Bride & Groom Wedding Pictures

Well today was one of the most stressful days I've had in a long time.
We scheduled our Bride & Groom pictures at the temple for today about 3-4 weeks ago and then yesterday it rained ALL day. So last night my photographer called and was worried about it being wet everywhere at the temple for today so I called my hairdresser too and rescheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday. Then this morning I get up and my mom tells me that she checked the weather and it is supposed to rain all day again tomorrow. :( :( :( I seriously can't catch a break. My mom also said it was supposed to lighten up a little this afternoon, so I called back the photographer and asked her what she thought and we decided to go ahead and try to shoot today just to have at least a few shots that we could put up at the reception and if we had to we would do another shoot after the wedding later, when it wasn't so rainy and wet. So I called my hairdresser back to see if she could still fit me in today and got her voicemail. Now remember this is all happening right before I have class. So by this time I've realized I have too much to do before the shoot to even consider going to class. So I ditched class and ran around like a crazy person, (sorry if I cut you off or sped by you!), trying to do last minute things I could have done earlier that morning before class, had I been planning on the photo shoot when I went to bed the night before. Somewhere in the middle of my mad dashing to pick up shoes for Chase and flowers to throw together a last minute bouquet, I finally got a hold of my hairdresser and she said she could still do my hair.
Somehow I got everything done (except going to class), and we got to the Temple on time and got the shots we needed. It was pretty stressful and I thought my head might explode and I didn't get half the things done today that I wanted to but at least I pictures are done and out of the way. I am excited and can't wait to see them.

three more days.

13: Reception Maps & Decorations

Today we got some of the decorations for the reception. These Chinese paper lanterns. :) I love them!

I also took the time to create a map for the reception location and print them out and cut them up!

8: Wedding Shoes - Something Blue

Today I went looking again for my wedding shoes. It's been tough since I have such strict guidelines for them. I need a very strange shade of blue that not many things come in, they need to be about 2 in. high (3 or 4in. is too much- makes me to close to Chase's height), and I have to love them. So far I've found pretty much nothing. Most of the time just finding the right shade of blue is asking to much, then to make sure I like the style and they are just the right height, well that's just ridiculous. So today as I went out looking again, hoping there would be more options since it is getting closer to spring which means more bright colors and less dark winter colors I really only found one pair that was the right color, but they were probably 3 in., not super comfortable and not a style I really loved. So I passed on those at DSW and figured I'd go next door and just check at Kohl's. Well they had ZERO blue heels of ANY shade. Pretty much everything was black and brown. I think I saw one pink heel in the whole place. Then as I was about to leave I walked by the street shoes, and lo and behold I saw converse in pretty much the exact color I wanted, and hey they're flats which means definitely not too tall! :) So these my friends, are my wedding shoes:

P.S. They are going to be my something blue. :)

7: Cut Up Wedding Dress

This is one of the most nerve-wracking sights I've ever seen. :/ Because the wedding dress I fell in love with was strapless we bought it with extra length and are using the extra length for my mom to build it up so it has a higher back, straps and sleeves. It is looking great so far (the top part), but when I take a glance at the train of my dress and see jagged cuts it makes me SO nervous and anxious. I can't wait til it's hemmed.