Finally moving forward
Posted
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:01 PM
So yesterday, with my new found self knowledge, I did a little wedding research and later told M about it without any problems. I think that's what I was doing wrong before, I would do stuff all day, but then never tell him about it (thinking in my head he didn't want to know) but *lo and behold* he does want to know and was very receptive and helpful yesterday :-D woohoo!!
So a few things are moving forward. While I still don't know how much money there'll be in the budget for flowers, I started some flower research. I gotta tell you, I'm a pretty non-traditional person when it comes to, well, wedding stuff. All our local florists do not post anything but pretty flower pictures on their websites. Now, for the girl that loves pretty flowers and will spend hours pouring over which exact pretty flowers are for her, AND has all the time (or a wedding planner...) to call the florist, haggle prices etc, this is a wonderful method. For myself, who MUCH prefers to do EVERYTHING on the internet without the need for haggling/face to face contact, this is not good. So, I started looking into buying bulk flowers online. I contacted a few bridesmaids and they seemed to think it will be fun to make our own floral arrangements, so I think we're good to go there. Now I just have to decide what kind of flowers, (and as my MOH pointed out, figure out how to arrange flowers/what else we'll need).
My youngest sister (a bm) said initially she'd like to do the invites (she's a freshman in art college) which is awesome, however, she doesn't feel like she can provide what I'd like in an invite (a cute pirate/princess couple in a boat or something) but she told me she'll see if she can make friends with an illustration major in the next couple weeks... I told her if that doesn't work out we'll figure something out, I feel really bad because at first I told her I had no expectations, and then I proceeded to not like her idea (a drawing of M and me dressed as pirate/princess in profile)... man, I'm a crappy bride.
I started talking with my MOH about shower/bachelorette parties. I talked with M last night, and he said he's cool with an all female bridal shower (rather than a wedding shower) which sounds fun to me :-) So, now I need a brainstorming session with bridesmaids on this... and again, I told her I have no expectations, but now I'm feeling like maybe there are some things I would like... that's probably why she requested the brainstorming session...
Ok, I think that's all I did yesterday... enough?