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Chit Chat
charcoalandblush
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Wedding chit chat!
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Just ordered our invites today! Woo! Got the proofs yesterday, DF and I checked them out and also got the seal of approval from my mom and his. I love them. I'm so excited for them to be here. Based on our estimated delivery date, we'll have about three weeks between when we get there and when we need to send them. That should be enough time to address them all without giving ourselves a terrible hand cramp.
We also picked out suits and got DF measured on Monday. I'm kind of kicking myself for picking grey bridesmaids dresses. Next to the grey suits, the color just looks... off. I guess they have some blue-green undertones, because next to a grey suit, they just end up looking blue. But there aren't really other suit options that work. DF doesn't want something less traditional like tan or brown. I'm not a fan of navy. And our wedding is at 5pm, so black is a no-go too. Oh well. Annoying, but if this is the worst thing that happens at our wedding, we are very very lucky.
What wedding to-dos have you tackled lately? What's coming up for you?
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Oh, I take that back we finalized the guest list. But that was just a few phone calls and such.
And I agree that "no tuxes before 6pm" is utterly ridiculous.
Hair trial/dress fitting - scheduled for July
I've finalized a ton of things in the past week, which is good. Catering, bar, cake, flowers, rentals, hair/nails, and photography are all tucked!
Here's what's on my mind next:
- final (hopefully) dress fitting is tomorrow
- shoes, I have been putting off getting shoes because no one will see my feet and I really don't care
- rsvp date on invites is this weekend, so next week I need to chase after a few outstanding rsvps
- seating chart
- DIY projects still in progress: favors, signs for ceremony, table numbers
- finish my vows!
FI is working on finalizing our reception playlist and booking hotel rooms for the honeymoon.
Holy shit you guys I just realized my wedding is in 4 months (9/12) and we've been engaged for over 3 months. So uhhh yeah, we're getting engagement pictures done on June 9th, I booked that this week. We weren't going to do any other than maybe having a friend do some shots but the photographer included a 30 minute session for free. The hounds will be involved.
Umm lets see, I need to book a meeting w/ the caterer just to nail down stuff like # of waitstaff and timeframes. Also need to do a meeting at the venue with my MOH (who is also acting as my wedding plannerish, her choice) to take some measurements and discuss layout since it's pretty much DIY.
Also need to meet with MOH, who has also assigned herself the task of making my invitations (she also did the STDs), so we can go over designs etc so she has plenty of time to make them. I told her she did not have to, and I was happy to hire somebody etc, but she said this her gift to me, so that's nice.
I think the only real outstanding items is finding a DJ (have tasked FI with this and he's slacking, but I'm find with just having an ipod if we have to), and to find someone to do my hair and makeup. Dress arrives in July.
I was in the "4 months out" camp one year ago....can't believe how fast it all went by!! Good luck to you all and don't sweat the small stuff!
OP, could you add a sash to the BM dresses to give them a pump of color like yellow or red or whatever? Maybe they would look less "eh" to you.
Twinsies! (I just made myself barf a little saying that)
Yeah we ended up with this date because it was pretty much the last date available this year at the venue that wasn't in October (hunting season/might end up with a blizzard because it's Colorado season). Wasn't quite thinking I'd plan a wedding in 7 months but well, we're gettin' er done. I am SO thankful for my awesome MOH, I'd be screwed without her.
We got engaged last march and wanted to get married Sept 2014, but as we are planning from a different province, we figured we shouldnt stress ourselves out by trying to plan it in 6 months.