Cakes - Yummy, Yummy!

On Thursday, we had our first meeting with our cake maker :) I'm  really excited about both of our cakes & our baker! (We haven't gotten to taste test just yet, but that's coming tomorrow!!!)

First, our baker, she is super nice! Everyone thinks so! When I signed at our reception site, I mentioned I was considering going with this baker to see the event coordinator opinion & she was so excited! She said that Jaclyn was absolutely fabulous & who she gets all of her cakes from when she has events! This is exactly the type of recommendation I take to heart & I was so glad to know I would be getting to work with her! Part of the reason I picked this company was that it is a small, family owned bakery where the mom works out of her home, professional grade kitchen! There's something in me that loves supporting small businesses and I know she is going to work to make my cake dreams a reality!

Summer Gift Bag

So... This post was totally written a year ago and I forgot to post it, whoops! (It's kinda funny because I mention that this was for our President, which is now me, hehe, ok maybe I'm the only one who finds this funny), but you should get to read it anyway so here you go!

I'm on the board for my sorority. This summer, we drew names and each had another board member to show love for during the summer! I knew I had to do something cute for my girl (I pulled our President to do stuff for!) so I came up with an adorable summer gift bag!

Flowers

Ok so this is not set in stone yet, but I have some ideas of what I want for flowers so I want to show you all!

First off, if you hadn't noticed yet, (which, unless you actually know me, you probably haven't) my style is what I call off-beat traditional.  I do love tradition, but have to twist it a little to make it my own. A great example of this: my wedding ring! Now, when I first got engaged, I posted a picture of just my engagement band, but you'd have to see the whole thing (engagement & wedding band) to understand so here it is:

Scrapbook Whiteboard

Ok so here is a SUPER EASY 10 minute craft that I keep seeing on pinterest and finally got around to doing myself!!!

Dress Shopping

Note: I originally wrote this back in February, but spaced on posting it so if you notice some anachronisms, that's why (such as not having a date when I obviously already blogged about having one)

I feel like I'm doing things out of order, I have a dress (my parents are picking it up tonight), but still no date! (waiting on our priest to come back from a family problem for that). So you know, since I have done something so exciting, I'm going to blog about it! So, my dress shopping adventure will be in the form of "rules"for dress shopping (I say "rules" because I didn't follow a lot of them, so I guess they are more like guidelines ;)

Inspiration for a New Adventure

It’s been so much fun to be planning wedding details with Ryan, but I will talk about those later! We have something else we have been planning as well that is what I wanted to talk about.  Ryan applied for a scholarship that would pay for his last 2 years of school and give him a job after college and (while we are still waiting for the letter that says he got it for sure) it’s like 95% sure at this point! That means that once Ryan graduates, we will be moving to Oklahoma! 

We Have a Date!!!

After struggling to figure out which priest we wanted to witness our marriage, waiting a month to meet with him, and finding out he had to reschedule the day of that meeting because of a family emergency, we were FINALLY able to meet with him and set a date!!!

We knew that we wanted to get married right after my graduation (May 2013) and had been looking at the weekend after my graduation (the 18th).  That day also happens to be my parent's anniversary, which (although my mom was excited because I was going to cater to her & put in special elements for her) never really excited me because I don't really want to share our special day (sorry, Mom!) As it turns out, there is a big event happening in the diocese that day and the priest couldn't do a wedding then.  So, it was find ANOTHER different priest or change the date.  To us, the priest was more important and so we moved the wedding a week back!!

This is great because it gives Ryan's current roommate more time to move out & us to get my stuff moved in so our home is all set up when we get married & I move in! It also ends up being Memorial Day Weekend, so our guests won't have work on Monday & can enjoy the wedding a little more without stressing about running home the next day. (especially our parents).

So, the big day is May 25, 2013!!!! Now we can finally go talk to florists/reception halls/caterers etc!!! I'm so excited things are moving along!!!