Wow. Okay. I think I wrote in this blog
sometime during the Jurassic era, and then pretty much decided to
just hang out until the iPhone was invented. Read: I'M SORRY!!!
Many of you have “lovingly” been
asking me....texting me....*ahem* harrassing me....gently nudging me
and asking me when I'm going to update this blog again. Well, today
is the day! To be fair my life has been crazy. And I pretty much took
the entire month of March off from Wedding-ness. For those of you who
don't know, I quit my job at LexPhil. Quite willingly. I was
extremely NOT happy with management, and my general situation for
reasons which I will not detail here but am happy to discuss
privately. So I decided when one is in a bad environment one should
remove one's self from said bad environment. So I did! However, they
got in one last sucker punch on me financially, again which I will
not discuss here but am HAPPY to privately, so I was without adequate
pay for a while. No worries though. I left with grace, despite my
unbelievable urge to leave more colorfully, a la Jet Blue Flight
Attendant style. If only I wasn't so nice.
BUT none of that is neither here nor
there. I am out of the terrible-awful, and now in the
terribly-AWESOME! I have taken a new job, with a wonderful work
environment, an exceptionally wonderful boss, and I am happier than
ever. It feels nice to be appreciated, be in a healthy office
environment, and be able to focus again. My schedule is amazing, and
most importantly I am treated like a human – with respect,
gratitude, equality, and more. No, seriously. I could write a book on
the difference between there and here. But I shan't. Because this is
about...MY WEDDING!!
So, during my transition time I was
unable to really get anything wedding-related taken care of. Like I
said, I was slammed with a lovely parting-gift of a financial slap
across the face from the almighty Phil, so I had to mind my P's and
Q's and not be spending extras on the wedding. But I am back! I have
resumed my wedding bliss. A few things...
First, my awesome amazing momma bought
our drink dispensers for the wedding reception. Since I am using
mason jars as my glasses for the guests, she bought these awesome
large mason jar dispensers:
How amazing is SHE?! Secondly, I bought
all of my table cloths for the reception last weekend. I made a big,
CEO decision, and opted to go with chocolate brown table cloths. Let
me paint you a picture:
So I've been struggling with these
table cloths. White is too bright. Purple is too “ehr mehr gehrd
errrrrthing is purrrple herrrre!!”. And cream just doesn't pop
enough with the lace. Well, a few weeks ago I bought this adorbs tote
bag at Goodwill, because that's how I roll, and it was dark purple
with chocolate brown leather trim. And It. Is. So. Pretty. Y'all. So
I kept thinking maybe, just maybe dark brown would be an option, but
I didn't say anything because I'm crazy and you know...But then, my
sweet finance comes home one night and says while he was out shopping
for something else, he came across a huge clearance rack of chocolate
brown table cloths on sale for...wait for it....$5.00 each!! He said
he didn't know if I had even thought of brown, but of course I had
because he and I are on the same wave length 24/7, so I sat up like a
prairie dog and thought “It must be fate!”. The very next day I
commissioned my mom to go look at them with me, and voila. We bought
them all. It was like an episode or hoarders, wedding edition, as we
crammed them all into the wedding-filled trunk.
In other news that you have missed, we
have set the menu for the reception, so there will indeed be food to
put on these tablecloths! We have hired a local catering service who
specialize in southern BBQ. So we are having a good ol'fashioned
Southern style BBQ with all the fixin's. I think it will taste super
yummy.
But here is my secret dilemma: Do
receptions need a theme???? Because well....okay, here. I am
including things I like. Purple. Vintage china plates with mason
jars. Lace. Southern BBQ. It's all shabby-chic, so if that counts as
a theme I am in. But for the centerpieces I have been collecting my
baskets to make my mini hot-air balloons. But then I was thinking
WHOA. Where does THAT fit in? Now granted, I have only spent about
$20 total on that entire project, so it isn't the end of the world if
I don't use them. But should I use them anyway? Does it fit? Does it
need to fit? What else could I use?!?! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay. Shew. Almost freaked out there.
But really. Help.
Our Save-The-Dates are going out May
1st come hell or high water. We are already way behind and
haven't even had them made yet. So um yeah. But May 8th is
exactly 6 months to the day until the wedding so we kind of have to
have that done. Read: We MUST finalize the guest list!!!!
And finally, in exciting news, I am
calling David's Bridal today to set up my first wedding-dress
appointment here locally. I am nervous, excited, etc. I don't know
what to expect. And I am a big girl, so I'm really scared I won't
find anything to fit me! I'm seriously having nightmares that I'm
going to have to end up buying my dress second-hand from some store
called SurPLUS Bride or something.
SO yes. I'm back kids. The blogging has
resumed, as have all things wedding. My one-month hiatus is over and
now it's time to kick-butt. Please, won't you rejoin me on the ride?!
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