Clearing the Brain of Some Wedding Stuff

• We're getting our rings sized on Thursday. The salesperson at Zales told us we can do it without a problem most likely. We'll find out for sure on Thursday.
• Mike's getting fitted for his tux on Thursday as well (finally). Now all I have to do is get him to call his brother and remind him. Also, I need to make sure he gets our flower girl's shoe size when he calls.
  
• Invitations are being printed this week, so they should be in the mail by the end of next week.
• I have to mail the bridesmaids dresses this week. If I don't--off with my head!
• I need to post a full list of the reception food because I feel like I'm leaving out one thing or another every time I think about it.
• I've decided to go with plain scrapbooking paper (white and possibly silver depending on what I can find) for the wedding day. I'll cut the pieces into halves or quarters and leave it in the lobby in lieu of a guest book. This gives me the chance to get all of the guests to write us a note, but it takes a lot of pressure off me to find an appropriate scrapbook before the wedding.
  
• I still need to coordinate the morning-after brunch.
• Sixpence, anybody?

If I can get past the scheduling and logistics behind the blood tests and the marriage license, all of this is small potatoes. I know we can have the blood tests done locally, but we may have to leave an extra day early to make sure we can legally get married on the wedding day. Pesky rules. It bothers me that even if we get tested and certified in TX, we still have to take the results to a Mississippi Health Department to have them re-certified there. But, I think that's what we'll be doing because there is no clear mention of how long it takes to get the results back if we have the tests done in MS. This means that we would have to plan a separate trip up just for blood tests. There's no wiggle room in either of our schedules for this. Ugh.

Party Favor Head Start

So, I've been procrastinating a paper I'm working on (again). But, it was pretty productive. We decided to do candy favors in cute little silver tins. The tins came with the huge, stickers for the clear top, but I had something a bit better in mind. We picked up absolutely adorable little cowboy boot and hat stickers at Hobby Lobby a few months ago (they went on our Save the Date cards and will go on our invitation). Essentially, they are the first preview the guests have of the wedding before they even open the envelope. Well, I overestimated and bought way too many. But I decided to add some of the left over stickers as the decor on our cute favor tins. So, I spent the night putting tiny stickers on 90 tin lids. Alone, they look like this
Unfortunately, the stickers don't photograph all that easily. So, I dug up some candy we have around the house and tried desperately to get a similar picture of the tins with candy in them. For some reason, all of my pictures came out blurry. But, I did manage to get this decent picture of the tin standing up with candy in it. You'll have to use your imagination and pretend it's sitting flat on a table.
We're putting Chilli Milli's in the tins. They're chili flavored soft candies. Think gummi bears. Only, in the shape of little chili peppers. This is what the individual candies look like (out of the package)
Mike wants to put the chili milis (in the package) into the tin with a mint. I may have to talk him into individual candies. We'll see once we get the candy in--a bit closer to the wedding.

I do have to admit that it makes me laugh to see how personalized this wedding is actually getting. I never would have thought that I had a bride inside my head just waiting to be released!

The Great Land of Cheesecake

Well, I've checked online with Sam's and they do, in fact have our cheesecake! We can actually order it online and pick it up in the store. All we have to do is give them a notice (between one and seven days). They run $10.50 for a 9" pre-sliced. The only problem I forsee is twisting somebody's arm into removing the little sheets of paper between the slices before we serve them.

WOOHOO! Time to send a special person an email and update her. Oh, and call Sam's to make sure they have them on a regular basis. That could turn into a potential nightmare! I might also call a store closer to the wedding location and see if they have them as well. If we can wait a few days to pick it up, all the better.

Update 10/25

Both stores have our cheesecakes! It looks like the plan is to call ahead to the Moms and check on stock in the local store. That way, if they don't have them, we can snag them here and head up. Mike is planning on 6-7 cheesecakes.

Reception Menu

Okay, we officially have a reception menu. Here's the scoop:

Enchiladas of three different types
Creamed Corn (from scratch)
Refried Black Beans
Tamales
Punch
Soft Drinks
Margaritas
Cheesecake (with three homemade sauces: cherry, chocolate, and blueberry).

Mmmmm....I'm ready for a reception!