My precious..

So-thanks so much to all of you for helping me come to my bridesmaid decisions.  We are going with the boots.  I'm so thrilled with my decision, and all the maids seem pretty excited too.  I still have to decide on the dresses, but we have time for that.

On to other things!  I fell in love with this bouquet 2 years ago when I saw my mom's boss's son's wedding pictures (follow me?)

I am O-B-S-E-S-S-E-D.

I emailed the picture to a friend of our family who is very into flowers.  She told me the flower is called a Protea.  However, I cannot seem to find them online.  The closest thing I found on google image search was this?

It's really not the same, huh.  Hmm.

So now my mission is to find these flowers.  Aren't they cool?  And won't they look great with these bouts?

F F F FEATHERS!!!

I seriously have a new obsession.  FEATHERS.

I want to incorporate them in every aspect of our wedding, and I've found quite a few inspiration photos to satiate this appetite for FEATHERS!!!

I love the feathers in this bouquet, but not so much the flowers...

Luckily I have some very fashionable and fabulous bridesmaids that can totally pull of wearing a dress with feathers...like this one...

Or this one....come...to...mama...

And of course the highly coveted shoes....

The DIY bouts are definitely going to have some feathers in them...

Oh yeah.  This is totally going to become a reality.YUM.

Thoughts on feathers, ladies???

A busy weekend...

Ok, here goes a long post with lots of fun wedding details...

Friday night we baby sat for the munchkins that I nanny for.  I truly love when Vince and I get to watch the kids together, because it makes my heart melt to see him with them.  He is so patient (he spent 30 minutes on this one book answering every single "why" question from Tyler) and he loves them so much.  I literally cannot imagine what it will be like to see him with our kids one day.  I can't wait!!

(check out Vince's standard weekend "comfy" outfit.  Sexy.)

On Saturday my mom and I headed up to the mountains to check out some wedding stuff.  We got to meet with our AMAZING DOC and venue owner, Suzy.  She is seriously an amazing woman who truly loves what she does.  We found out some AWESOME information: I thought our custom package and price was for 100 guests.  I've been stressing out about cutting the guest list to keep it to 100, and she told us on Saturday that our price includes 150 guests!!!!  That is the biggest load off-I cannot even explain to you!

So...after we met with Suzy we met with a cake lady, and I showed her the EXACT cake I want.  She quoted us a great price, and her cake tasted delicious.

I can't remember where I found this wedding, but I love so much about it...

I love this cake, and I cannot wait to see it in our venue with our cake toppers.

One of my biggest dilemmas right now is what to have the grooms wear.  Vince does not want them to have to buy anything.  He wants them to wear a black suit that they already have.  I'm thinking no.  I love this look below: 

Another big development is the dress.  We thought my mom was going to make my dress.  After a lot of discussion, we decided this might be too difficult and stressful for her and me.  SO, I have been looking at Nordstrom and Dillards online...here's what I like.  But I have to try them on of course...

I still want super simple and no poof.  So I cannot wait to try these on.  Although, I am still 40 pounds away from my goal weight, so it will be hard to tell right now what I will look like on the wedding day!

I'm OBSESSED with this boutonniere .  It's so manly and DIY friendly, don't you think?

So thats all for now.  I'm sorry I'm not too bubbly today, but there is some not so fun wedding stuff going on right now that has me really down.  I'll go into more detail later, but I will say that I can totally relate to all the girls who blogged about fighting with your fiance in the midst of wedding planning.  It's not fun, and I'm so confused as to what I should do right now so as not to offend him or his family.  Wish me luck!