1. Once Wed - came across this looking for wedding dress resale sites but fell in love with the wedding features. I have so many DIY ideas for the wedding now. And I’ve found lots of wedding photographers who are helping me figure out what type of photos we want. (Jillian Kay and Leigh Miller) *
2. Indie Wedding Guide - another resource of unique, DIY and eco ideas.
*Our wedding photographer is the amazing, awesome and good friend, UrbanTiki .
I ordered my wedding dress on Thursday. I had taken Wednesday off to go shopping since my weekends are tied up with soccer and getting Ted’s bachelor-pad house into shape. The dress was not one I had selected from the racks, but one the sales woman pulled. I had been frustrated with what I was trying on and she suggested we try a different dress shape. Well, she pulled the perfect one. It is very odd to be wearing a dress you know you will wear on your wedding day. Very, very weird.
Ted has also selected the suit he and his best man will wear. We just need to get the men measured and then the suits ordered. All that is left to finalize is my matron of honor’s dress and what the parents are wearing.
At the end of June, we’ll be in Maine with both sets of parents to deal with the church ceremony, the reception menu, the flowers and whatever little things are left to do.
But with a dress on order, the wedding feels all that much more real.
Wedding planning is going slowly. Right now the only things that are confirmed are the date, the church and the bride & groom. It turns out finding an appropriate reception venue is harder than anyone thought. Fingers crossed that by next week, we’ll have a venue secured.
The other stuff will fall together as we get closer and make a more serious effort towards planning. I will say planning a wedding in six months, one thousand miles away is a bit tricky. Lucky for us, my parents still live there so they have done a wonderful job of researching all our options. We are all meeting in Maine in June to have a marathon wedding planning weekend. When I say we, I mean my parents, his parents and both of us. It should be fun as the parents have never met.
Honeymoon discussions are back on. Ted started a new job earlier this year so he barely has the time off to cover the wedding time. However, we both work in the auto industry and get Christmas to New Years off. It would be a perfect time for a luxe vacation… Now we just need to find a place. Belize and Peru are the top contenders because we could spend a lot of our time exploring and being active. We just aren’t the lay on the beach-do nothing type of people.
I have an actual and official wedding date. Deep breathes…
Thank goodness I started working out with a personal trainer last week.
Today, we were visiting our friend’s awesome furniture/accessory store (Mezzanine) in Detroit and saw this ring. We both thought it was perfect as an engagement ring. It reflects our personalities better than any diamond.
How so? The black in the ring is a rubber “O ring”! It makes me giggle.. I am so happy… and so is Ted.
I will probably start using this website to share the details and information on the wedding.
