Wedding plans

Friday was a good day. Mom and I drove around to almost every bridal shop we could find but all of them were those “independently owned” stores and didn’t have much of a selection to try on. They all had the books to just order the dress out of and hope you like it. I learned that was a bad idea when I took three print outs of dresses I loved to University Bridal with me and ended up hating every style I thought I liked. But my dress has been ordered. It was more than twice what I was hoping to spend but I am in love with it!

We also got prices on venues. I am waiting on a final price but I believe we will go with the Elegante Hotel. It is very pretty and a lady I used to work for is now the event coordinator for the hotel so I hope she can really hook me up within my budget. But it includes set up, clean up, tables, chairs, linens, plates and silverware, etc. Mom decided it was more than worth the extra money so that they weren’t responsible for clean up. We would also get the family a nice group rate if they decided to stay the night at the hotel.

(Also, if it makes any difference to people’s travel plans… Dewayne and I plan on copying Beth and Josh and staying in town that evening and hanging out with the family. We can’t go to Brick Town or anything even close to that cool… but we can figure something out. )

We rented my arch, candelabras, and Corinthian Columns and bought my invitations. Stacy is so creative. Dewayne actually is the one who found the invitations and when I showed them to Stacy, she had a vision and we decided to make the invitations ourselves. I picked out my flower girl dresses. Oh, update on the wedding party. Sierra and Randi both agreed to be my flower girls and McKayla is going to be a greeter, my ring bearer’s escort down the isle, and a Jr. Bridesmaid. She is going to be exhausted!