Heather & Kevin's PJ/TR! SBP/Ariels-9/19/09: Post Ceremony Started! Updated 5/10!

[figment fan21]

YAY!!!! You are soooo close!

I can't wait to hear the updates when you get your BEO and Floral budget.

 

[HeatherNJNC]

So on Friday, May 22nd my friends threw me a surprise shower! Kevin had been on the surprise but it was for the both of us! My maid of honor had already planned to drive up that weekend from Myrtle Beach because one of our best friends/bridesmaids was flying in from California that weekend to visit. Now if anyone knows me they know I am a complete control freak so I had the whole weekend planned for us! We went out to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory then went shopping at the mall, we pulled up to the house and I walked in and completely lost it!

My family (who lives here in Charlotte) were obviously all there but my bridesmaid/college friend drove in from Kentucky, my best friends mom drove in from Pittsburg, then another bridesmaid and my MOH's mom drove in from NJ! These are people I hadn't see in years so I was so touched that they drove all that way for the shower! Some friends from here in Charlotte were here also! My mom hosted it at the house and it was awesome! My MOH is Italian and her dad made the most delicious food which was driven down from NJ! YUM!

It was lots of good food, family, friends, and drinks! We got a lot of great gifts and just had so much fun catching up with everyone! Here are some pictures!

After I cried my eyes out!

My nieces helping us open presents! And we got our dual wave blender and Keurig coffee maker! Woot!

I got my first "Z" (My DF's last name starts with a Z) Don't mind my niece's bow on Kevin's head.

Our generous gifts!

Best friends from high school/MOH & Bridesmaids

Bridal Party!

EXHAUSTED after an awesome day!

I'll update again soon as we've gotten our invites and we're sending them out this week!

 

[figment fan21]

That was so sweet of them to surprise you with your shower!

You made OUT!!! Some great gifts!!! I finally talked DF into registering, So excited to do that!

It looks like you guys had a great time!

 

[HeatherNJNC]

Thanks Katie, we had such a good time! DF LOVED registering at Target because he got to bring around the little gun and zap everything!

 

[figment fan21]

Thanks Katie, we had such a good time! DF LOVED registering at Target because he got to bring around the little gun and zap everything!

OMG I can't wait to run around with the little zappy gun! Did you find that it was worth it? registering i mean. DF thinks that since there isn't a huge guest list for the wedding and/or shower that i might not be worth it.

 

[HeatherNJNC]

OMG I can't wait to run around with the little zappy gun! Did you find that it was worth it? registering i mean. DF thinks that since there isn't a huge guest list for the wedding and/or shower that i might not be worth it.

It was definitely worth it! All of the gifts we received for our surprise shower were off of our registry. Plus a lot of people buy gifts and just have them shipped to the house if you are doing a destination wedding. It's totally up to you though!

 

[figment fan21]

Thanks for helping me out heather! I think it'll totally be worth it!

Oh and I just noticed, we'll both be getting new last names that start with "Z"

 

[MainStMandy]

Oh Heather the shower looked like so much fun!!! Congratulations!

 

[princess22]

I just read your PJ and everything looks great. Your dress is gorgeous! I love the newsletter you made also, very informational! Isn't that 30 day shred a killer? It really works though, I just need to do it more than once a week (haha)! Can't wait to read more!

 

[HeatherNJNC]

Thanks for helping me out heather! I think it'll totally be worth it!

Oh and I just noticed, we'll both be getting new last names that start with "Z"

YAY! I'm not the only one!!! I'm going from the beginning of the alphabet to the end hahaha. DF jokes that there's going to be some longggg waiting at our kid's graduations!

Oh Heather the shower looked like so much fun!!! Congratulations!

Thanks Mandy! We had a really good time, I instantly burst into tears when I saw all my friends that I hadn't seen in years!

I just read your PJ and everything looks great. Your dress is gorgeous! I love the newsletter you made also, very informational! Isn't that 30 day shred a killer? It really works though, I just need to do it more than once a week (haha)! Can't wait to read more!

Thank you so much! And yes 30 day shred is a killer (especially circuit 2!), but I'm having the same issue you are haha! I keep telling myself I have 5 more months...4 more months...3 more months....I'm eventually going to run out of time!

 

[tiggersam00]

Oh that was so nice of your BM's to do that for you! And I am so loving that coffee maker/blender I have never seen that before!

 

[HeatherNJNC]

Oh that was so nice of your BM's to do that for you! And I am so loving that coffee maker/blender I have never seen that before!

Hey Sam! We've missed you! And thanks, it was such a nice surprise of my BM's & Mom!

 

[polynesianbride]

WOW! I don't know how I missed you PJ up til now Your wedding is soooo close- I just read your entire PJ and I love all your ideas! Your dress is gorgeous and your cake looks super yummy! Can't wait to follow along with all your plans.

 

[HeatherNJNC]

WOW! I don't know how I missed you PJ up til now Your wedding is soooo close- I just read your entire PJ and I love all your ideas! Your dress is gorgeous and your cake looks super yummy! Can't wait to follow along with all your plans.

Thanks Adelia! I've been following your PJ, if I was having an Escape Wedding it would totally be yours! I love all your choices!!!

 

[HeatherNJNC]

Since DF and I are going on a honeymoon after our Disney trip we decided we would take advantage of our time in Disney World with our families. We are all doing the free dining so most of our reservations we made with our families except for dinner on our last night. We were able to make our ADR's on the 18th and we got everything we wanted! We also got to use Disney's new online reservations system and it worked out great for us! No issues at all! Here are our all of our dining plans:

Wednesday, Sept 16th- Cape May Buffet Dinner
Thursday, Sept 17th- Crystal Palace Buffet Character Breakfast
Friday, Sept 18th- No Table Service Planned-Rehearsal Dinner off property
Saturday, Sept 19th- OUR WEDDING!!!!
Sunday, Sept 20th- Kona Cafe Breakfast with any/all our wedding guests!
Sunday, Sept 20th- San Angel Inn Dinner
Monday, Sept 21st- 50's Prime Time Cafe Lunch
Tuesday, Sept 21st- Le Cellier Dinner (Just Kev and I)

This will be my niece's first time in the World so we are doing Crystal Palace for her on her first day in the Magic Kingdom. She is so excited! On our wedding night, we are staying at the Polynesian so it'll be fun to roll out of bed and meet everyone for breakfast (Tonga Toast!) in the morning. And this will be our first time trying Le Cellier so we are excited to be eating here together on our last night. Let me know if there are any places on here that any of you would/would not recommend going to!

 

[figment fan21]

Since DF and I are going on a honeymoon after our Disney trip we decided we would take advantage of our time in Disney World with our families. We are all doing the free dining so most of our reservations we made with our families except for dinner on our last night. We were able to make our ADR's on the 18th and we got everything we wanted! We also got to use Disney's new online reservations system and it worked out great for us! No issues at all! Here are our all of our dining plans:

Wednesday, Sept 16th- Cape May Buffet Dinner
Thursday, Sept 17th- Crystal Palace Buffet Character Breakfast
Friday, Sept 18th- No Table Service Planned-Rehearsal Dinner off property
Saturday, Sept 19th- OUR WEDDING!!!!
Sunday, Sept 20th- Kona Cafe Breakfast with any/all our wedding guests!
Sunday, Sept 20th- San Angel Inn Dinner
Monday, Sept 21st- 50's Prime Time Cafe Lunch
Tuesday, Sept 21st- Le Cellier Dinner (Just Kev and I)

This will be my niece's first time in the World so we are doing Crystal Palace for her on her first day in the Magic Kingdom. She is so excited! On our wedding night, we are staying at the Polynesian so it'll be fun to roll out of bed and meet everyone for breakfast (Tonga Toast!) in the morning. And this will be our first time trying Le Cellier so we are excited to be eating here together on our last night. Let me know if there are any places on here that any of you would/would not recommend going to!

Your ADR's look fantastic!!! Le cellier is really good! Get the filet mignon it was to DIE for!
Cape May's is really good too! Good choice's girlie!

 

[HeatherNJNC]

Thanks Katie! Kevin and I are way excited for Le Cellier, we've both already decided on the filet hahaha.

 

[HeatherNJNC]

So my original thought was that my mom, sister in law, and I would make our wedding invitations however September continued to get closer and closer and unfortunately none of us had the time to do them! I knew I did not want to spend a lot and our wedding is fairly casual so we didn't want anything fancy. I started showing Kevin invitations on line and in books and once he saw a few with palm trees on them he was sold. So there I was on a mission for palm tree wedding invitations that were inexpensive and could be made fairly quickly, oye.

Finally, I came across theses simple but pretty PALM TREE invitations on invitationconsultants.com. I bookmarked the site and a week later I finally had the time to show them to DF to see his thoughts...HE LOVED THEM! Plus they just happened to be on sale for 30% off, there was a code for $10 off on top of that, and they were offering free shipping!!! SCORE! So I quickly typed up what I wanted them to say and ordered them! They were delivered to my house 4 days later! We both love them!

 

[acomasdiaz]

The invitations are too cute!

 

[HeatherNJNC]

The invitations are too cute!

Thanks, we love them! Simple yet pretty and to the point!