US meets UK

or forever hold your peace?

I’ve decided we should do our own centerpieces, but before you deem me crazy, please know that I have a team of very talented friends I’ll be relying on (this could mean you!).

In the showdown of the century we have in the green corner :

Weird Uhule Fern/River Rock/Green Button Mum centerpieces; now referred to as Centerpiece A:

and in the white corner we have a classic, traditional Hydrangea Centerpiece (imagine the square vase round); now referred to as Centerpiece B:

But before you suggest to just use both (which is my favorite way of making decisions) I’d rather pick just one. No matter what the centerpiece there will be those cute little inviting votives circling them. Preferably the ones around Centerpiece A.

Its a tough call, because they are so different!

Invitation Update: Its appears as though the top right (#2) is the winner!

**all photos from theknot.com

Naturally, like many American’s, I always assumed that the British were more refined than we usually are; granted this is a stereotype, and Americans clearly aren’t a bunch of fat loud people.

Then, on Weddingbee, I came across this site. Wow. Pretty Chavtastic. The most remarkable thing to me is A. These weddings cost A TON of money. I mean, these people are paying top dollar to look that bad. Then B. How young these girls are! Many of them are 16 or 17, which I suppose explains their taste…but still.

However, The US is the country that brings My Big Redneck Wedding to you…

Not to mention this site, which chronicles multiple fashion travesties…..

Edit: We have a winner! It looks like version # 2 (top right, 2 scrolls and bird) is victorious!

So, Nick has drafted up a few versions of our invites for you to vote on.

I don’t want to taint the vote by telling you our favorites, but I think Nick is pretty amazing because they’re all quite cute! We’ve decided to forgo the adorable pocketfolds (le sigh) and the accordion because of cost. But I’m still pretty pleased with how I think they’ll turn out.

The current plan is a chocolate color backing, with an ivory invitation card on top, quite clean and simple. So, comment below and cast your vote, we need them asap!

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UK countdown: 24 days till lift off!

This is a bit of a rant, but we recently just lost a large chunk of our budget.

How you may ask? Did we play the stock market? Do we have a mortgage we can’t pay? Do we drink the blood of newborns?

nope, none of those…we simply woke up one morning to discover that the exchange rate has plummeted. Keeps plummeting I should say. Nick and I check it every day day and frown.

So basically screw you US Economy and Government, because all I ever did was try to hold you accountable. Which clearly didn’t work…jerks.

ps. If you’d like to see a visual representation of how this makes me feel; just check the cat below…..

When my sister was getting married I had the incorrect impression/memory/delusion that bridal shows are fun.

In theory, I’m sure they are, you have a ton of vendors all in one place, its kind of like Target, instead of hunting on Amazon you can just go in and see a bunch of vendors at one time. I remember my sister’s bridal shows being overwhelming, with tons of booths, and even more cake tasting.

Advertised were 40 vendors, on the vendor list maybe 25? In reality…20? I’m not really sure. But it was horrible. In fact, Nick and I both agreed that this was the biggest waste of $7 we’d ever spent.

There was this bizarre fashion show, with some weird man doing some kind of wedding poetry slam, except it was slow, and odd, and not cool at all like a poetry slam ought to be . Then there was a lady with big thinning red hair, crazy glasses, a shiny red taffeta suit, and HUGE earrings…she was the announcer.

Yup…so the one bridal show happening in the area while we’re in this state was the bastard child of what I thought a bridal show was supposed to be. You know, efficient, helpful…dare I say, fun?! We were proved wrong. uhg!

ps. On a happy note, Team Bride is going to Aria Bridesmaids on 12/7!!! They book a month or two out, so I feel pretty lucky to snag any slot before Dec 13th!

Evan, our extremely talented photographer emailed us back today and got us the contract. I literally threw my arms in the air and shouted yes!..at my desk…at work…At the same time, Nick g chat-ed me “YAAAAY”. Does this accurately sum up our feelings?

We’re excited and thankful to have “Team Evan” do our wedding. So a total of the vendor run down:

we have-

• Venue
• Photographer
• DJ
• Dress (not a chance of linking to this)

We need:

• Caterer
• Florist
• Cake
• Invitations
• Officiant
• maybe new bridesmaid dresses (more on this to come)

So i feel like we’re almost halfway done planning, but with about a month before we head to the UK, I’d be a liar if I said I wasn’t getting stressed. At least the cake,florist and caterer are kind of in the pipeline, as in we’ve sent out emails, and need to meet with them and decide on budgets/packages.

I suppose I really ought to jump on calling back the sweet priest who has left me 2 voicemails…

Any one have any more thoughts on those invites?

Where everything was, in fact, Absolutely Perfect.

Nick, my mother and I headed to another caterer to discuss more catering. Despite the short time to get from work to the appt, we all made it relatively on time.

Michele (the coordinator) had whipped up some lovely appetizers for us; but we really should have warned her that I don’t eat meat, my mom can’t have wheat and Nick doesn’t eat cheese. A bit of a bummer because almost everything was wheaty, cheesy and meaty….

The menu sounded great and i really like that they get their food from different vendors, and that they make almost everything from scratch. Always a plus!

Michele seemed really great and we’re basically just waiting to get a quote from her. She’ll also take care of all the event rentals that we have to do through Oakland’s tent/rental vendor. Which just makes our life way easier.

Picking vendors is hard!