It took me 2 days, but I read through your entire PJ..........wow. I cannot believe all of the stuff you have been through. You may not think this at times but from reading your entries, you are a very patient, caring, confident, energetic person........and you are courageous!
I don't know how you work as hard as you do and still maintain a relationship with your man, focus on the wedding, and have time for family and friends.
Congrats on your new date! I have a luau beach wedding booked on 11/13/11, so I will be a few days after you.
I look forward to reading your journal leading up to the wedding.
Thank you for your kind words!! It's funny, but I don't know how I keep up with it all either!! Congrats on your wedding!! It's all very exciting and it's coming up soon!! Thanks for joining in!!
Ugh I'm so sorry you got bit! I HATE spiders- UGH. 
Glad you got your rooms worked out! What a relief!
Sorry about the drama with your FMIL. I've got drama with mine, too. I'm going to have to start doing daily meditations or something to deal with her. I always that people exaggerated about the Mother In Laws, or that they were just dramatized for movies and such, but after the snafus I've had with mine and the crap you've gone through with yours, I see that it's all true. I'll send you good FMIL juju from time to time. 
Serenity Now!!!
I thought the FMIL was all in the movies too!! It's all crazy, but hopefully it settles down
eurgh spiders! Sorry that you got bit
I'm proud of you for telling your FMIL your news, I don't think I'd be as brave.
Btw I love that black dress, it's beautiful and I can't wait to see your wedding dress, it looks good from the preview. xx
Thanks!! Spiders are really creepy. Sometimes you have to be brave I guess--I don't know where I get the nerve sometimes, but if I have it, I have to go with it, lol.
I'm in love with the BM dress and can't wait to wear it. I think I may wear it the night before (to narcoossee's) and the last night to yachtsman. I want lots of pictures in it
The bright and bold bouquet is beautiful! I think that will be absolutely lovely, good choice.
Thanks! (although I think I changed my mind
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I just read through your PJ! Wow you've been through a lot! I think the Memories wedding will suit you more! I'm getting married at Luau Beach on 11/12/11 and we're staying at the Poly. You're way more prepared than me, though!
Congrats!
Congrats on your wedding!! It will be here before we know it!! Thanks for joining in!!
I've read your entire pj and must say it's better to make you happy then your family at times. Oh and you have such good taste that no matter what you plan it will look amazing.
Thank you very much!! Sometimes I feel so selfish for doing things for me, but if I don't look out for me--who will? It took me a while to realize that it's time to look out for my and my future husband's best interest. It's finally becoming about "us" and I'm really excited to marry him--not just to have the wedding. I think that the act of marriage got lost in the dramatics and now I'm seeing it as a whole!! Thanks for joining in!!
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Okay, between working Friday night, Saturday and Sunday---I actually did make some progress.
Friday night, the lovely Jenifer and I scoured the internet in search of my perfect headband. She's such a great help
I also was in search of shoes.
So here's the stock photo of my dress:
I think she's standing funny. Going to order without the train as I think I'm just too short and it makes my behind look bigger.
http://www.davidsbridal.com/Product...Empire-9V9743_Bridal-Gowns-Features-All-Gowns
Headband:
http://weddingfactorydirect.com/wocofefaonsp.html
Shoes:
Way more simple than I ever envisioned... but I don't think I'll regret it in the sand or trekking for pictures.
http://weddingfactorydirect.com/crbrwhflflhi.html
Next... I was playing with my budget... that is rapidly rising and funds are depleting. Funny how $700 sounded like nothing when it was needed in Nov 2012... but when it's in 3 months it sounds like
Just an example, lol.
So I was looking on where I can cut corners. It really is just him and I--so lets see. He wants diamonds in his wedding band--and I want him to have a super nice one... but I think with my super salesperson skills I have an idea.
"Muffin (that's what I call him), that band we were looking at... are you going to wear that to work and softball??" ((See where I'm going with this
)) "I found some pretty sweet looking bands on
Amazon for about $20-$30 that we could get for now for you to beat up, but then I'll get your good band for Christmas." He agreed and liked one a lot on Amazon for $20.99
WINNING! He didn't have a clue I was using reverse psychology, lol.
The battle came when we were trying to choose his wardrobe. It's still a battle, and for now--I'm done with it. He felt like he was trapped in yellow, orange or lime green with my bouquet and he wasn't finding anything in those colors he liked. So I did some research on blogs and found someone that had the bouquet I was going to get--and it looked tiny
So I re-evaluated, decided the hot pink roses and stargazer lillies would be pretty, and better for him to choose whatever the f he wants to wear--he knows he doesn't want a black tux on the beach, so he already said his tuxedo t-shirt idea wouldn't work, lol. I think he needs a khaki suit--but I'm done giving opinions on this--it's exhausting and I'm tired of fighting about it.
That was fight #1... the second came when he asked why it mattered what he wore. I responded that I was paying for a photographer and we should have nice pictures. The battle of him hating pictures erupted and I lost my little mind. I told him if he didn't want the day documented, then it seemed like he didn't want it to happen at all--like he wanted to pretend it didn't happen. I got a lil emotional
He said I don't care what he wants--I told him he doesn't care what I want, lol. No one won that. Well I guess I did--there will be pictures
It did turn out to be a major quarrel between the suit and the photos--but it's all fixed now. I think I've just had a busy week and maybe all I wanted was a thank you for putting all this together--and all he was giving me was hell. I know I shouldn't hold my breath... but I feel like I've been really busy for all of this on top of my jobs.
So that's what we accomplished this weekend. This week should be insanity and I should be able to order EVERYTHING at the end of the week. I'm awaiting my LOA and I need to send my contract back to Jason. My friends will be in town from Thursday-Saturday and I'm not sure how all that will work with me needing to get stuff done. Today I'm all about my budget. I'm going to toss in some of my new numbers and see what I have in store for this week
Great plan, he may be over the diamond idea by Christmas anyway.
