The March List: 5 months to go!

Hello March!  I am keeping the list pretty short and sweet…I'm also keeping this post pretty short and sweet.  Here is what I hope to accomplish this month from a planning perspective.  You can count the number of months left on ONE HAND!  That makes me one very excited bride to be.

The March List:
First: the things that are rolling over..

-Invitations - get wording from Jen.  Order full sample.

-Call Kathy at Branford House to update her with timeline info

-Follow up on wedding gift idea - confirm if I need a new one or not.  If not - book!

-Get the official word from the Groton Town Hall.

Now: the new things on the list for this month…
-Taste & order wedding cake
-Pay our portion of the photographer balance

-Send "the6monthsprint" mail.  I know what this means, that's what matters.

-Get my favorite best man/groom duo inside a Men's Warehouse at the same time.

-Start a conversation, either via email or coffee with Pat about ceremony music
-Decide on table "numbers" theme
-Mock up current place card idea. -**enlist help of way more artistic family for this.
-Order Ant's wedding band (???) -This one might be wishful thinking, but we're pretty excited about one we found the other day!  So we'll see.

I seem to be doing a decent job of cutting my new items in half each month!  My goal is to leave no more than 3 on the table by the time April rolls around.  What do you have planned for March?

(I almost never post without pictures, I know.  But I'm saving my shots from this week for my post this weekend.  It's been another busy week in the 6 month sprint!)

…okay, I lied.  I can't post without any pictures…so here are a couple shots my sister has taken this week, while her and my mom are being safari kids in South Africa.  Yes, South Africa.  I am insanely jealous.  The first is from one of the daily game drives they went on - and the second is their "hut sweet hut" where they are living for the week.  SO. Jealous.

I love you like a fat kid love cake

Okay - so this wedding planning thing can have its moments of stress, that can very easily get the best of you if you let it.  Which is why you CAN'T let it!!  You only get to do this stuff once - and it is SO MUCH FUN.  Please please please don't ever forget that.  For example: today, Ant and I get to go CAKE TASTING.  Yes, that's official wedding business.  What is more fun than that??

We were told to bring some pictures of things we liked - there are a few I can't show you yet…but for inspiration I hit up Style Me Pretty - who conveniently has a way to filter pictures by category, one of which is cakes.  SO! I went through the first 300 images, and these are the ones that stood out to me for one reason or another - that I will be showing Felicia to give her a sense of what we like.  There are definitely some themes you might pick up on.  I prefer texture to fondant - love hints of pink and gold…and definitely prefer short and cute!  The towering wedding cake is just not for us - I love too many different desserts for that!  

Jonathan Connolly via Style Me Pretty

Jillian Mitchell via SMP

Emily Delamater via SMP

Rachel Schirano via SMP

Kimberly Kay via SMP

Kristyn Harder via SMP

Debra Eby via SMP

Chris Isham via SMP

Lauren Kinsey via SMP

Ruth Eileen via SMP

What do you think of my choices?  What would you ideal wedding cake look like?  If you have a picture of yours, please send it along!  I'm looking for all the inspiration I can get :)

The 6 month sprint: Week 1

My idea behind these posts about the 6 month sprint is to give you a peek into the ever exciting "day in the life" of this bride to be.  Everyone plans and organizes their time a little differently - so everyone's story is going to be very different when it comes to how they planned their wedding - but here's a bit of mine.  With my rotating retail schedule, it becomes all about making the most of free bits of time as I get it.  Some weeks, I do very little wedding planning.  Other weeks - I feel like every free minute I'm trying to cram something in!  This week was one of the latter.

Monday: In email communication about contract details, my MUA Erin mentions that we should schedule my trial for March.  When discussing days that might work, we discover that we both have this Friday off. We decide to plan my trial for 2:45pm.  Why wait until March??

Tuesday: I have an 11:30am appointment to pick up my wedding lingerie at Beneath the Gown.  It fits, its perfect…I take home the prettiest things in a pretty box with a bow.  I also take advantage of my morning off to send out emails to my DJ and caterer, and the Mystic Marriott, where we have our room block.

Wednesday: I email the videographer we've been in contact with and move forward with setting up a date to meet.  I order a wedding related gift to myself I've been meaning to get.  (never forget to treat yourself!) I also finally stop stalling, and call the White Dress by the shore - and tell them I'll be in the next AM to pick up the bridesmaids dresses!

Thursday: I book our hotel room for our wedding night!  I go to Clinton as soon as TWD opens at 12:00 and pick up 7 beautiful dresses, which are currently hanging in Ant's half of our closet.

Friday:  Makeup trial with Erin at 2:45!  By 4pm I have  the most beautiful long lashes and a finalized contract!  I then rush to meet Ant before the jewelers closes so we can look at wedding bands at the place where he bought my ring.  We end up finding a ring that I really really love!  But we are running late for dinner reservations so we take the info and run.

Phew.  That's the week in a nutshell.  Productive eh?

I know March's list is due about now, but I'm taking a break from lists to talk about cakes next!  Cuz this girl loves her cake.