Happy 1 month into the New Year!
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:28 PM
It’s been about a month and a half since my last entry. Things got a bit busy since then. I guess to begin we went off to Key West for New Years…it was a great trip as always. We had our New Years Even dinner at the same waterfront restaurant where we got engaged just 5 months earlier…we even snagged the same table where it all happened!! It was very romantic…dinner was great; we talked and relived all the memories of our engagement night (so sweet!!). It was a perfect New Years.
Since we returned from our trip everything just has picked up!! Work was a little crazy with the start of the New Year and on top of it wedding planning has begun to kick into high gear…we had slacked on wedding planning for a almost a good 2 months due to the holidays. Early January we met with our photographer and had our “Engagement Session” pictures taken…last night we were back at the photographer to pick out the “keeper” pics. We picked out some pics to be made up for our parents and also we are having a folio made up for ourselves that will be framed and matted…I’m so excited…the pics all came out so great! In June we have whats called a “Love Story Session”, for this our photographers will be taking us to the beach…I can’t wait! Also we have met with our Pastor and have begun our counseling sessions…we’ve had one so far just last Sunday and another scheduled in 2 weeks. Our first one went well…it was pretty light…we just talked about what each of us believed to be the strengths and growths of our relationship. I’m sure it will get more intense in the next few sessions…I will keep you posted. Lastly we’ve been working on getting our honeymoon booked…needless to say it’s been stressful. My fiancé has been taking care of most of the planning as he wanted the honeymoon to be his duty (fine by me)…but we have decided together that we want to go to Bora Bora and it just has not been easy getting all the logistics down. We had everything booked…and already within 2 weeks of booking our original flight was cancelled. So now we are trying to re-work everything with our reps. It’s just so difficult because there are few flights that go out there and most flights out there only fly on set days…and with the major time zone change it’s tough working everything out. Thank God we have started to work on this 8 months before the wedding…who knew booking a trip could be so difficult. My advice…start working on the honeymoon ASAP…especially if you are going to a really exotic place…it’s nothing like booking a trip to Florida when you are booking these small islands in the middle of nowhere!
So that’s where we stand right t now…as you can see 8 months to go and things are already quite busy. My next thing is for my girls to pick out their dresses. We have a dress/lunch date set for March 1st. Hopefully all will go well and dresses will be ordered. My philosophy is to take care of as much as I can early on because things are just going to get nuts in the 3 months prior to the wedding…all the meetings with vendors, finalizing details, making sure everything is ordered up…it can get quite overwhelming…so the less that’s left to last minute…the better!!!