Another check on my To-Do list!

Hey everyone! Haha wedding plans have been so crazy now that its so close, so quite a bit of time has passed yet again since my last post. Ok so since i last wrote, i have been able to tick a bunch more stuff off my to-do list. I compiled a list of everyone we were inviting, and then picked up all the invites. I have gotten them all addressed and sent, which is so great to have done! I also went with Nick on Oct. 19 ( the day my bff got home from her mission in Chile!) and we got our marriage license. I also finally got my endowment session scheduled and found a date for my ward bridal shower. : ) 
Around the 2rd week in Oct. i had my bridal picture session, which went great! There are so many amazing pics to choose from to show at the reception! Haha not sure how i can narrow it down! (Though i am actually working on doing just that this week and need to have the list to the photographer by this weekend.) Oh i also finished getting all the pics of me and Nick for the montage as well as selecting the music that i want to go with it, as well as getting it delivered to Pete (my photographer). I have ordered all my flowers as well (which are going to look so amazing, and got the menu for the reception all ordered as well.
Also, i got all the bridesmaid dresses altered, including Sadie's, though she didn't get home til the 19. The lady did an amazing job and was so fast, which is great because then i didn't worry about getting them in time. Haha the only thing i'm really worried about now, is if i took to long in finally ordering the photo sign in book and if it can be done and shipped in just 2 weeks...Hopefully it can or there is someway to rush order it. Either way, i definitely need to get that done asap! I also still need to decide on all the music i want for the half hour of dancing. Not to worried about that though cause it only takes like 5 min to make a wedding play-list and load it on an ipod. So thats what ive accomplished in oct. I will try if i can to update again before the wedding to let you all know how everything came together! : D

More wedding stuff accomplished!

 Ok so since i last posted, a few more big things have been done. First, we finally got the little flower girl dresses picked and ordered and everything. I have two flower girls; my friend Jessica's little girl Phoebe, who is almost 2 and then my soon-to-be little niece Kylie, who is 7. We all met (me, my mom, Kylie, her mom Stacey, Jessica, and Phoebe) at David's Bridal at noon on a Saturday to have the girls try on the dresses i had seen when at Davids another time. They are ivory to match my dress, silk on the top half with a silk slip as the bottom layer, with about 3 or 4 layers of gauzy material on top of that. It makes them very poofy and remind be of ballet tutus, but not quite THAT poofy. I think they are super aborable! They are also going to have black sashes around their waists that end in a big bow on the back, as well as be wearing black shoes. Kylie will also get to wear a tiara and Phoebe will have cute black flowery clips in her hair, because she is to young for a tiara. I am so excited to see the girls in everything on my wedding day! They will be so stinking cute! : D I am really sorry, but i totally spaced on taking pics as they tried them on. That will have to wait til i pick them up.
 I have also finally begun to get my count of how many people i think we are going to be inviting and getting address from everyone. Haha i know its a teeny bit late in the game since they are suppose to be sent out next week since you send invites out about a month before the wedding. I have no idea where all my time suddenly went! lol. My mom and i also finally got the invitation ordered today as well. haha... Lucky in the digital age, they can get them all printed and ready in like 4-6 days, so we should be fine. Definitley cutting it close, i know, but we will make it! I am so excited to get the invitations, because i love the design we picked and the pictures we chose, and can't wait to see how it all comes together!
 I have also had a few showers as well, both of which were so great! I got some amazing gifts that will definitely come in handy in Nick and I's new life together. I also have finally found a date that works for my ward's bridal shower and am finally going this thurs with Nick to pick out what wedding ring he would like. I am super excited for that! : ) And, i finally made an appointment with Heritage Gardens to come finalize my menu, as well as getting my Bridesmaid dresses in last week. I am super lucky because 2 won't even need any alteration, which is really great! Haha so ya, that is all the wedding stuff that has been going on since i last wrote! I will blog again once i get more things ticked off my To-Do list! :)

Engagement pics done!! :)

In my post last week, i talked not only about my cake, but also that i had engagement pictures coming up. We got them done over the weekend and we had a blast! We ended up not being able to do the pictures on Thurs because of the weather, so we had to reschedule them. He couldn't do Fri and we couldn't do Sat, so we ended up doing them on Sun, Sept. 12. We kept them at the Jordan International Peace Gardens, which is were we planned on doing them Thurs, and met at 4 o'clock. It was the perfect day for pictures! It was in the 80's, sunny, and not windy at all. Our photographer Pete was hilarious! He kept joking around and being silly to make us laugh and was very laid back and fun and super easy to talk to and get along with. He had tons of great ideas but also asked for our input and if we had any poses we would like to try. We didn't really have any ideas of our own and were fine going along with the great ideas that he had.  It was so fun and made me so excited to get to start designing the invitations! I can't wait until Pete has the pictures finished and gives them to us! I am so excited to see how they all look! :D

The Official Cake!!

Hello everyone! So as i said in my last blog, i had a meeting with the Heritage Gardens cake lady last Monday, Sept. 6. I went with my mom and we met with her at Heritage Gardens at 10 am.  We were shown into her office and told she would be right with us. While we waited, we were given some books to look through with tons of different cake designs. I was certain i already knew what i wanted, but decided to look through them anyway, just for fun. In the 2nd book i found a vintage styled cake with draped lace on it, made from fondant. I immediately fell in love with it and felt that it fit my dress perfectly. When Cindy came in, she first went over flavors. I kept with the flavors i had been thinking of, which was: Red velvet for the top tier, Key lime for the second tier, and Snickerdoodle for the bottom tier. I am also sticking with the square twisted look that i had liked from the start, (and previously posted a picture of.)  When she asked what design, I decided i wanted to go with the vintage lace design instead of the design i had thought i wanted. I don't plan on using the flowers that were shown in the design pic, because they don't match my colors and weren't a huge hit with me anyways. Not sure yet what i'll put on instead, but i have a few ideas. :)

More things checked off my To-Do list!

All right, so i decided to do a little update blog on how some before mentioned wedding plans are finally progressing.  Today i finally called the temple to change our sealing time from 12:20 to 11:40. We realized when we finally sat down and wrote out an outline as to how the day was going to go, that we may want to give ourselves just a bit more time in case pictures go a bit longer, or something like that. We have been talking about for quite a few weeks now but just kept forgetting to call. I made sure that i got it done this morning before i did anything else. I also finally called the lady who does the wedding cakes through Heritage Gardens to set up and appointment to see her cake designs and test one more time the cake flavors i have picked to make 100% sure they are the ones i want. We will meet with her on monday at 10 am and i am super excited to get the cake finally done with so it can be checked off my list. lol. I am also super excited because Nick and I have our engagement pics session this thursday at 5:30. I am super excited to finally being doing engagement photos. This should be so much fun! I am also pretty sure that i have finally settled on which photo booth company i wanna use, and will let you know which one it is once i have officially booked them. Haha cause you never know, i could change my mind since its not 100% made up yet. ; ) I will blog again thursday or friday after the photo session and let you know how everything went. ttyl!

We finally registered!

Nick and I have finally gone and registered! Haha we have been saying for the last little bit that we should, but it just never got done. This week, we finally got it accomplished. On moday (the 23rd) Nick came over and as we were deciding what we should do that night, he suggested we finally get our wedding registering done. So we decided to start with Bed, Bath, and Beyond and promptly drove over there. We were kindlt directed to the wedding section at the back of the store, where we were met by a kind older woman named Janet. She was so sweet and very helpful and got us all signed up and ready. Once that was done she gave us the gun, and after explaining some tips she has learned from years of helping couples do this, we were off. We had arrived at the store around 8 pm so, though me got most of it done, we did completely finish registering. Janet let us stay until like 9:30 even though the store closed at 9. She was so amazing! On Thurs. i get out of school at 1:45 and Nick happened to have the day off, so we decided to finish registering then. We went first to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and finished registering there. It only took about 30 min to finish up. We then decided to go and register at Target as well. This time it went much faster since we had now done it before. It feels so great to have that 100% done now and out of the way. I am excited to now move on to to other important steps in the wedding planning process. : )

New kitchen floor!

Haha again, this isn't wedding plan related, but i felt it should be put up. I just remembered that i had a couple pictures of the new floor that was done in Nick and I's house, so i decided to post them so you could all see the tile work that was done. I wish i had a before picture because the difference is amazing! I am so happy with the tile. It looks awesome. :D

This is our cute kitchen. We redid the floor from linoleum to tile!

A close up of the new tile. :) I love the color and pattern!!