Wow. Three weeks from today is our Wedding Day!! YAY!!!! 
There is still a bit of work to do – details to tie together. We got our license last week – yep, we’re “licensed to wed”. I’ve finally finished up all the ordering of supplies that needed to be completed. (Now I just need to actually assemble everything that those supplies were meant for…) I confirmed everything with the Priest, videographer, photographer, and we met with the DJ and Wham and I met with the florist. I’ll need to do final follow up/confirmation calls the week of to all the vendors, but we should be pretty much all set. The meeting with the DJ went phenomenally – he had some great ideas for the party and we’re really psyched to see it all come together. I booked our hotel room for NYC when we return from the honeymoon – I still need to figure out how we’re getting to/from JFK for the trip. Probably train/cab. And I still haven’t booked any dinner reservations, etc for the honeymoon itself – though Meredith emailed me about a reduced priced tickets booth for theater tickets (rock).
Mostly what we have left to do are gift related (bridal party, etc), honeymoon detail related, and DIY detail related. There’s a lot to do, but it doesn’t feel overwhelming. I’m so excited!
In other news I had a dress freakout. I read an article that said that strapless dresses aren’t for everyone and I totally started to worry that it will look weird and unflattering on me all night. My arms… oh, my arms. How icky! But then I thought, “who’s going to be looking at my arms when my hair is going to look so fabulous!” 
But I really do feel better about it. It’s a fabulous dress and if anyone thinks my arms look nasty they can just screw themselves. How about that?
Also, I’ve stopped losing weight. This is because I’ve started eating like a pig. Cake? Yes. Cookie? Yes. Goat Cheese Spring Roll? Please. Cosmopolitan? Two. Or three. Popcorn? Yep – with butter. Peanut m&ms? Of course! It’s ridiculous. I don’t know why I suddenly feel like I can eat whatever I want. Don’t I realize that I’m getting married in three weeks? Maybe it’s a subconscious thing… I’m worried that my next fitting is on my birthday, only 10 days before the wedding and if they have to take it in there will be too much stress to try and fit another fitting in between then and the wedding. Probably not. I think I’m just lazy. I like the way I look (well enough, anyway) and I want to have fun like everyone else! Hopefully I can reign it in a bit, though. I’m fine if I don’t lose any more weight before the wedding, but I certainly don’t want to gain any!
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Last night, my dad booked our airline tickets – round trip business class on British Air from JFK to Heathrow!!!
Today, Alex’s dad booked our stay at the Renaissance Chancery Court in London – 7 nights at a deluxe hotel!!!
HONEYMOON IS BOOKED!!!
(Now I can check THAT off the list!)
Oh, and my DRESS came in today!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAY!!! I made an appointment to go to Yvonne’s after work and try it on tomorrow. Yay! SO excited!!
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Filed under honeymoon, wedding, wedding gown | Comment (0)I hate when it’s been forever since I’ve updated my blog. My whole purpose for having a blog is so that I have the ability to look back at what I was doing last week, last month, last year – whatever – and see what I was doing/thinking/feeling etc at that time. So, I get really disappointed when I suck at updating. And now, it’s been so long and we’ve done soooooooo much that updating becomes an enourmous task!
But enough whining about that.
Let’s see… Well, in the past month, we’ve had a cake tasting and ordered our cake, had an engagement party at my parents’ house, got a new car for Alex, discovered that Alex’s dad is giving us Marriott points for the honeymoon, and ordered our wedding bands. It’s all sooooooooo very exciting!
The cake tasting was a lot of fun! I was so adament that we were not going to pick out or order a cake while we were there, but I had one taste of the mocha cream filling and I was sold! Alex and I really enjoyed the cake tasting – sampling all of the different cake flavors and fillings while sipping on cappucinos was a nice break to a Wednesday. We found a design that we both loved and Alex decided that since he’s not too into cakes anyway, I could pick out the flavor. Since we both loved the mocha cream, we went for that. The price was surprisingly affordable and so we just went for it! 
We had a fab time at our engagment party at my parents’ house. Wham and Amy worked hard and pulled off a great party! There was lots of food and drink and everyone had a great time. Alex and I tried to make sure that we kept circulating to socialize with everyone and I couldn’t believe how quickly the night went by – I can’t imagine what the wedding is going to be like! Of course, I was exhausted for the party because of some unexpected car business the night before and hopefully the night before the wedding will find me sleeping more so that I won’t have to battle exhaustion through the night.
Speaking of the car business… Alex went out with his friend, Dave, the night before our party. They took Alex’s car – the 91 Escort that was his sister’s then his father’s and became Alex’s when we were in need in December – to Albany. On their way home at 2:30am the car died. Dave was driving and wasn’t used to the quirkiness of the clutch and it ended up burning out on them. So I got the call at 2:30 to go find them on the side of the Thruway. Of course, I’d only been asleep for about an hour at the time so I was TIRED. I ended up finding them and driving them back to our apartment, only to have Alex realize that he left his wallet in the car. So we drove all the way back out and then tried to have the car towed but gave up after not getting thru to AAA after being on hold for over 45 minutes. I didn’t get to sleep until close to 5am. Got up early that morning to go to Weight Watchers and then kept running all day to find the Escort which had been towed and impounded and get it taken care of. Needless to say, Alex and I were pretty stressed out about it.
We ended up going car shopping the next day and actually found a car for Alex right away. He knew that he’d wanted a Toyota Camry after driving the rental that I had after my accident over December. We found a 2005 Camry for a great price and were able to get excellent financing for it. Alex was super-psyched because the car looked great – it’s black with chrome accents – and was actually a standard. Alex was very happy about that. We were even able to pick it up the next evening. I am sooooooo happy for Alex because this is his first “new” used car bought through a dealer. He is so in love with his car and I am so happy for him!!
My dad had told me a couple weeks back that he’d be able to give us air tickets using frequent flier miles for our honeymoon flight, which we were hella excited about. It brought us one step closer to going on a honeymoon, which is something that we weren’t positive was going to happen. We still had to figure out how we’d pay for a hotel. Alex told me this past weekend that his dad was going to be able to give us Marriott points – enough for a week’s stay in a “category 7″ (five star) hotel. So we are definitely going to be able to go on a honeymoon!!!!! We are soooo excited!! We decided that we’d like to go to London. We’ve got to figure out all the particulars now, but it looks like the honeymoon will be a week in London with day trips to Paris and Edinburgh. We’re SO happy! It’s fun to plan our honeymoon – less stressful than wedding planning. Not that I think that wedding planning is stressful – I’ve actually been having a blast with it! But there are a lot of details to the wedding planning and only so much I can do at a time. The honeymoon planning is a lot of research and daydreaming right now and that’s a welcome change of pace.
Yesterday, we went out and bought our wedding bands! Alex has known for like 3 months which band he wants. We’d gone to Frank Adams jewelers in Stuyvesant Plaza a while back and Alex tried on a ring there that he really connected with. It’s yellow gold on the inside, white gold on the edges, and hammered rose gold in the center. The ring is large (which looks right on his hand) and very heavy. Every ring that he’d tried on after that didn’t feel right to him. They didn’t have the same heavy feeling. He wanted his “one ring to rule them all”. That ring was pretty expensive, though. After I did our taxes, I figured that we could use our tax returns to buy our rings and we’d totally be able to afford the one that he wants. I kept thinking about a piece of advice that Beck gave me – don’t skimp on the wedding rings because those are a forever thing. How could we not get the one that Alex really wanted? I didn’t think that I would find a ring at Frank Adams that I wanted because the last few times we were there, nothing looked right to me. The salesgirl that was there yesterday was awesome. She pulled a bunch of rings for me to try on and I finally found one that Alex and I both really liked. My engagement ring is so intricate that most bands looked odd next to it. A plain white gold band looked too plain, but a band with prong set diamonds looked like it was too much. I found a very thin pave set diamond band that had a single row of small diamonds halfway around. It’s very delicate and vintage looking and looked great with my band or alone on my finger. We’re very excited for our rings – we both want them right now. The order is going in tomorrow and I guess I’ll find out then how long it will be until they get here. Can’t wait!!
And now it is time for me to go to bed. It’s almost ten (gasp!) and I’ve got to get up at the crack of dawn to get to the gym. I’ve been pretty good since January when I started back at Weight Watchers and have lost 17 lbs so far. I’ve learned, though, that I really can’t skip out on the gym and I’m trying really hard to get there in the mornings so that I don’t find excuses not to go after work. I’ve got an appointment on Tuesday with one of the Fitness Trainers (included in the membership) and I’m hoping that he can help me design a good upper body and abs routine. I really hope that I hit my goal for the wedding – I really want to love my pictures!
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Filed under Car, Health, wedding | Comment (0)I am starting to get so freaking excited for our wedding! Now that we’re less than six months out, the to-dos on our planning checklists are coming fast and furious. I love to look at the things that we’ve been able to check off already:
When I start to get all freaked out about the things we haven’t gotten done yet (no baker booked yet, not sure on invitations, have got to hammer out details on favors, no tuxes picked out yet, haven’t booked a stylist, no idea on the honeymoon…) I like to switch my view to see my completed tasks so that I can feel all good about how far we’ve come already.
This weekend, I got to go to the bridal shop and try on my dress again. Well, not actually my dress yet. It was still the sample that I was trying on – my dress won’t be in until probably April. But it’s still a lot of fun trying on the sample because it happens to be just my size. I’ve shrunk about 12 lbs since I last tried on that dress (ROCK!) and I fit into it a little better this time. It looks soooooo awesome. SO amazing. I love it. So. Very. Much. I can’t believe that I’m only going to be able to wear it one time. It’s so not fair. It makes me want to make weekly appointments at the bridal shop to go and just wear it. That would make me crazy, I guess. Whatever. The purpose of the appointment yesterday was to shop for accessories. I ended up finding a headpiece and veil that I loved but they just seemed so expensive that I didn’t commit to them yet. I spent most of the day today scouring the internet to try and see if I could find those or something similar to them online cheaper, but it’s so hard to tell if the details are the same. Alex thinks that I should just get the ones that I liked from the bridal shop because, while they are expensive and it does seem crazy to spend that much on something that I will wear once, he reasoned that, “everything is crazy and expensive about weddings.” He has a point. We’ll see. I think I’ll continue to shop around online for a little while and see what I can find and if I don’t find anything that I’m in love with an confident enough about to buy online, I’ll just go back to the shop. Besides, that will give me an excuse to try on my dress one more time.
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