January 2009 Brides Post Here

It's totally exciting. FH is getting dust as excited as I am (finally)!

I wish FI was!! He's more excited about the vacation part!! He has serious cold feet...says he's scared to death!! Poor thing!! I just told him things will be no different than right now...we have a dog, just bought a house...nothing else will change...for a few years anyway! hehehe

thanks for all of the well wishes girls. I ate for the first time yesterday since tuesday! Wow, huh? I told my FI I should be a size 2 by now... if life were fair, ha!

I am so excited for you girls and your rings! I'll write more later:-)

Kate, glad to hear you a starting to feel better. I could use one good stomach flu before the wedding! lol

Here is where I am at, man does time sneak up on you. I am looking for a seamstress to do the alterations on my dress (the store I bought it at closed). Finish up OOT bags and foot jewlrey. All these things need to be done our at least in the woks by Friday!! I have started to write my vows. I wan't planning on doing it right now but FI is out hanging Christmas lights and I got inspired. Anyone else writing there own??

We are writing our own vows, but haven't started yet. Ladies, I'm starting to freak out. I feel like I have so much to do. Who wants to come over and help? lol Or atleast drink wine with me! So, we had some of FI's friends book last minute. Now I am short 3 raffia fans for the ceremony and a few things for our OOT bags, not to mention now I'm one bag short. I'm annoyed that now I need to go look for these things again and buy more stuff.

I still have to:
wrap the fans with ribbon
make my MOH and BM tank tops (iron ons)
make our 'things to know before you go' brochure
make placecards and print the recipe for our favors (were doing starfish cookie cutters)
find FI a shirt!
find GM a shirt (I found one I like but can't find it in his size any where)
buy GM gift
book our wedding party excursion (we're heading to the jungle!) lol
order FI's ring
and decide if we're using a dj or our ipod!

Its going to be a busy couple of weeks. I need a drink!
Oh, and my dress fitting is Thursday night so I'll finally get to see it for the first time. Yay!

Hey ladies! Haven't been on here in a while - work is so busy its cutting into by BDW time, can't say I'm impressed! Anyways, things are getting done slowly but surely.

 

All of our guests have paid in full so we are looking at 49 people with the possibility that 4 more may book. So needless to say I'm short on guest favours and raffia fans...oh well, c'est la vie!

 

My FI and I went to the Dominican Embassy yesterday to process our documents and hand over the cash. $360 US ($450 CAD with the exhange rate being what it is)! Now we just sit back and wait until I have to go pick them up next week. Then we meet with our TA who will help us sort out all the details of the wedding ceremony next Thursday.

 

FI and I also picked and ordered our wedding bands yesterday. I haven't been able to make a decision about a diamond band for the life of me, and FI knew exactly what he wanted so we went ahead and ordered his. Then they told me I only had a week or so to decide on mine in order to make sure it was in on time. Instead of feeling rushed to pick a diamond band, I ended up ordering the matching band to my FI but in a ladies width. It is a gorgeous hammered white gold ring with a sandblasted finish in the middle....Hard to describe, but goes perfectly with my solitaire. I wanted a plain band and a diamond band, so the diamond band will have to wait until I can decide. All I care about is that I have a band I love for the ceremony. Yeah - such arelief! I was starting to stress.

 

Now I'm working on the Dominican Survival Kits (in lieu of loot bags). I can't beleive next month I will be a Mrs!!

I love telling everyone "next month I'm going to be on a cruise and getting married"!!

Wow what a great thread. I am also getting married in January. I cannot believe how fast it comes! I am really excited. Its funny how you cross things off your list but then you just keep adding things and you never feel like you accomplish anything!

OMG this is so true!!! LOL

We're going this morning to get our documents translated...finally!!
That is pretty much the last big thing!
The rest is little planning things for me...photolist, make a couple CDs, welcome books.
I can't believe it's so close!! 6 weeks from tomorrow & I'll be a Mrs! HOLY CRAP!!!