What a week!

OK, so I wasn't so good about posting what was happening while in Texas and I have been back for a couple of weeks and still nothing so here it goes:

It went by so fast, from dawn till dusk it was go go go go go!!

• I bought my dress, veil and head piece, over budget.
• Booked cake baker, over budget.
• Booked caterer, over budget.
• florist, over budget.
• picked linens, over budget
• bought flower girl dress material and pattern, wasn't in the budget.
• met with DJ
• Decided on table placement at reception venue.
• went to the church to see and visualize placement of everyone/everything.
• went to Hobby Lobby to see about rental of candle stands etc.
• Saw my dad and Beth.
• Went swimming (and FRIED) at Barton Springs with Courtney and Bailey.
• Got some out of town guest stuff.
• Checked out some hotels for out of town guests as well as Rich and I for our first night as Husband and Wife.
• Picked out 3 of 4 of my bridesmaids dresses.
• picked out the tuxes etc for the guys.
• Birthday celebration for DJ
• Dinner with DJ and my fake sister Mandy
• Family dinner at Chuy's
  
  
  Since being back in VA:
  
  
• Rich and I booked our honeymoon, a 7 day Eastern Caribbean cruise
• Ordered Champagne flutes, cocktail napkins, favor bags
• picked bridesmaids shoes
• tentatively decided on our wedding invitations and the wording for them.
• figured out that weddings are expensive and tried to win the $300 million + lottery, unsuccessfully :(
• went shopping with Sasha and picked out her bridesmaid dress
• changed my choices for the guys tuxes (Thank you Missie for helping me!)
• have started to stress out more about money and affording all of this!!!

It was a crazy 10 days but it was awesome to have such wonderful family and friends to support me while I was running from place to place!! Thanks especially to Mom, Natalie, David and Blythe for being my tasters and Sheila for helping being my secretary and note keeper (among other things). I couldn't have done this alone and I certainly couldn't have done as much in such a short time!!! You are all very special to me and I am so thankful and very blessed to have you all in my life!!!

Watch out Texas, Here I come

I will be boarding the plane at 4:55 EST tomorrow afternoon to head for Texas. Appointments are scheduled, catering tastings, dress shopping, cake tasting, florist, and reception venue. I hope I can get everything done that I need to get done while I am there. I'm not sure that I have everything scheduled that I should during this time. Fingers crossed I don't miss anything.

I am looking forward to seeing the family and doing wedding stuff, I think this will finally make it real that in about 8 months I will be walking down the isle. For a girl who has thought about this day since her first breath out of the womb, you would think it was all planned and it was just a mater of making payments...so not the case. Who would have thought that there was so many details that go into such a big day.

I will try to keep up with the blog day by day while I am home, no promises, i will do what I can to keep updates posted on the days events and what I liked/didn't like from the caterers etc.

See you soon Texas!