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our BIG day!

what a fabulous one it was!

my post is going to be short and full of pics (those are the best ones anyway, right?)...more to come later as i get some free time!

blurb guestbook

i made one! it's on its way. soon, i hope! (i upgraded the shipping for $0.60 more to have 2-day delivery - i mean, really? $0.60?)

here is a sneak peek preview of the cover:

and, like erica said, you can use any font already installed on your computer! so i used gotham, which is one of the two fonts used on our paper products. i really like how it turned out! i can't wait for the final product to come...!

my bachelorette party!

saturday was my big girly party and i had a riot! we started off at my house with a *ton* of food (mostly made by my sweet bridesmaids) and fun drinks - a homemade mojito mix and cosmos. we played a fun game called "how well do you know your groom?" which involved me taking jello shots when i got the answer wrong. then we played a game where i had to guess who got me each gift, and of course take a shot when i got it wrong! needless to say, i was quite a few deep into jello shots to start off the night!

the limo came a couple of hours later and we were off to a dueling pianos bar and ended the night at a local 80s dance club. it was FUN! i won't go into details (ahem...) but a fun night was had by all! here are some photos from the evening!

first up - the bride with her bridesmaids! they told all the guests to wear black and asked me to wear a bright outfit - which i think turned out so cute!

here's me and my future mother-in-law (left) and my mom!
here are 2 of my bridesmaids inspecting an "interesting" gift someone got me! LOL!
and here's me at the piano bar up on stage!

all in all...it was a fabulous night and i felt so loved by all of my friends! (we won't talk about things that happened after the piano bar...)

rehearsal dress dilemma

simply put: i couldn't find ANYTHING! here's how it went down in chicago:

i wanted white.
i couldn't find white.
i decided i could do white with a print.
i couldn't find white with a print.
i said, "fine, i'll do a LBD."
i couldn't find a LBD.

but then...THEN...we stopped into ann taylor loft. it's not a place i regularly shop, or in fact, i don't think i've ever bought anything there. it's not really my style. anyway, we went in and i spotted THIS beauty:

image from here.

it was perfect. it fit perfectly. it was comfortable. it was EVERYTHING i wanted! i bought it and i love it.

rehearsal dress dilemma SOLVED!

oh PS...and how appropriate the color's name is lake blue? :)

my FAVORITE accessory...

...no, it's not my fabulous shoes (i'm not biased, am i?), or even my most sparkly jewelry...

it arrived in this box the other day all the way from new york...

the box itself is beautiful, i think!

...ta da! my custom fabric flower! oh how gorgeous it is in person...! it is made of silk taffeta and there is a light organza material they weaved throughout.

again, this will be pinned to the upper right or left "corner" of my dress. i can't wait to see how it looks at my next fitting! yay!

GPYC visit

last week, geoff and i went up to the club to meet our florist. she was so sweet and is such a fun "vendor," although i consider most of our vendors "friends." anyway, while we were there, the club was being set up for fleet review...which coincidentally is the same setup for a wedding. so we got to see some tables and the captain's table that we chose!

now, take out that blue and white and add some gold, silver, and pearl with some navy and apple green to imagine our look!