NEXT MONTH!!!

Oh. My. God.

We are getting married NEXT MONTH!!!!!!!

Yes, today is officially September, meaning that the countdown has officially hit "next month" status. Ahhh! I'm both insanely nervous and incredibly excited at the same time.

And the beautiful fall weather is not exactly helping...it's like it's saying "See, it's almost FALL...the wedding is coming so fasttt!"

AHHH! Wedding next month! Yay! I honestly cannot wait. :D

yeah this is a vent. you have been warned.

It is getting increasingly depressing to have everybody at work suddenly start to become interested in where we are going on our honeymoon.

Yes, I know that is a typical question that gets asked at this time in the wedding planning process, and yes, I know that we should have had something booked by now, but unfortunately we dont. And we dont know if it's going to be in our cards to be able to take one.

Now dont get me wrong, I know that not everyone takes a honeymoon. And that not everyone takes one right away. Which would have been sad, but deal-able if we had figured that out early on in the planning. But the truth is, we had one booked. We had the deposit down on an incredible cruise...and then of course, things happen, other things are more than anticipated, and we had to move in the middle of planning, only a few months after moving here in the first place. Things we hadnt counted on, things that blew the honeymoon budget. So sadly, the cruise was cancelled, the deposit was then used to pay for moving expenses and other things, and now we just dont know if it's in the cards.

I know this is one of those ranting/self-sadness posts, but as much fun as this wedding planning has been and as excited as I am to be marrying the guy of my dreams, it sucks to have to tell people at work about not booking anything yet, or maybe waiting to take it. Yes, I know that a trip isnt what the wedding is about. I know that in many years when we look back on it, it wont be the end of the world. I know that we will have time to have many, many trips later on in life- after all, we'll be married forever, we were just looking forward to that break from how stressful everything in life has been lately and looking forward to having our first actual vacation together.

But I know that it's not the end of the world. We just have to keep telling ourselves that we are going to have a great wedding with our family and friends, we are going to be married for crying out loud, and that we love each other regardless of any sort of trip.

There. I'm sorry for that bout of venting-ness. Though to my credit, there have been very few of these in the wedding planning process. I promise to try to have no more. :)

correction!

SO, in all of this blogging over the past year, it has been pointed out to me, which it was inevitably bound to happen, that I have made a mistake in one of my many postings. ;)

I was informed today from the future family (aka, Adam's dad) that I referenced a time early on in Adam and I's relationship where I was mistaken. Somewhere in the realms of blog world, I stated that the first member of Adam's family that I met after we started dating was his grandparents...however I was severely mistaken...as his dad pointed out, it was he who drove us on one of our first dates. This is true. I forgot about the times when he used to pick us up at approximately 10:45 at night in order to get me home by my 11pm curfew...alas, it was dark, and I only vaguely knew what he looked like at the time, (and I was only 16 years old, meaning I only am bound to retain so much) but it was he who I met first in the Martinez family. I still stand by my memory that his grandparents was the first house I went to, or, well, went inside. After all, my memory is bound to be a bit rusty in the 6 years that we have been dating. However, I felt that I needed to make this mistake clear to avoid future in-law dramas. :) Hehe.

On a side note, it makes me happy to know that his parents are reading this happy blog! Slightly embarrassed that they are reading my pointless ramblings, but excited that they are following along on wedding progress. Though staying up until 3am to read the entire thing....that I am not so sure about. ;)

But a nice big shout out to his dad and mom--- "HI GUYS!!!" Hahahaha.

:) I enjoy my new family.

stress, stress, stress

Ughhh there is still SO much that needs to be done. Little tiny details that you never would have guessed needed to be done...we still need a cake cutter and toasting glasses, cellophane bags for the dessert bar, favor jars, ingredients for the dessert bar items and favors, programs, something to put the programs IN, something to put the bubbles in, ribbons for the bubbles, toss garter, wedding band, rehearsal dress, rehearsal dinner location, etc etc etc!

I think my head is going to explode. Sadly alot of those things are going to go un-bought due to the money situation...which in the long run is going to seem fine, but now is stressing me out because it's the little things that pull everything together, and I hate that it is going to seem lacking somehow...

more pretties

More pretty pretties! My mom just keeps on making such pretty arrangements. It's going to just blow people away at the wedding, everyone is going to be asking to take them home!!! We could never, NEVER in a million years have ever hoped or expected for our flowers to have turned out so incredible for our wedding. It's more than we could have dreamed. I am so lucky to have such an incredible and talented mommy. :)















I can't wait to see them all set up and pretty at the wedding. They are going to be so stunning!

updates...or lack thereof

Not too much has been happening wedding wise lately. We have been so busy concentrating on OTHER people's weddings that our own planning has sort of fallen to the sidelines, but that's ok! We dont have a tremendous amount of things left to sort through, most things are just the little annoying details, so I'm hoping that we can try and accomplish some of those things soon.

We've had a bit of trouble money-wise lately in terms of sticking to budget. Unfortunately, alot of things that we had banked on are turning up to be more expensive that we initially thought, and that's caused a bunch of stress. Hopefully it will work itself out, I'm trying to stay optimistic! We might be forced to take our honeymoon at some other time, which is going to really suck since the two of us had been really looking forward to it. Sigh. It was going to be our very first trip together that wasnt family or work related, and it's a real downer when we are starting to think we may not be able to afford one right now.

Oh well. The important thing is that we are getting married! That's really all that matters in the long run, and these little stresses will just be a blur in the past in a few years. We just gotta keep telling ourselves that! 53 days!

Aside from all of that, my mom has been making some more outstanding wedding arrangements! I just love them all. I'll post some pictures tomorrow, but now I am off to bed! Yay for sleep!

big news

So after booking the rental company and working out all of the details regarding the tent, decorations, and chair setup, we went and did something insane.

We changed ceremony venues.

Yes, there is only 60 days until the wedding. That's 2 months. And yeah, invitations have already went out.

But my mom made the mistake of showing me an article in the paper with this place- this beautiful, wonderful place- that just so happened to be OPENING in September. Brand new, hence why we hadnt heard of it when we were spending months of sleepless nights trying to find the right location.

Oh, and they have our date open.

Yeah, that's the view.

Floor to ceiling windows make me happy. Esp when they overlook mountains and water.

So we've cancelled the tent and all of the rentals that we had spent the entire day before booking, and booked this place. Now there are no worries about manuvering down a flight of 100 stairs to start the processional. No worries about "what if it storms?" and no worries about where I would "hide" before the ceremony starts. Everything you could possibly want view and detail wise, this place has. Sure, I still wanted an outdoor ceremony. But I was so worried about the weather. And so worried about it storming and we having to end up getting married in a hotel room. Plus, from the time I saw this lake view in the fall last year, I wanted our ceremony there. The problem was there were few places that had this view, andt he ones that did, had fish backdrops. Or were already booked.







We got lucky.

But no worries, everything is the same time-wise and reception wise and everything. The only thing that changes is the ceremony location. Which in the end, will make people happy, since the other place was a bit hard to find.

After we get our final RSVP count in September, we'll mail out new direction cards to everyone who is coming. We are both so excited...this is the most excited I have seen Adam since the planning began!

Back of chapel, I LOVE the floors!