My First Fitting

I had my first dress fitting this morning and of course I arrived ten minutes early. When I walked into the seamstress shop there was already another bride dressed in her gorgeous wedding gown for her first fitting, I immediately smiled at her and told her she looked beautiful, she really did. It was as if we had an instant bond as we both knew what each other was going through. I waited my turn and again I couldn't wait to slip into my dress with all the trimmings.

I came out of the fitting room and at the same time a man and his adorable daughter around the age of three or four were walking into the shop for alterations. I overheard the little girl say to her father "Daddy, that lady is wearing such a pretty dress". He replied "Yes honey, she is getting married." My heart melted right then and there.

Judi pinned me up, showed me what my bustle would eventually look like, and voila, I was done. It was much easier than I had anticipated. As I left the shop, I had such an amazing feeling of excitement and now know that we are that much closer to the day!

How did you feel after your first fitting?!

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Take My Breath Away

For the first time last night I finally had the chance to try on my dress with all of my matching "flair" (sans jewelry). When I looked in the full length mirror and please don't take this the wrong way but I literally took my breath away. There I was in the full package of what I would look like on my wedding day (shoes, veil, purse, dress). It became so real and got me even more excited. For one day, I will be allowed to look and feel like a total princess, especially since my dress, as my sister quoted is "Balls to the Wall".

Did you ever surprise yourself by the way you felt in your wedding day garb?

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It's Time to Unveil the Invitations!!

Truly, way back when, I was completely dreading the invitation process, but I can't tell you how lucky I was when in the beginning of my invitation search I accidentally stumbled upon The Paper Persuasions website all by accident and boy, I can't tell you how ecstatic I am that I did. I had sent them an email letting them know my wedding colors and an idea of what I was looking for. A few days later the amazing Stephanie had written me back and referred me to an invitation on their Etsy site. It was love at first site. I kept the link saved to my favorites and when it was time, I placed the order for a sample. It was the ONE and ONLY sample invitation I ever ordered and when I received it, I knew these were going to be our wedding invitations.


Etsy Navy and Blue Blooms
I can't even begin to explain how easy my invitation process was. For me, it was effortless. Stephanie was amazing to work with, just amazing. She did all of the printing of guest addresses on my outside envelopes, all of the return address printing on the RSVP envelopes and it was all included in the final cost as well as shipping costs.

Here are my invitations, they don't look nearly as nice because I tried to white out our names and addresses so they are a bit skewed. My version is a tad different as I added the inner silver envelope which I had ordered from Paper and More and printed each invited guest on the front. I believe the inner envelope added a whole new element to the invitations.









Many have complimented how beautiful they are, and I don't have one regret whatsoever with my invitation process. Everything was truly amazing and went off without a hitch! :)

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Until We Meet Again

I know I still have to recap the rest of the DC bachy weekend and post photos of the invitations as promised but this week has already started off so busy that I just have not had the time to post a real in-depth post.

Tonight is the night that I meet my dress again. My dress has been stowed away at my gal pal's house for the last 10 months and I have not laid eyes on her since. Saturday is my FIRST fitting! I don't even know what to expect, I am excited, nervous that the seamstress will say "Oh My! We have a lot of work to do", and I still can't seem to kick that anxious feeling of the unknown of what to expect. Hopefully it will just be easy as pie.

As you remember the dress I did not pick...Sarah Jessica Parker-look-a-like dress that I just HAD to try on for a photo-op (I'm not even sure if I had this on with the right side in front).


Read all about my dress shopping experience here and how I did choose the one..sorry no photos though.

How did your first fitting go? What types of things should I expect?

P.S. We received 4 more RSVP's today!

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Music....CHECK!

Despite the anxiety I started feeling last night and into today, I am still plugging away at wedding planning. RSVP's have started rolling in. So far we have 4 yes'es! I will unveil the invitations to you tomorrow. I know our up north friends and family only received them on Friday.

As some of you may know I had secured an acoustic duo (which were two of the band members) to play at our ceremony and then they needed to take a break before they joined the band to begin our reception music. This left our cocktail hour completely music-less. I had put Groomzilla on the task of downloading music but I decided I really wanted to have some live music for our guests to enjoy. I remembered awhile back I had gone to a fun outdoor bar with a group of gal friends and a gal was singing/playing the guitar and I loved her and grabbed a card. I called her today, figuring that her still having the date available and wanting to travel all the way to my wedding site to play for only an hour would be out of the question..but NO, it was not, she offered me a VERY reasonable quote and was so excited that I had called.

This is a terrible quality video I found on You Tube but this will be our cocktail hour music!



I have to say I am pumped about this. Groomzilla was mad that I am now taking over his tasks but I said..well if you are not getting them done then I am moving on in!

Hope you all had a fab weekend..were there any last minute music changes for you?!

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One of the Top Moments of my DC Bachelorette Weekend

I know I promised a full recap of the Bachy weekend but I am still sifting through photos as they come in. The girls far exceeded my expectations throughout the entire weekend. I just wanted to cover something extremely special they did for me that completely blew me away, a tribute to "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue." They all chose a category and fulfilled each of them for me, each came with a very heartfelt and sentimental handwritten note.

Something Old - A ribbon used at BFF Kiki's wedding in 05'. The ribbon has been passed around in our circle of friends to all those that have had a special time in their life, a wedding, a baby, etc. My sister had it passed onto her last and she now passed it on to me. I wonder who I will pass it on to??


Something New - OH YEA! Watch out Groom!


Something Borrowed, a garter and sixpence given to Kiki by her aunt to wear on her wedding day.

Something Blue - A couple goodie bags full of all sorts of fun blue items!

A Day of Emergency kit!


Some Blue Vodka


Which was followed by this hideous face..I was forced to do this.



So there is the re-cap of my fun "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue."

I promise to post more about the weekend but I just didn't want it to be too picture heavy!

Happy Hump Day!

We have left the Building!

Invitations are currently in the hands of the USPS and on their way to their recipients. I couldn't sleep this morning and was up before my alarm, I'm not sure if it was due to the anticipation of having my annual physical this morning at the doctors or the idea of sending out our wedding invitations, I am going to go with the latter.

I left a few minutes early so I could stop at the Post Office before my appointment. I felt a little silly sitting at the blue box and holding up the line of cars behind me while dropping off a box full of invitations. I parked and went in but the Post Office was not open yet. I then proceeded to do a "walk up" to the blue box drop offs since at the time there were no cars in line. The drop box was packed full, I assume because yesterday was a holiday and there was no mail pick up. I made sure that each one went in flat as to not crinkle them and that they went all the way into the box without falling out or getting stuck. At this point a line of cars began forming so I waved and smiled to the lady behind me and mouthed "sorry!", I wonder if she could tell I was a crazy bride.

I can't explain the feeling but I was nervous, excited, and anxious all at the same time. I wonder what the doctor thought when he took my pulse and it was beating a million times a minute!!

I am excited to receive our first RSVPs!!!

How did you feel when you finally set your invitations free???

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