Caryn and Mark PJ- SBP/LSS/PI >>>>>>AND WE'RE OFF<<<<<<

[HolyCowImADisneyBrde]

The new dress is amazing, and the pink crinnie looks awesome! I think you made a great choice to switch dresses!
Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

[Keira1387]

I LOVE your dress!!!!! It looks amazing on you!!!!!

 

[MistressOfAllEvil]

Congrats!! It looks absolutely AMAZING.

I'm so happy for you. Now you can feel like a completely and totally! Caryn, I cannot wait for your wedding and pictures. I can't wait to see everything come together!

 

[BaBeeCee14]

Congratulations! I'm so happy you found a dress that you absolutely love! The pink crinnie looks so cute uner there

 

[caryndisneydiva]

I love the new dress! The pink crinoline looks great underneath. How exciting to go out and come home to your dress!

i know! i was tracking it on my phone and it hadn't shown as being delivered! i was thrilled!!! i'm so glad they got it in the small box, it just proves that i can fit it into a carry on!

Congratulations!! Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks! i hope you had a great holiday!

Yay for the new dress!!! I'm so glad that it is "the one" and you are happy! I LOVE the pink crinnie with it, too!

i'm so happy that my pink crinnie looks so good! i was disappointed that i wasn't going to be able to wear it!!!

I agree, the pink crinnie looks great!! I'm jealous that I didnt have "the one" feeling, but I will not let myself buy another dress!! I think my mom would have a nervous breakdown!

i think my mother is seriously disappointed, but she'd be more disappointed with my whining for the rest of my life and not displaying any pictures from the wedding...

The new dress is amazing, and the pink crinnie looks awesome! I think you made a great choice to switch dresses! Happy Thanksgiving!!

thanks! i love my new dress, it's so poofy!

I LOVE your dress!!!!! It looks amazing on you!!!!!

thanks!

Congrats!! It looks absolutely AMAZING.

I'm so happy for you. Now you can feel like a completely and totally! Caryn, I cannot wait for your wedding and pictures. I can't wait to see everything come together!

i have a few more things i want to do-fashion wise, it'll never end...

Congratulations! I'm so happy you found a dress that you absolutely love! The pink crinnie looks so cute under there

Thanks!


wow, thanksgiving is over. that's amazing... it is SO COLD HERE...ok, cold is a relative term, it's in the 40's...but that's about as cold as it gets here and me no likey...i cooked for three days solid and i think it went over well with the fpil...df was so happy, i NEVER cook, so i don't think he ever thought i could...now it's christmas cookie/candy time!!! i love chrismtas cookies! though, that doesn't fare well with the wedding weight loss plan...

i have a phone meeting with laura kidd today and i'm really excited!!! she sent me an email this morning with pics of the chocolate favors available! I LOVE THEM! i'm going to use these for people who don't drink/my younger cousins (since our favors are wine). i'm also going to change the centerpeices to flower petals, or daisies with votives...and i'm going to add mark's bout back in as discussed above...i don't know what to do with my bouquet...should i leave the hydrangea's? or make it all roses? i'm going to dry it with keepsake, will the hydrangea's look weird? or will they add depth? i was going to make it all yellows, take out the offwhites, i might do that and add the tan roses in so it doesn't look like i'm carrying a big sun...decisions decisions, i'm going to leave that one to the pros...

fashion update​

so i have to go to david's and exchange my old veil, wrap and the ivory money bag that i bought to carry my reception shoes. i'm not going near any stores today, so i'll go on monday...i'm going to get matte satin opera length gloves and i'm toying with the idea of a fur wrap...i'm feeling like it might be cold on a january morning...and if i don't use it, i can use it later...i'm also going to get a colored satin clutch and have that be my purse, probably pink. i'm not having anything borrowed...i'm doing something old, something new, something pink and something blue. the purse should be easy to find since it's the holiday time.

i'm very happy that they got my huge dress into such a tiny box...i think i'm going to get those vacuum bags and put my dress/crinoline in there...that way i can carry the whole thing on the plane (minus the hoop skirt, i don't think they'll let me take metal on a plane).

now onto the bracelet dilema...i found swarovski's belle bracelet on ebay and i love it (though it looks like a vera wang knock off from a few years ago...). it's 150. i don't want to buy it without trying it on, because i have super tiny wrists, i usually have to get kids bracelets...i'm hoping that when we go outlet shopping in austin next week that they'll have it at the swarovski outlet (i doubt it since it's discontinued)...the other bracelet option is a HUGE (i'm such a size queen) art deco type rhinestone bracelet. it has to be big to go over the gloves...i was discussing this with my favorite drag queen the other night, heshe and i will be going jewelry shopping this week...maybe i'll get some huge earrings to go with the whole ensemble...i'd like something like these, though they are harry winston and a bit out of my budget...

btw, this is my fave pic ever. i love sjp and she looks so beautiful there!!!

it's pizza day (also not good for the wedding weight loss diet)!!!

 

[JaxTeach]

Are you looking at the Belle cuff bracelet? I love that one. I have the other Belle bracelet, but I assume you are looking at the silver-ish cuff with the rose?

 

[caryndisneydiva]

Are you looking at the Belle cuff bracelet? I love that one. I have the other Belle bracelet, but I assume you are looking at the silver-ish cuff with the rose?

i don't think it's the cuff...it's the one with the 3 or 4 strands of crystals on the side...

 

[JaxTeach]

Is this the one you're looking at? I bought it earlier this year from the Swarovski in Austin. If you want it and they don't have it, let me know. I've sold the rest of the set, but I'm not going to use it. It is sort of large, though.

I'm avoiding doing what I need to do like the plague!

 

[caryndisneydiva]

Is this the one you're looking at? I bought it earlier this year from the Swarovski in Austin. If you want it and they don't have it, let me know. I've sold the rest of the set, but I'm not going to use it. It is sort of large, though.

I'm avoiding doing what I need to do like the plague!

that is the one that i saw! how much did you pay for it in austin? i love that outlet mall...they have a disney store outlet!

 

[JaxTeach]

I can't remember off hand... I called there to order it and had it shipped to me. They were wonderful. I know I paid less than $100 for it.

 

[caryndisneydiva]

i just called, they no longer have it! is it really pretty in person?

 

[Kristen14]

When you said a few posts back that you were gonna wear your grandmothers ring around your neck i IMMEDIATELY thought of Carrie wearing Aiden's engagement ring around her neck

What did Disney Floral say about your flower petal centerpieces? What flowers did you ask about? and did she quote you a price??

You should go with all roses for your bouquet. It cant possibly that much more expensive, and even if it is, its YOUR bouquet so you can be a size queen if you want

BTW... I love love your "something old, something new, something pink, something blue"

 

[caryndisneydiva]

2 months and counting...time flies when you're havin fun on the disboards...

i'm a total carrie wannabe...

FLORAL UPDATE...

i had an excellent conversation with laura kidd yesterday...we came to the following conclusions...

my bouquet will be 60 roses with shades of yellow and sahara roses...

mark's bout will be one yellow rose with 2 white or ivory tea roses (depending on his attire...)

the floral wands and all other bouts/corsages will be sahara roses instead of cream...

i added 10 mickey mouse hat chocolate favors for my little guests (these are so freaking cute!)

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i decided not to go with the flower petals as they were going to be almost as expensive as our solution, which is...
-decrease size of original cp's by more than half, use these on 1 out of 5 tables
-have two other types of cp's for the other tables, alternating just fruit in some and just flowers in the others
-head table will have vases for bouquet/floral wands...

these changes knocked 1200 off the floral budget, actually, more than that since i added the favors...total for cp's is 832.56...PERFECT! that includes tax and all rental fees!

in other news, our rsvps have started coming in, we get 2 or so a day! very exciting!!! so far our guest count is up to 37, 37 in itself is a pretty nice crowd, so i'm happy! i think we'll get to like 60ish, which is good! my mother, father, sister and her dbf put together our water bottles and m+m boxes this week, hopefully she'll post pics!

2 months, wow...it's so amazing to me! christmas is almost here, i went to see the nutcracker last night, one of my girlfriends that i used to dance with in hs is in the houston ballet and she was magnificent!!! we're going to nj in less than a month for christmas, this time is going to fly by! my best friends are going with me this week to get my new dress bustled...i'm not sure what kind of bustle would look good with it...we'll leave that one to the pros!

well, the weather here is miserable and will continue to be so for the next few days, i have a cold so i'm staying in and obsessing over place cards!!!

 

[disneymeg]

Caryn make that 38 ill be there but i dont have a response card to send back since my invite is lost somewhere. The new dress is nice but i still liked the first one. Im so glad you saw lauren in the nutcracker how fun im jealous. Was it amazing? Did it bring back memories? Aw man if the darn strike wasnt going on i was goign to try to go see How the Grinch Stole Christmas but its not on broadway anymore. 2 months away yayayayayya! see you in 29 days for xmas!

 

[sunsh1ne]

hello

i love your choices.
i had sahara and i loved them. they are so antique like. they will be beautiful with the yellow.

your ceterpieces sound so pretty, yet my mind can not picture them. do you have a picture. i love all of your plans

happy planning

 

[caryndisneydiva]

hmmm...there will be three total centerpeice options, my original one...

then this one, though with lemons instead of blueberries

and something like this, though with hydrangea's, tulips, roses and gerbera daisies

 

[sunsh1ne]

wow!!
one question is the original one the one with the green limes??

ok back to wow. that is going to be so amazing. i can not wait to see how that looks all together. i am sure you will love it.

yea

 

[caryndisneydiva]

yes, the original was this one...

but with lemons and no greenery!

 

[sunsh1ne]

yup my answer is definaly wow!!! it is going to be so beautifuland unique!
cant wait to hear more

 

[caryndisneydiva]

i have done nothing but sit in front of my printer for the last 3 hours. EVERYTHING is printed, well, i ran out of stardream, so i still need to print out 15 menu cards...good enough though...i feel like i'm finally making a bit of progress, i printed all of the programs and program inserts, most of the menu cards, the welcome letters and door hangers...so i still have to put most of this together, i'm waiting until after christmas sales for this ribbon i found at target that i want for the programs, if i can get it on sale i will, but i need a ton of it...here, as always, are pics of my progress...

door hangers, i'm still trying to find a tinkerbell stamp, so i can emboss it with gold glitter on top of the castle...

here are my welcome letters, they are 4 pages long...they include the transportation schedule, important information about disney (and info on what to do if they miss the bus to the ceremony), fun facts about mark & caryn, fun facts about disney and stuff that mark and i recommend...tons of fun here!

here are my menu cards, i especially like these...i did three different decoration on them, a yellow (curry) satin ribbon, a chocolate ribbon and a beaded wire ribbon...

i have 2 job interviews this week so i need to get this stuff DONE!