Flowers

They have been decided on! Here's what I got:

For the Bridesmaids they will be carrying feather fans that I purchased off of eBay through cynthiasshope and I will also be getting them white alstromeria corsages to wear. I might try to get the feather fans to an airbrush artist to try and get a white to blue painted tips effect. The fans that I purchased are alright, but needed a little bit of picking to remove some of the stray pieces of colored fuzz and lint the was clinging to the fan. Overall the fans were a great purchase because the price of all five of these fans for my ladies was about equivalent to one bouquet at the Monte Carlo.















For the Groomsmen I thought we would keep it simple with a white alstromeria boutonniere like the one pictured in below and add some light blue belladonna (also called delphinium) to coordinate with the dresses the ladies will be wearing.















For the Mothers/Grandmothers present, I decided that they should get something special to feel included so I ordered white dendrobium orchid corsages for each of them. Hopefully the floral department gets them to look very close to this picture because it's very pretty.














For the Fathers/Grandfathers present just a simple ivory rose with rose leaves boutonniere for them. I didn't want them to feel like they were wearing almost a bouquet's worth of flowers on their chest so I'm keeping it simple and classy. I also requested that all the boutonnieres have that little curly-q on the end that this one does.













For the Groom, he gets a single ivory rose with greenery and white sweet peas added; simple and effective.

















For me, the Bride, I decided to go with a bunch of ivory roses with a bunch of white sweet peas and feathers added. I'll be able to bring in the feathers that I ordered from lamplight feathers as well as my own ribbon for the wrap that I bought on a 50% sale at Michaels.

Cake Topper

A few weeks ago I started the search for our cake topper. After perusing Google images, The Knot photos and randomly looking through eBay for whatever was on the market I managed to come across a few that I liked. I ran it by my man and he chose the one that I eventually ended up getting, but I had to do a quick search for the item and found it on Amazon. For anyone who likes this topper, the style is The First Kiss Topper by Wilton.


























*pretty*

Bad GS Cookies!

Alright, so it's not just the Girl Scout cookies, but probably also the rum and Pepsi drinks I've been consuming that has contributed to my excess "happy" weight. Admittedly, I probably could have worked on getting in shape, eating better, having smaller meals and yadda yadda yadda, but somewhere I fell into a zone where all that didn't matter so much and I didn't really care. All of this leads up to my first fitting where I was rather embarrassed to find that my size 8 dress no longer fits as well as it did in March '09 and might need to be let out quite a bit to where I probably should have invested in a size 10 instead.

So even though I hated the idea of crash dieting, it sounds exactly what I'll be close to doing. Granted there will be no starving myself for the sake of being skinny, but more like I'll be cutting back on the size of my meals, eating apples instead of potato chips and whatnot to get back down from the 170 that I'm at now to the 150 I was then. The horrible part is that in all my stubbornness I'll probably try to bull-head my way into working out my body to force it into the desired shape. This does not mean that I'll be working out until I break or tear something, just that I'll most likely be working out until I'm an exhausted mess.

Hopefully with recognizing that I need some drastic changes to squeeze into my current dress this will get me to finally grab a hold of the mind set that I should have been in since January. The only problem with all of this is that I will severely miss my Captain.

Dress for the Night

After a bit of consideration and research on Vegas temperatures, I decided that it would probably be best to purchase a much lighter, more breathable dress. This way I can go out on the town in a dress that I won't end up a soggy, sweaty mess in by the end of the night. It took a lot of searching and redefining my search words but I was able to find this by looking for a Marlyn Monroe type dress with a tie-back halter style. I found this little number online at eBay and after showing my man I decided to purchase it. Right now it's on the way but I can't wait to try it on.

Feather Fans!

Yes this is a bit odd but after talking to my Maid of Honor I decided to at least try this out. For quite some time I had been playing around with possibilities for bouquets and hadn't quite found something that gave me that "wow" factor without hurting our budget. While searching for feathers, because I was trying to figure out how to incorporate feathers into the bridesmaids bouquets, I stumbled upon these babies.














I was already going to try and get enough fans for all of our female attendants but this just looks like a fun idea for my gals. The best upside to this is the wedding venue wanted about $55 per bouquet; I got enough fans for all five of my girls at about the same price as one of those bouquets. Super save!

My hope is that these fans aren't as tacky as I think they might turn out and if they're fine I'll be looking into decorating them somehow. My Maid of Honor suggested going to a tattoo artist that also does airbrushing and have them do some airbrushing on the fans. I love that idea, I just don't 100% know what I'll be doing. The idea that I'm running with is to have the artist paint the tips of the fan light blue and have the fan look like it's dissolving from white at the base to the blue tips. She suggested having a flower airbrushed on to the fans but I'm having trouble envisioning this.

If this all doesn't turn out to my liking I can still use the fans I don't have experimental paint and whatnot all over for my mom, his mom and possibly my two grandmas.

Some close runners up were to have either white alstromeria or carnation bouquets, but if this works out we'll end up saving quite a bit of the budget for other things.

Backlog

My apologies to anyone who has been following this blog. For the past few months I've been concentrating on classes, work and planning a wedding and all of it reached a point of ultimate stress about a few weeks ago and I'm just now getting back into my stride. Eventually I'll get caught up on updating everything, but that will probably take a bit of time because I'm still taking classes through the summer.

As a spoiler alert I'm working on slimming down, I've turned in my dress to David's Bridal for it to be altered, bid on a dress to wear for going out on the town on our wedding night, set up a hair trial appointment, thought about centerpieces, flowers and other such stuff to be revealed in future blogs. Also, I love and hate Google but then again it's probably the retailers fault for mislabeling their products for search-ability, but then again Google doesn't list everything from lowest to highest price even when you tell it to do so.

That's all for now, I'll try to catch up a bit more later.