Saturday, November 21, 2009 - Michelle

The save the dates are BOOKMARKS, people! The white part in the middle comes out, it has a ribbon and everything.

I did get a few back in the mail, I need to get addresses and re-mail them out. Don't want people t think they're not invited if they are.

Supposed to meet with Father Tom, our priest, tomorrow, but he has been called away to Arizona for a funeral. I really want to hammer out the details of the ceremony, see what we're working with. I still need to officially reserve the organist, that reminds me...

October 11, 2009 - Michelle

Half of the save the dates are done, and I am finally comfortable enough with the wedding website to send them out. Hoping to get them out in the next week or so. Yikes.

Thursday, September 3, 2009 -- Michelle

The wedding website is up and running! I will publish the link to the site soon, and will also put a link to our blog on it as well. Like most projects I get into, I could spend all night working on it. Unfortunately, my alarm will go off and I am a crabby girl if I don't get any sleep.

Adam and I are waiting (somewhat) impatiently for our friends Ryan and Dawn (though, really Dawn) to have their second son. The baby is due Sunday, but Dawn would have liked to have him, oh, yesterday. We're very excited to meet him, and know Jacob is excited to meet his little brother. We are so lucky to have such supportive and wonderful friends.

Dawn, Jackie (another friend) and I have spent the last few Friday nights just sitting around and talking, sometimes looking through wedding stuff. Both have been married for about two years, so they're pros now! Them, plus their husbands, give me enough backing to strongarm Adam into just about anything.

Still trying to find a DJ. Planning on going dress shopping on Sept 19th. Unfortunately, it's also the family golf outing, but it took so long to get my first together and I can't really reschedule. I am just sure I'll find a dress that takes six months to come in...now watch, I'll get something off the rack!

Emailed the woman about the cake topper and haven't heard back. I hope she can do it.

That's all that's going on in wedding land this week.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 -- Michelle

We have a photographer! He is everything I want in a photographer. We met with him yesterday, but after chatting with someone we went to HS with, and reading all of his reviews online (weddingwire and yelp) I was ready to make a move. As someone who considers herself to have a bit of a photographer's eye at times, it's important for me to have GREAT pictures of our wedding, and a GREAT photographer who will take them. It's important to have a good feeling about the only person who is in charge of capturing your memories for your day for you, and I really feel like we made the right decision.

The best part is that we will get a DVD with all of the images he takes, so we can print as many pictures as we want without having to pay him to get them printed. A HUGE save of money, and something that I really wanted. I don't see a reason to print every picture to SEE every picture, when some of them will for sure have eyes closed, someone looking away, etc.

I am so excited about this. Now, onto the DJ!

June 14, 2009 - Michelle

I spent most of the day putzing online looking at wedding stuff and started thinking about tables -- do we assign seats, what do we do for centerpieces, do we number tables, etc. and came up with the idea of naming our tables after streets that are important to us -- the streets we grew up on, the streets of WY, the street where we had our first kiss, the street where he proposed, and so on. I think we can come up with 20-25 street names.

Saturday, June 13, 2009 -- Michelle

Today I went with Mom, Zosh, Cindy, Rachel and Stephanie to make the final deposit on the country club. It's now official! Really, it was official before, but now our deposit is paid in full and we only owe the balance about 2 weeks before the wedding.

It was nice to be there when everything was in bloom on the golf course. The trees look so much nicer with leaves, and will look great in September. I will probably head there around our wedding date this year so I can get an idea of what we are looking at for next year.

While we were there, they were setting up for another wedding. The colors of this wedding were Tiffany blue and white. I am not really too sure on that Tiffany blue. They did have the chair covers though and it looked beautiful.


While we were in the country club, there was a wedding at the conglomerate of a hall next door that was using black for the sashes, which looked great. I think we are definitely going to use black as our main color with jewel tones -- which will look great with the surprisingly multi-colored carpet in the country club.


It was also nice to see how much room there is in the center of the table when the table is set. This gives me a much better idea of how much room I will have for centerpieces. I am starting to see it all come together in my mind.

Adam and I stopped at a bakery this morning to get coffee cake before everyone came over, and we plan on putting them on our list of bakeries to talk to. We definitely know what we want to do as far as "cake"... :) We know what we're doing, but we need to finalize some details. I am so excited for that. My mom, when she and my dad got married, always wanted a fountain for their cake. So I have always wanted something a little different too. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Thursday, June 11th -- Michelle

Adam had his nose un-deviated today. Poor guy is packed with gauze with some under his nose, which reminds me of the Monopoly man's mustache. While I was waiting for him, one of the women who was in the waiting room waiting for her mom asked me if I was getting married (probably noticed the wedding magazines I'd brought to amuse myself). She then came over to ooh and ahh at my ring (something I won't ever get sick of) and told me that we were a good match because I was there waiting for him and worried about him when a lot of women didn't bother to stick around while their husbands were in surgery. A little strange, but cute.

I think I found our cake topper. :) I know we are thinking of going a little different for our cake, but at the same time, we're going to need to have a topper. I have been thinking of ways to incorporate lobsters into our wedding and I think the cake topper would be a perfect way to do so.