wedding planning depression...

i'm having a bit of a 'bridezilla'-ish moment...
nothing in particular has caused it, and it's not directed at anyONE, but i'm just questioning everything and thinking about things. this could be attributed to the oncoming sinus infection.

things such as:
will my wedding go the way i want it to?
will it be able to even hold a candle to the other weddings that have been there in the past?
is one day enough time to get everything decorated/setup?
will tom be able to finagle a sound system outside?
is there a huge to-do list out there somewhere that's specific to ME and me only? ha!

i know it'll work out...if anything, we have a place, a photographer, a pastor, and us. so if all else fails, we just need a marriage certificate, right? at least that much is for sure!

i need to get over this, and quickly because there is a ton of work to do.
plus, i have to help with my friend amanda's wedding that i'm in too!
so, wish me luck and feel free to pass on words of encouragement - i definitely need them.

dress time?! really?!

oh lord! so i've been saying ever since july that i would start looking at wedding dresses in january...well, january is here! crazy, huh? i guess that makes this wedding pretty serious. ha! so i think i'm going to begin the search in about 2 weeks. i definitely will NOT be in wedding dress shape that i wanted to be in, but that's OK! just because i start the search doesn't mean i have to order it the day i try it on or who knows if i'll even find one anytime soon...and that's fine too! :) just wanted to give some sort of semblance of an update...

whoohoo! let the games begin!

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just in case anyone reading this ever needs to know how i feel about either of these devices, you can read my other book blog for my biased review. ha!

kindle vs sony

wedding planning is back in full force!!! :)
going to go check out bridesmaids' dresses up close on wednesday & saturday with amanda - while we look for bridesmaids' dresses for her wedding coming up in july! :)

happy new year!!!

new year's resolutions:

1. take more pictures any chance i get (i'm currently the world's worst at taking ANY)
2. be more spontaneous (this is an ongoing resolution that just gets better and better with age)
3. plan my favoritest wedding ever! (i wasn't sure how else to word that but i know it'll be the best day in our lives in 2010 - so i think it gets my point across!)

what are yours?
hope you're having a great day!!
i spent mine spending more $$ than i needed to on christmas wrapping paper and a really cool sculpture wall hanging thing for our new place next, i mean THIS year!! :)

how could i forget?!

we booked our honeymoon!!!!
ok, well, not the WHOLE thing...
but we've put our deposit down on the cruise and have payed for our hotel!

ok, here's the plan...
we definitely wanted to go on a cruise, but with the way the one we wanted to go on was set up, there was no way we were going to make it in time to get down there in order to catch the cruise unless we didn't go to sleep on saturday night and left at like 2 or 3 in the morning. i'm sorry. it doesn't work that way, people! i wanted to be able to get up, and just get down there whenever we wanted to... well, unfortunately, the people who set up flights did NOT like that idea. come on, people, it's our honeymoon...everyone should be at our beck and call. ok, maybe not ;)

anyways, here's a bit of a backstory for you -
when i was 13, i went to disney for my first and only time. when we were walking through the streets, there was a couple where the man had on a black top hat with mickey ears and the woman had on white minnie ears with a veil. ever since then (no joke!), i've wanted to honeymoon at disney. cheesy, i know. but it's the truth...

ok, back to now...
since we didn't want to be rushed the sunday after the wedding, we've decided to drive down to orlando on sunday - i tried to convince tom to only drive halfway, but he has insisted that he wants to go the whole way on sunday. but that way we don't really have a specific timeline - just to be there on sunday at some point! :) we are staying at the omni hotel - it's awesome! with a 850-ft lazy river!! i know what i'll be doing after hitting up the parks...relaxing on that river!

so we are going to stay there for 7 nights - hitting up disneyworld & seaworld (tom has never been to seaworld!!!!) and doing whatever the heck we want to until the next sunday.

and then...we are going on the cruise that we wanted to go on in the beginning. leaving out of port canaveral in orlando and heading to the bahamas for 4 more days of awesomeness!!! :)

i'm so excited about it! i know it'll most likely be the last 2-wk vacation we'll get to go on for a while, so i'm hoping it'll get here soon...even though i have a TON of stuff to do before then!

hopefully i'll have a chance to share my new years resolutions tomorrow...
whoohoo for 2010!!

still slacking!

what is wrong with me?!
maybe the holidays have brainwashed me to forget about the blog for days on end...
new years resolution: keep up with blog + 3 other resolutions that i have determined to take on.

there's nothing really new on the wedding planning front, but it's been a couple of weeks, so here are a couple of updates about life in general:

• many many christmas parties - ok maybe only 3. ha!


• 2nd annual wrapping party @ laing's last friday - pizza, wrapping, caramel popcorn, and snl's gilly christmas - fun times were definitely had by all


• we had the dc girls christmas party sunday over at keri's house which was awesomely decorated as always - she is one of the neatest girls that i know and so creative with everything! i got some fabulous ornaments to hang on my tree next year! AND keri was so nice to let us have one of her extra christmas trees for FREE!! i was definitely excited about this...we were planning a trip to find the cheapest tree on the day after christmas, but now i can probably go solo and find ornaments/decorations that day. ;)


• yesterday, i went to chuy's with savannah, and let me just say that i really don't quite understand why everyone hype's it up SO much, but it was really good. best part? the queso dip - i think we are going to start a love affair. sorry, thomas. ;)


• and last night, i had my first (but definitely not last) experience at sips n strokes and it was definitely a lot of fun...the painting was relatively simple, so i would like to go when there's a little bit more difficulty involoved, but i LOVED the way mine turned out! it's definitely one more decoration that we can hang up for christmas next year!

and now for upcoming events:

• tonight is christmas with my immediate family
• tomorrow is christmas with tom's immediate family
• thursday is christmas eve with my extended fam
• friday is christmas with everyone!
• saturday is shopping til i drop because i NEVER get the day after off - yay saturday!

so all in all, it's going to be a busy couple of days, but i promise that i'll keep it up soon. plus, after the first of the year, i've really got to buckle down and get some of these wedding projects done + dress shopping + planning everything else! oh lord! there's only 291 days left!! ;)

wow. i'm slacking...

ok, so i've been slacking a little bit lately...
maybe it's the non-wedding planning that i've been doing...hmm.
i've replaced it with christmas shopping for the time being, but now i'm done! whoohoo! i'm not sure that i've ever gotten done this early before - but now i have to wrap everything.
anyone want to volunteer to help?

so - in wedding news:

• we have a place to stay the night before the wedding - and when i say we, i mean all of the bridesmaids, groomsmen, and some of our amazing friends, along with us of course! :) we rented 2 of the brand new renovated villas at montgomery bell - they are really really nice! check out the pics online! Montgomery Bell Villas
• i received our return address stamp fm the fabulous gina over on etsy.com! it looks great, and she totally customized it the way i wanted it...i'd totally recommend ordering fm her if you like any of her designs! i KNOW that once we get a place of our own, i'll be getting another one! check her shop out - lettergirl on etsy
• 2 days ago - on groupon.com - i got an amazing deal (thanks, laing!) for a hour session and a 30-pic cd that we can do whatever we want with for $65 for our engagement pics sometime next year. and the photographer takes amazing pics! definitely excited about that one! it's a package worth $650 - so we are totally saving money there!

i think that's about it - and i promise, once the holidays are over, i am hardcore saving and will be in wedding mode! but it's all starting to come together... :)