i got my envelopes in the mail...
see previous post if you need to but i know that it's a little early, but when you're hit with a good idea and you have MY memory...jump on it! so after laing found them online for me (thanks - LOVE YOU!) i ordered them a couple of days later and received them today. they are absolutely PERFECT...need me to say it again? P-E-R-F-E-C-T!! they match the darker yellow color on the invites perfectly! so now i have 500 envelopes sitting in the extra room dying to be used soon. :) (just to clarify, 250 for invites/extra and 250 for rsvps/extra - we are not having 500 people at our wedding!)
just a quick update...now to finish top chef and off to bed.
PS - i really want to see pirate radio when it comes out in a theatre near me. random though for the day. ;)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
accomplishments...
so here's what i've accomplished this week:
- made awesome pecan pancakes! another item to add to my (very short!) list of cooking successes
- i now KNOW that i can survive without my phone for about 3 days. but no more than that!
- REcut 1/2 of my invitations...to make them bigger and they look awesome. i like them so much more than the others
- ordered my sunflower yellow envelopes (i know it's still early...but might as well do it now if i'm going to have to do it later, right?)
- realized how funny 'modern family' is...i've watched all the reruns online. LOVE IT!
- reconnected with some old DCHS crew at abigail's wedding which was an absolute blast...so beautiful! :)
- hopefully found the place where the rehearsal dinner will be held
- looked at silverware that's on clearance at macy's for our first shower gift
- realized how good my future husband looks in a sportcoat...
- i think that tom has convinced me that MAYBE i do need dance lessons due to the fact that he tried to spin me in the parking lot and i almost ate pavement.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
new week, new post...
ok, so it's wednesday, and i just realized that i haven't posted anything for a week...
i apologize, my friends...fm my previous post you can probably tell that i've been crazy busy lately!
halloween was chaotic but all in all the entire thing was a pretty big success! there was just SO many people and not enough people to wrangle the crowds! but you live and learn and hopefully next year will be WAY more organized! :) i had a great time spending time with jackie, beckie, and rachel along with some of the old park crew fm my days of working there...
so any progress in the past 7 days?
actually, YES!
i was able to cut all of the invitations on sunday night...nothing like some quiet time along with season 1 of desparate housewives and an industrial cutter to get the job done. i was done in about an hour and a half. so once the invites are done, we'll move on to the rsvp cards and the map/directions cards - but, for now, i'm happy that the invites are cut...
along with cutting ALL the invites, i've printed the wording on about 50-ish of them. and i must admit they look pretty darn good. i actually painted up one and brought it to work today to show some of my work bff's and gather some opinions - all postive! whoohoo! tom and his parents really liked it too, so that's always good!
one other thing accomplished was that i figured out/estimated the size of the tables in the dining hall at the park. 5' x 4.5' - so i've been thinking about making my own tablecloths (thanks, laing!) so i've got to go check out joann's with my 50% coupons that i get in my email every couple of days and see what i can figure out!
other than that, i've just been trying to keep up with work...it's been a little stressful the past couple of days and will just continue to get worse until march or april probably. fun fun.
until next time. :)
i apologize, my friends...fm my previous post you can probably tell that i've been crazy busy lately!
halloween was chaotic but all in all the entire thing was a pretty big success! there was just SO many people and not enough people to wrangle the crowds! but you live and learn and hopefully next year will be WAY more organized! :) i had a great time spending time with jackie, beckie, and rachel along with some of the old park crew fm my days of working there...
so any progress in the past 7 days?
actually, YES!
i was able to cut all of the invitations on sunday night...nothing like some quiet time along with season 1 of desparate housewives and an industrial cutter to get the job done. i was done in about an hour and a half. so once the invites are done, we'll move on to the rsvp cards and the map/directions cards - but, for now, i'm happy that the invites are cut...
along with cutting ALL the invites, i've printed the wording on about 50-ish of them. and i must admit they look pretty darn good. i actually painted up one and brought it to work today to show some of my work bff's and gather some opinions - all postive! whoohoo! tom and his parents really liked it too, so that's always good!
one other thing accomplished was that i figured out/estimated the size of the tables in the dining hall at the park. 5' x 4.5' - so i've been thinking about making my own tablecloths (thanks, laing!) so i've got to go check out joann's with my 50% coupons that i get in my email every couple of days and see what i can figure out!
other than that, i've just been trying to keep up with work...it's been a little stressful the past couple of days and will just continue to get worse until march or april probably. fun fun.
until next time. :)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
blank...
as in - wedding planning. my mind is blanking out on any wedding planning currently. i think it'll get back into the routine as soon as halloween is over. the past couple of weeks have been absolute chaos, and i'm not really sure why. i guess it's just hard to live an hour fm just about (not all!) everything that you consider familiar - friends, fiancee, places you like to frequent.
so when i get a chance to catch up with any of my friends that i haven't seen in forever, i'm game! so the past couple of weeks (since last monday) have included: (warning! lots of unhealthy food involved...not good!)
so when i get a chance to catch up with any of my friends that i haven't seen in forever, i'm game! so the past couple of weeks (since last monday) have included: (warning! lots of unhealthy food involved...not good!)
- skipping carpool many days,
- dinner at applebees one night catching up on the past year (we canNOT wait that long next time, laura!),
- dinner with fabulous fruit tea and desserts with the future in-laws,
- ordering a david's bridal dress for engagement pics (i know, i know - way too early! but i LOVE the dress!!) picture, anyone? granted the one they had at the store was WAY too big, but this is a picture of it (it's better than the pic i took of the dress in the magazine!)
- dinner at logan's with one of my friends who is also a fellow engage-ee (i'm going to be one of her bridesmaids!!) discussing wedding plans
- dinner at capt d's with my park bff jackie to discuss halloween plans and then went to see vampire's assistant (totally recommend it!) and then for pumpkin lattes afterward (if you don't like coffee, i do NOT recommend)
- hanging with thomas just doing nothing and absolutely loving it
- seeing a real life bayonet that should have been used during wwII
- purchasing stuff to create a homemade halloween 'witch' costume
- slumber party at my MOH's house just hanging out and eating homemade pizza! yum!
- eating lunch yesterday with an old old navy friend and her new hubby at crack baby
- dinner tonight with one of tom's greatest friends and his wife
- dinner and a little shopping with my newfound friend (she was tom's friend first) natalia! :)
- treat day at work on thursday - must remember COOKIES!!
- halloween at the group camp setup on friday after work
- saturday - HALLOWEEN at montgomery bell!! it's free! bring everyone...starts at 6 o'clock!
so, hopefully after ALL of this, things will be semi-back to normal and i can resume wedding planning! and not running myself ragged! :) but i'm so blessed to have such great friends that i can keep up with - granted it's not usually on a very normal basis - but that's what makes it so much fun!
so, hopefully after reading all of this, you'll understand why i haven't been posting EVERYday! ;)
Monday, October 26, 2009
halloween
ok, so ready for a post that is non-wedding related?
yeah, me neither...haha!
but it must be done! for the past couple of days i haven't really done any more wedding planning-ish stuff, so other things must be discussed! i'm sitting here listening to the wedding singer soundtrack thinking about wedding songs, but should be worrying about other things.
journey 'don't stop believin' or quietdrive 'time after time'? opinions?
this saturday, for halloween, i'm helping my great friend jackie at montgomery bell with her witch house that all of the community is invited. i know there are going to be a lot of the cabins decorated as haunted houses, and also stuff for the smaller ones as well. :) should be a LOT of fun! we did it a couple of years ago, and it was definitely a blast.
i love it when others dress up for halloween, but i, myself, can never seem to come up with anything quite creative enough! as crafty as i am, you would think that i could pull something off. i've NEVER been able to do this... maybe it was fm growing up always spending halloween at our church and dressing up as either a hobo or a cat every year because that's what my mom could do with her eyeliner...who knows. you would think as crafty as i am, i could! jeez! one year, i will...i promise...maybe. haha!
yeah, me neither...haha!
but it must be done! for the past couple of days i haven't really done any more wedding planning-ish stuff, so other things must be discussed! i'm sitting here listening to the wedding singer soundtrack thinking about wedding songs, but should be worrying about other things.
journey 'don't stop believin' or quietdrive 'time after time'? opinions?
this saturday, for halloween, i'm helping my great friend jackie at montgomery bell with her witch house that all of the community is invited. i know there are going to be a lot of the cabins decorated as haunted houses, and also stuff for the smaller ones as well. :) should be a LOT of fun! we did it a couple of years ago, and it was definitely a blast.
i love it when others dress up for halloween, but i, myself, can never seem to come up with anything quite creative enough! as crafty as i am, you would think that i could pull something off. i've NEVER been able to do this... maybe it was fm growing up always spending halloween at our church and dressing up as either a hobo or a cat every year because that's what my mom could do with her eyeliner...who knows. you would think as crafty as i am, i could! jeez! one year, i will...i promise...maybe. haha!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
353 days...
...aka WAY TOO LONG!
anyways, back to the subject at hand:
many of my friends, recent and older, have gotten married in the past and as i watch them grow in their relationships with their husbands/wives, it makes me realize how much i can't wait for a year to go by!
i'm not stressed or worried about it even because i know they we have a place ready to go and that my pastor will be there, so as long as we can get ahold of a marriage certificate, we're good to go! :) although i really want all of our my family and friends there, of course! i just can't wait to start our life together...tom, i hope you're reading this!
it's really hard to only see each other on saturdays and sundays and on rare occasions we get to eat dinner together during the week. i can't wait until we have our own place where i can just look forward to coming home and just being. right now, without the wedding planning involved, i come home and try to plan out a schedule so that i get to catch up with my nearest and dearest friends, see tom on a semi-regular basis, and still make time to keep up with laundry...OH, how i abhor laundry! and the higher the pile goes, the more i don't want to do it. and after going, going, going all day, i just don't want to do it.
anyways, back to the point, i keep looking to that day where we get to just come home to each other on a daily basis instead of jumping through hoops to try and see each other. i greatly admire those who have long distance relationships and make them work! i live 40 miles fm tom, and sometimes it feels like a different world.
ok, off my soapbox for the evening...it's time to finish watching top chef and go to bed!!
by the way, i <3 tom colicchio!
(so i leave you with a picture of my favorite judge EVER)
anyways, back to the subject at hand:
many of my friends, recent and older, have gotten married in the past and as i watch them grow in their relationships with their husbands/wives, it makes me realize how much i can't wait for a year to go by!
i'm not stressed or worried about it even because i know they we have a place ready to go and that my pastor will be there, so as long as we can get ahold of a marriage certificate, we're good to go! :) although i really want all of our my family and friends there, of course! i just can't wait to start our life together...tom, i hope you're reading this!
it's really hard to only see each other on saturdays and sundays and on rare occasions we get to eat dinner together during the week. i can't wait until we have our own place where i can just look forward to coming home and just being. right now, without the wedding planning involved, i come home and try to plan out a schedule so that i get to catch up with my nearest and dearest friends, see tom on a semi-regular basis, and still make time to keep up with laundry...OH, how i abhor laundry! and the higher the pile goes, the more i don't want to do it. and after going, going, going all day, i just don't want to do it.
anyways, back to the point, i keep looking to that day where we get to just come home to each other on a daily basis instead of jumping through hoops to try and see each other. i greatly admire those who have long distance relationships and make them work! i live 40 miles fm tom, and sometimes it feels like a different world.
ok, off my soapbox for the evening...it's time to finish watching top chef and go to bed!!
by the way, i <3 tom colicchio!
(so i leave you with a picture of my favorite judge EVER)
Friday, October 16, 2009
the wishing wall!
don't you just love it?! i do!!
it's definitely something i can say that i've never seen at a wedding!
yet again, let me say that i <3 uncommongoods.com - they have the neatest stuff!
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