Okay gals,
I have to say that I failed on keeping up with this. So I'm going to try to catch you up and do better.
DATE CHANGE
As you can see, our date changed (AGAIN!).
We were in the beginning parts of planning, and I find out one of my cousin's college graduations is on May 10th...
Now...we all know there are some people that are on our guest lists because we have to invite them (though, admittedly, that is a very short list on mine
). Well....this cousin and her parents I actually WANTED at the wedding Lol.
So...naturally, I was extremely stressed out by the situation...
I ended up moving the date to May 19th (a Monday) in order to accomodate said family. I was WICKED lucky because Disney had my venues AND time free on that day, as did Randy Chapman and Rev Kev!
So that is why our date is now May 19th.
MOB DRESS SHOPPING
We ordered my mom's dress while they were visiting for my graduation (High Honors BTW!). She picked a GORGEOUS dress! It came in, and is at her house (in FL) now, so I can't take a picture with it but I love it.
Here is a picture from shopping:
And here is the color. It's called "Ever After".
On this day, we also picked out my older sister's dress. She's Autistic so she can't be a "traditional" bridesmaid. So I gave her the title of "Honorary" Bridesmaid.
The brown is Purple and the pink is Tealness. (Invert of bridesmaids dress)
SIGNING CONTRACT
When we signed out contract, I had my younger sister (MOH) take pictures...yes I'm that much of a dork
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I was wicked excited what can I say?
BRIDESMAIDS DRESSES
This was an adventure.
I really wanted a two-tone dress that was going to be opposite of Mary's dress. I felt this would be the best way to tie everyone together so it was obvious that Mary was one of the bridemaids.
So we went shopping. And this was the dress we originally picked!
We were told that they'd be able to two-tone it the way I liked.
But....they couldn't.
So they tried to tell me to just do the white part as white or cream, it'd look fine.
I was getting wicked frazzled, because that isn't what I imagined. Luckily (and with the help of my AWESOME bridesmaids) I had enough of a backbone to say "No. We'll keep looking".
They tried on a lot of dresses:
We eventually decided on this dress:
The dress is Tealness, and the sash with it is Purple (Remember, the opposite of Mary's).
So all my girls bought their dresses that night! AND everyones came in! You have no idea how awesome that was to see them all come in (I picked up 3 of them). I kept hearing horror stories of "Well..it's 3 months to the wedding and bridesmaid A didn't order yet!". Luckily, my bridesmaids ROCK and ordered the day we went shopping. I just have to order my 2 FSDDs dresses; we are waiting a little longer since they are still growing. Wouldn't want them to outgrow the dress before the wedding!
Anyway here are the dresses (modelled by my bridesmaid Joanna!) PLEASE excuse my messy messy bedroom.
I love the colors together
MOVING
We also have moved since I last updated. THAT was annoying...and also partly why my bedroom is still so messy in the previous picture--we haven't fully settled yet.
BREAKUPS
No, obviously not Tim and I. But in our wedding party we had 2 couples! (My cousins and Nichole and Eric)...and since last update they both broke up
. Luckily everyone still is "friendly" towards everyone and they all will still be in the wedding. But that did throw a monkey wrench in the loop!
I still have a couple more updates to do...I'm working on the planning kit now (HOLY DETAILS BATMAN!). There are A LOT of questions here that I haven't thought about. IDK why, but I only knew that I wanted to walk down to O Sol Mio....(more on that later).
But I do have to go...plus there are tons of pictures in this post already, so I don't want to overwhelm ya
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. I really did feel amazing in it though....what do you think?
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