Flower Power

Yesterday we paid the deposit for the florist and are officially on their books!! I am very excited about the flowers we have arranged with the florist and even more excited about the price! I am working pretty hard to keep this wedding as low budget as possible and I do believe we are on a great track, with the total for the flowers well under 1,000.

To keep the budget low we did decided against a few big arrangements so I am doing some research to see if I am crafty enough to pull off a faux flower arrangement! I have found a few really cute ideas online with Gerber Daisies so now I am on the hunt to find these beautiful flowers. This should be lots of fun! :)

Since Molly was not able to make it to the florist meeting, Christian happily filled in to capture the moment on camera! :)

My MOH

Here is my Maid of Honor hard at work writing down designers and style numbers for bridesmaids dresses. THANKS MOLLY FOR ALL YOU DO TO HELP ME WITH THE WEDDING!!! I couldn't do it without you! xoxo

Bridesmaids Dress

This past weekend I spent some time in Orlando with my MOH. We have been on the hunt for bridesmaids dresses for a while and have not been able to find the right dress to fit the wedding. Who knew it would be harder to find a bridesmaids dress than the actual wedding dress! :) But luckily we think we have found the perfect dress! Here are a few pictures. I am still deciding on the final color. In the store the swatch for petunia was beautiful but in this picture it looks a little purple. The lighter pink picture looked a little too pale on the swatch. The dress Molly tried on was only in yellow, which was beautiful, it's just not our wedding color. So I am going to do a little more research and find a dress in the area that is by the same designer so I can see the pink colors in person and go from there. :)

Flowers & Venue

It has been a very productive week with Mom & Molly in town! :) Today we went out on a search for a florist and we believe we found a very good one. We have a meeting next Thursday @ 2:00pm to discuss the wedding in more detail and prices of course. Blossoms Tallahassee's Premier Florists has been voted "Best Florist" of Tallahassee each year since 2001 and is the proud recipient of two Tally Awards.


We also met with the Los Robles Woman's Club for another viewing and questions about the venue. We have decided they will be our venue for the reception and they should be faxing us the contract today! :)





As you know we have been having some difficulty with setting "the date" but we have come to a final conclusion. With May having two holidays Mother's Day & Memorial Day it was a little tricky. The florist advised us that flower prices are higher than usual 2 weeks before Mother's day and about 1 1/2 weeks after as well. So we have SET THE DATE FOR MAY 23RD, 2010. It is the final date, no more changes (we hope anyway ) We have talked with the church there are a few things going on that day but we are making it work! LOL There is a 12:00 mass and then a confirmation at 4:30... So our wedding is strategically scheduled right in the middle at 2:00pm.

We found a nice design we like for the invitations and save the dates, James will start working on those soon, but mark your calendars! :)

Cake

Today we met with Tiki's Tasties to discuss our wedding cake. We have decided to have a three tiered round traditional wedding cake with a strawberry filling and cream cheese butter-cream frosting. The cake will be decorated with piped dots and a simple pink bow with a monogrammed topper.

We are very excited... tomorrow Mom, Molly & I are off to meet with a few florists to talk flowers! :) Then a meeting at the Women's Club to look at linens, tables & flatware...

Changes, Changes

With much consideration of family and friends James and I have decided to change the wedding date... Our original thought was that Memorial Day weekend would be the easiest with everyone involved because they would have the extra day of travel on Monday as the holiday. After discussing with some distant relatives it seems that this date isn't actually the easiest time to travel with high plane fares and expected numbers of travelers on a holiday weekend it would be to much.

So we are moving the date. We discussed moving the date back, but with the wedding already being at the end of May we would be looking at a June wedding...in FLORIDA HEAT! Which I do not think any of our guest (nor ourselves) would like to suffer through... so needless to say we are moving the date forward. James would still like to hold the wedding on a Sunday so we are looking into May 9th, 2010.

At this point we are checking the date with the church and the two venues that we are still considering to see if this is even an option.

In the end we just want all of our family and friends that we love and cherish to be able to share in this great moment in our lives.... Stay tuned... there is much more fun to come! :)