June 4, 2009 by Roxy
I know I haven’t updated lately, but I didn’t realize it had been so long already! Sadly I don’t have a lot to update about. Other things have gotten in the way of the wedding planning lately, but hopefully we’ll be getting back on track soon.
The biggest news is that we got our first round of invitations sent out! We’ve already started getting responses, which is awesome. Less awesome is not knowing what to say when someone mentions they’ll be watching the mail and you know they won’t be seeing anything. I hate that, especially when I would love to invite them if I had any more room at the reception venue! Some of them might still get an invitation later this summer but I know I won’t be able to invite them all and it makes me sad.
On Monday Jordan’s mom will be down and hopefully she’ll leave with the materials necessary to make my veil. This is one of the most exciting things for me right now. It makes me giddy to think that I’ll be wearing a veil made specially for me by my future mother-in-law.
We’ve also been looking at catering options for the reception a bit, and right now we’re seriously considering having Panchero’s, combined with some simple things we’ll prepare (or have friends and family prepare). We just have to figure out what those things would be so we know how much Panchero’s we would need.
May 4, 2009 by Roxy
One of my dear friends insisted on making our wedding invites, which I was definitely in favor of. As soon as we got her the basics she made a prototype and it went on from there. Last night she turned them over to us, relieved to be done.
Now they’re sitting on the coffee table in a reusable Target bag and Jordan wants them addressed and ready to send by the end of the weekend. Had he said something before we got the invites I would have probably said “no problem!” but talk about intimidating! The invites nearly fill the bag and I don’t think we have all the addresses we need yet. Not to mention we haven’t gotten stamps. Good thing this is the last week of classes!
March 18, 2009 by Roxy
The paper for our invitations arrived. We signed the contract with our photographer. Yesterday I took my dress to be altered and one of my bridesmaids started the ordering of their dresses. Right now I’m wearing my wedding shoes to break them in a bit. 
All in all I think things are coming along nicely (until I start thinking about the things I haven’t done yet – like find an officiant). There may still be a ton of planning to do but I’m feeling like I have a (loose) handle on it right now.
March 5, 2009 by Roxy
Sunday morning my sister, fiancee and I got up early for a 9am cake tasting. After getting our sugar levels up we joined some friends for blini before taking on the rest of our wedding-centric day.
Two bridesmaids and a mother-of-the-groom later we were knee-deep in Wedding. We started with showing the ladies our ceremony and reception sites. Then we took off for the dresses while Jordan returned some rejected invitations. Having previously narrowed down the selection to nine dresses it didn’t take long for the girls to try them all on. Jordan’s mom offered her opinion on the dresses and while the girls changed we talked veils and flower girl dresses. In the end, we decided that as long as the last bridesmaid liked it we had our dress, so the ladies were measured and we met up with Jordan for dinner. After dinner we looked at shoes and tiaras.
While we didn’t decide on much and didn’t purchase anything I think that overall we made some good progress.
