pop quiz

i'm posting this on both blogs! 

i'm starting to set up my reception ipod playlist.  do you have some ideas for romantic or otherwise fun songs?  if so, you should post a comment or send me an email.  don't feel like you have to limit yourself to just one song, if you've got a lot, send them all! 

some songs i know i want to play, with links to the youtube videos,

• cee-lo's old fashioned
• camper van beethoven's life is grand
• the avett brother's january wedding (even if we are getting married in may!)
• travis, sing (also flowers in the window because, um, it's so cute!)
• stevie wonder, isn't she lovely (really, though, there will probably be a lot of stevie on the playlist.  i can't hear him without smiling!)

wedding underwear is kind of pricey

however, having all your bits and bobs held in place and looking just right is going to be worth it.  plus, i never have a good reason for buying fancy underpants!  or rather, i rarely have a good reason.

i've gotten my internet orders for decorations this week; lots of tissue paper, some acorns, a nice paper cutter.  now of course, i just need to get down to the business of making the pom poms and embellishing the votive candle holders.  tonight looks like it will be kind of quiet, the girlchild will be out babysitting, D will be at work, and the boychik will likely be engrossed with the internets, so i can set up a station on the kitchen table and get to work.

for our invitations, i think what i would really like to do it hand-draw and letter them, then convert the images into PDFs for printing.  however, past the drawing i'm at a loss.  if some of you get emails asking for help, consider this your warning.

i bought another dress!

changing the venue and season of our wedding meant the dress i'd bought before wasn't quite right.  it wasn't terrible, don't get me wrong, but i realized i didn't want to wear a short dress, and to be honest, that dress was $50, so i wasn't worried about not using it.  looking around on-line i found a beautiful dress at david's bridal that is super, super simple, very pretty, and not crazy expensive.  i showed it to my mother this morning and she agreed that it's pretty.  she also bought it for me.  i feel kind of bad about that, but she insisted...and i did pick a very economical one.  i'm so excited for it to show up! 

i also bought the votive candle holders for the tables, the flickering LED tea lights (the grange is really old, no open flames!), the paper for the invites, and ordered some acorns for the centerpieces and tissue paper for the pom poms.  whew.  my brain hurts. 

items i have bought for the wedding so far:

• small plastic squirrels
• small plastic dinosaurs, one gorilla, and some farm animals
• tissue paper
• stamps
• white christmas lights

you can throw a wedding with just those things, right?

updated plan!

 since calling off the wedding earlier last year (feels weird that it's 2011 already), changes have been made to our original plan.  we loved the la conner flats, but unless we wanted to wait until next summer, early fall to have the wedding, we needed to find a new place.  preferably, one that had indoor and outdoor accommodations.  we found that in the rexville grange, located right in between la conner and mt. vernon.  you maybe familiar with the rexville grocery; the grange is right behind it!

the nice thing about the grange is that there's this inside,

and this outside,

how time flies...

oh my.  i'm supposed to get married in a little over five months!  the new location and the new date means we have a lot of work to do.  i should probably get my shit together and start with the planning in earnest.  it was easy the past two months to just "focus on the holidays," but it will be may 21st before i know it, and i don't want to be one of those brides who spends all day flummoxed and stressed out. 

that's why i'm posting now...as much to remind myself as anyone else.  ha!

honeymoon!

okay, i admit, planning a honeymoon on top of planning (and paying for) a wedding has made it a very low priority on my list of things to be doing. at the same time, one of my co-workers made a point to tell me that he thinks doing something, no matter how small, after the wedding and before you start your new life as spouses, is very important. with that in mind, i talked to dave about maybe taking a short camping trip on the coast after the wedding, and we both agreed that would be okay.

then, i was reading a sunset magazine and there was an article about utah and i remembered the amazing day i had there on my way out to colorado. specifically, i fell head over heels in love with moab. i put beehives on everything for a while, planned on where i wanted to put on as a tattoo on my body, embroidered them and read about them and the history of utah (and the mormon church) for an entire summer. i couldn't believe i hadn't thought of it sooner! i brought it up to dave yesterday while we were driving around and his face just lit right up. we're not sure if we're going to go to moab exactly, but we know we want to be in utah, and we want to be surrounded by red rocks. yay!