Cam & Howard's Vow Renewal PJ -1/12/09 - WP&WH--p.98: TRIP REPORT BEGINS

[hockeygirl]

Hey Cam, I have been catching up on your journal, and I just wanted to say taht you look absolutely beautiful in those hair trial pictures!

I am so glad to hear that your dress look great as well!

It is hard to believe that it is only a few months away!!!

 

[keenercam]

Thank you, Laurie!!

Okay, I held good to my threat. When I saw Jeff this morning and after shaking hands good morning as we always do, I asked if I could give him a hug and he said "sure" with a huge smile and then asked what he'd done to deserve it. He was very happy to hear that our hard work has paid off. He complimented me on my discipline, too, which is always nice.

So, I have some pix of me at my first gown fitting. If anyone wants to see them : just PM me your email address. Everyone here has been so supportive and encouraging and I really, really appreciate it!

 

[keenercam]

I looked at my 6 page single spaced master to-do list last night and was astonished to see how much has been accomplished but also how many more things are left to do. EEK!!

Howard and I decided on table numbers last night. We decided a while ago to choose non-sequential numbers that mean something to us. We thought it would be fun for people to have to guess what the numbers mean. We finally decided on:

143 -- our code for each other to say "I LOVE YOU" (for the sweetheart table)
10 -- we met in October
12 -- we married in December
82 -- the year we met
84 -- the year we married

I went and bought silver shimmer cardstock and will cut the numbers out on the cricut and glue them to pink shimmer card stock for the table numbers. I really wanted to use pink and thought the silver numbers would look pretty with the silver star number holders. I'll also embellish the numbers a bit with some pretty pink crystals I bought.

We are also trying to figure out what to do about the cake table in the Whitehall Room. I am not crazy about those birds on the mirror over that marble table that the cake will sit on. So, Meri (what a darling!) came up with an alternate floorplan to put the cake table behind the sweetheart table but that means making the dance floor smaller, and we aren't willing to do that. Poor Howard! He said "if making the dance floor smaller means I need to learn more turning steps for our dance, let's come up with a different option". LOL!!!

 

[29apr00]

So glad your dress fits Cam!! I want to see pics! PM them to me please!

I just read is someone else's PJ about the birds mural in Whitehall Room. Her wedding planner offered her something to cover it up for $200. ummm....Tabatha's PJ maybe? Anyway, if it's really hideous and you don't like it, ask your WP about covering it up.

 

[WVTinkGrl]

I love your idea for table numbers, it's so sweet.

 

[Honeibee]

Hey Cam, I wonder if we can't come up with something creative to cover those birds? Let's think....

 

[keenercam]

So glad your dress fits Cam!! I want to see pics! PM them to me please!

I just read is someone else's PJ about the birds mural in Whitehall Room. Her wedding planner offered her something to cover it up for $200. ummm....Tabatha's PJ maybe? Anyway, if it's really hideous and you don't like it, ask your WP about covering it up.

$200?????? OUCH!! EEK!!!!! Um, I am thinking Howard and I had better start practicing those turns. LOL!

I love your idea for table numbers, it's so sweet.

Thank you! We have used "143" for love-speak since we were dating, so it is fun to have that for the sweetheart table. Sometimes, if I am following Howard's car driving somewhere or he is behind me, driving, he'll make eye contact with me in the rear-view mirror and put up first, 1 finger, then 4, then 3. (I am so blessed!)

Hey Cam, I wonder if we can't come up with something creative to cover those birds? Let's think....

Judy, think we could just sneak in there the night before and throw some of that pretty yellow chiffon up over the mural? Oh, that's right. The yellow won't work. Pink chiffon?

 

[padisneyfour]

that is a cute idea- the table cards sound very pretty! congrats on getting things done would love to see pic of dress fitting!

 

[Angel16]

I got the call today that my gown & bolero are ordered! OMG! I am so excited! On the one hand, October seems SO FAR AWAY!! On the other hand, and considering that I ordered the gown 1.5-2 sizes smaller than I would need today, October seems all too soon! ACKKKKK!!! I am HIGHLY MOTIVATED to continue getting myself out of bed every morning at 5:30 to get to the gym (thank you, honey, for driving the carpool so that I can still get to work at a reasonable time! )

Cam, My dear sweet Cam. Please read you post from back on the day you ordered your dress. " I ordered the gown 1.5 - 2 sizes smaller than I need today." WOW CAM, That is fantastic you have not only met but also exceeded your goal.

My gown preview was today and I was so excited to finally see MY gown and the custom designed and made bolero. Both were absolutely beautiful and shock of shocks, both fit. YAY!! The jacket is a little too big across the shoulders and the sleeves are too long (they were supposed to be 3/4 length but they go to my fingertips.) The bodice on the gown is a bit too big and the underskirts have to be shortened just a bit. But it is so pretty!

You are such an inspiration to all of us who are working toward a goal. Either weight, personnal growth or being healthy. Thank you

I am enjoying your PJ, you have such a talent for writing that I feel like I am right there with you as you are experiencing each step of this wonderful journey. I am only up to page 52, but I am working everyday at lunch to catch up.

Angel16 (Ann)

 

[Angel16]

So Sorry. Duplicate post[Angel16 (Ann)

 

[figmentfan814]

That's too funny about the birds behind the cake table. I was the same with at the LSS; I didn't want our cake near the shell display

 

[WithDisneySpirit]

Cam, My dear sweet Cam. Please read you post from back on the day you ordered your dress. " I ordered the gown 1.5 - 2 sizes smaller than I need today." WOW CAM, That is fantastic you have not only met but also exceeded your goal.


You are such an inspiration to all of us who are working toward a goal. Either weight, personnal growth or being healthy. Thank you

I am enjoying your PJ, you have such a talent for writing that I feel like I am right there with you as you are experiencing each step of this wonderful journey. I am only up to page 52, but I am working everyday at lunch to catch up.

Angel16 (Ann)

Yeah!!!! What she said...

 

[ArelysAdriana]

I haven't checked in here in a while!
First off, congratulations on your dress fitting. You must be so proud of yourself, I know I am (and I'm a complete stranger ) Secondly, your idea for the table numbers is the cutest and the most original idea I have ever heard. I bet your guests will love it.

Good luck with getting everything on your to-do done!

 

[keenercam]

Thank you so much, Ann & Lisa & ArelysAdriana! You guys are so sweet to me. I really appreciate everyone's support here. It is so much fun to share all this planning and progress!

 

[2BoysMom]

I'm glad that Ann included that old posting of yours, to help you see how far you have come. I have only chimed in a couple of times on your PJ, but I have followed your PJ the whole way (& Christina's and Giancarlo's). A few pages back you were saying how frustrated you were that the scale hadn't budged, even though you were doing over 100 situps and all kinds of other exercises (forgot details). I wanted to post then, to remind you that with all of the exercises that you were doing, you were building muscle. I'm sure your trainer MUST have told you that muscle weighs 3 times more than fat. So even though you "think" the scale hadn't budged, in actuality, you had been losing 3 times the fat to have been able to maintain that number on the scale.

Also, when we "build" muscle, especially for women, the muscle is going from a "loose" atrophied state, to a taught, strong state. Think of a rubberband. Loose, it sort of flares out, taught and strong it becomes long and lean. And that's how it works in a woman's body (unless steroids are involved but we don't need to go there ) Another reason for your slimmer build, regardless of the number on the scale.

Does all this make sense? That explains why you were so thin and that the wedding dress that you ordered 1.5/2 sizes too small...... turned out to be too big!

We should all have that kind of success. Really, something to be proud of.

Please PM me your pictures, I would love to see. Even though we are all strangers on these boards. There are some people who I feel "friendly" with, and you are one of them!

 

[keenercam]

2BoysMom -- Thank you so much for your post. I am so fascinated by the physiology of the fitness journey I am on, so I really appreciate all this information. Thank you, also, for following along in my journal. It's been so wonderful to meet so many warm, generous DISers here!

 

[2BoysMom]

OK. I just saw something else.

Under your name, Keenercam, you say "Would settle for looking like Tinkerbell, instead of Winnie the Pooh."

CLEARLY, that needs to be changed now. OK? KeenerTink?

 

[keenercam]

OK. I just saw something else.

Under your name, Keenercam, you say "Would settle for looking like Tinkerbell, instead of Winnie the Pooh."

CLEARLY, that needs to be changed now. OK? KeenerTink?

Oh, sweetie!! I "HEART" you!!

"KeenerTink"????? That is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me!

 

[pjstevens]

Oh, sweetie!! I "HEART" you!!

"KeenerTink"????? That is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me!

Now where is the tag fairy when you need her/him. You need an updated tag my dear friend (and just how long has that been there, cause I never noticed it until now).

 

[accountingbabe08]

I agree with pjstevens on this , I second this motion. Have a great day!!!!!

Now where is the tag fairy when you need her/him. You need an updated tag my dear friend (and just how long has that been there, cause I never noticed it until now).