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OK, this is going to be so brief. I'm up to my eyeballs in work things and have I mentioned before this little thing called THE WEDDING!?!
Quick updates in my favorite form--list!
1. "Details by Laura" was hired to do our day of coordinating (ceremony and, the biggest help, reception)
2. Shower time was fantastical on Saturday, I am still in awe over the turnout and amazing gifts!! Grace hosted us at The Victorian Rose Tea House in Rochester.
3. Bachelorette party was a blast, can't wait to do it again...for someone else! We did dinner at D'amatos, drinks at Coach Insignia & dancing at Deluxe. Special thanks to Caitlin and Liz for pulling it all together
But everyone likes pictures, here are a few of my favorites from the weekend festivities :)
SHOWER:
BACHELORETTE "double vision":
Dude.
We're at 3.5 weeks until the big day! AWESOME!!!!!
I'm also like a schizo over here with, "oh yeah, email that to so-and-so, ooh, check the registry, ARGH, add sleeping bags...d'oh, research sleeping bags." And all of this is during the work day. No wonder I'm up until all hours of the night working on work and wedding stuff. The schizo day appears to be helping but may in fact be eating a golf ball sized hole in my stomach (not really, I made that up for effect).
We're actually doing OK with the plans, everything is mostly nailed down for the BIG day. Yippy! And I'm slowly getting excited. Not that I wasn't excited before, it's just that all the planning sort of took away from some of the excitement. Fortunately I'm mostly done and this weekend is the bachelorette weekend. Boo-ya. Talk about wrapping up the plans with a BANG. 20+ chicas are coming out to party!! I am so geeked to have awesome friends and family coming to celebrate...even some pregger girls are going to shake their bellies. Well fill them at dinner at least :) Pictures to follow, I'm sure!
And if that wasn't enough of a BANG I have one more bridal shower. Yay! I've been peeking online to see what sort of gifts I may get. Good stuff all around. Oh yeah, I STILL need to add sleeping bags!
Oh wait, we totally got our marriage license and wrapped up our pre-marital counseling yesterday too.
The countdown is really on now!
We have wrapped up all the major contracts and are going to look for someone to handle the set-up at our reception venue. Originally we were going to handle (OK family was going to handle) but there is an event in the ballroom before our reception so we can't get in to set-up any earlier. Oh well. We interviewed some capable coordinators earlier in the process that we will circle back with. Other than that we just have final meetings with our vendors and the never ending debate about transportation.
Had my hair colored close to what nature intended last night; Mark's friend Vanessa recommended Michael Raboir (sp!?) who did a stellar job. And, as a natural salesman/seasoned pro, whipped up a few rough ideas with bobby pins to show me some ways to do wedding hair. I already have someone booked but I really appreciated it. Maybe if the person who I hired sucks I can ditch them...!
The next wedding shower, a bridal tea, is a few weekends away. I updated my registry a bit to beef it back up. Target seems to have the most stuff left on the registry--which is GREAT because Mark and I have been receiving a lot of Target gift cards (Christmas, birthday, Valentine's), I want to use them toward registry items we don't receive. Mark wants a flat screen...so if you want to come watch movies/games at our house buy us stuff at Target. LOL!
Saturday, January 2 I had my first bridal shower and it was AWESOME! It's very weird to be the one on the chair opening presents, I quite enjoyed it but I've learned I need to hold and pose with the gifts so my pictures don't all look like this:
Or this:
In all seriousness, everyone was beyond generous! By the looks of it the entire shower cleared out Crate & Barrel! It was fun to look at them all again with Mark later that day.
Thanks to DeDe, Sue, Sharon, Peggy & Kim for hosting a beautiful day. And thanks to my awesome cousins for helping. Kudos to the rest of the family for traipsing to Grosse Pointe twice in seven days!
So it looks like my Aunt Jill, along with my grandmother, are organizing a bridal shower for my dad's side of the family in October. This means it's time to start registering!!!! I'm excited but also a bit lost as to what exactly I will need, not to mention we don't have a house so I have zero idea on colors or even the comforter sizes/number of bathroom things to even register for. Plus, you have so. many. options. Mark really likes Crate & Barrel or Williams-Sonoma for things but those store locations are limited. Macy's seems to have a lot of what we would need too. Who doesn't like Target?Wish us luck because we need to have a partial registry ready to go in the next 30 days!
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