Wishes Wedding 1/17/11-WP/CG-TR Day 6, Last Day

[Jules~Marie]

Your going to look beautiful, the dress is amazing.

We actually still have to finish the tags for our welcome boxes as well, it still feels like we have so much to do in so little time.

Oh, don't worry about getting in trouble for not paying on the date the balance was due on, it happened to us as well. Just make sure you look over it because we had things we removed that were still on the BEO.

Thanks.

I know, I thought we were doing well with doing everything that needed to be done before the wedding, but we're quickly losing time. I can't believe I actually forgot all about the welcome bags labels and tags. Hopefully today we'll get a lot of the stuff done.

I actually emailed my assist. planner yesterday and asked her what I should do. I've been asking for weeks for a new BEO because I removed and changed some things, and I never received it, so she told me just to pay what the balance was on my latest budget. It kind of made me upset since I want everything paid correctly. I really want to get my $1000 retainer back after the wedding...I guess we'll see what happens.

 

[smileycrissy]

I hope you enjoy your day with your Mom & sister. In case I don't log on again by then, Merry Christmas!!

 

[Jules~Marie]

I hope you enjoy your day with your Mom & sister. In case I don't log on again by then, Merry Christmas!!

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! I can't believe it's already come and gone and soon we'll be in 2011!!!! Crazy!

 

[Jules~Marie]

We have 3 weeks to go!!!!

I'm trying to get everything together now. My sister and I did a great job on Friday getting everything cut out. We have 2 placecards left to print out, a couple of menus got messed up and we have to print out the memorial song. We also need to get the labels for the welcome bags done. We'll probably do all of that on Sunday.

Last night I emailed our officiant. We haven't heard from him since we booked him back in April, which is fine I don't expect constant contact. But now I really want to know what to expect at the ceremony. We really don't want anything overly religious, something short and sweet would be perfect. Hopefully I'll hear back from him soon.

I kind of forgot that Eddie and I need to get a marriage license. I think we're going to try and get that on my lunch break today. I'll see how busy we are at work...kind of need to get that soon, I guess it's important.

Oh and we need to practice our first dance. We're not doing anything spectacular, we just didn't want to sway to the music so we looked on youtube for some steps, and now we need to learn them. That's going to be tough.

I can't believe we're so freaking close now!!!! It's so exciting, I can't concentrate on anything else.

 

[Princess SarahK]

WOW!! You are really getting close! I was a little shocked this morning when I read my ticker said 10 months..and I had a little freak out but 3 weeks to go!! Girl, thats awesome! Your dress is soo pretty and the bustle is gorgeous. You are going to make the most beautiful bride! Will you upload pictures of all your programs, menus, etc? Or have I missed them? Cant wait to read more!! Yay for having a low countdown!!

 

[smileycrissy]

Oh my gosh, three weeks?!?! Yay!!!! How many more work days?


You had me chuckling about the license. You would think it would be at the top of the list but I can see how it can be easily forgotten too with all the other things. At least you remembered now and not the day of. Then you would've had to

I'm so excited for you!! Enjoy these last three weeks.

 

[April Elizabeth]

I can't believe you're so close Jules!
I love love love your dress! It's beautiful on you!

 

[Jules~Marie]

WOW!! You are really getting close! I was a little shocked this morning when I read my ticker said 10 months..and I had a little freak out but 3 weeks to go!! Girl, thats awesome! Your dress is soo pretty and the bustle is gorgeous. You are going to make the most beautiful bride! Will you upload pictures of all your programs, menus, etc? Or have I missed them? Cant wait to read more!! Yay for having a low countdown!!

Thank you! When I started this PJ it was back in July, and I can't believe how quickly my little ticker has been counting down! I am completely shocked that it was almost one year ago that Eddie proposed and we started all of this planning. It truly does fly by.

We didn't make programs, we didn't really see a need for them. I think I did upload the menu somewhere on here, but I'll repost. I love them!!!

Menu:

Table names:

Place cards: (these will be folded in half)

I think that's everything we have for the tables, plus our favors will be put out.

 

[Jules~Marie]

Oh my gosh, three weeks?!?! Yay!!!! How many more work days?


You had me chuckling about the license. You would think it would be at the top of the list but I can see how it can be easily forgotten too with all the other things. At least you remembered now and not the day of. Then you would've had to

I'm so excited for you!! Enjoy these last three weeks.

12 work days!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe we forgot about that license. But yeah, we remembered it just in time. We got it yesterday, so yay that's out of the way.

I plan on enjoying every minute of these next few weeks! My sister is starting to freak out now, I called her my MOHzilla but she's just stressing about the timeline for the weekend and everything. I told her to relax, everything will work out. It's great having her share in my concerns though, because now we'll work harder to get everything finalized.

I can't believe you're so close Jules!
I love love love your dress! It's beautiful on you!

Thank you!! I can't wait to see the dress on with my hair and makeup done. I think that will make me love it even more. Soon you'll be reading my trip report!!!!!!

 

[Jules~Marie]

I had emailed my planner and told her we planned on doing a petal toss staged exit after the ceremony. Well, the assist. emailed me back saying you can't use fake or freeze dried petals for the toss, they must be fresh and you need to designate 2 people from your wedding party to clean them up afterward. Major bummer. We already purchased the dried petals. So now we're trying to figure out what to do for the exit. We can always go the bubble route, but I wanted something different, so many people do bubbles now. My mom and I are going to try to make streamers for the guests to use. I'm not sure how they'll come out, but we'll give it a try.

I still never received the price of my cake (they were going to see how much it'd be to add on a design) and I've never been given a price for the dessert party menu. I already made my final payment, and that didn't include a dessert party price. I'm thinking it'll be around $800 or so, so I guess that'll come out of the $1000 retainer that they have. I was hoping to get that back after the wedding, but I couldn't pay for the menu if it wasn't listed.

My mom and sister are entering panic mode over the wedding. Apparently there's so much to do still. I don't know, we'll get it done this weekend, I want to tell everyone to RELAX. They just want everything to be perfect, it's sweet. But it is starting to make me nervous!

I don't know when the videographer will get to the ceremony, don't know where he'll start at. I guess he'll just start at the Wedding Pavilion? I don't know what time the florist will be delivering her items. I don't know if she will be able to get to the ceremony, reception and our rooms in time for everything to begin. I think the hairstylist is going to be arriving at 6 am. I'm hoping that's enough time to do 4 people. I don't understand the timing of the limo...I need to revisit my BEO. They really should map it out better for you, it's so confusing. The only people that have been in contact with us has been our photographers. Thank goodness for them. They actually emailed us saying they wanted to go over the day with us. No one else has done that. I guess I need to start contacting people.

My officiant ticked me off a little bit. But I think he might not be good with emails, maybe he doesn't understand how to make the tone of the email sound nice instead of rude. Maybe he doesn't like that we want a contemporary ceremony instead of a religious one. I don't know what his problem is, as long as he's at the rehearsal and the wedding, I really don't care. lol

I guess I'm not feeling as excited today as I have been in the past. It's been a long and tiring week. I can see why people really look forward to the honeymoon. I haven't been getting home until 9 every night, it's exhausting. I just feel like there's no communication with some of my vendors...I'm spending all of this money, you think it'd be easy for them to just shoot me a quick email. I'm not demanding anything unreasonable, I'd just like to know what the heck will be happening.

Happy new year to everyone! Be safe tonight.

 

[LuvLuvLuv]

Happy New Year to You!

It sounds like you have a lot on your plate. It will all work out in the end, and you'll have a wonderful day! Take one thing at a time, and hopefully you'll get quick responses from all your vendors!

 

[smileycrissy]

Aw Jules, firstly Happy New Year to you! I wish you both tons of love & happiness for 2011 (it's your special year!!!!).

Secondly, it will really all work out. I promise. Spend this weekend enjoying time with friends and family. Make one phone call at a time starting on Monday because some of the vendors won't probably be responding this weekend to any calls since they are also probably dealing with friends and family. And you don't want to get frustrated further wondering why they aren't answering you.

That's a bummer about the dried petals. I wonder why they have to be fresh if in either case someone is going to be collecting them from the ground afterwards. Well if you do the bubbles maybe you can get some funky bottles, I know I've seen all sorts of cute shapes & such for wedding bubblesin magazines and online. That way it'll be a little different than the standard bubbles. Do you think you can use the flowers for anything else?

Don't worry, the excitement will return back to you again. It's just you had an off week. Maybe next week you'll be feeling like this again :

 

[Jules~Marie]

I'm sorry my last post was so depressing! I don't know why I sounded so bummed out. I'm actually really excited about everything, I think just some things are frustrating me so much, but I don't care, I know everything will come together at the wedding. It's so nice being able to come here and let all my frustrations and worries out, to have a place to vent. Everyone at work expects me to be perpetually excited and happy for the wedding. I am. I just can't be like that every second of every day!

Eddie and I got so many things accomplished yesterday. I decided I wanted to pack everything up into totes, one to go to Disney with everything for the ceremony/reception, and one for us with all of our extra wedding things. It was so nice getting everything organized. We got the memorial song printed out and framed, the last couple of placecards printed (or so we thought..), a few extra menus printed, and we finally finished our welcome letter/itinerary! That thing was a pain to get together!

We decided to fold all of our placecards up, and noticed we were short one. Thank goodness we checked, or my aunt wouldn't have received one! That wouldn't have gone over well.

I wanted to put our wedding bands into our tote, so I took them out and decided to look at them. Good thing I did! My band is missing a diamond on the side!!! I don't know how that happened, or when, but today we're going to the store to get it corrected. I'm so glad I looked at that last night instead of waiting until Disney. I would've been so upset about that.

We still have to send our DJ our song requests...we're such procrastinators. And we're going to pack all of our clothes for Disney/the cruise today to make sure we don't need to buy anything extra.

Things are starting to come together again! I emailed Disney asking to set up a phone interview with my planner, I think it's time we stop with the emails and I actually speak to someone. It's a little easier that way sometimes.

Thanks to everyone who has been so supportive to me during my mini freak outs! You guys are the best!

 

[SwedishPea]

Hi Jules,

Congrats on your upcoming wedding! I was very excited to find your post because I'm getting married this May and also using the wedding pavilion and Napa room for about 40 guests. I don't have my planning session until the end of the month, and the budgeting process is so overwhelming! Your BEO post is WONDERFUL and really helps me put things into perspective - so thank you! I can't wait to see the pics from the big day!

Also, where did you find your favors? I've been looking at those on several sites and just comparing costs.

So exciting!

Lisa

 

[Jules~Marie]

Hi Jules,

Congrats on your upcoming wedding! I was very excited to find your post because I'm getting married this May and also using the wedding pavilion and Napa room for about 40 guests. I don't have my planning session until the end of the month, and the budgeting process is so overwhelming! Your BEO post is WONDERFUL and really helps me put things into perspective - so thank you! I can't wait to see the pics from the big day!

Also, where did you find your favors? I've been looking at those on several sites and just comparing costs.

So exciting!

Lisa

Thanks! I'm glad the BEO helped you out, I know I have relied on these boards so much throughout the planning process. You'll feel much better about budgeting once you get the planning session over with.

I bought the favors from platinumgoodies.com. They were pretty quick with the shipping, I think I paid $2.50 each. We only got 1 per couple, not 1 for every guest. But they are so cute and it's nice that they're already packaged.

 

[Jules~Marie]

I thought I'd post our Welcome Letter/Itinerary, completed welcome bags, and our memorial song...

We searched online for welcome letter ideas and found one that someone had posted on the dis a while ago. We pretty much used all of her wording lol, we were having such a mental block when it came to making this! We kept it in the same style as our newsletter.

Our welcome bags all lined up, we just need to make the mickey rice krispie treats and they'll be done.

Everything we're bringing to Disney, we might need to rent a moving truck.

The bags with the labels on them. We printed them out ourselves, I think they came out pretty good.

Our Memorial Song. Eddie used one of his pictures that he took on our last cruise for the background. We put this in an espresso colored frame.

And lastly, a couple of gifts Eddie got me for Christmas. I really really wanted Lotso from Toy Story 3, and he surprised me with it, I didn't think they even made it. The figure on the right I put in his stocking. We're such kids!

13 days, 15 hours until the big day!!!

 

[smileycrissy]

Everything looks and sounds great Jules!!!

Aren't those the hats (Pluto & Sorcerer Mickey) that you had in your pic before? Yeah, I notice those kind of things - I've got an oddball memory

Yay, I can't wait for your big day! You've worked so hard for it.

Wow, good thing you checked the ring.

 

[Jules~Marie]

Everything looks and sounds great Jules!!!

Aren't those the hats (Pluto & Sorcerer Mickey) that you had in your pic before? Yeah, I notice those kind of things - I've got an oddball memory

Yay, I can't wait for your big day! You've worked so hard for it.

Wow, good thing you checked the ring.

Yes, those are the hats that I had in my pic before. We're huge dorks and love to rock the crazy hats at Disney. We did purchase the bride ears and groom top hat too, so we'll be alternating while we're at the parks.

 

[sw33t_angel]

Everything looks great!!

Glad everything is coming together, and that you noticed about your ring!!

13 days!!

 

[sambycat]

i feel like i might throw up. but in a good way. you too? heh!


looks like you are all ready to go! i feel the pain on the officiant deal. DF talked to him several months ago when we booked (and paid). i want to touch base and am suddenly feeling like i should know what all this person will say or talk about! i mean what if it is way too short and dumb? but he seems reallllllyyyyy difficult to get ahold of and the fax # was just ringing and ringing.....

so hang in there!!! cannot believe this year has gone by!!!