Got my dress!

I picked up my dress!! Yay!! It came in last week while i was out of town, so yesterday i was able to go and pick it up! I am so excited that i now officially have my dress and that it is in my possession. After hearing stories of dresses being ordered and barely making it in time or not at all, im so glad mine arrived earlier then was even expected. So awesome! : ) While i was at David's Bridal picking up my dress, i was also able to get the black birdcage veils for my bridesmaids. They only had one actually in the store so i got that one and then ordered the other 4, but i was able to get all of them paid for at once which was nice. I also called and officially booked my photographer! I am super happy. We now just need to meet at his studio one more time to finish the paper work and give the deposit and then we can schedule engagements and bridals! woo-hoo! I am glad to have a few more big things out of the way. Its a great feeling. :D

Busy week this coming week!

~Pic of my mom's parent's at their wedding

So this week is exciting because multiple things get to happen. I am going to book my photographer this week, probably tomorrow, and am very excited to have that made nice and official. I am going with Peter McDermon photography, and will most likely do my engagement pictures end of August or start of September and then do my bridals end of September after my dress is altered.  My friend Kate also gave me the great idea of using photos from the weddings of mine and nick's parents and grandparents at the reception since im going with a classic look, and using them would show the styles from the periods that they got married. I love it also because it gives them a feeling of being more involved since they get to contribute something so personal. I also get to go on Thursday and officially order my bridesmaid dress, which im excited to do. I did end up going with the dress that i posted on here and am going to have it emerald green with a black waist. Also, my wedding dress has arrived! I got an email this week saying it was and that i can come sometime to pick it up! I am super excited. While i am picking it up i will probably also buy the black birdcage veils for my bridesmaids as well. I love the feeling of getting more and more things accomplished and set up. :) I am also pretty sure on the cake flavors i want as well, which are: snickerdoodle for the bottom layer, then key lime (which Nick loves) as the middle layer, and then red velvet as the top layer. All 3 are super yummy and not the typical flavors you find in a wedding cake, so should be really fun and super yummy. Oh ya and i also may have finally found a great idea for the top of my cake. My mom's parents still have the cake topper from there wedding, and they said i can use it if i want. Since i am doing a vintage theme, i think that would be perfect! I just have to see if it will fit with the look of the rest of the reception and cake and such. Hope so cause i think its an awesome idea!  I can't wait to see what comes together in my planning next. :D

Vintage theme background! :D

So today i decided that i wanted to put a new background on my blog and i found this awesome vintage background. Since i'm going with a vintage theme for my wedding, i thought that this new background was perfect! I know that it isn't really wedding planning related, but i was really bored and restless after too much tv, so this was what came as a result. Haha....since i hadn't blogged in a bit, i decided to blog on this, because i really love how the background turned out. Oh and actually i do have some wedding related news for everyone. I am very excited because i am meeting with all my bridesmaids tomorrow to have them try on the sample dress and get measured so that we can know everyone's size and get the dresses ordered. I am very excited to see how it looks on everyone! : ) After we are going to go to lunch so it should be a ton of fun! I also still need to get the birdcages for all of them, as well as book my photographer soon. There are tons of other small things as well, which at times can feel a bit overwhelming, but all in all wedding plans are coming along great!

Temple dress and Bridesmaids

I am very excited because i now not only have my wedding dress all picked and bought, but i have also found a temple dress as well. : ) Because my dress has so much lace and beading on it  and also is ivory in color, i needed to have a dress that i could wear in the temple for the actual ceremony. I found the perfect dress as White Elegance after having stopped at Modest by Design to ask about the bridesmaid dress design i like. It is right next door so me and my mom decided to look. It is a simple white dress with a flowy cover piece that splits in the front and back and has vines sewn on, on each side on the top. I loved how it looked and after looking in a few other stores, knew it was the one i wanted. I still need to get the slippers and slip that go with it as well, but may get those from a different store. I also have now asked all the girls i want as my bridesmaids and am going to be having 5 total. I am so glad that they all said yes and am excited that they get to be a part of my wedding. : D  I also hope to get my veil soon as well as the birdcages for my bridesmaids. So thats all for now, ill write again as more plans evolve.

Bridesmaid Dress Idea

I have found a bridesmaid dress that i absolutely love and am pretty sure is the one i want. I will still look around of course since i still have some time before my wedding, but i find myself tending to compare them all back to this one. It is also from Modest by Design which is great because, where before i though i would just end up getting a strapless dress and adding a jacket, i don't have to do that with this dress and it works well for all my bridesmaids. My colors for the dress would be emerald green and then leaving the belted sash around the waist black as an accent. I would then have them wear black shoes as well and probably simple pearls as their adornment. Also, because my dress has a vintage look and feel to it, I am also thinking of wearing a birdcage veil for the reception and some of my bridals and am thinking of having my bridesmaids wear black birdcage veils as their head piece to continue the somewhat 1940's feel of my dress and the bridesmaid dress i found. Its not 100 percent all worked out yet, but thats what i'm thinking so far. : )

The Cake Ideas

Here are pictures of my cake design ideas. The square cake picture shows the twisted square style that i want for my cake and the round cake picture shows the design that i want my cake to look like. Of course my cake with have a wide emerald green bow on each layer, not the black and blue one shown.

The Cake

Ok so i don't actually have the cake purchased or anything yet but i do now know what look and style i want and at least one flavor for sure. I want to have 3 levels on my cake and want each level to be square. I also plan on having the twisted square look, which i find really fun and different but still elegant at the same time.  I plan on having the cake be white with a black design on it and a green ribbon on each level. The bottom level i want to be snickerdoodle with like a cream filling, which i had at a friends wedding and found it so amazing! I'm not sure on the other two yet, but am leaning towards red velvet with raspberry filling for one and then maybe good old chocolate with a yummy filling too for the last one. I also am not quite sure yet what i want on the top of my cake either but luckily i have plenty of time to figure that out. Having flowers on top is always a nice touch or possibly our initials, which is also very cute. Haha im sure i'll figure something out by november. ; )