The Final Countdown

Wedding Weekend is finally here!  Troy and I are both done with work until after our honeymoon and now all that's left for us to do is relax, spend time with our friends and family and have fun!

The dress is picked up, the seating chart is done and all the presents are wrapped.  We'll just be dropping things off and running last minute errands.  My college roommate Leah came in from San Francisco yesterday and I haven't seen her for nearly two years.  I'm looking forward to spending every minute of the next three days with her and the rest of my family and friends.

This has been a great two years of being engaged, but I am ready for it to be over and to be married!  Stay tuned for pictures of the big day!

'Single' Bride No More!

There are lots of things happening in our household right now. The wedding is 12 days away and best of all, Troy is home for good! It was so nice not having to rush around and get everything done by 6 p.m. on Sunday because he had to drive back. It was also nice being able to carpool downtown this morning and spend together in person and not just on the phone.

We're definitely in crunch time though, and having Troy here to help is great. Yesterday's project was making the labels for the out of town welcome bags. My friend Allyson who designed our invitations designed a square label with our names on it that I was able to print off. I then used scrap booking photo stickers to mount the labels onto white card stock, and then stuck them onto craft gift bags. Here's the result:

My college roommate and bridesmaid, Leah, will be arriving on Wednesday of next week and she has graciously offered to help with any last minute tasks, including filling these goody bags.  We'll be giving our guests granola bars, candy bars, goldfish crackers and water among other things.  Hopefully they'll enjoy!  One more task ticked off the list!  

Three weeks to go!

With every Saturday morning that rolls around, I get both excited and a little bit stressed, because I keep thinking "5 weeks to go; now 4, now 3."  There are only three weeks left til the big day and so much to do.  This weekends major task to to complete the seating chart.  I've heard horror stories from friends, coworkers, even my own parents about trying to figure out the right mix of people, so it seems to be pretty daunting.  Hopefully, it's all in my head.

In other wedding news this week, I met with the DJ company to start walking through the reception music.  We have songs selected for all of "special" dances, I just seem to be stuck on which song(s) to play for our grand entrance along with the bridal party.  Some suggestions I've received are:

• Thunderstruck
• Teach Me How to Dougie
• Bring 'Em Out
• Beautiful Day
• Signed, Sealed Delivered
• I Gotta Feeling
• Raise Your Glass

If you have any additional suggestions please let me know!  I want out grand entrance to be memorable.

Oh and I forgot to share the best new of all -- my days as a "single" bride are nearly over!  Troy will be home for good in SIX days!  Yahoo!!!!

It's Wedding Month!

The time has come.  After 24 months of waiting, it's finally THE month that Troy and I are getting married! I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little freaked out about all that's left to be done, but it's still very exciting that we're getting married in less than four weeks.

There's a number of meetings coming up to finalize all the details -- with the florist, the DJ, the photographer.  I swear I have more meetings for the wedding than I do at work!  But the one meeting I was able to pass off to Troy was the one to finalize our cake.  We're working with the fabulous White Flower Cake Shoppe and Marianne has been just fabulous.  Below is the sketch of what our cake will look like.

It's everything that I would want in a wedding cake and best of all, it's so yummy!  We'll have white, chocolate and red velvet cake on the inside.  If you've never tasted cake from White Flower, I strongly suggest you stop by their bakery or their kiosk filled with goodies.  I know I will be looking forward to mine for the next 27 days.