just catching up on various PJs.... i'm so sorry about your kitty... hugs
Oh, I'm so very sorry about little Link. We get so attached to those sweet little furkids so fast and it's so hard when we have to let them go.
I'm so sorry about your kitty
Sam, I am very sorry about Link.
Setting up house can be a very stressful time, throw that on top of wedding planning plus loosing a pet, I can see you have your hands full.
Many hugs your way!
Sam, I'm so very sorry about Link
. It's not fair that you had to say goodbye to him so soon, but I know you guys made his life better by taking such good care of him.
I hate to join your PJ at such a sad time, I can't imagine what you're feeling.
So so sorry about Link
No more pain for that little kitty now!!!
i'm so so sorry about Link. Its very unfair that you had to loose him so soon, but at least he was very loved.
I am sorry to hear about Link. It sounds like you guys did all you could for the little guy. At least he is no longer in pain. It is hard to loose a pet, they are like family. I hope you do start a TR of your PS soon. I find in my experience that focusing on the happy always makes a sad situation a little better. Big
to you!
I'm so sorry to hear about your kitty.
That's a really hard situation to deal with, especially with everything else on your plate. Looking forward to hearing about your TR but I totally understand how hard it is to come back to all this after an ordeal like that.
I'm so sorry about your baby kitty Link!!
Hope things get better for you and I can't wait to read more of your plans and your recent trip to WDW!!
poor little kitty, I'm sorry to hear that, its always tough losing a pet. At least you are busy with the wedding/house/new job, that helps a little to keep your mind off of the loss.
I am so sorry to hear about your kitty but I know he was VERY loved judging by the reports.
Sending warm wishes your way
So sorry for your loss.
Pets hold a special place in our hearts. Just know that you will be able to see your kitty one day again.
Thank you so much everyone for the support and kind words. He was very loved and he will be surely missed. I feel so terrible falling behind on everyone's planning journals and it's so hard getting back into the swing of things. Planning has felt a little overwhelming. I've definitely fallen behind. And at least the one thing about procrastinating means I haven't been super anal about planning. But I've definitely let some things get behind...like invitations, and dress fittings, etc...
So now to start on the planning...
We arrived in Disney Monday morning. It was just my mom, myself and my nephew. He was so adorable. At the airport, another little boy asked him what he was going to do in Disneyworld, and he responded: We're going to plan a wedding. It was adorable. We went to DHS after checking in at the Boardwalk, which was an awesome hotel. It was very hot and humid. I'm proud of any June/July disney bride. It was SO HOT! I don't know how you can do it. We melted away that day. Tuesday we had the planning session. We met with Carol Mickles, who is a super sweet southern lady. She was very caring. It was hard to do the session without Mike. We arrived at Francks, and my nephew very quietly sat through the whole session mostly listening and playing with the iphone. It was very impressive. We discussed our views on the wedding, the timeline, transportation, etc...and before we knew it, it was cake tasting time.
Now I have to say, we had gone to breakfast at 1900 Park Faire beforehand, and I kind of expected to be having the cake later in the session...which it did not. I wasn't exactly hungry but I guess that's better because I actually tasted the cake. We had yellow, chocolate, marble, chocolate shavings (they can't do chocolate chip), lemon and almond. The last 2 were special requests. Every cake had a similar texture...not too moist, a little dry. The almond and lemon had the most distinct flavors. The chocolate wasn't a deep fudgey chocolate, instead it was dry and a little flavorless. I'm not a huge marble cake fan, and the chocolate savings definitely added a little to the usual yellow cake. For fillings we had vanilla buttercream, dark chocolate, white chocolate, baileys, amaretto, lemon, raspberry, cherry pie filling (I requested a fruity filling), tropical, peanut butter cup and I think there were 2 others, but I can't remember them anymore. My top fillings were tropical, raspberry, lemon, amaretto and surprisingly I enjoyed white chocolate. Mike loves peanut butter so I chose the peanut butter cup with the marble cake so one layer, lemon cake with raspberry (I really want the tropical layered with raspberry but they told me no
) and the top layer was going to be the chocolate shavings cake with tropical mousse, but this was nixed due to the ridiculous pricing of a 3 layer mad hatter. It was like $1000 for the cake, plus $200 handling fee.
A 2 layer is half the price...much more reasonable.
It was so funny during the tasting. We were all offered drinks, and I took a diet coke, my mom took coffee and my nephew wasn't sure what to drink. He wanted chocolate milk but they didn't have it. Carol offered him some Sprite, and he asked quizzically...What's a sprite? Carol was so amused at the fact he never even heard of sprite before. She had never met a child before who hasn't had sprite before.
Then Laura came in and we discussed floral. I told her how floral wasn't much of a concern for me. We came up with some ideas. We're doing centerpieces of small square vases filled with sea glass and floating candles or orchids. I'm not 100% sure what exactly it will come out as and I can't wait to actually see it in person.
For favors, we want to do Mickey ears, but I'm not sure if it's going to work. We're being charged $20 per hat, including personalization, and that seems excessive.
The planning session was just really hard because deciding was so difficult without Mike. I enjoyed being in charge (what bride doesn't
) but it made decisions more difficult.
The session ended around noon and we headed to magic kingdom. Alex really enjoyed himself and the lines weren't even that bad.
Ok...that's enough for now. More tomorrow.
Life has a way of getting really stressful right before the wedding. Just try to hang in there. It is really nice to come back from your honeymoon to your own house. Even though there were days when I was like, why did we ever buy a house! Things do get better though, even though there always seems to be something to do with a house. 
)
And thank you on the hair and makeup. Patricia LeJeuene was awesome.
