I'm gonna say it's a good excuse at least...
So, planning is going so well. Everyone keeps asking me how stressed are you? My answer is the same every time. I'm not. I have had a couple moments of "eek! we are halfway through 5 months already!!" But for the most part, I have really enjoyed this process. It's been nice to share the joy with my family and friends. It's been great to see apartments and register for items that are going to build OUR FIRST HOME. It's been great to have our families meet, and plan a wedding that is completely about our personalities and (hopefully) just a blast for everyone who comes.
So far, we have gotten our reception venue, ceremony venue, our ceremony options, food, drink, save the dates (done and out), invitations are gonna be going out by Labor Day, we have flowers, limo transportation, dress for me, dresses for my girls, tuxes picked out for our guys, first family shower/party (which was such a complete success!), we have our honeymoon booked (don't ask where we are going, we aren't going to tell until we get home!), we have a DJ, a photographer (and engagement photos done), mother of the bride/grooms dresses already chosen, favors picked out. The things I am struggling to decide on are a guest book and wedding favors. Also the cake/dessert options. But for the most part everything has worked out really well, and yes, we are going to be eating ramen noodles for the first year of our marriage, but we couldn't be more thrilled about getting married in November!
Cue this weekend. This wonderful weekend. The weekend before it was kinda hit and miss. We had a great family shower up in PA for us on Sunday, and another engagement party on Monday for a close friend of mine. But I did unfortunately end up putting about 20 hours of work in over the weekend too, so it was kinda a wash for me as well as for my super wonderful, graceful, and patient fiance.
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| Caitlin and Carousel Rogues rockin out! |
Needless to say, this weekend was a welcome break. I took off Friday, slept in until almost 7am (I know, that is depressing). I drove against traffic for the first time in a long time, to head up to Kev's to get his car and get it aligned. (True confession: I did work for just a little bit while waiting for his car to get done.) Then I headed up to his parent's house for dress shopping with his mom. It turned out to be a wonderful day. We got a dress at David's Bridal, had a delicious lunch at Silver diner, and then headed back to the house for some more chatting before I went back to Kev's place with his car. Then, I headed my butt into DC for some sweet jams and good friends since a friend's band was playing a concert. The concert was intimate and awesome, and it was such a good relaxing time.
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| New recipe: baking turkey bacon on cooling racks and cookie sheets! |
Saturday I tried my hand at making crepes for the first time in my life, and then had 6 of the coolest teenage girls I know come over for brunch. Complete with juice, coffee, fruit, powdered sugar, pumpkin butter, and nutella, we had an amazing brunch of just talking, catching up, and discussing some of life's more important things... Ahhhhh I love those girls.
And then Kev came down and we embossed thank you cards. We resolved that embossing and creating our own thank you cards needs to be regulated to the showers, and that we are NOT going to take on the challenge of making our own after the wedding, but it was still fun to create something together. We welcomed new roommate 1 of 3 (we have two more moving in the next month), on Saturday night and finished off a great day with a run and then some Chinese food. Mhmm... life is good. Sunday was some more just relaxing, and getting stuff done. But after being so go-go-go for the last month or so, it was nice to just relax and enjoy the good relationships and laid back time with the people that mean the most.
Mhmm... Life is so good, and I do believe, it's getting better... <3>
