The final two sashes arrived today. I picked up all four of them this afternoon, and am now done with David's Bridal!
Thankfully there is not that big of a color difference between the sashes that they shipped separately but were promised to be from the same dye lot. Now, I say that as I am trying not to go Bridezilla and throw a fit about sashes, that will never be touching side by side for more than a moment, being a slightly different shade.
I evaluated all four sashes right there on the front desk that abruptly stopped me as I entered the store. And well of course there is a difference in color, but really the difference is so small that no one will know. Ha, well no one except all of you.
Maybe you will be concentrating so hard on my Bride's Maids' sashes that you will not notice when my make-up starts to run from me crying, or if I stumble as I walk down the isle, or if Thom messes up on the vows, or if we sneak in one extra kiss after we say I Do. :)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Song Options
To fulfill my part of the bargained in the search for "Our Song" I have been putting together a list of songs. This is going to be a lot harder than I thought!
I went through my iTunes play list and even did some searching on-line. You would not believe how may different websites their are with wedding song lists.
There is a wide variety of songs out there, so I am trying to have all of the options included in the list. I am even finding songs that I would not want to be "Our Song", but that I would like to be included in the wedding reception. This list is growing from a search for "Our Song" to a list of songs to be played at the reception.
So if all of you out there have a request for songs to be included in the reception post your requests now!
I went through my iTunes play list and even did some searching on-line. You would not believe how may different websites their are with wedding song lists.
There is a wide variety of songs out there, so I am trying to have all of the options included in the list. I am even finding songs that I would not want to be "Our Song", but that I would like to be included in the wedding reception. This list is growing from a search for "Our Song" to a list of songs to be played at the reception.
So if all of you out there have a request for songs to be included in the reception post your requests now!
Attempt Two For A Linen Vendor
I visited a second linen vendor on Monday after work. I meet with Colleen, one of the owners of Affordable Elegance Chair Covers and Linens, and she showed me some "table scapes." This company was referred to us by Glen Oaks, our reception site.
She had a lot more options of what we are looking for, and was very helpful. They have everything from your standard issue polyester table cloth to extreme patterns and materials. And she showed me only the ones I was interested in, she didn't try to up sell. I checked and their napkins were a lot more user friendly then the silly ones at the first linen company I visited.
Colleen knew all about the tables and chairs at Glen Oaks, as well as some of the linen options they offered. She showed me all of the options they had at Affordable Elegance and then explained how their options could be mixed in with some of the linens offered by Glen Oaks.
I was reading the Affordable Elegance Blog - these blogs things are crazy :) and found out that the two owners of Affordable Elegance attended Central MI University. And they have just hired an intern who will graduate from the same program at CMU. One of the students in my DAPCEP (Detroit Area Pre College Engineering Program) class last semester was interested in fashion, and had just emailed me and the other program director her resume to review. I asked Colleen at Affordable Elegance about the CMU program and she had a lot of good things to say about it, and sent me the web link for the CMU classes and a summer program they have for High School students.
As I am sure you can tell, I was very happy with the options at Affordable Elegance, and now have a soft spot for them since they have helped me help one of my students! The next thing will be to set up a demonstration at Glen Oaks. I would like to see how the options look at our reception site, and it will help us figure out what we can get away with mixing between Affordable Elegance and the linens provided by Glen Oaks.
She had a lot more options of what we are looking for, and was very helpful. They have everything from your standard issue polyester table cloth to extreme patterns and materials. And she showed me only the ones I was interested in, she didn't try to up sell. I checked and their napkins were a lot more user friendly then the silly ones at the first linen company I visited.
Colleen knew all about the tables and chairs at Glen Oaks, as well as some of the linen options they offered. She showed me all of the options they had at Affordable Elegance and then explained how their options could be mixed in with some of the linens offered by Glen Oaks.
I was reading the Affordable Elegance Blog - these blogs things are crazy :) and found out that the two owners of Affordable Elegance attended Central MI University. And they have just hired an intern who will graduate from the same program at CMU. One of the students in my DAPCEP (Detroit Area Pre College Engineering Program) class last semester was interested in fashion, and had just emailed me and the other program director her resume to review. I asked Colleen at Affordable Elegance about the CMU program and she had a lot of good things to say about it, and sent me the web link for the CMU classes and a summer program they have for High School students.
As I am sure you can tell, I was very happy with the options at Affordable Elegance, and now have a soft spot for them since they have helped me help one of my students! The next thing will be to set up a demonstration at Glen Oaks. I would like to see how the options look at our reception site, and it will help us figure out what we can get away with mixing between Affordable Elegance and the linens provided by Glen Oaks.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Our Song
Thom and I do not have a song...yet! I know we have some time (actually less than 6 months now), but I don't want our first dance as husband and wife to be to some song we picked out a week before the wedding because we keep putting it off.
Thom and I joked when we were dating about not having a song. As we have been planning the wedding we have suggested a few ridiculous songs that we have heard on the radio. But we still do not have "Our Song."
For some reason Thom is not too happy about picking out a song. He claims the problem is that we listen to songs differently, he listens to the music and I listen to the words. Which I must admit is probably true.
We talked about it last night while we were out to eat, and again today, and have come up with a solution. I am going to make a list of songs, and he is going to choose from those songs. He said he would not know where to start if he made a list too, so he is OK with just picking one from my list.
We were joking last night that it would have been so much easier if there just would have been a song playing when we had our first kiss... on the tailgate of his truck at the race track. :)
Thom and I joked when we were dating about not having a song. As we have been planning the wedding we have suggested a few ridiculous songs that we have heard on the radio. But we still do not have "Our Song."
For some reason Thom is not too happy about picking out a song. He claims the problem is that we listen to songs differently, he listens to the music and I listen to the words. Which I must admit is probably true.
We talked about it last night while we were out to eat, and again today, and have come up with a solution. I am going to make a list of songs, and he is going to choose from those songs. He said he would not know where to start if he made a list too, so he is OK with just picking one from my list.
We were joking last night that it would have been so much easier if there just would have been a song playing when we had our first kiss... on the tailgate of his truck at the race track. :)
Waiting on the Wedding Ring
We didn't pick up my wedding ring yet, because our jeweler is on vacation. She left Thom a message earlier this week saying she would be on vacation for a week, and was hoping we could wait to pick up my ring until she got back.
She is a cool lady, very calm around Thom, but then she gets excited when she see the ring on my finger. We really are not in a hurry to pick up the wedding band, and she would know better than us if the ring was OK, so we figured we would wait until she got back.
She is a cool lady, very calm around Thom, but then she gets excited when she see the ring on my finger. We really are not in a hurry to pick up the wedding band, and she would know better than us if the ring was OK, so we figured we would wait until she got back.
72 Questions with Father Fred
Thom and I have been seeing Father Fred every few weeks for our Pre Cana Classes. We meet with him yesterday to answer the 72 Questions. We are not sure why he referred to them as the 72 Questions, especially since we probably only answered 40 questions.
The questions covered a variety of topics to ensure we were compatible, kind of like e-Harmony and their levels of compatibility :). They even threw in a trick questions, to keep us on our toes. If I remember right, the trick question was about avoiding disagreements so we don't fight about them. Father Fred got excited when we answered the trick question "correctly".
Father Fred scheduled an appointment to see us after we have our 2 day marriage class. We are signed up to take the class at the end of May, so we will not have another meeting with Father Fred until June. He retires at the end of June, and wanted to be sure to see us one last time before he left.
The questions covered a variety of topics to ensure we were compatible, kind of like e-Harmony and their levels of compatibility :). They even threw in a trick questions, to keep us on our toes. If I remember right, the trick question was about avoiding disagreements so we don't fight about them. Father Fred got excited when we answered the trick question "correctly".
Father Fred scheduled an appointment to see us after we have our 2 day marriage class. We are signed up to take the class at the end of May, so we will not have another meeting with Father Fred until June. He retires at the end of June, and wanted to be sure to see us one last time before he left.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Ceremony Band
Another thing we got to do this weekend down in Youngstown, was formally ask the "folk group" Thom's Dad plays with, to play the music at our wedding ceremony.
They were all excited when we asked and happy to play for the ceremony. Dad-Godward will be a little busy with Father of the Groom activities, so the group will have to function as a quartet. But they got some practice when they played beautifully as a quartet at Chris and Christie's wedding last spring.
As Thom and I plan the ceremony with Uncle Eddy we will have to figure out what music we want to incorporate.
But that is all of the details you are going to get about the ceremony band. We want to keep some things a surprise.
They were all excited when we asked and happy to play for the ceremony. Dad-Godward will be a little busy with Father of the Groom activities, so the group will have to function as a quartet. But they got some practice when they played beautifully as a quartet at Chris and Christie's wedding last spring.
As Thom and I plan the ceremony with Uncle Eddy we will have to figure out what music we want to incorporate.
But that is all of the details you are going to get about the ceremony band. We want to keep some things a surprise.
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