I am so sorry!!!!!!! I have been a bad bride!!! I can't believe it has almost been a month since I last updated!!!
Sadly though nothing much has really changed on the wedding front since my last update.
We did go ahead and book our minister so that is all set and I am very happy with the choice!!
I am still a little weary only because I haven't met him yet- but I hope to meet him at some point prior to the big day- on my one of I am sure many weekend trips back to MB before November!
My main focus is now working on my centerpieces and start really cracking down on my invitations! I was going to send them out 2 months prior to the wedding- but I am wondering if I should send them out in August instead? Or would September be enough time?
I need to start sending some follow up emails to all my vendors:
*DJ needs a play list and I need to ask him about doing our ceremony music,
*I need to get in contact with our venue and clarify some more details about the reception as well as ask some catering questions and bar stuff, and try to set up a tasting for the reception menu since we are customizing it.
*Contact the photographer and try to schedule an engagement session and decide on album details
*Contact the bakery about a trial run of the mickey cupcakes and the top tier of the cake- and arrange a tasting
*I called about my dress and it was supposed to be in late May or June- and still nothing yet, so they are going to call the Designer and find out an ETA for my dress so I can do my first fitting and see all my jewelry and shoes together.
It has been crazy busy at work lately and finally this Thursday I will have my first day off during the week in a long while- so much to get accomplished!!
I did have some sad news prior to our family vacation- my sister in law was about 5-6 weeks pregnant and we were all extremely excited- but she ended up having a miscarriage about 2 weeks before our trip- so that was kind of a shock and so sad to see!
ON a happier note- I did go on vacation to Tampa this last week and it was so much fun!! We drove down to Jacksonville with my family and stayed the night and then made our way to Tampa Airport to pick up my other family from Texas. We rented a beach house right on the bay, and it was gorgeous!
Every year each couple gets to stay in the master suite of all the houses we rent each year- and DF and I got the chance to stay in the master this year! It was so awesome!!
We had a salt water pool and dolphins coming right up to the house almost daily. We went kayaking in the ocean, which now DF insists we need a kayak- we both fell in love with it! We went to a Tampa Rays game and look who I found!
The boys (brother, DF, 2 male cousins) made the journey to Orlando to experience Harry Potter!!! We went ahead and splurged and got the 2 park pass for a single day. I am used to staying onsite at Universal and using the room key as a fast pass, so having to pay that much for a single ticket and wait in lines...
haha needless to say I was spoiled before!!
But we got up at 4:30 am that morning, left around 5:30- got to the parks around 7- bought our tickets and then ran through the gates at 8:00!! We hit Potter world first..... and...
I was truly in heaven. It was truly awe-inspiring and so like the books and the details... I LOVED it.
We spent a good portion of the morning there and oh... just happened to run into these handsome young fellows...
James and Oliver Phelps! Also known as the Weasley Twins!! Not a big deal!!!
They were filming something so they weren't very interactive with the crowd, but it was still awesome to see them!! My cousin who is like 6'5 just happened to say, "what's that crowd- ah, it the Weasley twins..." Me- WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????? *RUNS TOWARDS THE CROWD*
It was awesome. We all fell in love with the Butterbeer... SO good... I think we had like 3 each?
The frozen was truly delicious..
DF and I actually googled some recipes and made our own Butterbeer last night... it was good!!
Overall it was an awesome trip- and my Texas family booked the tickets to come back this way for my wedding in NOVEMBER... which is now closing in on a little more than 4 MONTHS AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!
I will be back with many updates soon so stay tuned!!
Thank goodness, I was starting to get nervous for you, but the world works in weird ways--so maybe this was just meant to happen! I'm glad the photographer was awesome! So happy for you!!! 
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But luckily we found a $40 off coupon so we will be applying that to our groomsman which will bring down the price a little bit!! The guy we talked to was a newer associate so he really didn't know that much- which I was kind of hoping for some insight on the color palette and how to make the groomsman stand apart from the best man/ man of honor... but alas, he didn't really help much. 
