UPDATES!!!

Alrighty now!!! Remember we picked our song, here is the link for that in case you forgot. http://ellieseyes.blogspot.com/2009/01/we-have-song.html

Here is the video to our second song.




My centerpieces for the wedding party table


Miranda's bouquet


Mia's bouquet


Our invitations

Centerpieces

I am thinking of changing the black flower to a white one since the table cloths are black. There is silver and pink wire inside the vase for color and black and or white marbles. What do you think?

Guess what!

He bought my new wedding ring!!!! How beautiful is it!! I am so in love with it! It exceeded my imagination!!

Thank you Melinda

She made my background with the bouquet that I will be using!
http://simplymelindatest.blogspot.com

I put up a slideshow

If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you can see the details of our wedding

Feels like forever

So I took Gabe to the hall yesterday to check it out. It's still nice, I really like it. Today I am paying off most of all my vendors except two. My photographer and my food.

I almost bought a bouquet yesterday that was handmade from Mexico but Gabe thought it was best I used real flowers, because the hand made one was made up from ceramic, or something glass. He thought it would break.

I found my motivation yesterday!! I went to a place that does body wraps and I lost a few inches in a few places and .5 inches every where else. I will be there every other week and now I am going on weight watchers too. I want to look my best, plus Gabe is loosing weight and he is even shocked as heck about that!

I received in the mail the rhinestones for the t-shirts for our bachelorette party, that will be fun!! Then I rec'd the flowers in the mail for the centerpieces, I still have to finish the wedding party gifts and order my linens for the wedding.

I found a local place to get that done at, I just have to price it out. We will see.

THIS is what my

Bouquet will look like !!!

Pink roses with the white stephanotis. The lace is going to be black I think she said.

This is our hall

Remember I said we saved tons of money on our hall, this is the new one.

This is the outside, it could use some cleaning, I am sure she will do some when it comes time.



The left side of the hall the DJ goes in the front (top of pic)



Right there, that's where the DJ goes.




This is where I *THINK* we are going to be sitting, unsure yet though.



I love this hall. It will fit so well with my dress and the colors. It reminds me of back in the day when I went to church in our small town. Our family would gather there after church it was nice. There is a HUGE kitchen (two of them) in the hall too. That will be nice. Wait until you see my bouquet OMG!

It's official!

This is what I am mailing out! The paper it is on is outstanding! It's linen paper and beautiful!

Update

I know it's been so long. Well tons has been going on. I don't know if I mentioned already but, I am getting a whole new dress made. With the new lace my mother in law bought. I am stoked!!

Last week we picked out the vests for our groomsmen. I have to add the video on here that I took of Gabe hahaha he was funny!

This is what I made last night

It's a flower girl wand. Because our church doesn't allow flowers on the ground, I decided to make this: TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!

























I'm not done yet though. I am adding a butterfly and more lace.

Thrillled!

So here's an update! We switched halls! We found a hall by my house for $600. We get to set up the night before and tear down and clean the day after. I am thrilled beyond belief! The other hall was $4800 and we got to set up an hour before and clean the hour before we left. totally 8 hours only!

Second great news. Charlotte is my maid of honor and she is the bomb! We are already planning our get away! It is going to be so much fun! We are going to have so many friends with us. We are planning on going to the city (SF) and staying there a night and going to a nice lounge atmosphere drinking and hanging out. Eat at a nice restaurant and who ever or whatever the night has in store for us.

Then I need to shop for decorations. We are going BIG on decorations!! I am looking to think of how I'd like to set up the hall. I can use my creative talent for this area! It will be really nice!

I am planning on having a get together for favors, bouquets, invitations etc. Where my friends come over for cocktails and food and we get everything done in one night. With the plans I am having (tulle and lighting) I am thinking it will be sometimes in May we get together for this and June or July for the SF evening.

So much is going on, I am sooo excited I can not wait!

We picked the flavors

of our cake. The top layer is made from, Creme de Cacao cake, Creme custard and Gamache fillings, it's VERY delicious. The middle layer will be made of White Chocolate completely, cake and filling. Then the third cake, the bottom portion will be Marble Irish Creme for the cake part and the filling to be Amaretto Hazelnut!!!!

I sooo can't wait!! So the design. There will be three tiers. It will all be white and on each layer of cake will be a black 2" ribbon running across the middle of the layers and then pink gerbera daisies. Three daisies on top, one on the middle layer then two on each side of the bottom. It is going to be very beautiful and YUMMY!

HOW cute is this!?

The flower girl dresses

This is Mia's and Miranda's dress. I won't put it on Miranda yet, because it's a bit big, but I put Mia in hers just a few minutes ago to show you all what it looks like. I love it!!

I stopped by today

To sign the contract. I put the deposit down on Monday. I had to have them make some changes to our final contract to be sure nothing gets muffled later, as I was there, I took pictures of the hall as it is at the moment and will be when we start to set up.


The dance floor


The main entrance from the court yard


The kitchen area where the buffet tables will stand.



The ceiling decorations that will be there the day of my wedding.

Changes!

I went today to San Jose to pick out lace for my dress. My mother in law is going to add lace going from the bottom of my boobs over my shoulders and behind me and then it will be the addition to the train, it is stunning! The lace e picked!!!

It looks MUCH better in person!! I will take a photo of it when the lace comes in. It should be arriving in 4-6 wks.

Our reception site

This is where we got our reception booked. Our church is on the same property. The court yard connects the two. I am so excited. We first looked at this hall a long time ago but because of the price, we thought this was impossible. Until we stated getting quotes from everywhere else. I think it's all the same except now, we don't have to get a limo and that helps the cost of the wedding all together.

Gabe and I went shopping last night. We bought our invitations and our center pieces. I just have to get the Gerbera Daisies for the center pieces, I will have silk ones shipped to me soon.

I have to do our save the dates, I have to find out when those should be sent. That I have no idea on lol

Anyways, the stress level went full force lol