Shoe Shopping and More

This weekend my mom and I went over to Mr. Louis's Shoes in Louisville to look for my bridal shoes. We wanted to go ahead and get them because we are having my dress fitted/altered in March and we will need to know what the length of the dress will be with my shoes. They had so many shoes to choose from, but we found the perfect pair for me. They are beautiful and elegant, which is how every bride wants to feel on her wedding day. I love them! We also went to Dillards and found a beautiful lace slip dress for me to wear when I leave the reception to go on my honeymoon. It will look so good with my veil and bridal shoes still on. Not only did I have a lucky day finding my shoes and dress to leave in, but I really enjoyed spending that time with my mom. It is so fun to shop and plan my wedding with her. I'm so excited that things are coming together so well. We have found such great things for the wedding, one thing at a time. February tasks completed!

Mother of the Bride

We have accomplished yet another important task; finding a dress for my mom, the mother of the bride :) As I had written previously, she wanted to start early because she didn't think she would be able to find a good dress for the wedding. She decided that we should go to Macy's this weekend to see if she could at least find the style she might want. Well, we found the perfect dress for her! It is so beautiful and elegant on her. We couldn't believe we found her a dress on the first day of shopping for one, but we did! I am so excited and I can't wait for everyone to see her in the wedding...She is going to look beautiful! I posted a picture below of the dress she got (She looks even better than the model does in it!) We also had my cousin Sally try on a dress that would be something like what the bridesmaids will be wearing to see if we liked the style I want to go with, and it also looked good. We are going to hold off a while on getting their dresses though :) So, for the month of January we have now gotten two tasks checked off the list...Ahead of schedule!



Mother of the Bride Dress

A New Year...For Wedding Planning!

It's 2010 and with the new year here I feel so blessed. Last year was an amazing, eventful one for Matt and I and I'm very much looking forward to the year ahead of us. I'm sure it will be packed full of wedding planning, so I'm hoping to have many updates to share over the year. As for an update over the holidays, my mom and I went to Kirkland's today to get some autograph picture frames. Matt and I decided to have these signed by our guests instead of having a book so we can hang them in our house and see the signatures of everyone that was there to celebrate our wedding day. They are very beautiful and I'm so excited we got them (Thanks to my maid of honor, Maggie, for scoping these out!!)I also received a wedding planning book for Christmas that will help me organize all our plans and vendors. It includes a checklist for getting everything done on time and I'm looking forward to crossing some of those things off this year. My mom and I have set a mission to get one thing done a month....Stay tuned to see if we accomplish it!

Time Out for the Holidays

Sorry for such a long time between updates. There is nothing new to report on the wedding plans. My mom said she was browsing mother-of-the-bride dresses today but didn't see any she liked. She said she better start looking now for something pretty because the selection she saw was not making the cut. Again, glad we have a little under two years to get everything together!

As the holidays are now here, I will not be updating until after the 1st of the year unless something major comes up. This is my last week of classes, so I'm looking forward to heading home to spend the holidays with my family. This will be mine and Matt's first Christmas as an engaged couple.
Happy holidays everyone!

Check back after New Year's for new updates!

Unbroken Candles Arrive

After the disappointment of the candle shipment from Khol's last week, I am very happy to report that the new shipment of candles were packed much better and arrived almost completely undamaged. There were only 3 out of 53 broken this time, which is a huge improvement. Hopefully there won't be too many more obstacles or upsets in planning our wedding, but it's nice to know I have a great family and fiance to help and be there for support.

Broken Candles....Completely Broken

Well, last week was somewhat of a disappointment. We got our shipment of the monogram candle holders in and when I opened the box every single one was broken. They shipped all 53 of them in the same box with one sheet of bubble wrap layed on top of them. There was no packing in between them and the box was breaking apart because of the weight. Matt, my mom, and I took them back to Kohl's and returned them, then reordered them again. We asked the woman we talked with to put a note under shipping to package them in multiple packages and to wrap them with more bubble wrap in between them. I got on my email a couple days ago and had an email from Kohl's confirming our order, and I saw that yet again they have put all 53 in the same package. Hopefully they wrapped them each with bubble wrap, but I'm very doubtful. I don't know how you could think that putting 53 glass objects in a box together with nothing between them wouldn't result in them all being broken. I could ask an elementary student to do this task and they would even say that they would need to put something between them because they would break. I have been pretty relaxed about things, but this is stressing me out and is absolutely ridiculous. Bridezilla may come out if this next shipment is completely broken.....

The broken, damaged box they came in.

The one sheet of bubble wrap they put on top.

All of the candle holders completely broken, cracked, or chipped.

Centerpieces

Things were slow last week, but I finally have a new update! We have gathered all the centerpieces for the wedding! Over the weekend my mom and I were shopping at Khols when we saw these monogram candles. We started pulling out the letters to make CLARK and then pulled out all the remaining C's. The CLARK candles will sit in front of us on our table at the reception and the C's will be on the guest tables. We were only able to find 7 C's in the store, but we found them on Khols.com and ordered about 50 more. They were such a good deal, to get a monogramed candle holder with the candle already in it: perfect! We also found some white pumpkin candles at Khols that are going to be placed by the book, cake, food, etc. This ties in with our other centerpieces which are white pumpkins cut into baskets with flowers in them. My uncle is a farmer and is going to grow the white pumpkins for me. I've put a picture below to show what they will look like only we are going to cut the pumpkin into a basket and the flowers will be purple. I'm so excited to get all this stuff this weekend, and on sale!! I can just imagine what the reception is going to look like and I must say, I think it will be beautiful!


Monogram Candle Holders/Candles



White Pumpkin Candles



White Pumpkin Centerpieces (Basket Cut w/Purple Flowers)