Flower Girl Dresses

Well, now that we have our Bridesmaid dresses picked out, it's time to start thinking about flower girl dresses...

I was talking to Jennifer the other day (my cousin, and the mom of my adorable flower girls) and we both looked online at Mori Lee's website and go figure we both picked the same dress! It goes with the bridesmaid dresses PERFECTLY.


How cute is this?! And it has the band that is a perfect match to the bridesmaid dresses. This is the online version of coral, but let's hope the real thing isn't quite so orangy :)

Can't you just picture these cutie pies in this dress?!?
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(That's Reagan on the left, and Sarah on the right)

Jen is planning to take the girls to try it on some time after the holidays, and I can't wait to see pictures! I know they will be absolutely ADORABLE!

Cake Inspiration

So we've been going to cake tastings lately (2 last week, and scheduling a few more after the holidays), which has forced me to decide what I want our cake to look like. Matt obviously doesn't really care, as long as it tastes good he'll be happy. :) I've played around with quite a few ideas, and I honestly couldn't tell you what the cake will actually turn out like, but this is my current inspiration:

I LOVE the idea of a brown cake. I don't know how I never thought of it before, but I think it fits in perfectly with our wedding. And can't you just picture beautiful coral colored gerbera daisies cascading down the side? Oh I can. The only thing I would do differently from the cake pictured is to add some sort of topper...I'm thinking a nice sparkly "G"... We'll see about that.

We just have to find the cake baker that we love. We've met with 2, both were very nice and had very yummy cakes, but neither one stood out to us. So far, with every vendor I've just known when we met the right one. And Matt has always thought the same thing. But we're still undecided after meeting 2 cake people, so I'm thinking that means we need to keep looking. I was hoping to check this item off the list before the holidays, but I'm not thinking that is going to happen...

Dress shopping round 2...we have a winner!!

I just got back from a fun filled afternoon of dress shopping with my bridesmaids. We went to Mia's Bridal in Olathe, and it was a great experience! They were very helpful, and we came away with some great dress choices! Believe it or not, I have changed my mind (yet again...) and now all of the Bridesmaids are going to wear the same dress. Jessica, the Maid of Honor, will wear a different dress, but it coordinates with the others well.

So...without further ado...PICTURES!

The dresses are both by Mori Lee, and here are the pictures of them from their website:

Bridesmaid Dresses

Maid of Honor's Dress


The BMs dresses will be in the chocolate like its shown, but the part that's white in the picture will be coral. And the MOH dress will be all chocolate. ( I realize that in the picture here they look like completely different shades of brown, but I looked at swatches and the Chocolate is almost identical for both dresses :) )

And now pictures of my beautiful girls in their dresses!!
Jessica~Maid of Honor

A close up of the detail on Jessica's dress (ignore the silly face she's making...)


Ashley~Bridesmaid

Yet another silly face...I think we had too much fun today!!

Caitlin~Bridesmaid



Shelley~Bridesmaid


Detail of BM dresses (as modeled by Shelley...)



And last, to see what they look like together, a pic of Jessica and Ashley (clamped, zipped, and lookin HAWT!):



YAY! We made a decision! Finally. :) We haven't ordered them yet, I am now on the hunt for these dresses online so I can get them cheaper.


Jessie and Elaine, hope you guys like this dress!! hehe. But really, it was very flattering on everyone, so I'm sure you'll both look great in it.


I can't wait to actually order them! One more thing off the list... now I have to decide what the guys are going to wear. Ugh. It never ends...

Ladies and Gentlemen...we have a Guestbook!!

As you may (or may not) remember, I recently designed and ordered my guest book from Picaboo. I had a 50% off coupon code, so last week I decided to go for it and place the order... all in all with shipping I paid $23.99 for this bad boy!! Now that is a deal. Almost Mama T worthy! (if you are a member of my family, you know what I'm talking about. If not...Mama T is my grandma, and nobody - I mean nobody - can find a bargain like Mama T can!)

Well yesterday evening we had a knock on the door, and it was the UPS man, WITH OUR GUESTBOOK! I can't believe it arrived this fast, I just got the email saying it shipped like 2 days ago. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the actual book, but here is a sneak peek of the cover taken from the Picaboo Website:

I'd give you the link to look through the whole thing...but that ruins all the fun for those of you who are actually coming to the wedding! Gotta keep some things a surprise...I'll tell you this much - it's not your typical guestbook. Instead of boring blank pages with lines for everyone to sign their names, it is full of pictures of Matt and I (from when we were little up until our Engagement Pictures) and there is space around the pictures for everyone to sign and write us a message. This way, after the wedding we have an awesome keepsake! But you'll just have to come to the wedding to see the real thing ;)

How do I look?

You may or may not have noticed...but the blog has had a makeover recently! What do you think? I've been a *little* bored at work the last two days, and instead of working on my to-do list (one of the new additions to the blog...) I've been schnazzing up the blog. I know, I'm so productive aren't I. Well...hope you like it! Maybe I should actually do some work now...

VistaPrint ROCKS!

Ever since we got engaged (which, yes, I know, was an entire 6 MONTHS ago) I have been looking forward to sending Save the Date magnets out. Just because our engagement will be so long (just over a year) and I want to spread the good news about our wedding as soon as possible! Well, it has taken me FOREVER to actually get this Save the Date process going. First we had to take our engagement pictures and get the copyrighted CD (yes, I realize that was like 2 months ago...) and then I had to pick out which ones I wanted (you know me and decisions...) I orginally picked some out from Magnet Street, but was hesitating because of the price.

Well...then I discovered this wonderful thing called VistaPrint (and I have the Realies to thank for that!) Holy cow, if you haven't been to their website before, stop now and click on the link. You will be AMAZED. They have so much FREE stuff!!!!! And even the stuff that's not free is amazingly CHEAP!!!! So, they have a deal where you can get 10 magnets FREE - just pay shipping - and you can design your own and upload the design (for a small fee), or use one of their templates. Well, I have this wonderful $20 version of Photo Shop at home, and I thought I'd put it to some good use and see if I couldn't design my own Save the Date (ok, by design my own I mean copy the design I liked from the Magnet Street catalog...)

I ordered the 10 Free ones from VP, just to see what they looked like (I just couldn't commit to ordering the entire 100 of them...) and they came in yesterday!! I was going to post a picture, but I don't want to spoil the fun for those of you who will receive them in the mail!! Also, they aren't exactly what I wanted YET. I still need to tweak them a little before placing the final order.

I'll probably give in and post a picture when I get the final ones in :) But I just had to share my excitement. And enlighten everyone to VistaPrint!! Seriously, if you haven't checked it out...DO IT!!!!!!! You won't regret it! And sign up with your email address. You'll get an email just about every day, but it's totally worth it because the emails are full of FREE STUFF!! I have ordered all kinds of free stuff for Matt's "company", my Christmas cards, and I think I've *almost* convinced myself to design my own invitations! :o

Engagement Pics are on the wall!!

We had our Engagement photos taken by the amazing Josh Solar back in September. (click here to see my post about how awesome they were...) We went for an ordering session a few weeks later, and after looking at each picture a few hundred times I decided on 5, which we ordered with plans to mat and frame to hang in the living room. Well the pictures came in a couple months ago, but it took us a while to actually go get the frames (partially because I knew how expensive they were going to be, and was waiting for birthday gift cards to Hobby Lobby... :) We got them ordered a couple weeks ago (which let me tell you was another tough decision...who knew there were 100 different colors of mat board to choose from???) and went to pick them up this weekend. Yesterday, Matt got them all hung up, and they look GREAT! Even though I had a layout in mind when we ordered them, I still spent a good hour trying to decide how I wanted them on the wall. I had paper cut-outs that were the size of the frames and everything...testing the different ideas out on the wall. Well go figure, we ended up using the exact layout that I started with, so I did all that work for nothing. :) Oh well, they still look awesome!! And now for some pics...

I'll start with the zoomed out view, so you can get the "full effect" of how it looks in the living room.
A little closer...

And finally...a couple of close up shots.

I also received my free photo book from Snapfish in the mail today...I used every single one of our e-pics (yep, all 66 of them) in the album. I was originally going to print a 4x6 of each one and put them in a photo album, kind of like a proof album, but when I found out Snapfish was offering a free photo book deal, I figured I'd do that instead! It turned out pretty nice...especially since it was FREE (ok, not totally free, I still had to pay for the shipping, but close enough!)

Click here to see a preview.