Wedding Planning Progress

Hi World, hopefully no one has forgotten about me since i have been completely absent from a lot of things lately. Wedding planning is CONSUMING me, which actually for the for the first time I feel like I can say honestly. Before this weekend everything seemed so abstract, and everything seemed like A LOT to do that it overwhelmed me. This made me feel more stresses and anxious than any other emotion, and this week i feel much more excited.

And I think it's because.... I FOUND MY DRESS!!!

My mom and sister came in town this weekend to help me, and hopefully have my sister pick our bridesmaid dresses too. Well, it was much more stressful than i would have thought because my sister is a 'no frills kind of gal' which made me a little hesitant. And actually, i LOVED a LOT of dresses. SO many dresses were beautiful, is there such thing as an ugly wedding dress? Not that i found. I would have been perfectly happy with A LOT of dresses i tried on, but only one made my mom cry... BIG time. She didnt have that reaction with any other dress, and that was the dress i got. I am finding I am always going into my picture folder and taking a peak at the pictures we took of me in it. I do love it!! Except the dress i ordered will be slightly different-- it will be white (I am pictured in ivory). It will now take 6 months to come in. booooo Now i just have no idea if i am supposed to get a tailor now because they get busy if not reserved or what I am supposed to do?

I wish i wasn't so ignorant. I wish I had a better idea of what goes with what, how things are supposed to be planned and what not. I picked our some bridesmaid dresses, and D didn't like a lot of them because she is a little curvier... but we did pick one we both agreed on. (pardon the pic, I am sure D doesn't think she looks good but I think she looks just fine)

We found it at David's bridal so that means my bridesmaid can order in their respective cities (which is everywhere). This dress is black-- i want them to be 'lapis', but you get the point. Now my dress is A-line so i think it matches. But my mom is still giving me options because I guess I could find one that 'matched' better on top because my doesn't go with that.... but i have no idea how to pick that. ANd does it really makes a different in pictures? I wish their was an instruction manual.

This week I also made appointments with some bakers and we met with our firsy on Tuesday-- and it was SO fun!! Matt pretty much designed out cake (with my help of course) and i was SO excited that he had an opinion!!! In fact, i LOVED that he had an opinion. And this lady was SO reasonable, her cost/slice was one of the lowest and she doesnt charge for any of the frills. SO we picked out a four tiered cake with pillars in between, and then 2 two-tiered cakes on either side of the BIG tiered cakes connected by off shoots- that matt likes to call escalators-- and we even have a fountain in the middle. It was reeeally neat! The only thing is i have a weird desire to want to cut the bottom middle cake, instead of one of the side cakes. But the baker said it might be difficult for pictures, but maybe i am just over-analyzing it?
O ya, and one more thing about the 'escalators' is we thought of getting little people that look like our wedding party on these escalators and then a bride/groom at the top of the cake.... oo i thought it would be so cute!!

So needless to say my mind is working now!! And i even asked one of my friends to be my 'very important point of contact.' This point was really driven home on Tuesday when our baker told us all these scenarios when you need someone who is not the bride, or the mother of the bride, or anyone in the wedding party, to be able to make last minute decision, ensure everything is arranged properly, so important logistics things. I was SO please one of my friends offered to help me!

So now, my primary objecitves are baker and florist... and to start relaxing and having fun. Now that I finally have my dress, it reeeally does seem real:)