66 Days Until our Wedding: Important Announcement :)

Today I picked up our invitations from the print shop.

Whoa.

That's right, you heard me...invitations to my own wedding.

72 Days Until Our Wedding: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you read the title of this post????


Do you know what that means????


I AM GETTING MARRIED IN LESS THAN THREE MONTHS.


whoa. *deep breaths*

So basically, I am now...

And I feel like I am going to fall apart at any moment.



So many of my nights are spent like this...

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Sorry, that was really needed.  Ugh.  I just feel so stressed and overwhelmed and like nothing will get done and it will all fall apart.

:(

However, I did find this little picture today and it made me feel better...

So maybe I'll just use all this anxiety to my advantage.

Meh.

The end.

86 Days Until Our Wedding: Dreams Come True :)

This is the story of a girl....

who had a rather large appetite for pretty things :)

so pretty :)

One of the most important things to me when I began to plan this wedding was my wedding dress and how I would look on our wedding day. Silly, I know, but if all of our friends and family are going to be looking at me all day, I better look and feel good about myself.  And I knew I wanted a couture gown that would wow everyone and I wanted to wear something fantastic in my hair. When I began to shop for my wedding dress, my wonderful fiance offered to pay for it...and told me I could get whatever I wanted.  Oh my, what wonderful words those are.  And I even decided to be good.  I wasn't going to even look at dresses that cost over $1500.  And when I found my beautiful dress I was even more pleased that it only cost $1400 dollars.  But somehow my silly wedding addled brain forgot about taxes and it ended up costing $1700 dollars.  Quite a shock to me. (and probably a bit of a shock to my poor sweetheart) I was even fortunate that the bridal shop threw in a veil.  I decided from then I would just make my hair piece and not spend anymore money.

Enter Emici Bridal.

Oh My Goodness.  From the minute I found Emici Bridal accessories from one of the wedding blogs I follow, I knew I had to have one.  Her pieces are so amazing.  Beautiful, delicate, and far lovelier than anything I have created.  And oh so expensive (not saying they aren't worth it, considering the amazing materials she uses)  I simply couldn't afford to purchase one of them to wear on my wedding day.  Alas but a girl can dream....

And lucky for me, Marie, the designer of Emici Bridals likes to give away her work!

I couldn't believe my luck, six months ago, when I entered the first Emici giveaway on Style Me Pretty.  I was sooo desperate to win.  Unfortunately, I did not. :(  But this wasn't my last chance.  I followed Emici on Facebook, on Twitter, hoping for any contest that I could enter to win something, anything, knowing that her lovely hairpieces were what I needed to complete my wedding day look.  And finally...

Lucky me...I finally won!!!

My diligence paid off a few weeks ago, when I couldn't sleep and wound up on Twitter.  Emici was giving away another one of her beautiful pieces!!

And I won!

I seriously couldn't feel any more thrilled or blessed.  I am so excited that I get to wear this on my wedding day: (Sorry for the yucky pictures, my camera is dead so I had to use my phone!)

The packaging was so lovely I didn't want to open it!

So pretty!

The Swarovski Topaz crystals are so pretty!

I am so happy :)

It's silly to want to feel like a princess, or something like that, but this is my wedding day.  And I am very glad that it's coming true.

89 Days Until Our Wedding: My Brooch Bouquet!

A while back I posted about making a brooch bouquet...and it's finished!!!  It's by far my longest, most difficult wedding project to date.  I am so grateful to all the people who bought, gave and located all the wonderful brooches.  I am forever in your debt for my wonderful wedding keepsake!  Now on to pictures!

all of my supplies gathered up

Twisted up and ready to wrap up

about halfway done at this point

I had so many brooches...I'm so grateful to everyone!

I actually broke a few of them in the beginning...it was very upsetting 

Last steps...flowers, ribbon and putting them together!

The finished product!

I still want to tweak it, but overall I'm pretty happy!

I'm really happy with how it turned out. It has a very vintage feel to it.  I'm so glad I chose to do this over a traditional bouquet!

91 Days Until Our Wedding: My Wonderful Wedding Shower

My wedding shower was two weeks ago...I know I promised to write sooner, but as I'm sure you've figured out by now, I'm a bit of a lazy blogger.

Now before I continue, did you notice that we only have 91 days until my wedding?? In fact, it is actually three months to the day until I walk down the aisle to my sweetheart. I am so excited/nervous/giddy/happy/sweaty/scared/thrilled.  I still have so much left to do and so very little time.  But I know in the end, it'll be the best day of my life.

Now my shower.  It was so wonderful.  My future Mother-in-Law Nokie, her Sister Sissy (who let us have it at her wonderful home), my best friends Sharee and Misty, and Sharee's mom Debbie were all responsible for throwing me such a great shower. Several members of Devon's family showed up and even though it was a small party, we still had such a good time.

All the wonderful food.  The ladies did such a great job.

Devon's adorable Aunt Madeline.  She's such a sweetheart.

My bridal shower guestbook doggy :)

Mrs. Debbie and Misty.

From Left to right: Aunt Sissy, Aunt Madeline, Aunt Norma and Aunt Carolyn

  

Misty took care of writing down all the gifts for me.

They are so sweet.

So many gifts...our friends and family over blessed us :)

My Mother in Law Nokie, Myself and Devon in the kitchen

In pretty much all the pictures I am making crazy faces. I'm not really sure why :)

Devon's mom brought this chocolate fountain and it was so, so good.  I wish we could have it at the wedding.

Can you believe I have been friends with both of these girls for over a decade?

I am so excited you can't even tell those are salt and pepper shakers I am holding...I'm telling you, I make crazy faces.

This quilt is so neat. Devon's Aunt Madeline had our names and wedding date embroidered on it.  So cute

My wonderful in-laws to be :)

The shower was such a blast and so was the bachelorette party.  We (Sharee, Misty and I) went to Galveston and went out dancing.  We met up with another bachelorette party who, I kid you not, was having a "Harry Potter Raveclaw" themed bachelorette party.  It was so cute that her friends threw her a nerd party and that they adopted us as part of their group. We danced all night, did to many shots and ended up in the hotel pool around four a.m.  I got so cold that when we got back to the room, I got in the bathtub to warm up and wouldn't get out.  Misty and Sharee thought I was going to sleep in there.  I know, not the craziest bachelorette party, but at this point I am way past my super crazy days.

All in all it was a really wonderful weekend!