By Popular Demand

Ok, here's a bit of my dress.  I have also included the link to see the full dress.  HOWEVER-as with all wedding dresses, the picture just doesn't do it justice!  

Also, I will be wearing the sleeves up instead of slouchy like the model is wearing them.  

Jacquelin 9700

So-what do you think???

To have and to hold...

I got it.

I got my dress.

I was on my way to get a smoothie for sick Vince when I passed a discount bridal shop.  

I thought, "hey, I'll just run in and see if I like anything."

And there it was.

On a SALE rack no less.

In all of it's lacy glory.

With capped sleeves.

It's gorgeous.  It has every single quality I was looking for 

1) lace

2) capped sleeves

3) light weight

4) no poof

5) affordable

AND, I got them to knock off another 100 bucks!

check, check, check, check, check.

Do you want to see a picture of it?

Hmmm...I'll have to think about it.

An Amazing Weekend...

We had such an incredible weekend! 

We had family come in town on Friday, and the party was Saturday night.  Saturday was a fun day filled with decorating, cooking and laughing.  We took a break to get our nails done and it was so much fun to have some time with my aunt, sister and sister-in-law.  We had a blast decorating, and my aunt and mom went over the top with the Paris theme.  Here is the dining room table before the food went out...

Aunt Renee spent so long getting the Eiffel tower to look just right with the lights.  Isn't is gorgeous?

Table again...

My aunt on the left and mom on the right getting the decorations out.

Here are my glasses with name tags that the lovely Julia helped me come up with. 

They turned out so cute, and everyone loved the touch of having a glass with their name on it.  

On Sunday we went to a bridal shop to try on some dresses.  It was a bittersweet experience for me.  I tried on the Jessica dress and she is BEAUTIFUL!  However, it's pretty frustrating to not be a size that I'm comfortable with right now.  I was so sad trying on dresses that were all half the size I actually wear.  

Due to the sadness that was trying on dresses, I have a new obsession with losing weight, and I'm going to be super diligent about it again.  I've lost 12 pounds on Weight Watchers, but I've kind of slacked lately.  Back on the FIT TRAIN!

In your wedding dress...

Have any of you heard that Matt Nathanson song, "in your wedding dress"?  It's amazing and Vince recently admitted to me that it brought tears to his eyes once when he was listening to my iPod mix.  He's such a cutie.

ANYWAY, here is the dress I am coveting at the moment.  I found it in the most recent Inside Weddings magazine (which incidentally is the first and only wedding magazine I've bought since we've been engaged)

It's called the Jessica and I love her.  

Isn't the back gorgeous???

If you know me at all, you would know that POOF is NOT my thang.  I'm getting married on a farm, folks.  I want to be as casual as one can actually be on her wedding day wearing a gown.  

I also like this one a lot.  I came across it on the Davids Bridal website and I think it's so pretty and simple.  

Our engagement party is next weekend, and I'm so excited.  My *favorite* aunt and uncle are coming in town from Florida for the party.  Since everyone will be here, we are going to do the whole wedding dress shopping trip next Sunday after the party.  I'm very excited.  I've made an appointment here and they have the Jessica, so I can't wait to see her in person!

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!