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Sunday November 18, 2007

Wedding Gown

I GOT MY DRESS!! I'm so happy! The one I had tried on 3 weeks ago turned out to NOT be the one. I tried on about 10 other gowns yesterday and finally settled on the third one I tried on. It's almost the same style as the original one I loved but it's much more elegant and the train is twice as long. It also has the sweetheart neckline which I really was aiming for.

Since the dress turned out to be way below our budget (yahoo!) my mom ended up buying it for me as a gift! Along with the veil!! I'm so greatful! The veil is gorgeous!! I won't go into too many details because I want some element of surprise when I'm walking down the aisle. You'll see!!

We got Steph to try on a few BM dresses and since I found out it takes about 4-5 months for an order to arrive, I want to order them no later than beginning of Feb. Kendra is hopefully coming down in Jan. If that is the case, I'm dragging her and the other 2 BM to the store to finalize everything. If she can't come down, she'll have to send me her measurements via email and pay via phone I guess!.


Friday November 16, 2007

Down payments

We've finally given the downpayments for the baker, the decorator, the reception and the photographer. Hopefully the DJ will be paid real soon as well.

I'm going gown shopping again tomorrow with my mom and one of my bridesmaids. I'll hopefully be finalizing which gown I'll go with and spend lots of time picking out a few BM dresses options. I would like to have this all done before Christmas so I can have a worry-free holiday.

Next year I'll be tackling the booking of make-up and hair trials, the transportation, finalizing our invitations (we're going to get them from DirectBuy for half off!), my tiara, my veil, garter, shoes, etc (all the little things).

Looks like our honeymoon is going to be someplace in the caribbeean. No preference on islands as long as it's not Cuba. Been there twice already and would like to try someplace new. We're thinking of a last minute. We can get killer deals on all-inclusives that way.


Monday November 5, 2007

Gown Shopping

I went shopping for wedding gowns on Saturday with my mom, one of my bridesmaids and a girlfriend. It was loads of fun!! Can you believe that the first dress I tried on was THE one??? Or so I thought until we went to Arnprior and I tried on a couple more dresses and then I found another one which was THE one. So now I've narrowed it down to 2 gowns and I can't decide on which one!!

I hope to go back with both of my BMs, the same gf and possibly my mom to try them on again and look and finalize styles of BM dresses. I'm really really excited! We took some photos so that I can look at them anytime, too bad I can't really post them online though in case Jimmy finds them :)


Friday November 2, 2007

Cake Sampling

I went to pick up my sample cake from Jessica tonight. I LOVE IT!!! It's really moist and very juicy and the fondant is not gross at all!! I'm really excited! I want my mom to try a piece and I can't wait until Jimmy has a piece. Oh I'm soo excited!!

I really hope he likes it, though I'm pretty sure he will.

Some photos of the sample cake. I ordered mostly to get an idea of what our wedding cake would taste like. The general design of the stuff on the cake is totally up to us to design later on.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71748504@N00/sets/72157602865156057/

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