About 200 days left to go...

Wow! I've been super busy in the last 3 weeks so I have lots to update on! :)

We have rounded out our bridal party with Josh's last two men, one of them being Isaac (Skylar and Sydney's dad). We had Skylar ask her dad if he wanted to be a prince in our wedding ( to go with her whole princess discussion from my earlier post) she was ecstatic when she found out he would be in the wedding too!







I have been joking with all the guys as I see them that they will be wearing a pink tux, dad was especially not too fond of that and Jeremy threatened he is the one giving the speech about us..So I suppose I should rethink the pink tux part!! :) I haven't gotten to tease our final groomsman Lon with it yet, I can only imagine what he will say...



Speaking of tuxes, we finalized our choice of bridesmaids dresses yesterday. It has been a lot of thinking, researching, trying on, hemming, hawing, and people saying "whatever you want" so I finally made the decision!!! I was thinking that I wanted everyone in alternating colors or Kelly in all chocolate and the girls in all pink, but yesterday that choice came pretty quickly when the girls tried on the pink. It totally washed them out. So all 5 girls will be wearing the same color and they all looked stunning in the same style so we are going to go with that. Kelly will be distinguished by wearing a jacket or a wrap, whichever she chooses closer to that day! I think this will look great and they will carry 2 different shades of pink gerbera daisies!

Now on to my dress...Dun dun dun....I found my dress a few weekends ago when the whole clan (7 of us) headed to David's Bridal. We had gone down there in hopes of finding the girls bridesmaids dresses and maybe mine...we walked away with mine and me having a pounding headache. Boy, believe what you hear about these places, they are rude and obnoxious but they do have a ton of dresses to choose from! I tried on about 15 dresses, or shall I say Cynthia ripped 15 dresses up and down over my head knocking my glasses off, pulling my pony tail out.... The girls outside the fitting room were making bets on when I would punch her out or tell her off....I had it narrowed down to 2 dresses after 2 hours and finally chose one!!! I kept my cool until I got to the checkout when they never told me I had to buy a bag but had to bring it to get "pressed" since I wasn't getting alterations. I get to the alteration area and the woman (barely speaking English) is asking for my bag and I'm confused...and boy was it crazy...it ended up I didn't have to get it pressed at that time (which was 7 months before the wedding so that's a good thing) and Mercedes said I can bring it in 2 weeks before the wedding for it to be pressed....I just may find somewhere else that can do it...I think I'm willing to pay a price to not have to deal with David's again!!! My dress is a perfect fit so I do not need alterations and I get to wear the shoes I bought back when we first got engaged!!! It's coming together quicker than I thought it would!!!
I'm not sure if I mentioned before that we have our first choice in a DJ, Tom Pomeroy. We have seen him quite a few times and love him. He called me while we were in Florida to tell me that the date is set!!! Everyone get your dancing shoes on!! :)
Now it's time to pin down a photographer which has been pretty difficult and tackle the centerpieces...
Talk to you all again soon!!

P.S. Nicki I hope you enjoyed this post and I'll try to get some pics of Kathy on here for you! :)