Roses are red...

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't written in a while I've been quite tied up with work and getting everything together for the house. The house plans are coming along well. We're about to have it apprised. We did our inspection and the results weren't more than a few minor things. We filled out our loan application and our approximated date for closing is December 15th. Its been a lot of work but very exciting at the same time! I'm going to shoot a video on move in day to give you all a better look :) 

Ok so back to wedding planning. Since my last blog we have hired a DJ, Lin Smith (The Tunesmith). She's great! Shawn and I took some time out to meet her and had a blast. She's a lot of fun and wants to make sure we have a celebration to remember. She has thousands of songs to choose from and by the time of our wedding she will have all genres of music available up to September 2010. Anyone can request any song...well as long as its not on our "do not play" list so if your a Hanna Montana fan sorry that won't be played lol.

I also booked a hair stylist for the wedding. I go to Anavah Salon to a girl named Nikki. Her and one or two more girls (we haven't decided yet) are going to come up to the hotel that morning to do all the girls hair including myself of course and the mothers. They are very reasonable. Its $50 per girl who travels and then however much the updo's are going to be (usually around $40 per person.) I still don't have a clue on how I want to do my hair yet. I've been watching tutorials on YouTube religiously to get ideas on hair and make up. I haven't found any certain one I love yet, but one of the girls I regularly watch had said that she would post a bridal video for me...so I'll make sure to post it here when she does. :)

Also, while I was getting my hair cut last week Nikki and I were talking about flowers and

she had asked if I had anywhere in mind. I told her that I didn't really although I have heard from quite a few people (my photographer included) that Price Chopper does a wonderful job. Which was quite the coincidence because the next women she had coming in worked for the floral department in a price chopper close to where I live. I got to talking with her and she said that they DO deliver (at least that one in particular does) and that a few of the girls she worked with including herself have a background in design. She gave me her name and the number so I could call and set up a consultation. She told me they are much more affordable than most floral shops and everything is very fresh (which was what I had been hearing all along). So needless to say I am definitely going to call and set up an appointment! I put a few pictures of the colors/kinds of flowers I am looking into doing bouquets out of throught out this blog!

And last but not least

...I called Country Studios where Shawn and I had gotten our engagement picture from below done to order more prints. (Ones for close family and a small one to send out for the save-the-dates) And I could not believe their prices!! For 2 ...only 2 5x7's it was $65 and for a sheet of 8 wallets it was $45 dollars! So needless to say we will be taking our business elsewhere! I have had nothing but problems with this company. They take excellent pictures I'll give them that however when I went to go online to look at my proofs I got the wrong couples pictures!..and they are only open on the weekend so I had to wait the week to get a call back just to find out that they weren't sure what had happend and that it should be fixed the following week!I'm thinking of going to picture people. I know a few people who have had pictures done there and they only take an hour to get and they have much better package pricing! I'm going to try and get a similar picture to the old one though. I may change up the pose but I like the colors and they go sooo well with the save the date magnets I am planning on using, so I'll keep you all posted on how that goes!

Thanks for reading!

Only 315 days until the wedding!