tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45856814606936423442024-03-14T00:53:28.486-04:00I Can't Believe I'm Getting MarriedOne girl's quest to make it down the aisle.Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-9579941797937650102012-04-14T11:41:00.002-04:002012-04-14T11:41:30.149-04:0021<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">21 more days to go. I'm sort of having heart attacks over here, in a good, excited way, but also in a totally overwhelmed and stressed and freaking out sort of way. I only have TWENTY-ONE more days to finalize the EVENT OF MY LIFE. There are still so many little things to get done. Last night was the first night that I actually really couldn't fall asleep because I was just lying there, THINKING about every teeny tiny little detail still to be done! It almost feels like I'm back in school again, putting off some major research paper or huge photo project. Those feelings of, "I still have so much to do, i'll do it tomorrow" are plaguing me just like they did in school. If I could just get everything done and then relax for the next twenty days, that would be a dream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So you may be wondering just what, exactly, I am stressing over/ still have to do? Here is a brief list (in totally random order as thoughts pop into my over-excited brain):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Figure out some sort of table number decor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. Find a vest for Justin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. Find suspenders for all of the guys.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. Make sure all of the guys have their pants, and a white shirt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5. Figure out where the heck the custom ties we ordered are? Hopefully on their way asap.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6. Figure out what the do the last day of our honeymoon- i.e., purchase one more day of Disney park passes since we decided not to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7. Find jewelry to wear. Which is dumb how stressful this is to me because I am a weird girl and never wear jewelry but I feel like you have to wear something special at your wedding. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8. LOSE A FEW POUNDS just for good measure. Ugh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9. Figure out a timeline for the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10. Once we get all of the RSVP cards back we have like a week to plan out the seating arrangements. So *nudge nudge* please send back your RSVP cards asap!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">11. Figure out ceremony decor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Okay so you get the idea, the list goes on and on and on. Those are just a few things! I guess this is the first whiny post. All of the others have been all "blah blah blah I'M SO EXCITED YOU GUYS" but now this is me starting to lose my cool. But everything is going to be okay! Just have to keep in mind that all of the little things that don't get done won't matter in the long-run. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Caitlin</span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-17307926492155603272012-04-05T08:53:00.001-04:002012-04-05T08:57:28.713-04:00One More Month<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One more month until I marry Justin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is this still real?! I cannot write (or type) just how excited that I am. It's totally surreal. I hope that on May 5th I can be brought down from Cloud 9. I don't want to float away!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've been counting down for days but for some reason when I woke up this morning, the fact that today is the one month mark did not pop into my head. Yet, when I got up, I immediately turned on episodes of Say Yes to the Dress and went to the Watters website to look at my dress because I was feeling Wedding Fever. I haven't felt that for about a month now. I had stopped looking at wedding blogs, pinning things onto my pinterest boards, obsessing over things. It had calmed down for the past month. But it's back in full force! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In an attempt to keep myself from just sitting here and babbling on and on about how excited I am, I will share some photos from our wedding shower, which happened on March 31st. My amazing future big sis/ matron-of-honor Becky and my amazing future mother-in-law Sharon put together the entire event and it was wonderful! A room filled with amazing amazing deserts and incredibly generous loved ones- a perfect night!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-36186295242752935722012-03-23T22:49:00.001-04:002012-03-23T22:52:07.113-04:00Polished<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Things are looking a little different around here eh? I won a pretty blog template giveaway via a contest held by one of my very favorite blogs, <a href="http://www.delightfully-tacky.com/">Delightfully Tacky</a>! The fancy new template is made by Sarah of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/xosillygrrl?ref=seller_info">xoSillygrrl</a> on Etsy. I was so excited to win this as she just so happened to have a template with pretty bunting across the top which just so happens to be sort of a reoccurring theme in my wedding. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So! It's March 23rd. Where are we? Well, it's almost midnight, so, it's almost 42 days to go. Forty-two more days to plan the event of our lives. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Justin and I finally went shopping for his attire. We found some pants, isn't that exciting?! So far he only has pants and shoes. Ties are on the way. Finding the right vest is proving to be more difficult than one would think. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've been doing a bit of wedding crafting on the weekends, slowly plugging away at things. Stamping our little initialed heart onto things, writing place cards and making little paper cones out of old book pages. The old book that has sacrificed itself to the cause is called Run Sheep Run (you can't even google it, google doesn't even know about this book) and is something that I picked up in a thrift store once because it was a pretty teal color. As I've been sitting around ripping out it's pages I've almost wished I'd read it first. The snippets i've read sound kinda good and now I feel bad. Books are sacred!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've also been harnessing a lot of brain power into planning our Honeymoon. Well, the main part of it is taken care of, thanks to Justin's amazing parents giving us our trip to Disney World. But I've been agonizing (okay maybe not quite <i>agonizing </i>but I did stay up one night until like 1am doing research) over which restaurants to make reservations at, what to do, etc etc etc. We're staying at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, which I'd been flip-flopping over until we watched some youtube videos of people sitting on their balconies watching giraffes and zebras go wandering by. I think my problem is that there is just an overwhelming amount of choices. I want to stay at every hotel, go to every restaurant, ride every ride...you get the idea. I keep trying to change my mind about things but thankfully I have Justin to reel me in. I think that I've also been having this same problem with the wedding planning. There is just an overwhelming amount of options, it's difficult to settle with just one choice. Can't I have multiple reception tents set up, each with a different decor theme? Can't I change my shoes 23 times during the day? Making wedding decisions is HARD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think my next post I am going to talk about all of the weird wedding-related dreams that I have had over the past several months. I hope this is normal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Caitlin</span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-90481258054119662712012-03-21T09:42:00.002-04:002012-03-21T09:42:41.628-04:00maintenance<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bear with me while the blog undergoes a little makeover. Having some technical issues at the moment!</span><div>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In other news- 45 days to go!</span></div>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-78877389227075548532012-03-01T23:47:00.004-05:002012-03-01T23:49:40.891-05:00Organizing<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just a quick note to mention that I've updated my little list of links over there to the right ---------></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll try to keep a nice little list of all the vendors that we have used throughout the planning of our wedding, from everything to the food down to the fancy tape I used on the boutonnieres. I've also put a link on there to my Pinterest page which has proven to be massively useful as far as gathering ideas and remembering things to purchase, etc. (thank you Robin for showing me the light!). Hopefully this may be helpful if there are any brides-to-be reading my blog... or for people who are as obsessed with Etsy as I am, you can see what sellers I have used. Happy (almost) Friday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Caitlin</span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-61792587589588089972012-03-01T10:16:00.003-05:002012-03-01T10:18:36.746-05:00Sixty-Five and Counting<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sixty-five days to go! Some exciting things have been happening lately. First we finally chose a ceremony officiant that was recommended to us by our caterer. His name is Captain Ron Gonzales (you can find his contact info <a href="http://www.annapolis.org/index.asp?pageid=107">here</a> if you scroll down to Wedding Officiants), we met with him last week and he is going to be a perfect fit for us. We had put off finding an officiant for a long time because we were so unsure of how to go about mixing our beliefs, but I feel so much better about it now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Earlier this week we also finally went to have our wedding rings made! This was another thing that we put off for ages because we had no idea what we wanted. I knew that I wanted to keep with the theme of my engagement ring and have something old, preferably from one of our families. It was just a matter of finding the perfect bits and pieces to make up the perfect rings. Justin's ring is going to be one of his dad's old wedding bands that no longer fits. We're just going to have it fitted and polished, and then of course have something special engraved on the inside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As for my ring, it's going to made up of three things that are being melted down and combined. The first ring once belonged to Justin's dad's grandmother and was her high school ring from 1927. Her name was Willa Theadosha, how cool is that?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My dad's old gold tooth! So I know most people are probably thinking "Okay, well, that's weird." But it's perfect! I wanted to have a piece from my family included in the ring and we didn't really have any old rings that worked until my dad suggested his old gold tooth. I love it. It makes me laugh every time. And when I have that ring on my finger I will always have a perfect reminder of my family (and my dad's old gold tooth). Perfection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last bit of news, we picked up the invitations yesterday from <a href="http://www.mypaperinthepark.com/">Paper in the Park</a>! They look SO good! Everyone at Paper in the Park did such an amazing job and were so helpful and fantastic to work with. They really were invaluable in helping to make my vision come alive. I started addressing them asap when I got home yesterday, we're a month behind getting them in the mail!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-47744564536496495032012-02-19T13:15:00.000-05:002012-02-19T13:41:32.949-05:00A Wee Update<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Basically what's been going on lately at the wedding-front has been a massive whirlwind of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/">Etsy</a> purchases. For those that don't know (and I'm not sure how you don't...) Etsy is the mecca motherland online marketplace of vintage, handmade and all things crafting supplies. Let me do a re-cap of what we've ordered from various Etsy sellers so far: my bridal headpiece, rubber stamps for the save-the-date cards, striped washi tape for the boutonnieres, feathers and other materials for the boutonnieres, supplies for the candy bar, pretty striped straws, the men's ties, place cards, and the cake topper! And I'm sure there will be many more orders to come. What did brides do before Etsy? What did brides to before the internet? Before Google? I can't imagine planning a wedding without it (the internet, that is). Imagine having to use a <i>PHONE BOOK.</i> I get chills just thinking about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have my next dress fitting at the end of March which means that I have another month to stress about trying to lose a bit of weight in time. Justin and I have embarked on a nightly exercise regimen and are trying, TRYING to eat healthier. The day before my next fitting is our wedding shower, which I am so excited about! My matron-of-honor and future mother-in-law have been planning away at it, it's going to be a perfectly yummy dessert-fest. I'll also be going in for a trial hair and makeup run pretty soon. Why hasn't my hair grown out into beautiful long wavy locks yet? Am I going to have to get extensions? Extensions kind of make me laugh. Plus, they get sewn onto your head and that doesn't sound like anything I'm interested in having done to my scalp. Also, I don't like fake hair. Will I be wearing fake hair on my wedding day? Only time will tell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-74653521328080673982012-02-05T12:46:00.001-05:002012-02-05T12:46:33.620-05:00INSANITY<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I AM GETTING MARRIED IN THREE MONTHS YOU GUYS. THIS IS CRAZY. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wow! Three months exactly. Late last summer it felt like it would take ages to get down to these last final months. I can't believe it's almost here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday Justin's wonderful mama hosted a bridal party tea that included myself, my mom, my matron-of-honor Becky (Justin's sister) and my bridesmaids, Robin and Megan. Oh, and of course special appearances by my favorite flower girls in the whole world! We had cucumber sandwiches (yum!) which I had never before eaten and was very excited about. So English! So fancy and proper! Sitting around sipping tea and munching on dainty snacks discussing wedding plans was just what I needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For about the past month (literally, all of January), I've been feeling pretty under-the-weather. First I had a cold, then suffered from some weird freakish horrible lower back pain, then developed bronchitis, and now am trudging through pneumonia. It's been fun, really! It's also been difficult to stay in wedding mode and be excited and giddy like I have been. All I've wanted to do is just rest and mope and cough...lots and lots of coughing. Both Justin and I have been in the market for better jobs and I've been continuing to volunteer weekly at the SPCA. So, combine being sick and sore for a month, stressing about work etc. and planning my wedding...all of that adds up to one very over-capacitated brain! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So as of today, at the three month mark, I am vowing to myself that things will only go up from here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Every time I visit the farm, I get more and more excited. Slowly being able to visualize everything and getting plans set in stone feels so great. We got the tent location figured out, different from my original vision but it will be great. One thing I am a little concerned about is the rather long walk I will have down the aisle. From the doors I will be stepping out of, to the trees we will be standing in front of, it's a bit of a hike! I haven't got an exact measurement, but it's long. Okay so it may be a slightly awkward, drawn-out and dramatic aisle walk, but that's fine with me. Plus there are stairs, so I will be nervous about tripping, yeesh!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're just about through having the invitations made, I can't wait for everyone to see them! I think they will really be a perfect precedent to the day and set the right tone. I hate to use the term "quirky" because that's become such an overused buzzword, but it's true! This ain't gonna be no prime rib and green beans wedding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Does every bride think that their wedding is going to be so much better and more unique than anyone else's? Probably so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In other news, I've been doing a lot of thrifting for various-sized mason jars. The bookcase in our guest room is quickly filling up. I will (with the help of my bridesmaids, mom and Justin's mom) be doing my own flowers. As in not just making our own bouquets, but putting together all of the centerpieces. I'm SO excited! There are certainly many people who raise brows at the prospect of DIY'ing your own wedding flowers but it doesn't scare me! They are just flowers after all, they're already beautiful by themselves. I want to be as hands-on as I can with my wedding. It has to be special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In other, other news, I picked up some freebie wedding magazines recently (I long got over the wedding magazine-buying hype first experienced immediately after becoming engaged). Most of these magazines contain some form of a "Wedding Day Checklist" listing in monthly order things that you should be doing (booking a caterer, having dress fittings, ordering invitations, etc). One magazine in particular had a pretty interesting checklist. I think it was actually an ad, but still, behold:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And on that note, I'll leave you to ponder the current state of our society's standard of beauty [hint: it's absurd].</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Caitlin</span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-24713286168908846332012-01-14T16:40:00.000-05:002012-01-14T16:42:16.068-05:00The First Dress Fitting<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well today was my first dress fitting. It wasn't so bad! I was so excited and also nervous. What if the size they ordered was too small? It was fine! I will have two more fittings after today, and then it will be all done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Two of my three bridesmaids came with my mom and I, along with Justin's mom and his two nieces, our flower girls. It was definitely a good girly time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-84677929478845139642011-12-31T15:55:00.002-05:002011-12-31T15:55:21.406-05:00Real Quick<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have to post this little video that I just came across, I want to remember to watch it again (and again, and again), so much beauty in those 44 seconds! I found it on <a href="http://bleubirdvintage.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/a-little-wedding-day-peek.html">Bluebird Vintage</a> which is fast becoming one of my favorite blogs <i>ever</i>. If I can say it without sounding creepy, I would like to live inside their world too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/32550391">James and Aubrey Sneep Peep</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/geoffboothby">Geoff Boothby / Landshark</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-78521097069643769442011-12-31T11:38:00.000-05:002011-12-31T11:39:15.893-05:00A New Year's Eve Retrospective<div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Got engaged to my best friend and soul mate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Get married to my best friend and soul mate (and get a snazzy new last name in the process!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Caitlin</span></div>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-9546622640611701282011-12-24T16:15:00.000-05:002011-12-24T16:16:47.769-05:00A Christmas Retrospective<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can't believe tomorrow is Christmas! I've been saying since Justin and I got engaged that I couldn't WAIT for Christmas to come and go so that it could officially be full-out EXTREME WEDDING PLANNING MODE time. In just a little under two weeks we will officially be at the 4 month mark. Four months! This is insane! Because really, in my head, I think of it as 3 months, because the month of April is just going to be like one big giant exciting fun-fest. How am I going to sleep at night in April? How am I going to do ANYTHING in April?! Is it normal to be so unabashedly excited about one's wedding? Like, we're talking six year old-on-Christmas-morning-getting-Barbies-and-a-new-puppy excited. THAT'S VERY EXCITED. I AM USING LOTS OF CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE I AM SO EXCITED. This will be our last Christmas as an unmarried pair. My last Christmas as a Smith! Next Christmas I will be Mrs. Gore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last Christmas Justin and I were just finally figuring ourselves out. We've come a long way since then, and an even longer way since our first Christmas in 2006. We had only been dating for a month or so. We didn't spend Christmas day with one another because we just weren't at that stage yet. I remember Christmas shopping together and we just bought one another our gifts and gave them to each other right there (I guess we weren't serious enough for a formal gift exchange?). We were a little awkward, but that's okay! Justin bought me a black shiny purse and Scrabble...and I can't remember what I got him (oops). And now, here we are, so many years later, a few years older and much, much wiser (so glad I don't wear all of that horrible heavy black eyeliner any more). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, Justin, if you read this, Merry Christmas and I love you and I can't wait for everything that is to come!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Merry Christmas everyone and have a wonderful New Year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[note- How many times can one use the word CHRISTMAS within two paragraphs?! This must be a record.]</span>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-80487445883096921982011-12-14T10:30:00.004-05:002011-12-14T10:35:58.489-05:00Mrs G.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A checklist of things that I am excited about (in no particular order):</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- My 25th birthday is coming up in a just a few days, the 18th. I'm not normally very excited about my birthday anymore but 25 seems like a nice age to be. Plus I'm going to see the Nutcracker which I have always wanted to do! Having a birthday so close to Christmas used to be fun when I was little, getting so many presents in the month of December! But now it's just kind of another day, sometimes things can get a little lost in all of the holiday hullaballoo. It will be nice to go do something special with all (most) of my loved ones.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Earlier this week I got a little card in the mail from Betsy Robinson's Bridal Salon that my dress is in! It's finally time to make an appointment to go for my first fitting, something that I am excited about and also a little nervous for. I just hope it fits good!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Justin and I got our first very own Christmas tree! It's so cute in all of its haphazard glory. We're waiting for the cats to knock it over but so far they've been very good boys. I can't wait until next Christmas when we will be a married couple!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- Finally getting started on wedding crafty things! I've been waiting till the new year to start doing all of that stuff, making little decorations and things. I can't wait!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- My hair growing out. Is this a weird one? I've had some dreams recently that my hair is long again and then I wake up and it's still stuck at this awkward not-quite shoulder-length style. I want long wavy hair for my wedding, why is it growing so slow! Sometimes I think maybe I want to cut it all off again (like, ALL off), but I would probably regret it. Who knows though, I think a pixie cut would be cute with my dress.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I guess that's it for now, aside from the obvious things of being totally extremely excited about GETTING MARRIED and being MR. AND MRS. GORE. I just started a new job working with kids in an elementary school and right now of course they call me Ms. Smith. I've been thinking how cool it will be when I get to tell them all to call me Mrs. Gore. Or Mrs. G! Crazy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If being engaged is this much fun, I can only imagine how much fun being married is. For one, I'll finally get to call Justin "Hubby". People probably hate that term but I like it. Is that dumb to be excited about? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lately I've been going crazy collecting ideas on my <a href="http://pinterest.com/jwednesday7/">Pinterest</a> page. Gathering pictures of decor, food, bridesmaid stuff, accessories, etc. Pinterest is pretty much the best thing ever. Here's a little selection of some of my favorite things right now...</span><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.stylemepretty.com/gallery/photo/101156">Style Me Pretty</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Justin and I want to have some lawn games at our wedding for kids (both young and old) to play. I love bean-bag tosses (I refuse to call it corn holing because that just sounds gross) and this is the cutest idea I've seen with the silhouettes painted on!<br /><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.arrowandapple.com/weddings/">Arrow & Apple</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Anyone who knows me knows that photography is my "thing" and I have a special place in my heart for the plastic-fantastic camera that is the Holga. The dreamy lo-fi images produced by their little plastic lenses are some of my favorites ever taken. I would love to have a bunch of Holgas lying around on tables for guests to take pictures with! However, disposable cameras may be a safer (and cheaper) bet, plus they still have the look of the plastic lens that I like.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">via <a href="http://www.stylemepretty.com/gallery/photo/395075">Style Me Pretty</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I LOVE this guest book idea! I've been trying to find something unique enough to suit my tastes other than the typical and literal "guest book" or having everyone sign a big photo mat or something. This is so suited to me, having everyone write little notes on a postcard! I JUST so happen to collect vintage postcards and just so happen to have a hefty little stash of them right now. Perfect? I think so. I know that Justin and I would have fun sitting around after the wedding reading everyone's notes. And how pretty would they all look in an album or collaged on a wall?</span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today I've just been thinking about various little details, such as cake toppers and boutonnieres (that word is tricky to spell). All of the little things that put the icing on the proverbial [wedding] cake, so to speak. Things that I will agonize over and most people will not look twice at on the day of. I think really, the only thing anyone actually cares about and remembers is the dress. And the food and the music and the flowers. </span><div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First up, I have to share this video of Elsie's wedding from her amazing blog, <a href="http://abeautifulmess.typepad.com/my_weblog/">A Beautiful Mess</a>. As soon as I came across her blog about a month ago and saw the amazing video made at her wedding, my brain was exploding with ideas. It's exactly the kind of feel I want, completely personal, nothing is a cliche. You can tell that every little detail is a reflection of the couple themselves. It doesn't have to look like the weddings idealized in popular culture to feel like a wedding (long white dress, veil, white flowers, black suits, glimmering reception hall, steak and potatoes...you get the idea). Enough talk, here's the video:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Swoon, right?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And some other things... (okay, this took me a really long time to put together because I'm bad and have been saving pictures for a long time now without making a note of where I found each picture...blogging 101 right.)</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A few weeks ago Justin and our four-legged daughters went out for a little photo shoot with my lovely friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elizabeth-Rodenhizer-Photography/162846683741153">Liz</a>. The idea was sort of a joint venture, we wanted some engagement photos to submit an announcement to the newspaper, and also because Liz and I are starting up a little photography business called Big Paw Little Paw (there'll be more on that later...)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love kitschy stuff, garishly colored stuff, knick knacks from the 60s and 70s. I've discovered a newfound love for Irregular Choice shoes, they're absolutely ridiculous. Some of them have clear lucite engraved heels, which is something that a couple of years ago I would've thought was absolutely hideous. They're all in beautiful vibrant colors and full of texture and tiny little special details that make them possibly the <i>coolest</i> shoes ever. These are just a few of my favorites, and ones that I would like to wear in the wedding. Right now I'm really feeling those silver Marie Antoinettes at the bottom right.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's something about a bride wearing oxfords that I love. Maybe it's because it feels like you've stepped right out of the 1920s, but whenever I wear my plain old brown oxfords, I feel special. They're my special shoes! As soon as I saw these pink and white beauties on Modcloth, it was l-o-v-e.</span><br />
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<div><small><a href="http://www.polyvore.com/pretty_pink_wedding/set?.embedder=501232&.svc=copypaste&id=38971907">Pretty Pink Wedding</a> by <a href="http://jwednesday.polyvore.com/?.embedder=501232&.svc=copypaste">jwednesday</a> featuring <a href="http://www.polyvore.com/round_toe_shoes/shop?query=round+toe+shoes">round toe shoes</a></small></div>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-19880974023974271202011-10-27T16:46:00.000-04:002011-10-27T16:46:59.581-04:00A Few Little Details<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I played around today taking some pictures of my ring and also some of the [many] glass bottles we have been collecting for the wedding. A little sneak peek of sorts...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These puppies are from <a href="http://www.bhldn.com/the-shop_shoes/stratosphere-mary-janes">BHLDN</a> and would set me back $342. They are possibly my ultimate dream wedding shoe. <i>Sigh</i>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Caitlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05403964132881773985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585681460693642344.post-5752744781539846102011-10-07T20:09:00.000-04:002011-10-07T20:09:08.281-04:00Things Are Coming Along...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So. What's new in my little world of wedding planning these days? Well for one, I found out that Crate & Barrel sucks (sort of). J and I thought we would make a third and final registry there for some fancy nice things. Wrong! We only scanned twelve things in the store and within a week I'd deleted the registry entirely because everything was just crap or overly priced crap. They even gave us a free "gift" for registering which was comprised of a pink bag filled with mostly tissue paper and useless ads and an ugly little rectangular glass vase. As the guy handed it to us he said, "We're giving out a million dollar gift card in these but you probably didn't get one."</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh, okay, thanks! As J and I walked out of the store we both said that even if we had won that million dollar Crate & Barrel shopping spree, we probably wouldn't have spent any of it.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Okay so enough about that. We've been talking to our DJ, <a href="http://djatticus.com/">DJ Atticus </a>, whom I am super stoked about! It was important to us that we have an actual DJ who mixes and knows how to read a crowd as opposed to just somebody up there hitting play.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday I put in an order at <a href="http://www.mypaperinthepark.com/">Paper in the Park</a> for our save-the-date cards! Paper in the Park is such an adorable little place and the people are great. Plus they have jars of candy. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Aaaand finally, I'll be meeting with the flower people later this month, <a href="http://www.locoflo.com/index.htm">Local Color Flowers</a>. I was so excited to find them! I didn't want typical floral arrangements from the typical florist. I searched and searched for a place to buy locally grown buckets of various cut flowers and found this place. And it's in Baltimore, right under my thumb! I just want to throw bunches of mismatched flowers into all of the oddball jars i've been collecting. So enough talking, next post is going to be all pictures!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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