Hello, hello, HELLO! Sorry I've kinda disappeared for a bit??

I've been a little consumed with some stuff and in a smidgen bit of a funk. The end of April, beginning of May is always really tough for me for personal reasons... can't really speak about them right now. Maybe after the time passes. heh.
I've been fighting for over a year to get my teacher certification for the state of New Jersey and now I have to take ANOTHER test this coming Saturday in order for me to get my actual license. So now I'm cramming trying to remember all of this crud from school. And I'm officially in panic mode!
Okay, so now for some good old
WEDDING UPDATES...
First off, we went to go look at the church that I was hoping would be golden. Yeah. Not so much? It's wayy too small for my... DRESS! I wouldn't fit down the aisle! lol. =X Woops? But okay, that's not the ONLY reason the church was a no go.. it's really because of the fact that it had 2 aisles? Five steps I woulda been in the front of the church. Good bye anticipation! ha
But my guest list wouldn't fit worth CRUD in this church so. We're on too finding a new ceremony location. I called DF's church and my own church to get answering machines.. so I'm waiting for them to call me back. Also called a beach location down near our venue that I'm awaiting to return my call also. FINGERS CROSSED.
Second off, I've kinda had it with my sister in law? Well, FUTURE. =/
Since DF and I have started dating I have tried numerous, NUMEROUS times to get together with her to get lunch, dinner, drinks, coffee, you name it and I always get excuses from her? Always. I understand she has school and work. Totally get that part. But hello, I did that too! I took 21 credits a semester whilst still working 40 hours a week at work. Sorry but you're not getting pity from me? We had a bridesmaids get together last Friday and she came which was awesome. But then I asked her to go bridesmaid shopping with one of the other 'maids and myself the following Tuesday.. this is what she tells me 'well I have a 10 hour school day the day before and I like to sleep in on my days off' which I respond with 'okay cool, well how about 12ish? I'll meet you at the store and you can go on your way after that?' she says 'well no, when I sleep in I don't get up until 2pm so I don't think I can make it for 12.' WHAT THE FUDGENUTS?!?! Seriously. Why do they have to be so dang lazy!? I don't get it. One day you can't get up?! Seriously. My MOH just stood there in shock of her answer.
So low and behold the 2 or 3 weeks on Facebook she posts that she's going out with 'Assley'.. guess who she is? My DF's EX!!!! She still hangs out with her on a regular basis meanwhile, SHE CAN'T GIVE ME THE TIME OF DAY TO GET TOGETHER. Grrr. I will never stand a chance with this girl! Like ***. Gr. I get so aggirvated with it. I talked to DF about it and he responds with 'Who gives a sh*t, I don't have a relationship with her so why do you need to? She's completely worthless and if she doesn't make any effort with the wedding by the end of May, kick her out, it doesn't matter to me.' It's sad.. but she really is completely, totally useless. I'd feel horrid.. but it may come down to me booting her out? =/
Thirdly, we went bridesmaid shopping! Woohoo! I went with my friend Jackie who I've known for YEARS and even lived with at some point. So it was good to have some Jen and Jackie time. =] We found a couple of keeper dresses.. but first.. I will show you some of the non-keepers..
this one we felt somewhat resembled curtains
I really enjoyed this one.. but she doesn't come in ANY of our colors
This one we FELL in love with online.. it's the ORANGE in the first picture, in person? Not so much. Plus it had an uber ugly V butt seam. Blech.
And the KEEPERS..
This one we've actually tried on and you can see in a previous post as well.
Loved the back on this one! I love buttons!
The top of this one is amazing! Plus it comes in my colors! Yay!
Fourthly, we have completely REINVENTED our wedding scheme. The colors are SOMEWHAT similar. But altered a bit to work with our new theme.. we really wanted to have a Halloween wedding.. it's both of ours' favorite holidays. So it'd be perfect right? Unfortunately, Halloween is on a WEDNESDAY I believe? So that is so not going to work. SO our new theme is...
Think.. Tim Burton-esque decor, deep gorgeous colors, glitter (aka pixie dust), hidden Mickey's of course!, and very very whimsical. I have sooo many ideas floating thru my head it's crazy! I just hope it all comes together right! Dave and I are super stoked about it!
Here is our new color scheme..
Fifthly... Mother dearest and I have been butting heads a lot lately when it comes to wedding stuff. I'm just getting aggirvated with people's reactions to everything that I wanna do with our wedding. Seriously, I only get married ONCE! (others will just be vow renewals ;D) So I want to do it right and do it big! =[ I'm just not telling anybody anything anymore. I'm at that point. She'll find out when we go to appointments and that will be that.
Sixthly.. DF and I had a MUCH needed 'us' day this past Saturday. It was awesome. We talked about our future.. a HOUSE that we can start shopping for THIS TIME next year!

I got uber stoked about this. We had been butting heads a bit recently due to the fact that I refuse to rent an apartment unless it's a last resort a month before the wedding because I feel as if it is lost money. So woohoo! But I was a bit bummed out when he shot down my idea of the honeymoon package I wanted to do whilst in Saint Lucia.. originally he was gung ho! It's our honeymoon.. I want to do special things to make it different than any other vacation. But I guess I'll just have to save up some money and do it as a surprise.
Seventh.. I tried to schedule our engagement shoot last week with my photographer. She INSTANTLY shot my idea down. =[ I wanted to do it at the aquarium because we originally wanted to have our wedding there but the price wasn't do-able with our size guestlist.. so.. we nixed it. So I thought AWESOME do our e-shoot there. Yep. She said pictures wouldn't be possible.. which sent me into a PANIC about whether or not she should even be our photographer? But I guess she's just TOO lazy to MAKE the good pictures there. IDK, I'm trying not to think about it cause I got soo irritated about it.
I hope EVERYBODY had a happy Easter and Passover (I know it's not over yet.. I don't think?) and spent it with their loved ones! Since I completely overloaded you with this update.. I'll leave you with just that for now! ;D Can't think of anything else that I had missed? ha. ;P Can't wait to hear all of your input!
BTW, totally started working on a few DIY's AND engagement invites MUST be done this weekend.. soo stay tuned for another update!