Kevin and I had an amazing weekend this weekend. Why amazing, you ask? Because it was almost completely stress free! And light on wedding planning.
Kevin came over at lunch time on Saturday and we went and had lunch together, always nice. Then we ran over to Dollar Tree and Walmart, to purchase some vases for a craft I saw on Pinterest. The idea was that if this craft was successful, we could use it in our centerpieces. Let's just say that the results were...less than successful. Or laughably horrible. But, it was fun attempting and I might give it one more go before I totally give up on it.
The rest of our time together, we sat and talked. We held hands and kissed a bit. We watched the end of 50 First Dates with my parents and then watched a couple episodes of the West Wing. We played dominoes and then had a domino fight. Then we put all the dominoes away and then I dumped the entire box on him, so the fight started anew. We were laughing our butts off the whole time. The bunny looked on with disdain, as clearly we should be petting and scratching her, as well as stacking up her blocks for her to knock down.
I love seeing Kevin and Clover interact. She was especially playful on Saturday night and kept coming over to have Kevin scratch her. It was so cute and it warms my heart to see them liking each other. She is really starting to accept him as one of her humans. Yay! She just might keep him.
Actually, all that fun couple plus Clover time gave me a good idea for a photograph, so I might work on that later. Maybe.
As for wedding stuff! After giving my mom the information on florists that had been recommended to me, she found my perfect bouquet. Like it is so me, it should be called "Katie's bouquet". She also found boutonnieres that match. Basically, 2 hours after I gave her the information, she had most of the flowers picked out and within budget. Very efficient. She clearly is excited to help out with whatever task I give her next. She also wants us to start thinking about favors.
Kevin, Caitlyn (the matron of honour), and I have spent quite a bit of time lately on the MUSIC for the wedding. We seem to have the processional down, and we got the PERFECT song for the father/daughter dance. After that, we're still working on fitting the puzzle pieces together. Nothing is set in stone. I've been looking into bridesmaid's jewelry with my sister Christi. The jewelry will be the gift to the bridesmaids, in thanks for being a part of our special day.
After making a very important decision on cloth napkins (very. important.), we still need to work out appetizers. And favors. And maybe beverages. At least we don't have to worry about alcohol because there won't be any. :-D
I am still on the hunt for bridal shoes, but now I am also looking around for bridal jewelry. I need to start trying up-dos soon also. I need to get ahold of my lovely personal attendant Michelle, I'm sure she'd love to be a part of that!
I feel like I'm forgetting something big that we've either decided or are discussing. The biggest thing right now (and be praying for us!) is that we are starting Pre-Marital Counseling this weekend! That's right. Sunday afternoon at Kevin's church with Pastor Nathan. I'm a tiny bit nervous. We're supposed to do this test that kind of shows how compatible we are. I asked what would happen if it said we weren't very compatible and Kevin joked that Pastor Nathan would suggest we call off the wedding. Somehow, I didn't find that funny nor reassuring.
If I think of anything else, I'll post again.
Monday, October 29, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
5 months or 22 weeks or 152 days!
Time is ticking down. Sometimes it feels like it's all going by so slowly and we have way more to do than we have time for. Other times, it feels like our wedding date is approaching like a big linebacker in football.
Things have been a bit crazy for me lately.
My car, Jimmy, broke down and had to be towed. Except...nothing was wrong with him? On the plus side, because I was driving my parents' suburban for a week, it was quite easy to trade mattresses with Kevin. I am now sleeping on full sized mattress from the guest room and getting amazing rest, thank you very much!
I got a mouse in my room. Just one. We caught him, he's gone. But it did kick us into gear on packing up my stuff and cleaning out my room. Which is really great, and I've been able to bless some friends of ours with clothes I'm not wearing much. Double yay! And the more we pack up now, the more we can get to Kevin's house before the snow flies. Triple yay!
Third, my knee has been acting up like crazy. I haven't come up with a positive outcome from this. It's actually quite a bit better today, and I'm not complaining! Yesterday after church the elders prayed for my knee. I feel loved! But in the meantime, it's been 2 or 3 weeks of pain in the knee, so I'm glad that seems to be wrapping up.
This weekend was the craft fair at Logan, which we go to every year because my grandma has a booth there. This year, I got to bring along my FIANCE! Last year I brought along my boyfriend. Heheehee! My Uncle Jerry, who happens to be a pastor and happens to be performing the marriage ceremony for Kevin and I, was the one to bring my grandma up to the craft show this year. SO! Kevin and I got to sit down with the pastor and talk about our wedding! I did get teased a little about my priorities (like shoes) but all in all it was a really great meeting! WOOT!
Ok, I still don't know what I'm going to do about shoes. But in the meantime, I've got a really strong idea for centerpieces, my mom is helping with the flowers, the hotel rooms are booked, and the invitations are coming along well. I think that updates everything I posted about last time, but if not, here's a quick shout out to other things we've check-marked on the list. The caterer is picked and we picked our meal. It's gonna be yummy. We picked the cake and are ironing out some details there. The invitations just need the wording to be polished and then we can order them. The Save the dates were sent and hopefully received! Only one has come back, you guys have no excuses not to come!
Please continue to keep Kevin and I in your prayers. Wedding planning is really just training for conflict management, isn't it? Pretty soon we start pre-martial counceling. EXCITING!
Only 5 months left! OR Only 22 weeks left. OR only 152 days left!!!!!
Things have been a bit crazy for me lately.
My car, Jimmy, broke down and had to be towed. Except...nothing was wrong with him? On the plus side, because I was driving my parents' suburban for a week, it was quite easy to trade mattresses with Kevin. I am now sleeping on full sized mattress from the guest room and getting amazing rest, thank you very much!
I got a mouse in my room. Just one. We caught him, he's gone. But it did kick us into gear on packing up my stuff and cleaning out my room. Which is really great, and I've been able to bless some friends of ours with clothes I'm not wearing much. Double yay! And the more we pack up now, the more we can get to Kevin's house before the snow flies. Triple yay!
Third, my knee has been acting up like crazy. I haven't come up with a positive outcome from this. It's actually quite a bit better today, and I'm not complaining! Yesterday after church the elders prayed for my knee. I feel loved! But in the meantime, it's been 2 or 3 weeks of pain in the knee, so I'm glad that seems to be wrapping up.
This weekend was the craft fair at Logan, which we go to every year because my grandma has a booth there. This year, I got to bring along my FIANCE! Last year I brought along my boyfriend. Heheehee! My Uncle Jerry, who happens to be a pastor and happens to be performing the marriage ceremony for Kevin and I, was the one to bring my grandma up to the craft show this year. SO! Kevin and I got to sit down with the pastor and talk about our wedding! I did get teased a little about my priorities (like shoes) but all in all it was a really great meeting! WOOT!
Ok, I still don't know what I'm going to do about shoes. But in the meantime, I've got a really strong idea for centerpieces, my mom is helping with the flowers, the hotel rooms are booked, and the invitations are coming along well. I think that updates everything I posted about last time, but if not, here's a quick shout out to other things we've check-marked on the list. The caterer is picked and we picked our meal. It's gonna be yummy. We picked the cake and are ironing out some details there. The invitations just need the wording to be polished and then we can order them. The Save the dates were sent and hopefully received! Only one has come back, you guys have no excuses not to come!
Please continue to keep Kevin and I in your prayers. Wedding planning is really just training for conflict management, isn't it? Pretty soon we start pre-martial counceling. EXCITING!
Only 5 months left! OR Only 22 weeks left. OR only 152 days left!!!!!
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
164 days to go!!
It's been almost a month since I posted, but it doesn't feel that long. Since then, Kevin and I spent an entire afternoon/evening stamping return addresses on envelopes and sticking on stamps for our Save The Date magnets, which went out in the mail today. WOO! It's official, we're getting married and we're telling a whole lot of people at once.
One benefit of finally sending out Save The Dates (it just sounds so wrong to call them STDs) is that everyone who will be invited more or less knows now. Another is that people can find our website! Yay! Which also means they'll see this blog and know that I don't post in it very often at all. No pressure. :-D
Kevin has been meeting with and emailing caterers left and right. I'm so glad I gave him this task, because I'm not even doing it and it's stressful for me. He is very calm and sweet about it. At a certain point, I'm going to be tempted to say let's order pizza. Hopefully before that happens, we'll get a caterer nailed down, entrees and sides picked out, and maybe even figure out what we want for the appetizers. (I tried to spell it the fancy way, and it was too difficult. Feel free to insert the french word in while you read it.)
One thing that HAS been nailed down (though I need to email my merry maids about it) is the bridesmaid dress! Last weekend, my mom and I made a road trip down to Madison and did some super shopping. I was picky and choosy, but when Christi came out of the dressing room in this dress, I knew it was the right one. It will be in plum. I know that no one who knows me at all is surprised that there will be purple at my wedding.
On a side note, I wanted to give Kevin a really big compliment the other day, so I told him that I love him more than purple. He was touched. Yay!
I've been doing a lot of research on centerpieces, hoping to include most of (if not all of) the pieces that Kevin's mom gave me over labor day. This mental arranging of ideas hasn't been too fruitful, but I have a few ideas. The decorations are totally my thing and Kevin has given me carte blanche (spelled right on the first try!). Within reason, at least.
Kevin and I got to hang out with his friends Justin and Jamie a while back, which was REALLY FUN! Also that day, we went to Bed Bath and Beyond to flesh out our registry a bit more. At this point, I'm saying that our registry is more or less finished. We aren't picky, we just want our friends and family to celebrate our marriage with us. We aren't in it for the gifts, but the fellowship. Much like we got to have with Justin and Jamie. By the way guys, if we have John Hardy's for our rehearsal dinner, totally your fault. :-)
Meeting with the travel agents a few weeks back went really well. Kevin and I talked a lot about it and did a lot of research and we came up with a lovely destination for our honeymoon. We're going to spend a week on a warm beach, which sounds like just what we'll need after all this stress!
Right now I am having a crazy week and Kevin is trying to help me through it from a long distance, which I know is hard on him. My knee has been acting up and he gets almost lost when I'm hurting, wanting to make the pain go away but not knowing how. It's really sweet, though. Very endearing. There was a mouse in the house, too, and I know that Kevin would have been more than happy to protect me from it, but again, distance. He can't kill my scary spiders, either. My car wouldn't start last night and I wasn't sure what was wrong. I could almost see his gears going back and forth "Do I come down and help? Can I come down and help? Would it be fixed by then?" Thankfully Caitlyn and my dad were around and it's more or less sorted. Ok, so my car is in the shop but I'm not stranded anywhere.
Ultimately, it's really hard to be so far apart most of the time. But we love each other and we make it work. I was thinking today, though, that I'm really glad we still live our own lives. We haven't dropped everything in our lives, just because our fiancee an hour away needs something. We still have obligations and friends. I think it is a good thing, to lament the distance but not drop our own lives for it. I think it shows respect for each other and our relationship. Like, I don't expect him to come down, just because my car is broken, when he has obligations at the same time to do other things. If I were having emergency surgery, yes. Come down immediately. Broken car? Not so much.
Even so, I am excited for after we're married and we'll get to bother each other every day. Only 164 days to go!
One benefit of finally sending out Save The Dates (it just sounds so wrong to call them STDs) is that everyone who will be invited more or less knows now. Another is that people can find our website! Yay! Which also means they'll see this blog and know that I don't post in it very often at all. No pressure. :-D
Kevin has been meeting with and emailing caterers left and right. I'm so glad I gave him this task, because I'm not even doing it and it's stressful for me. He is very calm and sweet about it. At a certain point, I'm going to be tempted to say let's order pizza. Hopefully before that happens, we'll get a caterer nailed down, entrees and sides picked out, and maybe even figure out what we want for the appetizers. (I tried to spell it the fancy way, and it was too difficult. Feel free to insert the french word in while you read it.)
One thing that HAS been nailed down (though I need to email my merry maids about it) is the bridesmaid dress! Last weekend, my mom and I made a road trip down to Madison and did some super shopping. I was picky and choosy, but when Christi came out of the dressing room in this dress, I knew it was the right one. It will be in plum. I know that no one who knows me at all is surprised that there will be purple at my wedding.
On a side note, I wanted to give Kevin a really big compliment the other day, so I told him that I love him more than purple. He was touched. Yay!
I've been doing a lot of research on centerpieces, hoping to include most of (if not all of) the pieces that Kevin's mom gave me over labor day. This mental arranging of ideas hasn't been too fruitful, but I have a few ideas. The decorations are totally my thing and Kevin has given me carte blanche (spelled right on the first try!). Within reason, at least.
Kevin and I got to hang out with his friends Justin and Jamie a while back, which was REALLY FUN! Also that day, we went to Bed Bath and Beyond to flesh out our registry a bit more. At this point, I'm saying that our registry is more or less finished. We aren't picky, we just want our friends and family to celebrate our marriage with us. We aren't in it for the gifts, but the fellowship. Much like we got to have with Justin and Jamie. By the way guys, if we have John Hardy's for our rehearsal dinner, totally your fault. :-)
Meeting with the travel agents a few weeks back went really well. Kevin and I talked a lot about it and did a lot of research and we came up with a lovely destination for our honeymoon. We're going to spend a week on a warm beach, which sounds like just what we'll need after all this stress!
Right now I am having a crazy week and Kevin is trying to help me through it from a long distance, which I know is hard on him. My knee has been acting up and he gets almost lost when I'm hurting, wanting to make the pain go away but not knowing how. It's really sweet, though. Very endearing. There was a mouse in the house, too, and I know that Kevin would have been more than happy to protect me from it, but again, distance. He can't kill my scary spiders, either. My car wouldn't start last night and I wasn't sure what was wrong. I could almost see his gears going back and forth "Do I come down and help? Can I come down and help? Would it be fixed by then?" Thankfully Caitlyn and my dad were around and it's more or less sorted. Ok, so my car is in the shop but I'm not stranded anywhere.
Ultimately, it's really hard to be so far apart most of the time. But we love each other and we make it work. I was thinking today, though, that I'm really glad we still live our own lives. We haven't dropped everything in our lives, just because our fiancee an hour away needs something. We still have obligations and friends. I think it is a good thing, to lament the distance but not drop our own lives for it. I think it shows respect for each other and our relationship. Like, I don't expect him to come down, just because my car is broken, when he has obligations at the same time to do other things. If I were having emergency surgery, yes. Come down immediately. Broken car? Not so much.
Even so, I am excited for after we're married and we'll get to bother each other every day. Only 164 days to go!
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