A Visit From My Maid Of Honor

My Maid of Honor came for a visit and spent a few days here, helping me with wedding plans. It was so wonderful having her here. We made some things for the wedding, went dress shopping for the girls and myself and turned pages and pages of bridal magazines. I think we got a lot figured out and now after tomorrow, I am hoping to have a good hold on what the ladies will be wearing! I am trying to add touches of my own to a lot of things and now I am having to prioritize them. I have two possibilities for my top choices for my dress and one possibility for the bridesmaids dresses. I meet with a few people for mine next week and the girls' tomorrow. Hopefully all of that will go nice and smoothly so I can set things in stone and move on to a different task. :) I am really enjoying this whole process and it is nearly all stress-free for me so far. There's one area that has had me a little anxious, but overall I see it working out. :) So our visit was lovely, but too short. She has a busy schedule but says she is "on call" at all times. ;) For today, I have three tasks left in the lines of wedding planning and then the rest of my daily duties must get finished. I am looking forward to a quiet and relaxing weekend....and sleeping in... hopefully. :)

I See Light!

Today was a good day. Most of the good news came from the afternoon on. It started out with a nice conversation with my best friend in Chicago, followed by another conversation with my best friend in New York...Yes, you are allowed two of them when they are as special as these ladies! Mono's sister-in-law, who is my soon-to-be sister-in-law (yay!!!!), sent me a whole list of possible reception venues in the area we are looking to have our wedding. I am so thankful for all of their help. They each live in a different state, very far away, but they all offer as much help as they are able to. I am so blessed. I also got word from the Church that we are allowed to have our wedding ceremony there. I will speak with someone tomorrow about more details. Praying that that all goes well. Then this evening I got another e-mail from a dear friend of our family's of a nice hotel within a short distance that she thought may be something I'd like. And it is! I have to show my Mom (which will be a task being that she is hundreds of miles away and does not know how to work a computer...hmmmmm.....) and see what she thinks and then I may call them to get some more info. :) That would be absolutely wonderful if a place so close worked out. :) Next on my list, after all this is settled, is needing to find a place for photographs. I would like somewhere scenic, not just generic. So we will see. I am asking for ideas from anyone that lives in that area, so hopefully I will get some good places. :) I am really excited that I am seeing some light in all this. I think once these big hurdles are over (ceremony, reception, date, etc) then the little details will be a lot more exciting! It will be nice to start all of this after Christmas when my Mom comes home. :) So that is my update for today. Hopefully these posts will get more exciting. And eventually they will come along with pictures, hopefully!

Post It Notes For Him....Long Lists For Me!

Today I got a few more things to add to the organization end of my wedding plans. No real planning has begun yet. Just some thinking and talking. Mono and I discussed a few things that we would like to have for our wedding and I also gave him a list of a couple of things he should start thinking about and working on…nothing terrifying, just a small post-it note with 3 or 4 bullet points. :) I don't think he minded. I'm really looking forward to figuring more things out and setting them in stone a bit. For now though, it is off to sleep, to dream sweetly.