Arbor Pt. II

This is the arbor in our backyard that we are going to get married under.

In other news, today we got fabric wallpaper for the family room, chrome molding, a brass chandelier for the dining room, plants for the front and backyard, and curtains for the library all for free from a friend of Gordon's mom's. Woo! I love free awesome stuff!

Arbor

Our arbor that we are going to get married under is up at out house with the mandevilla flowering vines growing up it in pots on either side (this makes it easy to transport to Jeff's but enables us to take care of it). Here is a picture of it that I found online (ours is new and hasn't bloomed yet):

I will take pictures of the arbor tomorrow when we have our memorial day bbq. Yay Ludwig's in town!

Yay affordable cute wedding shoes!

I found the perfect shoes for me for the wedding a few weeks back but they didn't have my size. So I found them online but they didn't have my size there either. So I checked google shopping, amazon, and a whole bunch of other places, but to no avail. Until yesterday. Alison came over and I showed her the shoes I wanted and we decided to call DSW and see if they got my size in, which they did! And the fit perfectly. They're flat and adorable and look like they will go great with my dress. Plus I can totally wear them after the wedding! Yay practical and affordable!

Next, I really need to figure out my bra situation for my dress...

LOST!!!

Gordon said we could pre-order LOST the complete series on blu-ray in 3 weeks (we need more paychecks)!!!!

I personally liked the finale a lot, even though we didn't get a lot of answers, it tied up the series nicely.

Plants

Today we (and by we, I mean Gordon, Kate, John, Beryl, and Jeff and briefly Ed) planted the plants around the area of Jeff's property where we're going to have the ceremony. Kate got some beautiful plants from Daisy Gardens in Bayport. I got there just as they were about to put the mulch down. Then we went out to eat where we always go to eat when we go to Locust Valley, The American Cafe in Glen Cove. The have the best comfort/soul food and dessert.

I had to drive home alone since I went there after work, but I enjoyed it by listening to Laura Marling, Josh Ritter, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, and ended it with listening to my future wedding song, The Gambler by fun. It actually made me tear up. Sometimes I get frustrated, overwhelmed, and anxious with life, but I have an amazingly blessed life and love.

Right now Gordon and I are going to Hungtington to a friend's sibling's grad party. We went to the same type of event last year. Ah how much has changed in a year.

Cake Tasting in the New Millenium!

Picture explanation: Bags A, B, and C are coconut frosting. The bags below are chocolate frosting. The little bag in the middle is coconut shaving. The bag under the yellow letter is the cake bits.

So as you probably know, my sister Meghan (savingintherain.com) is baking our cake. It's going to be a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting on the inner layers and coconut frosting on the outside with coconut shavings. Since she lives in Washington and won't be here before the wedding, she sent us "cake tasting in a bag". Can I just say, it looks delicious. The cake is soft and there are three different coconut frostings for us to try and three different chocolate frostings to try (ranging from milk chocolate to dark chocolate). This may be the best part of the wedding planning.

In other wedding planning news, the future MIL ordered some vines for the arbor we're getting married under and flowers and plants to put in this weekend at Jeff's house. I put down a deposit for the food and will be getting a rental memo about the dinnerware via email soon (I hope). This weekend or next we will hopefully put down our deposit for the tents and tables and chairs.

Also in planinning news (wow, a lot has been going on this week), I found out that the place I was look to get my hair and makeup done is faaaar too expensive. So my trusty and amazing wedding coordinator, code name Beanie, has been calling salons closer to the wedding site for prices and locations, so we can check them out in a few weeks. I'm hoping by making it more affordable, that more of my bridal party will go with me.

I am getting very excited about everything. I really hope it turns out to be the beautiful garden wedding it seems to be coming along as. And I am so grateful to the people who have been so helpful with money, time, and patience.

BMW

Here is the car we are looking into getting. I think Gordon falls in love with it the more he thinks about it. Plus I would get to learn to drive stick in a BMW