Tale as old as Time
Mouseketeer
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- Oct 16, 2009
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Alright so our cd of pictures are still in the mail but I can start the review and just add them in later!
I worked 80 hours a week all summer between a summer camp in the Hamptons, CVS Pharmacy, and babysitting both on the weekends and at night during the week when I wasn't at the pharmacy. That was from the end of June through August 22nd... By the end I was SHOT and SOOO ready for the wedding/my time off. Luckily Aaron came over from England August 16th and I was able to bring him to work with me! The kids at camp LOVED him and it certainly made the last few days of work the best ever! So needless to say I had ZERO time for wedding anything over the summer, but I did get the money I needed to make it all possible.
August 23rd- September 1st was CRAM TIME. We worked non stop on all our wedding projects and when we weren't working, we were shopping or bringing some of our 50+ boxes to the wedding hall. It seriously took 3 trips prior to the wedding and 1 day of to get everything there! Luckily we didn't have to bring everything back with us. Aaron built a TON of paper models while I boxes, labeled, made lists, finished centerpieces, etc. ... it was crazy. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy!
Thank God for my family and all their help!
Aug. 29th (Monday) was my first and only hair trial and after that I rushed to go pick up a girl I babysit for so we could hang out one last time before the wedding since she was flying back to California Sept. 3rd. PLUS she really wanted to see what my house looked like. There is an abandoned golf course behind my house so we went back there and played hide and go seek and chased and caught frogs... it was fun and I felt fancy since my hair was all done up
Aug. 30th (Tuesday) That night we sat down to make the seating cards. I had really really wanted to make this:
I found it on this website :http://sites.google.com/site/januarybride/diy
but I tried so long to find a Disney poster I liked and when that didn't work I found a picture I loved that I wanted to blow up but it didn't have the quality necessary so I compromised (mostly because of time).
In the end we decided to have a picture on the card that related to the table (so if my Uncle was sitting at the Tinkerbell table, his card had a picture from the Tinkerbell movies, etc. ) This is a picture of it set up at the hall and some close ups:
We were just about finished making everything when I got a call from my Dad's uncle that he wouldn't be able to make it... I was so frustrated! Had he called 30 minutes earlier I wouldn't have had to remake so many cards
.... his table now had too few guests so I had to rearrange 3 tables to make it all work. I can laugh about it now On the bright side, I hadn't paid for them yet, so I hadn't lost money
August 31st (Wednesday) two days before the wedding we woke up early to go to the chuch to set up. I had imagined getting married outside but our church was re-doing the parking lot and it was a mess so I tried to bring the outdoors in. We strung up ivy, bought fake trees, set up this tree shaddow thing in the front, put fake flowers down the aise on the chair legs, sprinkled leaves everywhere... it took about 4 hours to do everything (and we only took a mini Slurpee break). From there we rushed home so that we could make the train to the city because his parents wanted to go to dinner in the city (NYC) and then we could say hi to everyone who flew in from England.
Sep. 1st (Thursday) The day before the wedding was NUTS! We had to run more stuff to the hall and Aaron's family was coming so they had to get their suit fittings (I wanted to pull my hair out!
), plus I remembered last minute that getting my nails and toes done would probably be a good idea. So we rushed to the hall, dropped everything off and then split up- Aaron went to do suits and I went to get nails done. Then we met up at the church for the rehersal.
To be continued...
I worked 80 hours a week all summer between a summer camp in the Hamptons, CVS Pharmacy, and babysitting both on the weekends and at night during the week when I wasn't at the pharmacy. That was from the end of June through August 22nd... By the end I was SHOT and SOOO ready for the wedding/my time off. Luckily Aaron came over from England August 16th and I was able to bring him to work with me! The kids at camp LOVED him and it certainly made the last few days of work the best ever! So needless to say I had ZERO time for wedding anything over the summer, but I did get the money I needed to make it all possible.
August 23rd- September 1st was CRAM TIME. We worked non stop on all our wedding projects and when we weren't working, we were shopping or bringing some of our 50+ boxes to the wedding hall. It seriously took 3 trips prior to the wedding and 1 day of to get everything there! Luckily we didn't have to bring everything back with us. Aaron built a TON of paper models while I boxes, labeled, made lists, finished centerpieces, etc. ... it was crazy. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy!
Thank God for my family and all their help! Aug. 29th (Monday) was my first and only hair trial and after that I rushed to go pick up a girl I babysit for so we could hang out one last time before the wedding since she was flying back to California Sept. 3rd. PLUS she really wanted to see what my house looked like. There is an abandoned golf course behind my house so we went back there and played hide and go seek and chased and caught frogs... it was fun and I felt fancy since my hair was all done up
Aug. 30th (Tuesday) That night we sat down to make the seating cards. I had really really wanted to make this:
I found it on this website :http://sites.google.com/site/januarybride/diy
but I tried so long to find a Disney poster I liked and when that didn't work I found a picture I loved that I wanted to blow up but it didn't have the quality necessary so I compromised (mostly because of time).
In the end we decided to have a picture on the card that related to the table (so if my Uncle was sitting at the Tinkerbell table, his card had a picture from the Tinkerbell movies, etc. ) This is a picture of it set up at the hall and some close ups:
We were just about finished making everything when I got a call from my Dad's uncle that he wouldn't be able to make it... I was so frustrated! Had he called 30 minutes earlier I wouldn't have had to remake so many cards
.... his table now had too few guests so I had to rearrange 3 tables to make it all work. I can laugh about it now On the bright side, I hadn't paid for them yet, so I hadn't lost money August 31st (Wednesday) two days before the wedding we woke up early to go to the chuch to set up. I had imagined getting married outside but our church was re-doing the parking lot and it was a mess so I tried to bring the outdoors in. We strung up ivy, bought fake trees, set up this tree shaddow thing in the front, put fake flowers down the aise on the chair legs, sprinkled leaves everywhere... it took about 4 hours to do everything (and we only took a mini Slurpee break). From there we rushed home so that we could make the train to the city because his parents wanted to go to dinner in the city (NYC) and then we could say hi to everyone who flew in from England.
Sep. 1st (Thursday) The day before the wedding was NUTS! We had to run more stuff to the hall and Aaron's family was coming so they had to get their suit fittings (I wanted to pull my hair out!
), plus I remembered last minute that getting my nails and toes done would probably be a good idea. So we rushed to the hall, dropped everything off and then split up- Aaron went to do suits and I went to get nails done. Then we met up at the church for the rehersal. To be continued...
