Five things...

1) Our bowling team didn't do the greatest last night. It was an off night.

At least Joe bought me some Girl Scout Cookies! Yum:)

2) INFO cards are printed and ready to be cut...

3) Over the weekend we're going shopping for our wedding bands! Whoo:)

4) Day Two of spring break and I'm bored. Feels good but weird at the same time...like I should be doing something somewhat productive. I did organize my wedding book...does that count? Maybe watch the latest episode of Jersey Shore? Classy.

5) It's Friday.

 nuf said.

Officially on Spring Break and Officially in Wedding Mode

Well, spring break doesn't truly start until next week but thanks to my one and only class and finishing up my exam last night, I'm done. And I'm really enjoying the mental breather. It's nice to look ahead though and see that I have only seven weeks to go until summer vacation! Warm sun I can feel you now - except there will be lots of suntan lotion:)

This morning I came into work early and started the process of printing our RSVP cards. It went pretty smooth once I got past the "paper jam" message that kept popping up. Free printing on a good laser printer isn't too shabby either. My co-worker (same one who has the bf with the Pantone book) is a major scrapbooker and is bringing in her good paper cutter for me on Monday. Oh lucky day! What good co-workers i have:) I have to tweak our INFO cards a tad but I'll print those tomorrow morning and maybe start the actual invite printing as well or leave it for Monday. I'm thinking I may need to throw a "help me assemble these invites" party soon at the rate I'm going!

As much time and work I've put into 1) learning how to use Photoshop and 2) designing/editing these invites, it's great to sit back and look at something you've created. Plus, Joe absolutely loves how they turned out! Hey, gotta make the Groom-to-be happy you know! Now, I guess designing the programs in next on the list. Which I found this quirky way of doing it that I absolutely adore...

Other than that, my Grandpa cut down some birch trees for us to use today. Gasp! Don't worry...he's planted quite a few in his lifetime to make up for the three we lost today. And they were just baby ones anyway. We'll use these for our cake/cheesecake platters and such. Crossing off "birch stumps"! 

Flowers = Check!

As mentioned last week, getting a hold of our florist was a couple weeks worth of having the wrong number and voicemails. Last Friday, after finally getting a hold of her, we narrowed down our flower list and over the weekend she got back to me with the pricing. For my bouquet, five bridemaid's bouquets, six wrist corsages and 13 boutineers our total came to $550. Now, I don't know how much flowers typically run but I think for all that we're getting it's a pretty good deal! They'll put in the order two weeks before the wedding and we'll have someone pick them up the morning of the big day! Crossing flowers off my ultimate to do list!

On another note, I came across this picture from an engagement session this morning and love the picture frame they are holding. I could easily make one of these and how perfect would it go with our barn/vintage/awesomeness theme!?

The picture may be a little small but it says, "I have always know it was you." Ahhh...love it.

Registry = Check!!

The original plan was to do only two of our three registries this weekend but we went for all three. My legs and back were sore by the end of it too. I must have no support in my boots haha. Saturday night we were at Target for two hours trying to beef up our registry since we figure most people will shop there. I mean, Target is the go to place after all! After weaving up and down aisles for the first half hour, we only had a basketball and a football. Both Joe's scan:)

This was mine but he didn't go for it....

I mean who wouldn't want Ricky Martin's book?! jk. To be honest, I thought the Target registry would be fairly easy to complete because every time I go there I leave with something I hadn't planned on getting. But we quickly realized we're sitting pretty good in life and don't need a whole lot. Which I guess is a good thing but I did take the time to scan a few kitchen items that would be an upgrade to what we currently use. I've slowly been updating our registry online since Saturday - changing things out, adding more things.



Joe using the scanner wisely:)

As soon as we got home Saturday Joe quickly started researching what we added to our list and began making switches on things that didn't have good reviews. Gotta love that about him! Always making sure our purchases are going to last us awhile:) Sunday we went to Sears and Gander Mountain.

Joe really wanted this...I said no.

Joe added some tools at Sears and I added a crock pot but overall I think we only have about 15 items on that list. We'll see what we get! And then the Gander Mountain registry is old school! You actually have to write down the UPC's of any items you want and then they fax the list over to the stores you want. Finally, a store Joe couldn't try to scan me! And believe me, he did it ALL the time. We registered for a lot of camping gear - a hiking backpack, sleeping bags, some chairs, and even Kayaks. Yes, I know people will probably jump on those because they would love to carry those big things around with them but we figured might as well try. Overall, I think we did pretty good on our registries and there's lots of good things to pick from!

Also, big announcement everyone....Invite design is COMPLETED! Yesterday I was able to look at the Pantone book and ended up decently close to the blue of our paper. The guy who brought it down reiterated the fact we won't be able to match it exactly unless we went to a professional printer where they could mix the ink color themselves but frankly, we're not the desperate to have it match. I printed a sample on our good paper this morning and they look great. Invites will go into printing Thursday and Friday and next week I'll be cutting. Thank you spring break! Now I have time to focus my time on the wedding details...at least for seven days. Whoo!!

I WILL finish these invites!!

Finding the right navy blue is getting harder than I thought. And there is no easy way (that I have at my finger tips) to match the color of my paper to a blue in photoshop. In fact, Christina (who is doing our wine labels) told me it was nearly impossible. Ugh. BUT she did say it can be done with the help of a Pantone book. I'm not quite sure exactly what it is, but it's suppose to have the codes to every color out there and my coworker's special friend who works in the same building I do has one of these. I'm hopefully meeting up with him Monday to get some extra help! Hopefully we can figure this out since that is that last thing on our invites that I am trying to tweak!

Also, this weekend Joe and I get to do something I have been looking forward to since we got engaged. We're starting the process of registering!!! I have always wanted to go into a store, point at whatever I want, and somehow have it magically appear before me. The wedding registry will be the closest I will EVER get to it actually happening:) We are going to register at Gander Mountain, Target (of course) and Sears. Joe wants tools. I told him I better not get any tools at the showers. ha. We probably won't get to all three over the weekend but maybe a couple. I am PUMPED:)

Happy Weekend!

Working on the Invites...

Yesterday I really started focusing on designing our invites using Photoshop (hence no post). Thankfully, I haven't pulled out all of my hair yet so I'll still have a nice up-do for the big day. Photoshop is a great tool that can help you design/create amazing things but learning how to do all of that definitely takes many hours of try and try again. I have most likely learned how to do about 0.5% of all that Photoshop is equipped to do.

I have so much to learn...

We have our overall concept designed, now it's about tweaking things here and there. The biggest obstacle will be getting the right navy blue to match the paper we picked out. As long as it's close, I'll be fine with that! As soon as we like we what see, we'll print them out, cut the paper and then I'm bringing it all home to have my family help assemble them. I'm taking up people's offers to help like nobody's business!! Spring break is coming up quick so I have one week to finish the design and print away.

In other updates, for the past two weeks I have been trying to get ahold of our florist to see when we have to start thinking flowers again. After trying a couple times last week I finally texted her husband (who works with me) to see if I had her correct phone number. Turns out she got a new number so he gave me her new one on Friday. Monday I texted her and still having not heard from her, I decided to call this afternoon. The voicemail was for a Laura (her name is Meggan). Great. I texted her husband again to ask for her number again and the one he gave me last Friday was one number off! Finally got through and we'll be catching up soon. What a fiasco! At least she didn't bail on us!

Oh wedding planning joys:)

Suits are IN!

Just got a call from Men's Warehouse that the rest of the suits came in today! I was headed there tonight anyway to pick up Joe's suit so I'll gather up the rest of them when I'm there. Hopefully they fit everyone! Now we'll have to start the hunt for shirts and ties for the boys.

No other wedding news today but it's the first day of March!! Spring is on it's way:)