Mother's Day and look forward to the year to come when your children get married and you get to have all of this fun!!

Invitations

I can barely believe that I now have 3 months left til the wedding. Where has the time gone. The big project going on right now...the invitations. I think I have finally gotten the final design done and now all I need are the finishing touches. I am not liking all of these posts without pictures, but I also don't want to spoil the fun. I do promise though that after the wedding or after some of these items have made it in the mail I will post pictures so everyone can get a taste of my DIY wedding.

I don't know about anyone else, but I am loving all of the DIY projects that come about because of the wedding. Although, I wish I had a few bridesmaids nearby to help with all of the projects, I guess I will make it on my own.

It's Official...

We are now certified to become husband and wife. To get married in the Catholic Church you must first complete a three step marriage counseling/preparation course. The three steps are:

1. Be dating for a least six months (Trust me, we had this one covered)
2. The FOCUS portion, where basically you take a questionnaire and you answer questions about things you have/will discussed and then compare those answers while talking to a married couple, and
3. Participate in a group marriage preparation course.

Today was our last day of the three step process. We now have our certificate from the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi and are officially ready to get married.

I honestly feel that this process has been extremely helpful and a great learning experience for both of us. There are always going to be those topics that one you don't think to talk about or two, don't want to bring it up. Well this preparation brings out all of those issues and topics and let's you discuss things.

At the beginning of this whole thing, I was honestly dreading the whole experience. I didn't want to talk to someone I didn't know about our life. I didn't want to spend a weekend day sitting in a classroom listening to someone talk about what we should do in order for our marriage to work. Now that the process is over, my feelings are completely different. I would honestly recommend for any of my friends getting married to take some sort of marriage preparation course. It has prepared us for marriage in more ways than I ever imagined.

This doesn't have anything to do with the marriage preparation course, but my sister recommended a book for Lamar and I to read. She received this book as a wedding present from someone and her and Shane read through it and found it to be extremely informational. It is called "Sheet Music" by Dr. Kevin Leman. Lamar and I have started reading this book together and found it very helpful to feel open enough to talk about intimate issues that otherwise not be brought up.

Well I guess that's enough marriage prep talk for now. More on wedding plans later. I can't believe we only have 3 months left. It's getting to be crunch time. Also, we could have really big news this coming week, so I'll keep you updated.