Blushing Bride

A beautiful card...

     The other day we came home and there was a card in the door.  It was an engagement card from my Aunt Kay, her husband Fred, and my cousin Paul.  I wanted to post a picture of it on the blog because Scott and I had a good laugh. The ring on the front of the card looks just like my engagement ring.  So much so that Scott assumed my Aunt had bought it from the same jewelery store he purchased my ring.
Thanks Aunt Kay! :)

7 is my lucky number...

     We'll have a big wedding party.  Scott and I already knew that.  We think its going to be an uneven one as well. I tried to wait to ask in person, but I spilled the beans over the phone with my old college roommate Kaleena last night. She's the 7th lady to be a bridesmaid.  I was a bridesmaid in her wedding back in May 2006. 

I cried like a baby! She was the most beautiful bride. 
Scott plans to ask 5 of his friends to be in the wedding.

  So we'll have two girls walk down together instead of with a groomsman.  Or maybe we'll have two of the groomsman have a gal on each arm.
It doesn't matter to me.  All I care about is that my girlfriends will be there with me.
I've chosen all of them for different reasons.  I could have chosen 10 or 15 girls.  I have the best group of friends, so it was difficult just narrowing it down to 7.
We'll make it work.  It'll be a bit crowded at the altar.  My mom had the idea of having a riser with a couple people standing behind us.  I think that's the plan right now if we can make it happen.
The head table will be big.  But all I have to say is... the more the merrier!

We registered...

     Scott and I went over to The Bay today and began our wedding registry.  We got the zapper! If you don't know what the zapper is, its this electronic scanner that allows you to store products you want and add them to your registry.  We didn't make much progress today.  The registry is looking pretty empty.  Only 3 things so far. A freezer, a vacuum cleaner, and a Nintendo Wii. Yes, a Wii!  We've always wanted one and we thought, why not ask for it? If we don't get it, then too bad.
     I'm going to go back with my mom sometime soon and look at some of the kitchen tools and other things I wouldn't think of.
     The whole idea of a registry is pretty cool. We can put whatever we want on it, if we don't get it as a wedding or shower gift we have a full year past our wedding date to buy it for ourselves.  If we buy it for ourselves we get a discount.  So we are going to put down the stove we need so badly.  We'll just buy it for ourselves after the wedding.  And for registering we got a $25 gift card. Not bad.

Short notice...

     Just found out there is a Bridal Show at the Holiday Inn in Oshawa today.  The bride plus one guest get in for free.  Starts at noon. 

They won!

     We spent our anniversary at the baseball diamond. Scott's slo-pitch team, Bases Drunk (don't ask) played in the finals for their division. Surprisingly they won! I say surprisingly because last year the team came dead last in the standings. What a comeback story!
    Since we didn't get to spend quality time together, Scott threw out the idea of celebrating our anniversary on our future wedding anniversary. So, next Friday is our day, October 3. 
    I left my gift for him at work because we said no gifts until next week.  Still, I came home from work yesterday and he had a long stem blue rose for me, yes blue, so cool and a lovely card... in rhyme.  Who knew he could rhyme? Thanks again Scott!
    The rose is in one piece right now...but I don't know for how long.  Finnegan has already tried to eat it. 

Invitations...

     My friend Melissa gave me the link to this website.  Trixie Blue Invitations.  I love the way Marija (the designer) lays out the invitations. You can fit so much information. And the graphics are great. I've just contacted her to get some information about them.  I'd like her to create a different graphic for ours. I do like the daisy.  I'd change the colour to orange and it would look like a gerbera for our fall themed wedding.

Happy Anniversary!

     Today is our 5 year anniversary. Scott and I have been together since my second year of college. We were both in the Broadcast Journalism program at Loyalist College. We didn't know each other during the first year of the course.  We were in separate sections.  I always thought he was cute though. 
    We started talking to each other in the beginning of September 2003. From then on we were inseparable.
We hung out together 24/7. I never thought I'd be lucky enough to date someone who was my best friend.  Now, in a little less than a year I'll be marrying my best friend.

    Happy Anniversary Scott! I love you!

The list...

     When Scott and I began planning our wedding we guessed at how many people we'd invite to the wedding.  We said about 150-175.  Well, I've just started making out the list and I'm at 168.  That's not including Scott's co-workers and baseball teammates. And we don't have a list of names from Scott's parents yet.  They say they'll invite about 25 people.
     Heydenshore fits up to 325 people. We never imagined we'd have that many people, but it looks like we'll be in the 200's.  I didn't realize we knew that many people, but we do and we want everyone to be apart of our big day.
     Now with over 200 people that's a big cost for food and drinks.  Is there a polite way to ask someone just to the dance?

Scott and I...

Pre-Honeymoon Holiday...

     She booked it! I'm a bridesmaid in my friend Shannon's wedding this May. The wedding is in Mexico. Shannon and her fiance Andrew just finalized the plans. Scott probably won't be able to make the trip. 
     I wish someone could have told a colony of carpenter ants to party in someone else's house.
Our savings have diminished over the past month.  We hired an exterminator to get rid of the insects building a new home in our dining room wall.  It was so loud we thought we had mice. I was freaked out at the thought of having mice, then when we found out it was ants...I felt weak. How many ants does there have to be in order for you to hear them... with the t.v. on?  Let's just say it would have been cheaper to get rid of mice.
     Then the rainy summer finally took a toll on our old roof.  When we moved in 2 years ago, our home inspector said we had another 5 years before we'd have to replace the roof.  Wrong! Every time it even spits outside we have to get out the buckets. New roof... $4,000.
    Yet another problem, our puppy Finnegan needed eye surgery. Now the stiches have fallen out and his eye is back to the way it was pre-surgery.  He's back at the vet's office at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
    And unless global warming is set to change our winter to summer, we're going to need a new furnace.
I don't even want to know how much that will cost. Just digging the debt hole even deeper.

   Maybe it will be nice to get away without Scott? It'll be like a pre-honeymoon holiday with all of my best friends. Let's have the bachelorette party there ladies!

       The Happy Couple...Shannon & Andrew

 

 

 

A sweet plan...

     My Maid of Honour Allison and I took a trip to the Almost Perfect store in Oshawa this afternoon. 
There were bags of cheap Halloween candy on a shelf as soon as you walked in.  All of the packaging was orange and white; the same as my wedding colours.  So, I had a sweet idea.  Scott and I are going to have a "Candy Bar" at our wedding.  People can go up and pick out their favourite treats.  If you think about it, almost all Halloween candy is orange.  I could choose so many different sweets and they would all match the fall theme.  I'm not into having pumpkins and skulls incorporated into the theme... just the colours.
     I'm such a candy addict! I'm sure that will be the only food I'll eat all day. Mmm... just thinking about it makes me want to go out and buy some, but I'm on a diet! I don't know how long this will last.