Bridesmaid Dress Chosen!

We have decided on a bridesmaid dress. Most of you tried it on at some point. The lady said that it is best to order the dresses 6 months in advance. It takes about six weeks for them to come in once you have ordered them. If you want, you can go ahead and buy them now and if you lose or gain weight you can get it altered to fit you. The lady said she had no way of knowing how long they would have this particular dress. The only clue she could give me was that if it goes on sale, you need to get it because that means it is fixing to be gone and they wont order anymore of them. I put the dress on my "file" at Davids Bridal. So if you go to go buy it, just tell them you need to buy/order the dress. Give them my name (I am listed in AR, although you can purchase it at any Davids Bridal in the US) and they will know the dress and that it should be black. You should also get either a 20% or $20 off discount because I bought my dress there. Make sure they give you your discount. I personally do not care what shoes you wear, or your hair. I do not know how I will do my hair yet. As far as jewelry goes, I will be wearing a pearl necklace. It is completely up to you how you want to do all that. The dress is $135 before tax and before your discount. I hope that fits everyones budget. Let me know when you guys buy the dress or if we want to all pack up together (at least us AR girls, Lillie, Allyson, Asa) and we can all go together or whatever yall want to do. Hope you have a great rest of the weekend! The style number is 83475 just in case you need it for anything. Here is the link too http://www.davidsbridal.com/Product_Short-Taffeta-Dress-with-Ruching-and-Bubble-Skirt-83475_Bridal-Party-Bridesmaids-Shop-By-Length-Short-Bridesmaid-Dresses

4 of the 5 Bridesmaids in the dress we have chosen!

Still in Texas

Well I am still in Texas. Slowly but surely accomplishing some stuff! Kara, Lacy and I went bridesmaid dress shopping yesterday and we have decided on a dress. They tried on several dresses and it was tough to decide but we did it!haha. Were going to go to some florists Monday. Can't remember if I told y'all but we went to The Jalapeno Tree in Granbury. It was SOO good. Some of the best mexican food I have ever had. Last night I spent the night with Lacy. We started on the invitations. Lacy has made some place card holder stands for the reception tables out of polymer clay. She did an awesome job on them. Then she started experimenting and made a calla lillie stand. I think we are going to use the calla lillies. She made both pink and white. They are so neat looking! I am very impressed. A friend of David and mine, Jennifer, got engaged at a family gathering last night! funny cause her fiances last name is Lopez so she will be Jennifer Lopez when she get's married! I think we may do some planning together when I get back from Texas. I am not really sure what the plan is from here. Flowers, planning where the decorations will go, figuring out hair style, etc. (Kara didn't want her face in the picture so I blurred it) lol

Hotel

Well we went to Granbury today to view the hotel and taste the entree (which was pretty good!). We crossed a couple things off our list and added about 1900 things!! We got a ton of things measured and kinda figured out the ceremony. We thought we had a lot more room than we do. We had planned on making each row of the aisle have 4 seats but there isn't going to be enough room for that. We drug all the chairs out of the reception room in to the foyer to kind of create the ceremony. We had no idea what we were doing and wondered why we tried to wedding plan un-chaperoned without someone who knows what they are doing...like Asa, or Crystal. lol. We went and ate a Mexican restaurant to check out places for the rehearsal dinner. We also looked at some salons but didn't find very much.Tomorrow we are going to Garden Ridge, looking at Bridesmaid dresses and stuff then go back to Granbury to eat at another Mexican restaurant and see what the hotel looks like at dusk/dark when they wedding will be. I was hoping to come home Monday but I don't think we will get all the stuff done in time.

Flowers

I drove to Tulsa yesterday after I got off work and parked my truck at Papa Davids. He had a dentist appointment so Lillie, one of my bridesmaids, picked up. She is from Tulsa and was there visiting family. We went to David's Bridal and she tried on the same dress you saw Asa try on previously. Her first comment through the dressing room door was, "...Oh Kala, I'm so glad you are not making us wear this yellow cause I just don't think I can." haha. Of course the dress will be black. She liked the dress. The wedding flowers are stressing me out!!! My biggest problem is that I like sooo many things and I feel like none of it will all tie together if I pick one of everything I like. As of right now, the bridesmaids, will have alternating colors of bouquets between pink and white. My bridal bouquet will be a pink and white combination. We are going to do two pink wreaths on the doors to the foyer. But there are still so many decision of where to put other flowers...sign in table, cake table, wedding favor table, reception tables, head table of the reception, there are some marble counters in the reception room, aisle flowers and altar flowers!! If you have a facebook I would love to have your opinion on some things. Most of you know my "fashion style" and I would also love some ideas for some hair styles for the wedding.  Tomorrow Kara is taking the boys to "school" (Daycare kind of thing) and we are going to the hotel to sample the entree I have chosen for the reception (well I guess to make sure I want to choose this as the reception dinner!). I will let y'all know how it tastses.

To view my wedding scene I have created click on this link http://www2.davidsbridal.com/dyw/details_public.jsp?w=BHMLIICAAH&v=IJDBBMFAAC

This is what I mean by alternating the bouquets and stuff. This is also the dress I think my bridesmaids might wear.

Trial run for the sparklers

Ray came over last night and we decided to do a trial run of some mega-neon-sparklers (which will be the "exit" thing instead of birdseed or rice). It was somewhat amusing. I lit my sparkler first and it did it's thing. It was pretty neat! Then David lit his sparkler off of mine, while mine was still burning then Ray lit his sparkler off of David's. David and Ray's sparkler smoked until the bottom then it started "sparkling" then the sparkler climbed back up to the top. Mine didn't do this at all!. haha. So I think we should make sure everyone has at least 2 sparklers in case one is a dud and we are going to have to make sure everyone has a lighter at hand because sparklers don't last long. It was really pretty though!!

Invitations are officially my least favorite part of weddings right now

Okay, so the beautiful invitations I ordered online for super cheap ($96) were not so marvelous after all. I get them from UPS and its a very small box. I am thinking to myself "Wow, how did they fit 100 invitations in this little box with all that ribbon and everything?!" I found out after I opened them and realized the ribbon was fake!!! It was just a photograph of ribbon!! I was so mad! It's kinda funny now that I know the "Zazzle Promise" lets me send them back and get my money back! So I looked at invitations on the internet again, back to square one. Finding them for around $200 and nothing I found was just so amazing that I would spend the extra money just to have them made because they were so cute. I went to Inscriptions downtown Fayetteville and couldn't find anything I like for less than $300. So I went back to the original plan and decided I would just make them myself. I went away from that plan just to try to save myself some time and hassle by having to make them but oh well. So I went to Office Max to get the actual invitation/wording part printed on white canvas paper. That was going to be way cheaper than using my up ink which is $40 a cartridge. When I spoke with a lady on the phone about them she said it would take about 24 hours. I get there in person and am getting it all straightened out and the lady says next Tuesday ( 5 or 6 days later than what it was currently). I had planned on putting them together over the weekend, but I guess not. So Tuesday comes around, which is perfect because Asa was coming over that night. I thought we could spend out evening watching TV and putting invitations together. But after 6pm I called Office Max wondering why they hadn't called me and it was because my invitations were not done! So finally yesterday (Wednesday) I get an email telling me they are ready to be picked up. After waiting in line for 1/2 an hour at the print desk, the guy pulls them out and they are the wrong color and wrong size!!! I was there for over an hour straightening it out (at least trying). I finally felt confident after I left Office Max thinking, okay, surely things will be right from now!! Well I have a missed call from them this morning, and the lady that originally took my order that messed up the ink and size wanted to know "why I changed my mind about the size we had discussed." I just told her that the ink was wrong anyway so they were still gonna have to be re-printed and left it at that. I have never had to deal with such a hassle about something!! It should be Monday before I get the prints of these done. So if anyone wants to come up next week and assemble invitations please feel free :-)  I have also realized I have more planning to do than I realized. Me, mom and Kara went to Hobby Lobby Monday to shop for stuff like vases, and candles, etc. But then I realized I have no idea what I want because I don't know what is going where. So I am trying to figure out where to put decorations and stuff. I am also still working on the flower thing and trying to reduce the cost of the $7100 flower estimate! I really am not that picky it just seems that any flower I pick out happens to be expensive. I am not sure what flowers are expensive and what flowers aren't so that doesn't help. Also, if anyone has any chair linen covers that people use for weddings, could you let me know please. That is another thing I still need to either buy or rent. The cost for renting or buying is about the same so I am thinking we will probably buy them so we can sell them and get some money back for them. But I am not for sure. Also, if you have any flower advice please let me know!!