Cake Topper...SCORE!!!

To read the beginning of my cake topper search, click here!

After a few weeks had passed, I had somewhat forgotten about the cake topper and just figured I would deal with it later. Well, one day my mom and I were walking around the outlet store and decided to stop by the Waterford store, looking at toasting flutes. While browsing around we saw it. An absolutely gorgeous cake topper by Monique Lhuillier for Royal Doulton, it was called Modern Love.

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Rings! Rings! Rings!!!

Today is Jon's birthday!! Which also means... that we got engaged exactly one year ago today!! :-)

On this day last year, we got engaged and  I received my beautiful engagement ring that Jon purchased from Jared. And just in case you haven't seen it yet, here is a picture of my engagement ring:

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It wasn't what I'd imagined, but it was a success...continued.

Here is the beginning of our bridesmaid dress shopping experience.

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A few minutes after we got to the store, BM J arrived and we got her a catalog book to look at too.

Its the communication thing...again

So, if you read my previous post about the communication problems I was having with my BMs you would understand when I tell you that I am kind of frustrated/nervous/slightly upset that one of the big deals of wedding planning might not go the way I had originally pictured in my head.

This is how I'd imagined the perfect shopping experience would go:

1. Fun & Shopping

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It All Started With A Pair Of Earrings...

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These are the earrings I bought the day I bought my dress, I believe they are "Haute Bride?" or "ti adoro?" not too sure on that part. But I really wanted a necklace that would match, despite my mother telling me the dress didn't need a necklace, I wanted one and that was that!

Communication is key...or so I thought..

I seem to be having some "issues" with communicating with my girls, I am not expecting everyone to be as super-excited as I am about the wedding, but a little feedback would help! 

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My first choice for communicating with my girls has been through e-mail. (Simply because that is what my cousin used when I was MOH for her wedding and it worked really well.) I guess my girls just don't know their way around an 'inbox'. Ugh, I am not trying to nag, or complain... okay maybe I am. But it isn't like they've been receiving e-mail overload.

Wedding Dress Shopping… Round Two!

Okay, so we had an appointment at 10:00 this morning at Alfred Angelo...we were there until 1:30pm. I think I tried on 10 different dresses, then tried 3 of them on a second time. This decision definitely will not be an easy one.

Last Saturday I went to Alfred Angelo and David's Bridal (total nightmare!). I brought my mom, sister (Julee), and Jon (yes, I brought my fiancé with me to look at dresses). I thought I'd narrowed it down to a ball gown silhouette, until today.

I now like 3 A-line gowns (two are slimmer than the other), but I still keep going back to the ball gown look. This is so difficult!

Things I know for a fact that I want:
Long train (nothing shorter than a chapel length), ruching or serious decor on the bodice, sweetheart neckline, an off-white color (ivory, diamond white, or almond) and I'd love to have some form of decor on the train itself.I don't think I'm asking for too much.
Ugh, this wedding thing is not going to be easy.

I only have 455 days left.