Holy cow. Almost 2 months until the wedding. Planning Overload

So I decided I needed to chat about wedding planning. Not to say it hasn't been fun doing it all on my own, but there is SOOOOOO much to do. This past Memorial Day weekend some of my bridesmaids and my awesome usherette came to my house to do heavy wedding work. We made the favors, addressed envelopes, and did the table tents with table numbers on them. We got lots done, thank GOD I had help. I can only imagine what it would have been like trying to do those things by myself. On Monday, after the girls had left, Steve was looking for something to do. I put him to work too, we made the welcome bags for our out of town guest that are staying at the hotel where the reception is being held.

Here are some pictures from the some of the products we were making:

lol, boxes galore! Anyways, wedding planning has been stressful, but when the girls came up this past weekend, it was so much fun. There was a crazy invitation incident, but we got through it.

Wedding Stress.........

With all the fru fru stuff involved with planning a wedding, I have to wonder.....is it all worth it for one day?

I continually have to tell myself that a simple, but fancy, a traditional, yet modern wedding is all worth it. Is a tasteful affair of 400 that goes off without a hitch too much to ask? I am beginning to think that I should have a professional wedding planner. I do have my good buddy Michelle helping me out with advice and suggestions every step of the way, along with my other bridesmaids, but jeeeeesh, this is hard work. I used to think that my job was hard work......boy, was I wrong. Hard work is making sure that what you want/need happens and it isn't easy to guarantee that. As they say, nothing in life is guaranteed. We finally found a new photographer after Steve's uncle needed to step down due to his wife's illness. It is tough finding a photographer that fits your style and is going to deliver what you want when you are only 3 1/2 months away from your blissful day. I just continually pray to God that everything will work out in the end, because this is who God wants me to be with!!!

On a side note, I am blogging from Milwaukee tonight, because I am at an out-of-town conference, but it sure felt good leaving all the school stress in Reedsburg to come where I always feel giddy when I pull into the city limits. It feels weird to say "out-of-town," because I am from here, but Reedsburg is where I live and Milwaukee will always be my home.

So it has been a super looooooooooooooooong time since I blogged. I figured I should catch up on some stuff and blogging is one of those things. I have been a busy girl with wedding planning and school. Everything has been kicked up into high gear, Spring is a busy time of the year, I tell ya!

I picked up my wedding invites this past weekend and they are super cute. I am so excited about them. They are black with cream writing and then I plan to add a red ribbon around it. Our wedding colors are red, black, and ivory (with a bit of white too), the dresses for the bridesmaids are red.

We have been busy taking marriage prep classes and "jetsetting" back and forth from Reedsburg to Stevens Point. In the past 3 months, we have also been to Milwaukee and Appleton (for Steve's nephew's 9th birthday). Some of the pictures we posted are from the Appleton weekend! The little girl is Rylee, our niece, who is an absolute jokester. She is taking after her Uncle Steve. She put on Steve's glasses and then pulled up her dress to show she was shaking her leg while dancing! Talk about hilarious. The other picture is of Steve and I with Hayden, it was his birthday that weekend in Appleton.

Okay so snag in the NYC plans....my friend's sister who was going with us has a class starting on the 30th and she can't come anymore. We don't want to pay even more than we already were...boo hoo. Maybe another time. :( :(

So on to more positive things. I had the end of my 12th week of Weight Watchers and my total losses add up to 19.4 lbs!!! I am so excited about this! :) This is the only thing that has really worked for me and I'm loving watch the weight come off. Wedding plans have been picking up again and I have booked transportation for our wedding! We need an extreme amount of seating because our wedding party is large. Anyways, I sent out our xmas cards with our save-the-dates in them....I finally finished them! whew...it was a lot of work, but totally worth it. I am also excited about Christmas coming...I love the holidays and watching people open presents!

I finally finished the Twilight series and to anyone out there who hasn't read it, you NEED to! It was absolutely amazing to read and I was obsessed. Poor Steve, I think I was neglecting him a bit with my insane need to constantly read these books. The 4th book was the longest, but like the others before it, I couldn't put it down! Team Edward! :)

NYC BABY!

So I just received word that my awesome friend Michelle and I are now officially booked on a vacation to New York City over New Year's Eve! New Year's Eve in Rockefeller Center will be insanely great! :) There are so many things that I want to see and do there, it will be impossible to fit it all in. For sure, I will be going on the Sex and the City tour to some of the show's film spots, the Empire State building, Statue of Liberty, and the Met. I also want to go to the Guggenheim and I want to visit 5th Avenue stores to window shop and the cheap street vendors by Central Park. I have tried to get tickets to Rachael Ray, Today show, Live with Regis and Kellly, David Letterman, The View, and Martha Stewart. We shall see if I am lucky enough to get some tickets.

I leave for NYC on Dec. 29th...so much to plan in a short period of time....plus trying to plan wedding stuff and to do school work. TOO MUCH! EEK!

Our First Blog.....

So all I hear is that blogging is the new rage! Well, I will give a try then! I guess our lives are pretty crazy right now. Steve's business has really taken off in Reedsburg and he has done better than he thought in the 1st six months of business. For those that don't know, he started V.I.P. Tree Service in Reedsburg, WI in April of 2008. He has been busy, plus he is still working for Asplundh full time during the week (Mon.-Thurs.).

I have been busy with school, wedding planning, and keeping up with friends, family, and cleaning the house!!! Haha. Wedding planning is going okay...I think I have everything done that I am supposed to at this point. I am in the process of finishing our save the dates and thinking about invitations. Ahhhh.....invitations, so many choices. Oh well, plus I have been busy buying Christmas gifts and scrapbooking! I also decided that this pesky weight I have been carrying around since college needed to goooooooooooooo! I joined Weight Watchers this fall and I have lost 10.8 lbs. so far. It really works, no joke. I thought that I wouldn't be able to watch what I ate and write things down, but after the first week it has become habit. The 1st trip to the grocery store after I started the program was a pain in the you-know-where! It took me 2 hours to find foods that I would like and could make for Steve and I (cooking for two on Weight Watchers=tough business)!

Anyways, this was fun, I think I could start to get into this blogging thing! :)