Being a Bridesmaid

So this past weekend I went shopping with my girlfriend Courtney for bridesmaid dresses for her wedding. It was so nice to finally get to meet up with all the girls I had heard so much about! Our first stop was David's Bridal. Loved it there! The woman who helped us was so nice and we had so many dresses to choose from in an array of different colors. We started off with finding our sizes and then debated on what colors would go best. We looked at sashes and ribbons mixing and matching. We tried on every style of dress from haulter to strapless... you name it we had it on. They were all beautiful but we all didn't feel as if we had found the right one yet. Then as we were browsing through the isles Courtney found a dress that she had seen online and loved! It was a strapless dress covered with blue flowers on a white background with different hues of green and yellow mixed in. It matched her color scheme

 perfectly! So we tried on the dresses, unfortunately there was only one there in blue that was 10x to big for any of us. So we opted for the orange ones to get an idea of how they would look. Jess grabbed the blue one and pinned it on so we could see it. As we all stood together and saw the look on Courtney's face we knew it was the one! 

We took a break for lunch at the Olive Garden to talk over what we all thought would look best, and afterwards we were all pretty sure we would have to go up a size after eating so much :) We decided to take a look around at one other bridal shop just to make sure we saw all of our options before deciding. The second store didn't offer as much of a selection and most of the dresses we wanted to try only came in one size. (One that half of the time no one could fit into). But we made the best of it and looked at all of our possible options. After trying on a few dresses it was obvious that the best dress was the flowered one we had all tried on earlier. 

We left the second dress shop and went back to David's Bridal. We made sure our sizes were correct and bought the dresses. And the best part was they were on sale!! We each got our dresses for $100.00 :) 

While we were trying on our bridesmaid dresses it was hard not to notice all of the beautiful wedding dresses scattered around. We couldnt help but to look around and OOoo and Ahh. They were absolutely gorgeous and I fell in love with all of the lace and beading that was everywhere! It made me 10x more excited to look for mine (hopfully in the next few months)!

All in all the trip was great. It was fun to have some time out and about with the girls to get to know one another, and it gave me good ideas on how to go about shopping when I need to bring my girls! 

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Only 376 days until the wedding !

Chugging Right Along

Ok so a few months have passed by and we have finalized a few more details for the wedding. We found a church in Haines Falls which is located about 10 minutes from where the reception will be held. Its not a huge church but its cute and has a lot of character. We met with Father Motta in August to give him a chance to get to know Shawn and I. We're to meet with him again this month to go over some more details of the ceremony and our pre-wedding classes.

We finally booked our room block to what we thought would be a decent number for the amount of people that will probably stay...and I have to say it is so nice to have that out of the way! We also found out that Shawn and I receive a complementary suit from the hotel for booking our wedding with them! We also decided to have our rehearsal dinner at Vanwinkles restaurant located in the hotel, which will be nice and convenient on the day of our rehearsal.

Also, as a gift from my Shawn's grandmother we will be having a harpist play during our cocktail hour! I think this will be such a nice touch and he has asked that Shawn and I pick a few of our favorite love songs for him to play. We still haven't decided that part yet..I mean what kind of songs can you play on a harp? I don't know..but I'm sure it will still sounds beautiful.

We've been looking into photographers and DJ's lately. I think we've got them each narrowed down. I've seen both the work of the photographer and DJ we have in mind at other wedding, so its nice to know what kind of service we would be getting. Now its just a matter of meeting with them and booking the date!

My fiance and I are also planning on taking a trip up to Hunter next month. Debbie (the wedding coordinator for the Copper Tree) had suggested we come up around this time of year (since we will be getting married October of next year) and take a peak at other wedding and how things can look. She also mentioned that we could take the chairlift to the mountain top to discuss where it would be best to take pictures during this time of year. I am so excited. Debbie has been so incredibly helpful and I know she wont let us down.

I am also very excited for the 19thof this month. I will be going dress shopping with one of my good friends, Courtney for a bridesmaids dress for her wedding. Not only will it be great to spend some time with her, meat the other bridesmaids, and try on beautiful dresses, but it will also give me a lot of incite for how I'll need to organize things when that time comes along for me.

I am also currently in the process of making a wedding website. ( An idea that Courtney had turned me on to) I always thought they were a good idea so I decided to go ahead with it. If a guest happens to loose directions or a number to the hotel all the information they could need will be just a click away. It's surprisingly been a lot of fun to make the website. I'm still not done yet. It needs some tweaking and finalizing, but all in all I'm happy with the way it came out!

Oh and I almost forgot! Shawn and I went to the Altamont Fair a few weeks ago and while we were there we saw a drawing for a free portrait. So we decided what the heck its worth a shot and each entered our names. Well that following Monday Shawn got a call from the Photography studio and they informed him that we had won the free portrait! Were scheduled to go at the end of this month, and we plan on using the picture as our engagement photo that we will put in the paper and on our save-the-dates!!

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Only 394 days until the wedding !