At the request of Jennifer, I'll blog about my plans for the July 16th, 2011 (save the date!) wedding.
What have I done so far?
WELL - less than a week after Mark popped the question, I bought my wedding dress. On eBay. Used. A size too small. And it's perrrrrfect. I can't wait to be able to fit into it one day. It's a J. Crew dress, so it's simple and elegant and classic. Some might call it boring. And then I'd call them tacky.
We got our church! We'll be getting married in Mark's Presb. Church in Forest Grove. It's a beautiful one room church that was built in the 1800's sometime. Mark has some family buried there, his great-grand-dad was a pastor, and several of his family member have been married there, so there's lot of tradition, which I love. Plus, I'm going to try to ring the bells after the ceremony. I've always wanted to ring the bells.
We got our reception site! The Grand Lodge. We'll be at the Children's Cottage and have the tables set outside and the food inside away from any pesky summer bugs. It's also right across the way from The Yard House Pub Cigar Bar, how perfect is that? Too perfect.
Mark and I have started a Fitness Competition (to try to help me shrink to size 8 before the ceremony). I'm losing. Next!
I've started a guest book. I've gone through all of Mark's old family photo's and got some embarrassingly adorable kid pictures of him. While my older sister is in town next week, we'll do the same for me. I've got very grand plans for this guest book. Just you wait.
We picked out flowers. There will be blue flowers and red flowers and white flowers and monkey tails.
Our Save-The-Date magnets are almost done. Mark's chum, Reuben - who happens to be a graphic designer, designed them and they are awesome. I can't wait to get one up on our refrigerator.
I suppose I'll get into more detail about things later. We've got a good head start on the wedding planning. I wanted to reserve everything way in advance so I wouldn't have to compete with any other brides. Mission accomplished.
well first off, welcome back to blogger :)
ReplyDeleteit sounds like you have most of the work already done. lucky you got a whole year to plan !
most excellent post - welcome back, blog friend!
ReplyDeletei love everything you've done so far! you are probably one of the least stressed out brides i've known :-) kudos to you for having so many of the big ticket items checked off the list.
I've got my magnet on the frig it is perfect! I get to look at it every day multiple times.
ReplyDeleteYou two are such a beautiful/handsome couple!
Love the blog. Can't wait to see more.