Time for another update

Okay, so I realized people have been harassing me about an update for a long long time. What is it? Two months since my last post?

The wedding planning seems to be coming in fits and spurts. At the end of December and beginning of January I got a quote from the Tent Rental place (but didn’t go over it thoroughly until last night *blush*) bought my dress and found a wedding photographer. I think the photographer will end up being a really good fit for A and I. We really love photography (if you remember back to when I first started dating him I didn’t know whether to abbreviate his nickname to PB for photoboy or MCB for mountain climbing boy. MCB won out) so it was an area of our budget that we didn’t want to scrimp on. Anywho, we ended up going with this girl. Funny thing is that one of the brides on her website (the red head) is a girl I used to work with back in highschool. Funny how things like this happen. Well, maybe not funny. Belleville isn’t exactly a big metropolis.

In February I crossed three more big items off the list. I lined up a DJ with D’s help. She was amazing talked to 10 different DJs to find out prices and availability. I also found my florist. Not the cheapest place in Belleville, but I have a lot of confidence in them. My sister got her flowers done there for the same reason. We are going with eggplant and mango calla lilies for the wedding party and yellow roses with red around the edge for the family members not in the wedding party. (dad, A’s mom, A’s sister, etc). The centre pieces are going to be floating roses similar to what we did for grad ball with prettier bowls. Finally I also got a cake knife. We found a really nice one at the grocery store of all places. For the low price of $15! Can’t beat that! Finally I talked to my Aunt in BC and she is going to make the wedding cake for us. It will be a chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream icing with orange and red fondant leaves. I have it all pictured out in my head and I think it will be beautiful! One of the best things about having a fall wedding outside is that you can have a chocolate cake!!!

This weekend, I want to verify with the tent rental place and find a caterer. Hopefully the one that S and Dad used will still be available. I just need to make sure that they can have a vegetarian option as well.

Time for an update :)

I really need to get more on top of things here, but I have made some significant improvements over the past week.


1) Have confirmed with the Officiant and am looking forward to meeting with him soon. I just have to send him a cheque with the deposit and it is all set.
2) The tent rental place is preparing a quote for me today. It should be in the mail to my dad’s house. We have been happy with this company before, so I am pretty sure that I will be going with them.
3) I am planning on calling photographers tonight an will hopefully get one set up. Not sure if I updated here or not, but the photographer we wanted to get isn’t taking bookings more than 6 months in advanced because she is planning a career change. We wanted her because she specialized in photojournalism photography style which we much prefer to the classic wedding portraits. I will also hopefully get a chance to call the caterer at some point and start getting that arranged.
4) I … Bought my wedding dress! Yay! I ended up getting the one in Belleville, here is a better picture of it than the one I previously posted (well, actually it will be the same picture, just much better quality!!!)
http://www.rayliadesigns.com/detail.php?id=99

That is it for now. I will update when I have the photographer and caterer sorted out.

I also need to talk to my aunt to see if she will do the wedding cake :)