Why I Love my Girls--A Few Belated Thanks

Once again, I must thank the fabulous people helping me out with the wedding. I'm still focusing on the BIG picture (photography, food, attire, etc.) and I can't seem to get my head out of my books long enough to focus on that from time to time.

But then, I have the girls who keep me thinking about things I should be on top of for the wedding planning. There's a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes (and I never really realized this much planning went into it, really). But I have "people" for that.

I've already mentioned the moms, but they need a bit more in the kudos department for a few things. First, they get along which makes this whole process easier. Then, they help out anywhere they're needed and offer support any time I need it.

Then I have my dear sister and Matron of Honor. She is the "ears" of this relationship. She's fabulous with just listening to me ramble on about favors or shoes as long as I need and then replying with either really good advice or the more common "you'll make the right decision."

My fabulous Maid of Honor is not taking her job lightly. I'm thinking she believes Maid of Honor and Wedding Planner are synonyms. She found the boots (that are featured on the blog post below), she's reminded me of deadlines, and she's doing her best to keep me on my toes.

I also have a "details girl." My hat is off to her because she's good with remembering the little things that need to get done and she's good with finding bargains. Just recently, she found wedding bubbles on sale and snatched them up for us.

Then I have the girls who keep me from doing too much wedding planning and not enough school work. Occasionally, I need a reality check and they are always there to remind me that I'm still a student with a life. (You can probably blame them for the lack of posting lately. I know I will)

So to all of my girls, I just want to say thanks. I couldn't do this without you. Well, I could, but I would probably be a week late to my own wedding while waiting on the detail to be added to some little project.

A Flower Decision in the Making

Well, after much conversing, we have finally turned the floral ideas over to the florist with a few guidelines. We've decided on a few things and are leaving the rest of the idea grooming to the florist for now. But here are the tentative decisions we've made.

• Bouquets will be gardenias. I want crimson gardenias for the bridesmaids in an over-arm bouquet with white or silver (I haven't decided) ribbons around the stalks. For my bouquet, I want white gardenias with either silver or crimson (again, indecisive) around the stalks.
• Corsages and boutonnières will be gardenias also.
• For the actual decor, we know that we want a Christmas tree on either side of the altar with silver and crimson balls. I don't know about lights, yet. We may have them, but leave them off until the reception. We want to move the trees into the reception, but I don't know yet where we should put them.
  

Sadly, that is all the decisions we've come to about flowers at this time. We'll know more in April when the creative people get together. But if you have ideas for reception decor, aisle decor, or anything else we're missing, PLEASE let us know.

Sorry for the lack of visual aids. We've managed to find two things that just are not in pictures online. I guess we're really going against the grain here!

We Are Still Together (and Planning)

The bride has not lost her boots. I promise. We are still together and still working on the wedding planning. Unfortunately, this semester has been pretty hectic for both of us. I have a conference this weekend, but I just created a few posts to remind me to update when I get back. We have two big things on the agenda in the next few weeks. We need to get Save the Date cards sent, but they're almost ready to go. Then, I need to prod a certain somebody to actually ask the guys that he wants to be his groomsmen to actually do the deed. (And all this time I figured that asking me to marry him would be the "big question." I think I might have been wrong.)

See you next week. I promise.