Progress!

Well this weekend was a lot of wedding progress. While my dad and Christopher departed to Vegas, my mom and I got busy getting wedding stuff done! The boys left on Saturday and my mom and I worked on the save the dates. They came in on Friday or Saturday so we worked hard so we could get them mailed. They really turned out fantastic!!! And they were super cheap. Christopher found this website that does publication work at the fraction of the price of most other companies. Everything is practically free! We got 500 save the dates for less than $40. Amazing. We got a final guest list put together (minus a couple missing addresses) and got the save the dates addressed so we could mail them today.

Sunday we worked on the centerpieces. We are using 4x6 wooden frames with vellum pictures of Christopher and I. We are putting three of them together in a triangle with a votive in the middle that makes the photos glow. They are stunning. I am so impressed with how they came out. Neither my mom or myself had our cameras because the boys took them, so I will get some pictures when they get back and show yall how awesome they are. We put 40 of them together (so 120 frames) and it was pretty easy. My aunt Tammi was there to help us put them together as well. She is amazing!!!!! I appreciate her help so much and I love her to death! Both my mom and Aunt Tammi think we should do more frames because the tables seat 4 and they think there should be a centerpiece on every table. I am not sure that we should do 60 more because I don't know if we necessarily need to have all of the tables covered because there are so many of them. I think 20 more would be good. What do yall think? 20 or 60 or something in between?

It was such a productive weekend. I know that my mom probably wouldn't have preferred to spend every minute of her weekend working on wedding stuff, but I am so glad she did. I had so much fun with her and my aunt Tammi and I am so glad that we got so many things done.

Time for some rethinking

So a couple of weeks ago my mom, Chris' mom, and myself made a trip to Amarillo to try on my dress for the first time. I guess all that I can say about that is that it was disappointing. Long story short is that the dress that I have is not the dress that I thought I was going to get. So there are going to have to be some alterations made to the dress. The bridal store told me that they would call with a quote and have yet to do so. So I think I have decided to just get my dress and have it altered here in town so it will be easier. Along with the dress not being perfect, the shoes were a definate NO. The color really clashed with the dress and now I really have to reconsider my wedding shoes. I have decided to go with yellow flats, but because of the season it is pretty hard to find yellow shoes. I am sure more will come out when the spring and summer things start coming into stores. I will just have to wait patiently.

Today my sister and I worked on my card box. It turned out so cute!!! You can see it at her blog here. One more thing done!!!

I also went to the reception site this weekend and talked to the owner. We got a lot of stuff figured out but we also got some bad news. We will not be able to actually get into the building until the dau of the wedding. So we will have to get everything done and setup on Saturday. That is going to be a big time crunch but somehow we will get it all done.

I am meeting with my mom this weekend while my dad and Christopher are in Vegas and we are going to get some wedding stuff done.