So as you know, I bought my wedding dress on Saturday, June 13th. So the next step was getting my Maid of Honor her dress. We wanted to make sure we did it earlier rather than later, because we were worried about it coming in on time. So on Friday, June 26th, we decided to go out and get some shopping done. We really only went to two places, but my MoH tried on lots of dresses! The first place was Marry & Tux and although they had a very nice selection, the dresses were a bit pricey and the sales-woman told us we'd have to rush order dresses to get them on time which meant adding like $50 to the cost, which we really didn't want to do.
So we decided to bail on Marry & Tux and see if we could find anything better/cheaper at David's Bridal. After trying on numerous dresses, we found one!! My MoH really liked it and it came in a navy, which works for me! Since I'm only having one bridesmaid, I didn't have to worry about coordinating dresses among many girls, so I decided that my MoH could get whatever she wanted. The only restrictions were: tea-length and blue. Since the dress she found came in navy, it worked perfectly! It also was cheaper than any of the dresses at Marry & Tux and would only take 6 weeks to get in. Below are front and back (in black):
So next up was cake-tasting! My parents had scheduled a cake-tasting session for Sunday, June 28th at 3:15, so off we went! The guy at Madeleine's is so friendly! He gave us six cakes to taste and all were fairly delicious. The only ones I really remember were the chocolate, which wasn't as moist as I would have liked, and the lemon with raspberry filling, which was delicious! I really wanted both a chocolate and other flavors at the wedding and was pretty set on not having two separate cakes, so two tier was the way to go. After spending much time debating options, Seth and I agreed on a two tier cake, one tier being lemon with raspberry filling, the other being chocolate with raspberry filling. We were originally going to do the lemon tier with a plain buttercream frosting and the chocolate tier with a chocolate buttercream frosting, but I have since found a picture that I just love. I'm hoping the cake will look like this:
Next up: Rentals! See? I really have been busy! On Wednesday, July 1st, I hooked up again with my parents after work to go to Special Events of New England to see about renting a tent, tables, chairs, linens, plates, glassware, etc. The guy at the showroom was willing to stay late and meet with us, and he showed us some of the options and pricing. We ended up booking them! We got a 20' x 30' tent with lighting, five tables, five tablecloths, 20 plates (we're going to mix white and multi-colored fiesta wear that my mom has), 20 chairs (between my parents and Seth and I, we have 18 chairs, so 20 more is all we need), 40 dinner plates, 40 dessert plates, 40 water goblets, 40 wine glasses, and other stuff I can't think of right now. The cool thing is that these people will set up between Tuesday and Thursday before the event and take down on Sunday or Monday. This is good because we won't have to worry about them showing up to set up on Friday before, which will probably be the busiest, most stressful day ever already.So then I had a couple weekends off to relax (4th of July, camping with Seth's sister on the 10th-12th), and then it was back to planning. I really wanted to get set in stone with the Rehearsal Dinner would be, if not necessarily where we'd be eating and such, so after a round of e-mails between my parents and Seth's parents and the JP, we've decided to have the Rehearsal Dinner the Saturday before (Sept. 26th) instead of the Friday before. This allows Seth's Mom to spend Friday cooking up a storm (did I mention she's making all of our food??) and my Mom and I to spend Friday cleaning and setting up!
Then the next thing I needed to do was... flowers! I've been worried about being able to get the flowers I want (because October's not usually when weddings are), so I finally asked for the name of my friend's Florist and scheduled an appointment. We met up on Wednesday, July 15th to discuss my options! I pretty much already knew what I wanted for my bouquet and centerpieces because I'm stealing from Heather, but I wasn't sure what to do from my MoH bouquet (although I think that will also be like Heather's bridesmaids). The florist, Pat, was a delight and very helpful. I think I'll be getting a mix of pink and orange roses, and my MoH will have a mix of roses and gerbera daisies. For centerpieces, I'm just getting gerbera daisies, just like Heather. For boutineires, I'm getting one pink rose and one orange and the boys can fight over which they want. I just need to get back to Pat on if I'm doing corsages for the Moms or boutineires for the Dads. Both my Mom and Seth's Mom said they didn't care, so we'll probably just go with no on that.
So then it was the weekend and it was time to really get some stuff done. Actually, I didn't get all that much done, but I still felt it was productive. On Saturday, Seth and I decided (okay, I decided to drag Seth with me) to hit a jewelry store and look for... wedding rings! So exciting! So we went to Jared's and looked at their selection. First we looked at rings for me, then we tried to find matching for Seth! And by matching, I mean they're made of the same material. Mine has diamonds and Seth's is plain, but they look really well together. Below is essentially what they look like, although mine doesn't look quite like that. Real pictures to come after wedding.
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