The "down time" is over...

Only TWO MORE MONTHS until September!!

Wyatt and I weren't doing too much over the last couple months unless you include meeting with lighting guys and wedding designers and visiting the cake shop...  :)

I got a call last week saying my dress had come in and I needed to come try it on!  So, I picked up my Mom from work and drove down to Beverly Hills today.  Amy joined us as well, yay!  So, anyhow, the dress fits perfectly and I don't have to make any alterations.  The dress came home with me today!!  It got to lay down in the back seat of my truck. lol  Mom, Amy and I ate at Cafe Roma after the fitting and we all ordered the mushroom risotto, which was fantastic.

Morgan's dress should be in near the end of August (it better!!).  Mindy, my Mom and Patti all have their dresses and have made or are in the process of alterations.  Nicole has two dresses, but I'm not sure if she'll wear one, haha.  Amy is waiting for a closer date as she has a bun in the oven and wants the right size!!!

Also, ordered the invites when I got home tonight.  I think they'll be perfect.  I should have the proofs by Tuesday, and most likely will have them at the end of next week or early the week after and then they'll be in the mail!

I'm also busy finalizing my yet TODO list.  Wyatt will digitize it and then the list will be official and real (and we can start getting everything done!).

Yay, for crunch time!

B

Website bios updated!

Hi friends!

Wyatt finally wrote his bio for our website which you can see here.

I also updated mine a tad.

Yay!  Wedding is 4 months out and we are getting more done all the time.  Most recently we ordered the wedding favors, decided on the cake, booked the valet guys and the tents are almost finished (where all the kids will be stationed during the event).  I'll try to post some pics, they are way cool.

Save the dates are sent!

Wyatt and I returned from Uruguay (happy to be home) to find our pictures from Halberg Photography ready for us to view and use to finish our save the date cards!  Let me tell you, it's hard to narrow 193 photos down to one to send everyone.  We chose the photo that says the most about us and hope you like it!

Now the envelopes are addressed, sealed, stamped and headed your way!  Let us know what you think about them. :)

Here are my top 11 favorites (who can only choose 10?):

website update

I spent the better part of last night searching google images for photos from the 50s to add to our wedding site.  I love that you can type in anything you want into the search bar and there are instant images.  What would they say about this technology in the 50s?!

check out the progress:

brieandwyatt.com

dress shopping is fun!

I say that because I almost had more fun trying on bridesmaids dresses than bridal dresses!  haha, I'm very strange.  It was too easy for me, I've been obsessing over the same dress for a long time and when it came time to try it on, I was a bit nervous.  Besides the dress being a size 14 sample, I loved it!  Janet, our wonderful personal shopper can do amazing things with clamps.  I won't include any photos of the dress I got, but I will post some fun bridesmaids shots!  Yay, for public humiliation!  lol  love you girls!

All dresses are by Priscilla of Boston.

no one ever told me...

...that registering would be EXHAUSTING!

This past Friday, we had an errand to run in SB and happened to have a few hours to kill.  We ended up at Pottery Barn and William-Sonoma registering!  They had us fill out a sheet, gave us a check list to keep us on track and set us loose in the store.  There must have been at least three sales persons that said "scan everything you can".  I guess to give people more options?  Or to make it easier to sell gift cards, I have no idea.  I guess we just went nuts on the stores.  Wyatt was sick after leaving PB just from all the "aroma" drifting through the store.  Looking back over the registries today, I realize there's no real direction, but oh well - we don't have a place to put all this stuff any how.  ha!  We'll also register at Target, Costco (our favorite store...do they have registry available?), Sur la table and somewhere like Home Depot.  LOL, seems like a lot!  Well, if you're interested, our current registries are on our website, www.brieandwyatt.com under "if you insist".  Let me know if you have any suggestions.

B

work in progress...

wedding website address is:

www.brieandwyatt.com

The website is not completely finished.  I suppose I will be updating it up until the wedding, so take a gander and let me know either on the site or facebook or here if you have any  questions or suggestions.

photographer booked!

we were blessed to find the halbergs!  they were willing to work with our budget and their photos are amazing!  check out their site: The Halbergs

Now onto book the band and florist!  Since our theme is vintage 50's, we're thinking 50s/60s cover band...what say you?

vendor crunch time

Seriously?  Is is really January already?  I suppose if you're getting married in September...on a novelty date that's a Saturday in September, and you still haven't booked a photographer or band by the January before, you'd probably feel a little like I do at the moment.  PANIC.  Well, maybe not that extreme, but a definite background of emotion that your wedding day will somehow not happen if you don't get your butt in gear.  I'm a life long procrastinator and it's really time to put that behind me.  If I can stop biting my finger nails after 23 years, I can do all.  I've got an email out to a local photographer, who will hopefully be able to work with our budget.  As for band/dj...we've really gotten nowhere.  We have narrowed the styles of music down to jazz, bluegrass, and rock.  We almost went in the Flogging Molly direction, but ultimately decided it didn't really go with our theme.  We're doing a non pretentious, backyard, vintage 50's style party.  Wyatt's love of maps and trains, planes, cars, etc. and my Coca-Cola collection should fit together beautifully as it is in my head.  We of course still need flowers and possibly a filmmaker if I can talk Wyatt into it.  :)  We're lucky to have such a beautiful venue provided to us through Wyatt's work.  Amazing.  Also, Stephanie Valentine has agreed to set our menu and make it for us in exchange for riding lessons for her kids.  How great is that?  Wow, well now that I think about it, we do have a lot covered for the time we've been engaged.  So now I can be less worried...just breathe.