Additional Bridesmaid

I have recently been in contact with my oldest best friend (not old as in age though), Lacy. Over time we grew our separate ways, and didn't really lose communication but we both became busy and involved in our own stuff and just talked rarely and would see each other only a couple times a year because she lives in Fort Worth (she moved away when we were kids, like 10 or 11). Since we have been in contact here recently and our interests have met again,  I decided to make her an additional member of the bridal party! Check in over at our other website for a biography about her if you want! She is also on facebook too as Lacy DenBoer if you would like to get to know her!

Addresses

People have been asking a lot here lately about the date of the wedding but since it is an intimate, immediate family, small budget wedding in Texas we are having a pre-wedding party in Fort Smith before the actual wedding (February 26 2011) where we will be celebrating with all our family and friends! If you would like to go ahead and give me your addresses if you wish to attend the pre-wedding party you can. You can email me your name, address and how many people in your family (including children) will tentatively be there. My email is kharrima@gmail.com   .


We have kinda taken a break from the planning currently with school finals, David graduating with his bachelor's, both of working, I am currently dog-sitting for my neighbor, and then trying to keep my apartment clean from neglecting it over finals week, I got rear-ended last week so I am having to deal with that stuff too! So as you can see the wedding planning has taken a back seat! I am working on choosing the design for the wedding cake this week before my summer classes start next week!

Venue has been booked

The venue is officially booked!!! The Hilton Garden Inn in Granbury, Texas!!! For both of their conference rooms, foyer, tables, linens, setup, cleanup, etc. the grand total is $850!!! It is quite a bargain to be such a beautiful place. For those of you who are going to be in the wedding or know for you sure are coming you might want to start thinking about hotel accommodations. I know it still a littles less than a year away but Granbury's annual festival and General Granbury celebration is the weekend of our wedding. Some hotel rooms at the Hilton are already booked for that weekend. My mom is calling this coming week to reserve a room for  me and my bridal party (a bridal suite). For the 19th, David and I are staying at a hotel downtown Fort Worth. (The Renaissance Worthington).  Just keep in mind if you are staying in Granbury for the wedding day (19th) you might want to book asap. If not, you might want to consider staying in Fort Worth (you will have cheaper options). The night life is good there and you have many more options. Springbreak is the week following the wedding so some of you may want to have a little mini-vacation or something down there if you can!! I am getting excited, it's starting to kind of sink in that I'm actually getting married!  For complete information of the Hilton Garden Inn, visit: http://www.mywedding.com/kaladavid/events.html

YAY!!! Venue and Dress

Well Asa and I had a great time going back to Texas. We looked at several other venues we had not seen yet. One of my favorites was the Belltower Chapel in Fort Worth and the Hilton Garden Inn in Grandbury. After thinking about the location, price, stipulations, etc of each, I think the Hilton Garden Inn is going to be the venue. I still love the Liberty hotel, but it is so small. Due to fire code's only 35 people could attend and that would include the bride, groom, photographer, officiant etc. The Hilton is out over a lake and is gorgeous!!! When we came home, the next day I started looking at dresses here. I loved the first one I tried on. The bad thing is it was on clearance, discontinued and they literally only had one dress....and it was in my size! Mom and Kara agreed that I should go ahead and buy it and keep looking just in case I find something else I like better. I would hate to pass on that dress then several months down the road know that the first one I tried on was my favorite and it was gone. So I bought the dress!! I love it!!  If you want pics I will email/text you if you will let me know you want them. Overall, it was a very productive weekend in my opinion.

Going back to TX

Asa and I are going to TX over Spring Break. We have a bunch more venues we are going to look at and check out. I still really like the Liberty Hotel, but Kara and Mark's secretary Crystal said that the columns in the room might pose a problem for decorations and a clear view for those sitting. There are a few more places I have found that I really like. I am not ruling anything out but just keeping all options open. I love the Hilton Garden Inn!!! Its affordable and beautiful!!! I will post pictures of our travels!!!!

Progress Being Made

Last night, Asa and I sat down for hours and did a lot of planning (time of wedding, days of events prior to the wedding, deadlines for stuff , etc!) . If you will look at the website in bold red above this posting, you will find details about the wedding, accommodations, accomodation prices, address of the wedding, day and time of the wedding, bridal/groom party biographies and pictures, etc. I know it is a quite ahead of time, but just so everyone can keep their calendars open and know what the details are:

February 19- Pre-Wedding Party in Fayetteville for our friends

February 26- Pre-Wedding Party/Wedding Shower in Fort Smith for family/ last half of the day/night Bachelorette Party

March 4-6- We are going to TX to get marriage license and make sure everything is squared away with the baker, florist, photographer, etc.

March 11-12 Asa and I are taking a trip

March 18- Rehearsal and Rehearsal Dinner

March 19- Wedding at 4pm

Also for bridesmaids, I just decided knee-length for the dress. Y'all can all get together and decide what neckline and strap width, style y'all want. I want you all to get dresses that yo Dillards u actually like and would want to wear again!! You by no means have to get them at David's Bridal, feel free to get one from Penny's or or whatever you can find to fit your budget. I have also created a facebook group for the grooms party and the bridal party so we can all chat together about stuff like this.

Pretty sure we have chosen a venue!

I am pretty sure we have chosen the venue! As much as I wanted the ranch to be our venue, I wanted it specifically for the beautiful outdoor reception I had put together in my mind. But it is about two hours from Fort Worth, and the weather in March in TX is unpredictable. I also feel like it is a waste of money to pay for just one part of the wedding I would love. So, I think we are going to use The Libety Hotel in Cleburne, TX. It's just a few minutes away from Kara's house and about 20-30 mins from downtown Fort Worth. They have two rooms available to rent. One holds about 35 people, the other holds about 45 people. The lady I spoke to said she didn't know for sure but the manager would possibly give me a discount for renting out both rooms at the same time. The smaller room holding 35 people is $200, the larger room holding $45 people is $250. (excluding a possible discount). I could rent out the smaller room for the ceremony and the larger room for the reception. Table and chairs are included with the rental price, outside catering is allowed, and a projector comes with the rental fee as well so we can plug our music into the projector with a laptop and possibly a slideshow if we want to get really sentimental. Here are pictures of the hotel.

Official

Well I called the school today and asked about Spring Break for 2011. It is from March 21-25 so the official date of the wedding is March 19!!!

Idea for Ceremony!!!!!

Here is an idea for what we are thinking about the ceremony!! See the lattice in the sunroom? We want to completely cover it in toule. Then see the columns? We want to string pink toule from top to bottom. We want to take an entire strand of Christmas lights and put it behind the pink toule and just let it hand in a straight line. We want to hang pink Chinese lanterns in the trees on the outside of the sunroom. I also want the wedding aisle to be lined with candles!! The tree trunks on the outside could also be wrapped fully in pink and white "christmas" lights!!!

More Accomplished in Texas

Well our trip to TX was semi-successful this past weekend. We had some communication issues. We went to meet with a baker in Burleson on Saturday. I had called Thursday and asked if we needed an appointment to try the cakes, she said no. I get there on Saturday she says we need an appointment. So we ended up just getting a free cupcake. We spend the rest of the day driving around Fort Worth and went to Central Market and the mall (where we saw someone get caught shoplifting from an electronics store!). We went and looked at Kara's church(the picture on the left) as a possible ceremony location as well as a couple of other churches her friends had been married at before (image to the right) We also found a hotel in Cleburne that is really neat looking and has daily room rentals available for $200, which is amazing because most places only rent out by the 1/2 day or by 4-6 hours and its reaching $800-$1,000. (image directly below) This was relief and it is nice looking. Most places that are that cheap are pretty ugly looking honestly. Mark has a personal assistant/secretary that is really good at coordinating and decorating stuff like this so she is going to help me when she isn't busy with Mark's stuff! Mark and Kara took us out to Ruth's Chris for dinner Saturday night. Then Sunday we drove about an hour an half maybe two hours to meet the lady at the ranch. We were all there waiting but she wasn't there so I called her and asked her where she was and said I was an hour late and she had just gotten home so we would have to reschedule for another time. I was pretty disappointed about that. But we did get a good feel for the place and peeked in through the windows and took pictures as well. I do feel that it is do-able and would be a beautiful place to have the reception outside by the pool and light up all the trees with Christmas lights and put floating candles in the pool. (image to the right and below) And the ceremony in the sunroom. (sunroom is the image or the left) After we looked around there we met a baker that runs her business out of her home in Carrollton with two two-layer 8" cakes (one was chocolate sour-cream with white mousse filling, the other was white chocolate with grand mariner filling). She was very nice and very cheap as well (only $2 a serving). We stopped at a Carls JR on the way home and tried them! They are very good. So right now I have it narrowed down to two venues. Either the ranch or the ceremony at Kara's church and the reception at Liberty Hotel in Cleburne. Below I will post the rest of the images of the ranch so you can get a better feel for what it looks like. You will see images of the entry way, the fire pit, the dining hall, the main view of the ranch itself, the kitchen