Got Weddings on the Brain

It’s wedding season, and I’m getting married in 3 months!  I’m also hosting a bridal shower for my best friend Elizabeth next weekend, which has me completely stressed out!  Last night i had a dream nightmare that I had somehow forgotten about the bridal shower and everyone started showing up to my house and I had nothing prepared, and my house was a mess because of our many animals.  Talk about a stressful dream!  I woke up abruptly in the middle of it and then couldn’t go back to sleep because I was thinking about everything I had to do for the shower.

So, to de-stress myself, I browsed through the wedding section on Etsy, and boy oh boy did I find some gems!  Literally!

Like this gorgeous crystal bridal bouquet wrap.  I wonder if there’s an easy way to make this myself?  The price tag on this thing is a whopping $339!  That’s more than my dress cost.  No thank you!

I also found this beautiful hair comb.  I definitely want something like this.  I originally though I wanted a tiara, but I’ll just have to see which looks better with my hair style.

And what about these cuties!?  The only problem with these hangers is that they’ll only be used 1 day, and I want to get my bridesmaids something they can use all the time.  I mean, I guess they can use them after the wedding, but they’ll only be cute for one day, and then they’ll just get mixed up with all the other hangers in their closets.  It’s a cute idea though!

I’m still on the hunt for the perfect earrings and necklace.  I want something pretty and simple…..

…like this.  Wow, I just noticed that there’s a little piece of hair or lint on that earring.  Haha!  I wonder if the Etsy shop owner knows that.  That’s kinda grody.  But nevertheless, this is kinda the style I want as far as earrings go (minus the hair).

I still need to take my dress to a seamstress to have a bustle put in, but other than that, my dress fits perfectly!  What a relief!!  Now back to stressing over Elizabeth’s shower.

Wedding Mania

Yesterday marked the 4 month countdown of our wedding.  I can’t believe how fast the time is going by!  (I apologize to all the English teachers of the world for the preposition at the end of the sentence).  Yesterday, Steve and I met with our wedding venue Historic Cedarwood in Nashville to finalize all the details of the ceremony and reception.  We chose flowers, food, decorations, table linens, invitations, and music (I use the term “we” here very loosely.  Steve was basically there for moral support.  Although he did pick out our table cloths, some of the food, and the monogram for our napkins.  Great job, love!)  It’s so great to have a venue that takes care of everything except the photographer and minister!  Makes my life so much easier not to have to run around town to several different places to get everything I need done.

We’re getting married at a beautiful antebellum house on several acres that was built in 1835.  Luckily they have several rain options in the small chance that it rains on our wedding day.

Here is the front of the house.  The reception will be under the covered patio on the left.

The ceremony site is right behind the patio.

I don’t think I could have pictured a more beautiful setting.  Planning everything yesterday just made it all so real!  I can’t believe I’m going to marry my best friend in 4 months!

We also booked our honeymoon cruise yesterday!!!  We almost didn’t get the cruise we wanted.  Princess cruise lines has a limited number of cruises to the Caribbean during the summer, and the only one that happened to be close to our wedding was July 28 leaving from New York.  That was perfectly fine by me since I had never been to New York!  Steve and I would drive up a few days early and stop along the way to see the sights.

Yesterday, when I went to book the cruise, much to my dismay it said “No cabins available” for our July 28th cruise!  Oh no!!!  The next Caribbean cruise wasn’t until Sept 29th, and I didn’t want to wait over 2 months after our wedding to finally go on our honeymoon.

Luckily, both Steve’s brother and sister in law work for Princess.  They were able to open up a reservation just for us on the ship we wanted.  Phew!  What a close call!  I was so grateful!

Now we just have to wait 4 more months until we are man and wife!  It can’t come fast enough…..well,  as long as I can lose these last 10 pounds, that is. 🙂