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.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
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 :)
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 :)
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Well...
We have an officient! Yay! At least we can no actually get married on October 4th. It's something. Even if it were just me and my man with a few guests, it could now actually happen.
It wasn't my first choice (my sis's officient), but it is one that she recommended. One of her friends had this person and he came highly recommmended. Apparently he'll taylor the ceremony exactly how you want it and he will probably meet with us a few times before the wedding to discuss the ceremony and what not. I'm pretty relieved to have this one crossed off. I'm still waiting to hear back from the photographer and the tent rental place though. I've contacted both twice now and haven't had any response. Might be time to look else where for the photographer as that is something that gets booked quickly. I hope not though, because I like this girls style! (her website is www.shutterframe.ca).
It wasn't my first choice (my sis's officient), but it is one that she recommended. One of her friends had this person and he came highly recommmended. Apparently he'll taylor the ceremony exactly how you want it and he will probably meet with us a few times before the wedding to discuss the ceremony and what not. I'm pretty relieved to have this one crossed off. I'm still waiting to hear back from the photographer and the tent rental place though. I've contacted both twice now and haven't had any response. Might be time to look else where for the photographer as that is something that gets booked quickly. I hope not though, because I like this girls style! (her website is www.shutterframe.ca).
Thursday, November 22, 2007
The worst bride ever.
So little time also = little time spent doing wedding things. The only thing that has progressed since my last post is that I think I’m going to get the London dress. I am pretty confused about it though. It’s hard because I’m the only one that has seen both dresses. I guess I’m going to have to trust my own judgement.
So yes, little has progressed since my last post almost two weeks ago. I still have nothing booked, and when people ask me how the wedding planning is going it stresses me out.
I have my sisters wedding book here with me at work now so that I can look at stuff over lunch and hopefully start getting some stuff done. On tap today: Phoning the Tent rental place and getting that stuff taken care of. Perhaps, if I have time, I will also call the photographer and or the officiant. We know which photographer we want, we just haven’t talked to her yet.
I had another wedding nightmare last night. This time, it was the day of our wedding and we hadn’t confirmed with the caterer the number of guests we were going to have. I was freaking out because I thought it meant that the caterer wasn’t coming. In real life we don’t even HAVE a caterer arranged yet. I think I will be a bit better when we finally start getting some of this groundwork stuff taken care of.
Does anyone have time to/ want to – plan a wedding for me?
So yes, little has progressed since my last post almost two weeks ago. I still have nothing booked, and when people ask me how the wedding planning is going it stresses me out.
I have my sisters wedding book here with me at work now so that I can look at stuff over lunch and hopefully start getting some stuff done. On tap today: Phoning the Tent rental place and getting that stuff taken care of. Perhaps, if I have time, I will also call the photographer and or the officiant. We know which photographer we want, we just haven’t talked to her yet.
I had another wedding nightmare last night. This time, it was the day of our wedding and we hadn’t confirmed with the caterer the number of guests we were going to have. I was freaking out because I thought it meant that the caterer wasn’t coming. In real life we don’t even HAVE a caterer arranged yet. I think I will be a bit better when we finally start getting some of this groundwork stuff taken care of.
Does anyone have time to/ want to – plan a wedding for me?
Friday, November 9, 2007
A nice surprise
So another week has gone by and no more wedding planning has been done. Hopefully I can get some stuff done this weekend.
Last weekend was the engagement party my dad through for us. Sarah, Danielle and I planned to go dress shopping in Belleville during the day. Well. My whole family hoodwinked the two of us. Sarah was supposed to meet Danielle and I at the first place, and when she shows up, lo and behold she wasn’t on her own. Kate had flown down from Thunder Bay for the weekend too!
I tried on a bunch of dresses and my favourite of the day was still the one that I posted the picture of below. Hard thing though is that I don’t know how to pick between the two dresses which are separated by 400 km and no one other than myself has seen both dresses. I think I will go and try on the other dress again tonight.
The party itself was great. I got to see a lot of people that I don’t get to see all that often (family friends and what not). Azar and Azin (Arash’s Mum and sister) also got to meet a bunch of family members and friends as well. Apparently they both had a good time, but I didn’t get a chance to talk to them much (Arash and I drove down separately).
Hopefully this weekend I can get the photographer booked and the tents organized.
Last weekend was the engagement party my dad through for us. Sarah, Danielle and I planned to go dress shopping in Belleville during the day. Well. My whole family hoodwinked the two of us. Sarah was supposed to meet Danielle and I at the first place, and when she shows up, lo and behold she wasn’t on her own. Kate had flown down from Thunder Bay for the weekend too!
I tried on a bunch of dresses and my favourite of the day was still the one that I posted the picture of below. Hard thing though is that I don’t know how to pick between the two dresses which are separated by 400 km and no one other than myself has seen both dresses. I think I will go and try on the other dress again tonight.
The party itself was great. I got to see a lot of people that I don’t get to see all that often (family friends and what not). Azar and Azin (Arash’s Mum and sister) also got to meet a bunch of family members and friends as well. Apparently they both had a good time, but I didn’t get a chance to talk to them much (Arash and I drove down separately).
Hopefully this weekend I can get the photographer booked and the tents organized.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The Dress
So, other blogging update it is.
Not much on the wedding planning front to speak of. Nej and Cdub came down last weekend to go look at wedding dresses. We went to 4 stores in London, 3 real bridal stores and one that sold bridal dresses but was not a real bridal store.
I had the worst experience with the first store. Oh. My. God. The assistant was Horrible!!! She basically picked up one dress that she thought would look good and decided this was the dress I had to get. It was nice, but not really 100% the look I was going for. Oh that, and it was $1600. I had to ask her to help me do up the dress and provided absolutely no input to how the dress would look once it was bustled. On top of it all, she asked me if I wanted to put a deposit down on the dress that she had picked out for me, “or, if you want you can go have lunch, think about it, and come back this afternoon”. Seriously. She was messed up. I think that even if that WAS my favourite dress (which it was not), I wouldn’t get it now on principal.
The next real bridal store was much better though. The assistant was very helpful, did up dresses, held them tight, pointed out different angles, and different alterations that would be done. She showed me how all the bustles would look and encouraged me to try on the dress that I liked another time… twice! (so I had it on three times altogether) just to make sure that it was the one I like the best. Right now it is between this dress and the one that is similar to the one I posted below. This dress was fitted to about the natural waist and then flared out into an a-line, but not in a pouffy way. It had lace detailing on the front (two vertical stripes down the front and beautiful lace detailing on the back and the train. If also had a “champaign” ribbon around the bodice about halfway between the natural waist line and my breasts. It was strapless with a faint sweetheart neckline. Pretty, elegant and not princess-y with no satin. Meets all of my requirements ;)
I will be going back to Belleville this weekend for the engagement party that my dad is having for Arash and I. On Saturday Danielle, Sarah and I are going to go dress shopping again. I’m hoping that I can go back to the store that the other dress was at, and decide which of the two is my favourite. I hate picking favourites (hence the three brides maids but no maid of honour dilemma – Which by the way was solved by not having a maid of honour. The one that will sign the marriage documents will be the one that is tallest while wearing their intended shoes.) Hopefully I will somehow figure it out. It makes it doubly hard when the two dresses are separated by 400 kms. I can’t exactly try them both on in rapid succession.
Other than that. Need to get myself organized. Oh, and we did our engagement photos! I didn’t post them on here since most people probably saw them on facebook, but I will post the link again for non-facebook people (that is you EK and EL!!!)
Engagement Photos
Not much on the wedding planning front to speak of. Nej and Cdub came down last weekend to go look at wedding dresses. We went to 4 stores in London, 3 real bridal stores and one that sold bridal dresses but was not a real bridal store.
I had the worst experience with the first store. Oh. My. God. The assistant was Horrible!!! She basically picked up one dress that she thought would look good and decided this was the dress I had to get. It was nice, but not really 100% the look I was going for. Oh that, and it was $1600. I had to ask her to help me do up the dress and provided absolutely no input to how the dress would look once it was bustled. On top of it all, she asked me if I wanted to put a deposit down on the dress that she had picked out for me, “or, if you want you can go have lunch, think about it, and come back this afternoon”. Seriously. She was messed up. I think that even if that WAS my favourite dress (which it was not), I wouldn’t get it now on principal.
The next real bridal store was much better though. The assistant was very helpful, did up dresses, held them tight, pointed out different angles, and different alterations that would be done. She showed me how all the bustles would look and encouraged me to try on the dress that I liked another time… twice! (so I had it on three times altogether) just to make sure that it was the one I like the best. Right now it is between this dress and the one that is similar to the one I posted below. This dress was fitted to about the natural waist and then flared out into an a-line, but not in a pouffy way. It had lace detailing on the front (two vertical stripes down the front and beautiful lace detailing on the back and the train. If also had a “champaign” ribbon around the bodice about halfway between the natural waist line and my breasts. It was strapless with a faint sweetheart neckline. Pretty, elegant and not princess-y with no satin. Meets all of my requirements ;)
I will be going back to Belleville this weekend for the engagement party that my dad is having for Arash and I. On Saturday Danielle, Sarah and I are going to go dress shopping again. I’m hoping that I can go back to the store that the other dress was at, and decide which of the two is my favourite. I hate picking favourites (hence the three brides maids but no maid of honour dilemma – Which by the way was solved by not having a maid of honour. The one that will sign the marriage documents will be the one that is tallest while wearing their intended shoes.) Hopefully I will somehow figure it out. It makes it doubly hard when the two dresses are separated by 400 kms. I can’t exactly try them both on in rapid succession.
Other than that. Need to get myself organized. Oh, and we did our engagement photos! I didn’t post them on here since most people probably saw them on facebook, but I will post the link again for non-facebook people (that is you EK and EL!!!)
Engagement Photos
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I found one of the dresses
The first one I was trying to describe is this
Also, I forgot to mention two other things earlier
1) we took our engagement photos over the weekend. The camera was my D70, the photographer was my BIL, and the setting was the country around my dad's house. I posted the pictures on my facebook in case any of you haven't seen them
2) I have not one, not two, but three wedding related nightmares last night. in one I wasn't ready and the wedding was starting... I was wearing grey converse shoes. in another my hair was half down half up and falling out more by the minute. In the last... well, I don't remember the last, I just rememeber that there was another one.
Also, I forgot to mention two other things earlier
1) we took our engagement photos over the weekend. The camera was my D70, the photographer was my BIL, and the setting was the country around my dad's house. I posted the pictures on my facebook in case any of you haven't seen them
2) I have not one, not two, but three wedding related nightmares last night. in one I wasn't ready and the wedding was starting... I was wearing grey converse shoes. in another my hair was half down half up and falling out more by the minute. In the last... well, I don't remember the last, I just rememeber that there was another one.
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