Man, I am so clever with my post titles..
Anywho. Less than a month. This is what our schedule looks like:
This week-
cleaning out my apartment & continuing to pack
write shower thank you notes- DONE!
grocery store
This weekend-
Friday PM- late at work, bake & cook for Saturday, clean & organize the bathroom
Saturday- bake, cook, Christmas cookie decorating party w/family, clean
Sunday- wedding projects: programs (figure out how to bind!), menus, hotel bag cards
Next Week (12/22)-
Pack/Unpack/Organize
Wednesday- half day at work!, make cookie trays, John's mom's house for supper, Christmas Eve at church
Thursday- Christmas!!, open presents, make and eat big yummy breakfast, go to John's mom's for supper
Friday- no work!- at the price of a vacation day :( , clean, pack, make reception seating arrangements
Saturday- to NY: dress fitting/pickup, hair cut, hair and makeup trials, family Christmas stuff
Sunday- back to MD
12/29-12/30- back to work :(
12/31- John's birthday, parties, etc.
1/1- No work!
1/2- back to work :(
1/3 (Saturday)- New Year's family party, get John's brother's car to bring to NY
1/4- final wedding projects: reception place cards, finish up anything..
1/7- to John's apartment after work, pack
1/8- 5 am leave for NY, get to NY, make favors, have pizza supper w/anyone in town
1/9- am: get Amanda, set up reception, get nails did, set up church, rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, girls out to Denny's
1/10- WEDDING. YIKES.
All written out like that, it looks like a long time- but it is so not. This is what it boils down to:
1 work week
1/2 work week
1/2 work week
1/2 work week
wedding!
...and a whole bunch of stuff to do in between!
Saturday John and I got a Christmas card- addressed to
"John and Samantha Hislastname"
SO weird. It was from his sister in law, so she was messing with us. It is just too weird though- seeing that. Yesterday I spent awhile going online to every place that I could think of where I needed to change my address. For many that it didn't matter (bank, DMV, etc.)- my name is changed as well as my address. It was the weirdest thing, writing it out & seeing it..
..guess I should get used to it though- less than a month to go!
I haven't forgotten about this, I promise! There hasn't been much wedding-ness going on recently. After we went home for Thanksgiving and had infinity meetings, everything was pretty much covered.
We still need to:
-print the programs. They are all designed and I have all of the materials- I am just nervous that something in the ceremony will change or something..
-print the menues. I have those all designed as well. I guess I should just bite the bullet and do it eh?
-Design and print little notes/cards/booklets (TBD as of yet..) for the bags with NY goodies for those at the hotels.
-Print and apply the labels for the table cards. (Not yet though- today is our RSVP date & then we will give people another week before harassing them.)
-Create seating chart (see above)
I'm sure there are more and I am just brain farting..
This weekend was spent organizing and cleaning John's apartment to make it ready for all of the junk that will come with me, of course only AFTER we watched the Hokies WIN their third ACC championship!! (3/5 years in the ACC we've won the conference- pretty good eh? There has been the championship game for 4 years, and of those, we've played in it 3 times. Lost once.)
To help in our quest for organization, we first went to IKEA yesterday morning. There we got a new dresser!! Hopefully this will condense our dresser situation. Between the two of us, we currently have 3 dressers. I also got sweet drawer organizers. YES! I love organization!
Following IKEA, we headed to Home Depot (or as John says, "Home on de pot"). There we got two heavy duty (ha duty) storage shelves for the outside storage closet on the deck. The closet was a MESS of stuff just piled all over with no rhyme or reason. I used to dread going out there to get camping equipment or whatever. Really, I wish I had a "Before" picture. Now, the closet is all organized, and as a result, we were able to move some of John's tools and equipment from behind the sofa!! Woo hoo!
What I am probably most excited about though- my new dining room buffet! Ok, so its meant to be a bar, but there are no wine racks- just plain shelves and a couple of drawers even! Its exactly what I was looking for and its so purty! Once this comes in (scheduled to be delivered tomorrow!), I will be able to start putting away some of the shower presents- I plan on storing all of our serving pieces and china in there.
Whew- for not having much to say, apparently I had been storing a lot up this last week...
November 10 - Two months to go!
ps- we got our first RSVPs this weekend!
It's October 10- that means there is only 3 months till the wedding! :-o!
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So.. my favorite color is red- right away I knew that I wanted that to be a main color in the wedding. Since I am a designer and the designer of our relationship (not to mention that John couldn't care less), it was decided.
I wanted a garden wedding- in January? Ha. Instead of going with the instinctual red, black, and white, I chose red & brown. I hope that the brown will balance out some of the brightness of the red and lend a bit of a "garden" feeling.
The brown shows up mostly in the stationary through the use of kraft paper- yup that stuff that feels like paper bags. I really like kraft paper because it is recycled! Since we are going to be using and creating so many paper products, why not make them as environmentally friendly as possible!?
Also, from the beginning we knew we didn't have a huge budget, so while we weren't going to be stingy, we want to cut corners as much as possible. This means lots of do it yourself (DIY)! That is A-OK with me. I love crafting and will share here as many of my projects as possible!
Here is my finished idea board:
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