Houston, we have a contract! Woohoo! After months of talking about it, we FINALLY got our contract with our caterer. We are signed, sealed, and official. I could cry. SUCH a HUGE weight off my shoulders... you know, since we have 9 weeks until our wedding and all haha.
Today we are going to meet with our rental company to change a few things, see some things and possibly add them to our list, and put down a deposit. Then we're off to taste some cake! Hopefully this bakery will be "the one," and we can sign a contract today. After the deposit is down at the the rental place and the cake lady is (hopefully) booked, I'll be screaming from the rooftops- but not on Facebook haha- about how ALL of our vendors will have been booked. Please send positive happy vibes out into the universe that everything goes well and that I can finally relax after today!! PS- I got some texts yesterday from friends saying they got my invitations already!! That was SO fast! We might even get some RSVPs before the mailing week is over!
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I literally spent the whole day yesterday working on invitations. I printed everything out and cut it down (each invite was 2, 8x10 sheets of paper that had the invite, RSVP card, accommodations card, and directions card- I had to cut down the 8x10 page to get all the little elements). Then I started mounting the invites to the pocket fold, and stuffing the pockets with enclosure cards. That took forever, because I made a different set of directions for each person- to match the state they are coming from.
It feels SO good to be done. I just need to go to the post office on Monday and buy postage. We still need to add stamps to the RSVP envelopes, as well as the mailing envelopes... and then we'll send them off on Tuesday! I hope we start getting some RSVPs this week!! And we have 69 days left, but who's counting? :p For the past several months, I have been holding off on printing my invitations. Not because I wanted to- oh no- but because I *thought* there was a problem with the brand new, supposed-to-be-amazing printer that Chris' parents bought us for Christmas. Every time I tried to print out my beloved documents, there was a series of dots along the sides of the wording. I thought it was smudging from the rollers. I can't even tell you how many times Chris cleaned those stupid rollers.
A friend brought my paper to her workplace and I sent her all her files. I got desperate! My invites go out on July 23rd and they aren't even freakin printed yet!! She printed them and the same stupid dots were on them. Turns out the stupid dots are on the document. I could kick myself. I am SO happy that it was something so small. I just took an erase and removed them from that layer on Photoshop. Thank the lord I didn't merge all my layers!!! So as I write this, I am currently printing the invitations & RSVP cards for all of the parties of two invited to our wedding. Then I'll do parties of one. Then I'll do alllll the directions cards. I had Fi buy new ink last night. I am finishing these invitations THIS weekend. Once and for all. ...wish me luck... After months- literally- of addresing envelopes here and there, I am finally finished! I did more than half of them this week alone. I got tired of seeing them laying around and just banged them out. It feels fabulous. I still have three that will need to be done later- two of my guests are looking at places and will be moving soon, and I'm still waiting on an address for one person from my FMIL. I also decided to send invites to the Obama's, Mickey & Minnie Mouse, and JK Rowling. I know that the first two send regrets, but I'm kind of taking a chance with JK Rowling. I don't know that she responds at all to wedding invites or fan mail.  Today we got a big box in the mail.   Our invitation paper is officially here!! I'm so excited to get started on my invites. I know I've been saying this with basically every check, but this makes it feel so much more real. Ahhh!! I also got an email from Carnival. I had emailed them last week because we booked Early Saver, which guarantees the lowest rate. They had a lower rate published for our cruise/room type and so I sent in a form and got our rate lowered, too. So yay- that's exciting! I'll continue to stalk the website to make sure we don't miss out on any lower fares as well. Sunday we registered at Target and it was actually a lot of fun. I can't wait to register at Macy's on the 15th now. We had a really good time and had a lot of fun imagining what our future home will look like and stuff. Last but definitely not least, our flowers are ordered!!! We're getting a 23-piece package from Etsy seller ShayesBridalBoutique and I love love LOVE our flowers.  My bouquet will be wrapped in teal and ivory (in the pic above, imagine the green ribbon as ivory) and topped with a starfish brooch.  All other bouquets/boutonnieres/corsages will have purple ribbon. I know it's not one of my wedding colours, but it is my favorite colour. And blue & purple is my favorite colour combo. AND Chris liked it better than the brown, so whenever he has any kind of opinion about the wedding I take that as a good sign.
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