Dress Shopping

Yesterday the ladies and I went dress shopping for most of the day. We started out in Rochester at Andreas, moved on to Victoria Reeds and ended in Concord at A Time to Remember. I tried on tons of dresses at Andreas and they were so very helpful. There were 2 dresses that I did like but nothing that I fell in love with. The first dress was a "typical" wedding gown and the second one was a bright blue prom gown that can be ordered in white. They were very friendly and helpful, but I probably will not go back since I wasn't in love with anything. Also my girls tried a few dresses on that were cute, but I think we'll have an easy time finding dresses for them especially when we go to David's Bridal next month. Kelly's niece MacKenzie came with us and was in love with the purple mermaid tissue paper dress that was in the window and was adamant that I try it on...SO before we left they took it out of the window for me to try!! She was super excited and thinks that I'll be wearing this down the aisle...







After Andreas we headed off to Papa Ginos for a hearty lunch before going to Victoria Reeds. Right when we walked in I got super excited because of the large selection they had. Everyone started pulling dresses off the rack for me to try and within minutes I had about 8 dresses in the fitting room. I did not like any of them at all....Bummer!!! The girls tried on a few dresses here as well, but nothing we were in love with...MacKenzie was starting to get bored so Kelly started trying flower girl dresses on her and letting her pose. She was loving that. The owner was pretty impressed with this and asked MacKenzie if she could take a picture of her and put her on the store's website. She is so adorable!!


Once we left there we figured we'd call it a day...As we got into the car I started talking about a dress I had tried on in Concord back in November that I really loved. It was a bridesmaids dress that I really liked it and could spruce it up with some crystals. Someone (I dont remember who) suggested we go check it out again. So we headed into Concord I was all excited to try the dress on and then fell totally out of love with it...I guess I never loved it in the first place so i'm glad we went back to try it on! The girls reminded me that it was totally different from the style I had been trying on all day. As I was finishing up a girl came out of her dressing room with a prom dress on that I loved. I asked if I could try it on when she was done. The women (who are snobby) were not too keen on my trying it on then they realized that it comes in the wedding line (for $200 more of course) so they said I could try it. I LOVED IT!!! The only issue being that it was teal...so I don't know if I'll like it as much in white?! I am now on the search to find somebody who has it in stock in white so I can try it on!!!

Oh ya, we got a cake maker!! :) Audrey will be making the cake for our wedding the only rule she made is NO SQUARE cake!!! She was in the process of making a square cake (15 cake mixes) to feed about 250 people when she made that rule for me. I guess the corners are really hard to get to look square with the frosting so I told her fine then I want a rectangular cake!! HA! So we now have a cakemaker!!! I have a few cake ideas in mind and I know Audrey will do an awesome job!

Today I found the cutest flower girl baskets and bought them for Sydney and Skylar!! They are actually called flower purses!! I also got some heart shaped scoopers for our candy buffet!! I think things are slowly falling into place!

Josh has picked his 5 groomsmen, though hasn't asked all of them yet!! Since he has chosen 5, that means I get to ask my 5th girl (I've been waiting forever for him to make this decision so I can ask her)!!! YAY!!!! Be on the lookout for my posting about bridesmaid #5 and all the groomsmen's names!!!

We're off to Florida at the end of this week for 8 days and when we get back we'll be on the search for my wedding dress and bridesmaids dresses...I'll keep you all updated!!!

The wedding party is more than half way complete...

So I finally heard from Kathy (from the Farm) on Monday after work! Apparently they do get mail service out there, it's just really slow!!! She was actually hoping to be my groom, but I talked her out of it and she said she'd settle as a bridesmaid....So that was super exciting! Be on the look out for Kathy walking down the aisle with a banana...


My cousin Melissa called from Arizona at about 8:30 on Tuesday night. Apparently I was sound asleep--I saw her calling and said to myself "Melissa's calling" then sent her to voicemail... I felt pretty guilty about it on Wednesday morning when I woke up and realized what I did, but knew she would not want a wake up call at 3am (2 hrs behind us)... So I didn't get her confirmation until Wednesday afternoon. She made me promise that nothing exciting would be going on before May so she could graduate from her Nursing program first...the only thing she may have to do is go get her dress...which I'm sure she can fit in between her internship and all those rotten tests!



Last night we went to get our hair done by Stephanie and ask the girls to be our flower girls. Josh asked Skylar and Sydney if they wanted to be princesses at our wedding. Skylar got really excited and even more so when she was given a princess crown, a wand, and dangling earrings. There was quite a bit of jumping up and down and smiling!!! Of course giving her these wonderful accessories turned into Isaac having to bring her to find her princess dress to wear. The whole time Sydney was walking around with her crown on and carrying her magic wand just talking (babbling) away to us and throwing out the occasional NO when somebody spoke to her.


As the night wore on Josh asked Skylar if I could be a princess too. She thought long and hard about this one and finally said, "Jodi can be the BIG princess and I'll be the LITTLE princess." I I was happy to hear that she would share this label with me... So I believe this will be my label for the next 9 months..."The BIG princess"

Now it's time to get on Josh to get his wedding party going...It's a tough decision for him, but he knows he's gotta make his final decisions!!!

Tomorrow I'm going to a bridal show in Portsmouth with my sister, mom and Josh's mom...I wonder what it's going to be all about....

Yes! Yes!

I have been patiently waiting for my bridesmaids to get their invites to be in my wedding...I wanted to do something different other than just asking each girl to be in my wedding so I handcrafted each invitation with a picture of them in a dress and wrote a poem to each girl. I also decorated cute little notebooks with all the bridesmaids names and phone numbers so they could keep in contact...That was my "BIG SURPRISE" that I've been working on for about 2 weeks and spent most of my snow day putting it all together!!!I was very happy that I didn't spill the beans at work to Carin and bridesmaid #3...It was tough but I got through it!! I was very impressed with how the packages all came together and then it was all a waiting game assuming that 3 of my girls would get theirs on Friday or Saturday and my last one would get hers probably Tues or Weds...

Well I got out of work on Sat around 2:00 and still hadn't heard from anyone...I was starting to get frustrated! I knew the postman said it would take about a day for the local ones and here it had been 2 days...Finally at 8:00 on Saturday night I got my first YES from Carin!! I was ecstatic!!! Yahoooo!!!! I then told her how I kept it all a secret and blah blah blah... We will have a blast planning this together!





Today went by with no calls all day and then as I was sitting down to eat dinner I got my second YES from my sister Kelly!! I gave her the first job (of many)..She needs to start looking for a dress she will feel comfortable wearing-- the only rule was that it has to be pink or brown or a combination of these two colors. Once we find a dress for Kelly, we will make decisions on the bridesmaids dresses!

Bridesmaid #3 called as I got off the phone with Kelly and we talked for about 35 minutes and she didn't mention anything of her package...SO my assumption is that they don't get regular mail delivery out there on the farm...Or she didn't check her mail for the past 2 days...If I don't hear from her tomorrow I will start thinking that the goats may have gotten the mail and chewed it up...good thing I took pictures for proof!!!

Bridesmaid #4 lives quite a distance away and will not be getting her invite for a few days...I'll keep you all up to date... There may also be a bridesmaid #5 and bridesmaid #6 in the works....Josh and I have some more discussing to do!

Hopefully once Josh gets home from Florida (rough life, huh?) we will have time to go ask our flower girls to partake in this exciting event!!! Instead of making them a card we bought them princess tiaras and fairy wands to ask them the important question!