tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49135673293999232902024-03-12T16:50:15.648-07:00A Wedding on the Lake<center>The chronicles of planning a wedding and starting life, one day at a time!</center>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-65202742619928416402013-06-03T11:05:00.002-07:002013-06-03T11:05:41.510-07:00We Did It!<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh my gosh! It was wonderful! Our RD Friday night was great. We opened it to our whole guest list and about half (like 70+!) people showed up. It was so wonderful having two days to spend with our families. Our best man made a video slide show thing I totally cried through it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The day of went almost flawlessly. The only hiccup was our baker didn't make our grooms cake. It was supposed to be a cake shaped and made to look like the cabin signs from the camp we met at. I called her and she was so rude to me about it. She brought a stupid fondant cookie thing instead of a cake (which I broke in half accidentally while having my bridezilla meltdown in the middle of the ballroom). She said she wasn't going to bring it because she didn't remember us talking about it and never charged me for it, even though we went over it five days before the wedding and I brought her a pictures. My coordinator got really mad at her and immediately sent one of her staffers to Wegmans to buy us a cake that she was going to put the cookie on and write "groom's cake" on. But the baker ended up dropping off and extremely half assed, sloppy looking one (which never got cut and was sent home with us and is actually really delicious.) </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Other than that everything went perfect. The storms that were supposed to happen all weekend still haven't shown up. It was sunny and beautiful. There wasn't a dry eye in the place during the ceremony and everyone loved our personal, written vows. The food was amazing, everyone danced and had a great time. It goes so fast! Rob teared up a number of times. He keeps raving about how gorgeous I was and how he thinks my dress was perfect. He told me during I first dance I made the right choice and it got me all teared up. I never full out cried, but I had tears welling all day over everything. Happy tears, I only legit cried after hanging up on the baker. It just couldn't have been better. Our venue was amazing, the staff bent over backwards to make us as happy as possible and the fact that they truly cared about us was so evident. All our guests had nothing bad to say and were blown away. It was amazing!</span></div>
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The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-74044878353343023062013-05-29T06:39:00.003-07:002013-05-29T06:39:57.142-07:003<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank goodness today is my last day of work for two weeks. I just stapled all my program materials upside down and backwards, ugh. </span><div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We're done. That's it. House needs to some tending to and cleaning. We meet with our coordinator tomorrow and drop everything off. Rehearsal Friday. Wedding Saturday. Done.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weather's being a finicky jerk, so we'll see how that shakes out. Hopefully the thunderstorms hold off until at least late evening. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then it's honeymoon time! Woo hoo! Five days until that.</span></div>
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The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-13526766072999706592013-05-24T03:47:00.000-07:002013-05-24T03:47:51.856-07:00The Final Countdown<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Phhheeeewwwww, almost done. Which is good. We worked really hard to have everything done early, which we pretty much do now. Somehow we're both still feeling a bit stressed, and ready for it just be here. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So right now our docket is just about cleared. Rob's mom is ironing our linens for us and helping us paint our card box. We met with the DJ last week and hashed out most of the music selections and a time line for the evening. I spoke with our photographer and I just need to shoot her off the photo list. I put together our day of time line, at least the one for the girls. Up until the ceremony they boys can do whatever. Then after that obviously we're following the same one. I went and picked up the meal choice stickers for the place cards and we have our final meeting with our coordinator at the venue on Thursday and we'll drop everything off then too. And right now I'm working on writing my vows. And that's it. Really, we're done. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also, I've been checking the weather ever since extended forecasts came out at the 25 day mark. Right now it's saying mid 80's and mostly sunny for both the welcome picnic in the park Friday night and for the wedding Saturday. Fingers crossed it stays that way. It's jumped around like crazy. Ultimately though, I won't freak out if the weather is crummy since it's out of our control. But nice would nice. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've been doing a lot around the house. The kitchen and bathroom remodel, we refinished the stair treads and upstairs hallway floors. I did a crapload of cleaning yesterday. Rob's been mowing, we have more landscaping to do. It's slowly but surely coming along. I still have a lot more cleaning to do to get the house to where I want it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This weekend we're having our bachelor and bachelorette parties. It'll be nice to hang with our friends and decompress a bit.
I'm ready. We're both ready. We had almost an exactly year and a half long engagement. It was 532 days long and we've planned enough and we're both ready to get married. It's been a long time coming. And now, there are only 8 days left. And I couldn't be happier. </span><br />
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The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-74465868778827757492013-05-16T14:53:00.002-07:002013-05-16T14:55:24.118-07:00To-Do List<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Soooooo close, holy crap!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quick update because it's been a while. We're mostly just sitting idle and tying up loose ends. Here's what we did recently:</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Picked up our marriage license!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Had my final fitting</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Made our seating chart</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gave the venue/caterer final numbers</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Paid off the florist</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finalized numbers and details for the rehearsal dinner</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bought flower girl basket</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Acquired a ring bearer that is not our dog</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Got my decorations minus the centerpieces from Sharon</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sent Brittany her reading</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Worked with Daniel to finalize our ceremony</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Figured out the timing for hair and make up the day of</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And probably more, but that's what I can dig out of my brain right now. Right now I'm currently assembling favors and I just sent Rob back to work with the place cards and a copy of the seating chart. So he'll be typing those out on his work typewriter tonight. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Give the final count to the baker and pay the remainder of that balance</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Go over the shot list with the photographer and plan her timeline</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Make my day of schedule (which is what I'm most stressed about right now and can start once I get the timing confirmation from my coordinator)</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Final meeting with our DJ (this Sunday)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drop off the decorations and hotel bags (week of)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ties for the ushers</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Figure out and buy throwy things for the recessional</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Write my vows (almost forgot about this one, woops. It's probably important. Probably)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, not bad. All doable in the amount of time we left, which is like, none. Only 16 days left. Freaking 16 days and I will be married. Hoooooly cow.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-62872127194851476252013-05-06T11:34:00.000-07:002013-05-06T11:34:06.702-07:00The Home Stretch<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pheeeewwww. Getting there. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've been working hard to get the house in order. Lots of little updates and sprucing ups going on. This weekend we added a custom-ish built privacy fence/screen thing to the side of the deck that can be seen from the road. So now it's nice and private. We also put a new fan up on the porch. Got rid of the indoor, brass, rusted out thing that was out there with something actually made to go outside.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did so much hole punching last night my palm has a bit of a bruise on it. I did the little tags for the favors last night, which I'm hoping we can also assemble this weekend. I see a lot of tedious work for the wedding filling up my Saturday. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Went and picked up tons of decorations from Sharon this past Saturday. She had the arch decoration and all the chair bows for the aisle done. I got the bouquets and boutineers from her not too long ago too. She's working on putting together our centerpieces for us now. Then we should be pretty set on all our decorations. I'm going to be bringing soooo much stuff over to the Ramada that week before. Holy crap. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our meeting with our DJ got bumped back two weeks. We were supposed to meet him Sunday but he had a charity event come up last minute, so we rescheduled for the 19th, which is fine. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not much left to do after that. Have to talk with our photographer, our baker, pay the florist and baker, get all this stuff together to drop off. And I really need to get my day of timeline done, but I can't do that until I know for sure about hair and makeup counts and get time frames from my make up artist and hair dresser. I don't know. I have a list, I guess I should look at it. Yikes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, here's the scary part... only 26 days left. Do you see that? Only. 26. Days. Left. Holy smokes. </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-8218719416087517882013-04-25T17:25:00.000-07:002013-04-25T17:25:02.890-07:00Pink Decor No More<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh my gosh. How close we are.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My dress fitting went well-ish. It's too big, way too big. Between ordering up stupidly and losing weight, the seamstress could barely even pin it there was so much extra fabric. So there's that. My next fitting is May 15th and Emily is going to come along for that since my bustle requires two sets of hands, so her and my mom will need to learn that. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our RSVP deadline is a week from today. We're still waiting on like 11 or 12 of those to come in, so about 25-30 people still left in limbo. And none came today, so I might start getting cranky if the last few don't come in soon. Once we have them all though, Rob, his mom, my mom, and myself are going to sit down and work out the seating chart together. Then, once we have seating arrangements made, Rob has kindly agreed to type up the place cards because he is amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made our table number things. They came out cute for someone as crafting impaired as myself. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I purchased all our favors which came in today, bought myself another different top to wear when getting ready (also came in today!), ordered some more stuff from vistaprint that I needed for welcome bags and favors, and whatever. Who knows. We still need to buy flower girl baskets, something for people to "throw" during the recessional, ties for the ushers. Once some money clears in my bank account I'm going to buy the stuff needed to make our card box and pay the florist in full, </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also on our to do list at this point is applying for our marriage license and finalizing our music since we have our final DJ next weekend. Things we're currently waiting on from other people is the flowers, decorations, and centerpieces from my mom's friend Sharon who has kindly offered to put those together for us. And we're waiting to get our ceremony back from Daniel with the changes he planned to make to it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And, I'm still adding things to my to do list. Not sure how that's possible, but I am. I'm overwhelmed about stuff that's left and the very little amount of time left to do things. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And on the house front, we finished our bathroom renovation! Plumber came out twice for a leak and it took a bit longer than expected, but it's done and we're ecstatic about how it came out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Good riddance pink plastic tile. I will see you in Hell. Also, you can probably guess why there's a hole in our kitchen ceiling and bucket on a ladder. Our plumbing does this special thing where whenever it decides to completely crap out it waits until a Sunday night. So, that always makes things more fun. A house update will come eventually. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I haven't been nervous or stressed about the wedding really at all except for a few stressed moments over one or two particular aspects. Like dress shopping, what a nightmare. But in general I can honestly say I have no idea how people stress themselves out so much. I have no idea why people need lists and more lists and lists for their lists. I still haven't figured out what other people put in planning binders other than what's in mine (contract copies, payment receipts, guest list with food choices). Really, what's in there..? </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I will say, right now, I feel slightly overwhelmed. It's coming up so fast. I'm very grateful I made our rsvp deadline for a month out instead of two weeks out like normal people do. But on that same aside, that deadline is only two weeks away and if I want to focus on the things mentioned in the first paragraph as the last things I do after the deadline other than communicating with vendors, then I need to get cracking on everything else. Which is slightly nerve wracking. Fingers crossed all the house stuff is done by this weekend and we can go back to focusing on the wedding, because if I don't do something vaguely productive for it soon I might actually get legitimately stressed, and no one wants that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ALSO! I had my bridal shower last weekend!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My Girls! They did such an amazing job! It was wonderful, I loved seeing everyone and getting some time to spend with my loved ones. I can't even begin to thank them enough. I truly do have some amazing friends. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay. Good. Only 46 days left. Yup, that's it. Yikes!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember when I redid our kitchen counter tops while Rob was away on business without consulting him? Well, he was skeptical at first, as I would have been as well. But then, it started to grow on him. And then, he did just started doing this</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's right. The sneaky sneaks who painted our house before we moved in painted over the existing laminate backsplash. Which explains why we couldn't figure out what material that part of the wall was. It too was the same repulsive shade of yellow as the counters. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So once we had ruined our walls, we had no choice but to continue. So we went to Lowes and picked out some mosaic tile backsplash. It took multiple trips to Lowes to get it all figured out. We hoped the 12" tile sheet would fit perfect, but it was a smidge too big. But cutting off a row of tiles left too much space. So we had to get creative. We ended up buying a second type of tile and mixing them together into a pattern that perfectly the space. Way to go us. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And now, back to your regularly scheduled program; the wedding. I wrote our ceremony. Just need to make one or two small changes then send it off to Daniel. My bridal shower is on Saturday and I'm so excited. And my first dress fitting is on the 17th. Then all the big stuff is finally, totally done. Just details, head counts, seating chart, final vendor meetings and talks, and then, wedding time!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of vendors, I've spoken to all of them but the baker and florist at this point. But we still have some time. But final talks have begun and it's exciting to nail down final, specific details with them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've spent money. No, that's not meant to be a joke about how stupidly expensive weddings are. I paid the remaining balance for our DJ and lighting, bought a cake topper, bought a cute monogrammed shirt to get ready in that I'm now second guessing. Buying multiples of frivolous details has been a non stop problem for me. But at least if I'm going to be super fickle it's over earrings and shirts, not vendors or other more expensive and difficult things to orchestrate. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My bridal shower is one week from Saturday. I'm a little sad at the amount of "no" rsvp's Emily has been getting. But I also know how amazing she is and that no matter what it will be wonderful, fun, an spectacular. And I get to spend time with friends and family, so it's still a win. I also have my make up trial that weekend too. So if I like the results I can call and cancel the other girl. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've had a steady stream of rsvp's for the wedding and the rehearsal dinner coming back to us since we sent them out. And yes, in case anyone is confused, the rehearsal dinner rsvp card is included in the invitation. Everyone's invited. It's more of a welcome BBQ, so don't be so confused about it, you were all supposed to get one!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rob has started to seriously book our honeymoon. We are now up to plane tickets, our hotel in San Francisco, a Giants/Toronto and Yankees/Mariners game, and we're looking into Seattle hotels now too. So that's very exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It feels so close and yet still so far away at the same time. I just can't wrap my brain around the dwindling time that's left. I know more stuff has been done since I last updated, but at this point I can never remember when I did what and what stuff I've already mentioned. It all just feels like a blur, moving really fast but also like the days are dragging their feet counting down. I don't know. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whew. Okay. Only 2 months and 4 days left to go. Considering we started at 533 days, we're now down to a measly 65 left. Eek! </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-13236686476580366912013-03-19T11:27:00.001-07:002013-03-19T11:28:37.610-07:00Final Knot Tying<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Time is a tickin'!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are getting really down to the wire now and it feels like there's a lot to do but at the same time nothing to do. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We finally crossed buying wedding rings off our list. That is a huge relief as it's been such a difficult process for us. We decided on a card box and now just have to buy the material to "make" it. I also just ordered a cake topper and a cutesy shirt for getting ready in. Because how cute I look is clearly what's important. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm starting to contact vendors for final meetings as well. I just snagged us a date and time the first week in May to meet with our DJ and finalize all our music. I've been in contact with our coordinator about what she needs from us and what questions I have for her. I'll be stopping by the florist on my way home from work today hopefully to just solidify a few things with her. And I fired off an email to our photographer so as soon as I hear back from her that should be everyone except our baker. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our invitations went our before I left for Las Vegas the first week of the month. We've gotten a ton of responses back already! Over 50 yes's and only 4 no's so far. I'm so excited to check the mail everyday and I really hope I don't have to track people down after the rsvp date. But that's not until May 1st, so no worries there. One I get at least half back I plan to start labeling place cards and hopefully we can sit down and start doing our seating chart together. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm going to have to give Rob a big kiss at some point because he's been wonderful in all the planning. Involved and opinionated, but letting me run with a lot of it. That said, almost all the decisions have been joint up to this point, so I'm happy to say I can't wait for <i>our</i> wedding. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next big thing on the docket is probably the ceremony. I asked Daniel about it not too long ago, but we don't have anything for that planned yet other than a reading and writing our own vows. Sooooo, I might start to worry soon if we don't get a jump on that. But otherwise it looks like all the big stuff is really taken care of.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've also started to book honeymoon stuff too. We're hoping in another week or so to really book most of the stuff for that. Since we're doing a Pacific Coast Road Trip, a lot of individual things need booking, unlike if we did the traditional route of a cruise or an all inclusive place. But that's just not our style and I'm super excited for what we have planned so far on this front. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My bridesmaids dresses are all seemingly in at this point. I went and tried my dress on with Emily and Annie when they picked their up and tried them on. They came out wonderful and I'm excited about how they look. And I scheduled my first dress fitting for April 17th while we were there. My mom ordered a dress and both dads have been fitted for a tux at this point. All the groomsmen need to be fitted by this Sunday, so hopefully that happens. They've been a little lax about going and getting it done. Sharon is working on our centerpieces, flowers, and other decorations she's doing for us. Things are just coming along. I'm really happy to say we had no major disagreements, no major hurdles, arguments, nothing. Our wedding planning has gone about as smoothly and without a hiccup as I think it's possible for wedding planning to go. So I'm pretty pleased. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ahhhh, I can't wait! Only 74 days left to go! That's 2 months, 1 week, and 6 days. </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-23244249571732237582013-03-03T15:32:00.001-08:002013-03-03T15:32:40.377-08:00EnCOUNTERing Wedding Checks<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Getting things done! That's how I feel right now at least.</span><div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of Rob's co-workers daughters is a professional make up artist and he gave me her contact information. She seems amazing! It'll end up being the same cost as the girl I have booked form Canandaigua, but she can do airbrushing and fake eyelashes, both of which I wanted. I scheduled a trial with for April 6th first thing in the morning. That's the day of my shower so I figure I can go all done up and all my girls and my mom and Rob's mom can see it and decide if they want their make up done too so I can give her a head count. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The bridesmaids dresses are in! They came in last week, so tomorrow I'm going to Syracuse in the afternoon. My mom is going to look for a dress for herself and hopefully Emily and Annie will meet us there so I can see the dresses. I'm also going to try my dress on with all the various jewelry pieces I bought a make me final decision there. So I' pretty excited to try my dress on again, find something for my mom, and see my girls in their dresses. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then Thursday I fly to Las Vegas. Rob is there for a conference now and I'm meeting him there. While we're there we're going to look at rings and hopefully buy them. Then, when we get back I'm going to make all our final vendor meetings. Which means we'll have to finalize all our music selections, a must have photo list, and all our details we still need to work out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Annnnd, on the non wedding front, I resurfaced our kitchen counters. And they came out pretty well. It's a surprise for Rob for when he gets home next week (unless he reads this, but I don't think he does. But if so, no surprise for him, haha)</span></div>
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The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-41016361554040060902013-02-25T04:21:00.000-08:002013-02-25T04:21:49.302-08:00Double Digit Countdown, Commence <span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once again, it's been awhile since I posted last. That seems to have become my typical opener, but I haven't been very good at keeping up. We've been in a bit of a lull lately, believe it or not, considering how little time is left!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A lot of what has been happening but a lot of it is "out of my control" type of stuff. Sharon started working on our bridesmaids and groomsmen's flowers and they are looking wonderful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rob, Andy, and I went to Men's Warehouse today too and picked out the tuxes. He and Andy got measured and the deposits for everything in regards to tux rentals is placed. I'm going to be making final jewelry selections next week, so hopefully I can convince myself to stop buying jewelry finally. On Wednesday my mom and I are going to New York Bride and Groom so she can hopefully pick a dress and I can try mine on with all my jewelry and finally decide and stop wasting money. Also, Rob's cousin's daughters who are our flower girls, their dresses are figured out by the looks of it too. So that's great!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, only 96 days left. Yup, 96. Double Digits. We started at 531 days total and now we're down to 96 days. That's 3 months and 1 week to go. </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-43759612531506778642013-02-12T12:53:00.000-08:002013-02-12T12:53:22.239-08:00Tireless Details<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it's been a while since my last post. I've been pretty busy with life lately. </span><div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the wedding front, things are progressing, but not too much at the same time. Rob and his guys were supposed to go together to get fitted Saturday on their way back from their boys weekend in Potsdam, but they were a few minutes late to the store and couldn't get fitted. So when that gets done is up in the air now. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We changed directions on centerpieces, again, and I have now committed by buying materials to make them. I need to purchase some more tiger lilies, but it looks like we have the idea nailed down by now. And speaking of centerpieces, I need to email our coordinator about votive candles. I don't remember if they provide them or not. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My mom ordered us a bunch of stuff too. Favor bags, tulle, and some other decorations type things. We plan to order the favors soon too. And another thing I need my momma's help with will be steaming all the creases and wrinkles out of the linens then rerolling them so they won't crease back up. I also bought different jewelry. I found stuff I liked better for less money so I'm hoping I can maybe sell the jewelry on the Knot classifieds or something. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Invitations are the next project. We hand delivered a few so far, like to our parents and a few of our attendants. I'm going to make putting together, stuffing and addressing invitations my project for next week so I can have them in the mail during the first week in March. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyways, as of today there are only 109 days left. Getting dangerously close to the double digit count down now. That's three months, 2 weeks and 6 days left. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">House first I guess. As you may or may not know, our house was built in 1931 and the same couple lived there for 60 of it's 81 years of life. They grew old and passed on there which is evident by the lack of updating over the decades. So this week Rob and I decided we should start tackling some stuff in the house to make it more "presentable" for when people come in June for the wedding. Last night we started off simple by buying and beginning to add new hardware to the cabinets. It already makes a huge difference. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyhoo, I think that's about it. Everything I've ordered as late, like my accessories, my garter set, the rock candy, it's all showed up. We still have A TON left to do and I'm starting to stress a bit about how much of it is left compared to the time left. But I'm sure it'll all work out in the end. </span></div>
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The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-88414856170101540442013-01-22T07:20:00.003-08:002013-01-22T11:08:09.097-08:00Engaging Wedding Checks<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know what I've done since my last post. My brain is soo jumbled with wedding garbble right now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The most exciting wedding related news is that Andy (Rob's best man) proposed to Emily (my maid of honor) on Friday and they are engaged! I'm so pumped about it and I can't wait to see Emily in two weeks for our girls weekend. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the side of my own wedding, we've been mostly productive. Friday we met with Dana form DTO's about catering our rehearsal dinner. Rob's mom is taking the lead on that. But we picked a menu out and I'm very excited. Our rehearsal dinner is going to be laid back and outside in the park for a good, fun time. And everyone is invited, so it's like weekend long wedding festivities abound. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Trying to think, trying to think. Urrrmmm. Yeah, that's my brain. I bought a bunch of stuff. I purchased four pounds of loose rock candy in our colors to bring to Lori to decorate our cake with. I have no idea what four pounds of rock candy looks like or how much that really is, but hopefully it's more than enough. I bought my own accessories I want one more thing then I think my attire will be all taken care of. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had one of my fellow June 2013 brides from TK design our invitations. I wanted the ones that match our save the dates but it would cost me like $600 to get them through Wedding Paper Divas. She, in her infinite awesomeness, recreated them and made them even cuter than the WPD ones and only charged me $35 for the invitation, all the information typically found on a separate card on the back, and two rsvps (one for the rehearsal dinner and one for the wedding). I bought a Vista Print groupon and all said and done I probably saved like $500-ish. So I'm pumped about that and those should show up in about two weeks. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I feel like there's more, but I honestly don't know what. All I know is there's still a ton left to do and we're very quickly running low on time to do it all in. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There's only 130 days left. That's 4 months, 1 week and 3 days to go. </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-31356140767047826212013-01-16T08:54:00.001-08:002013-01-16T08:54:44.545-08:00Accomplishments Abound <span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Holy cow, we're getting a lot done lately!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a menu tasting and details meeting on Friday at our venue. Our new coordinator is awesome. She's young and full of ideas and caught right on to our sense of humor and what we wanted out of our wedding. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We set our menu. We're going all out with the plated dinner and I think people are going to be very happy with the choices. Everything tasted amazing and I can't wait. We bought some extra appetizers too so people should be nice and well fed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our hotel is booking up fast! I had to beg for them to set 10 more rooms aside. I also booked a suite for me and all my girls for Friday night since all the guys are staying at our house. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I ordered place cards that match our save the dates. A girl from the June 2013 board on TK is designing our invitations to match as well for a fraction of the cost from what the website wants, so I'm pumped about that. She sent me a first round of drafts to pick from last night and I'm excited to hopefully order those next week. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My dress came in! It came in last week, so I went last night to try it on. It looks great in white as opposed to the ivory of the sample gown. I also bought cute dangley earrings to wear and we ordered me a veil last night too. So that'll be come in in about a month or two. But my dress is too big, which I knew was going to happen. I knew I should have ordered the sample size. But it is what it is and in April I'll have them take it in for me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday Rob's mom is coming to see us and we're going over to DTO's to pick out our catering menu for the rehearsal dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rob's cousins said they think they've found potential flower girl dresses. All my bridesmaids have ordered their dresses. Rob and his guys are going to start looking at suits the second weekend in February. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Emily and my girls seem to have my shower pretty underway and invitations for that are apparently going out at the end of the month. Glad we got all our registering out of the way two weeks ago. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ahhh, things are moving right along. It's amazing. It feels so close and soooo far away at the same time. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We only have 136 days left! That's 4 months, 2 weeks and 2 days to go. I can't believe it!</span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-9167955424947313722013-01-04T15:50:00.002-08:002013-01-04T15:50:37.018-08:00Engagement Ring Revamp<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sooooo, wedding rings. A debacle we've been torn on since we first got engaged over a year ago. I think Rob has finally decided he definitely wants a meteorite ring. I think he should get one. He needs to love whatever he gets because he's the one wearing it <i>forever.</i> </span><div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For me, it's been more difficult then yes or no to one ring. It's been, do I just wear my current ring since it's technically two? Do I switch it to my other hand then wear only a wedding ring on my left hand? Do I find something or have something made that fits around it? Or do I have the guard taken off? After a lot of debating and "deciding" on every decision possible at some point or another. But we decided to have the guard taken off so I can wear a wedding ring and my engagement ring all on one finger. I got the engagement ring back today and it looks sooooo different with the guard off. But I love it. It looks really pretty and perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also, tomorrow morning we're meeting up with my mom to go register. So that should be fun. Then a week from today is our menu tasting and details meeting at our venue. And I found someone to recreate the Wedding Paper Divas invitations I want for a fraction of the cost. Then I can print them from Vista Print and save a crap ton of money. Score. So much to do still, it's crazy!</span></div>
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The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-47739348528727713642012-12-27T14:21:00.002-08:002012-12-27T14:21:21.860-08:00The Ever Growing To Do List<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy holidays! They're coming to a close, but wedding stuff is picking up for us.</span><div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've discussed details further. We're trying to nail down a lot of the smaller details like centerpieces, decorations in various places throughout the venue, favors, etc. My mom and I met up with Sharon, her florist friend who is doing our silk arrangements, and picked out ribbon and the last of the silk flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of registries, we started a small Amazon one a bit ago. And now on Saturday the fifth we're going to huge Bed Bath and Beyond on the Boulevard to do our big registry. We're both pretty excited about it. Our menu tasting and details meeting is in only two weeks as well. So things are really starting to come together. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So that's what's going on for the next two weeks. Then after that it's going to ordering invitations, making place card and escort cards, getting my silk arrangements done, buying favors, a cake topper and the other cake decoration we need to purchase for the baker, buying the last of the decoration things, schedule and have my hair and make up trial, figure out a card box things, figure out the flower girls dresses/baskets/flower/etc., put together welcome bags... just everything else. So yeah. Still quite a bit to get done.</span></div>
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The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-87094263164437326622012-12-19T10:48:00.002-08:002012-12-19T10:53:58.059-08:00Is This What Stress Feels Like..?<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, so it's been a while now since I last updated. Things are rolling right along, sort of. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've gone back to looking at rings. It's been quite the trying issue to make a decision here. But we've got some solid plans in the works. Rob is planning on getting his meteorite ring. I'm having the guard removed off mine after the new year so I can purchase a wedding band. Then that should be all set on both accounts. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have our meeting with coordinator coming up soon; January 11th to be exact. We have the big list of "things" we need to be able to answer by then, but I don't how much of it Rob or my parents have actually thought about it. I also have a running list of detail ideas and questions to ask. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We went to Rob's cousin Daniel's wedding in Chattanooga over the weekend. It was nice to see a wedding in action with ours being so close now. And now that Daniel's wedding is over we can start thinking about our ceremony. Daniel is officiating for us, so now that his plate is clear of his own wedding we can start putting together out own. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On top of that, going to another wedding has sparked Rob's interest in things he normally didn't care about having a say in. Things like centerpieces and escort cards. I originally showed him a picture of escort cards I wanted to make and he said they were fine and that he didn't care what they looked like. Now he wants to scrap that idea in lieu of another. Which is fine by me. I'm by no means going to have a disagreement about escort cards of all things. My only issue with this though is that some things he wants to change are things I have already invested money in. So I kind of wish he had wanted a say earlier, ya know, before I spent money. But it is <i>our</i> wedding, so I want us both to like it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I went ahead and made a partial payment for our DJ today too. He's about 50% paid off at this point and I'm hoping to have that paid off soon. He was by no means the cheapest in the area, but a great DJ was high on our priorities list, so we splurged. I also bumped up the price by insisting I had to have uplighting, which I'm still excited about, even though it racked the bill up some.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I got a sample invitation from Wedding Paper Divas, who I ordered our save the dates from. They can custom color our invites to match our colors for a small fee. That's fine though because I have yet to find anything else I really like and love the idea of having the matching set. So I'll splurge here too I guess. Money for everyone (except me of course).</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, for now I guess, I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot, is that hopefully Saturday my mom and I will get out to Hobby Lobby. I really want to buy any more decoration things that we need. I'm starting to feel slightly stressed and panicked that things aren't moving along quickly enough anymore and feel like buying some detail related items will help quell those feelings. Hopefully. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alright, 5 months, 1 week and 6 days left. that boils down to 164 days to go. Getting there we are. </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-3233598501867610832012-12-02T15:21:00.001-08:002012-12-02T15:23:04.472-08:00Decisions<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, a lot of decisions being made right now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First off, I scheduled our menu tasting and details meeting with our venue for January 11th. That give my parents enough time to make adjustments to their work schedules since it's a Friday. So this is exciting. Our new coordinator sent us a semi overwhelming list for the details meeting to make sure we have answers to when we meet. So I need to sit down with Rob and go over it as well as speak with my parents about a few of the things on it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another decision we made was to switch from a buffet dinner to a sit down dinner. The package we want that has all night open bar and the works only comes as a sit down dinner. The next package down with a buffet option has a pretty limited time frame for the bar, and we want the roaring party after dinner, so bar time it is! I only wanted a buffet because I'm a picky eater, but since I get to dictate the menu, it doesn't matter. Plus, sit down dinners feel classier. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The next big decision we made is wedding rings. This is something we've both waffled over since we first got engaged a year ago. Rob has finally made up his mind about getting a meteorite ring, which I'm happy about. It's what he really wanted and he has to wear it forever and be happy with his decision forever, so I'm really glad he finally said definitely to the ring. For me, I can't find anything that fits next to my engagement ring. Nothing. The ring is too big and to awkwardly shaped. When Rob's mom gave him the ring to give to me she offered to have the guard removed and he said to leave it intact. The day we got engaged she told me I could take it off if I wanted and said no, I love the ring as is. But when push comes to shove, it's very important for me to have a wedding ring that Rob and I go pick out to symbolize our marriage. So we've decided that I'm going to have the guard taken off and just wear the white gold, five stone original engagement ring and we'll give the guard back to Mary. When we brought it up to her over the weekend she sort of chuckled and said she was surprised I'd kept the guard on this long and that she didn't mind if I had it taken off. So that's on the docket for the end of this month after we get back from Daniel's wedding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of, Daniel's wedding is in two weeks and we leave to drive to Chattanooga in a week and a half. I'm really excited to go, see Rob's family, take a trip together, and just enjoy someone else's wedding. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sooo, we passed the six month mark yesterday! We have 5 months, 4 weeks and 2 days left to go. That's a mere 181 days! Ahhhh, what happened to the 550+ days we started with!? </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-3246176995716940962012-11-21T12:44:00.000-08:002012-11-21T12:48:43.875-08:00Oh, Home Ownership...<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's go ahead and start this post on a positive note. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday we booked our florist. She did a mock up of what my bouquet will look like and I'm very happy with the results. Check.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I paid the deposit and booked our baker. We went with Lori from Bagels and Cakes because she makes awesome "Cake Boss" grooms cakes, which we want. And, the best part, she'll make our rock candy cake for us! This is the inspiration for our cake: </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also have banana spice muffins in the oven and they have walnuts and white chocolate chips in them. And I'm making pumpkin better than sex cake tonight too. So be jealous of my sweet baking skills. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Right now we're dealing with the dryer. It's not producing heat and our wet clothes are just tumbling endlessly because it has a sensor in it that adds time if things aren't dry yet. It's just over a year old, we got it last year the day after we closed on our house. We bought the extended warranty but they can't send someone until NEXT Thursday the 29th. Seriously. That's more than a week, it's insane.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We also got our gas logs hooked up in our fireplace. The bill for that hasn't come yet. I can only imagine what that will be. We ended up having to buy a hood for it too since we have an old school, heat producing fireplace with a very shallow firebox with outward slanting walls. Can't risk ruining our tv that's mounted over the mantle. Or, ya know, the custom, hand carved, original 1930's wooden mantle. So today we figure out the technique for how to properly use masonry bits and screws to drill that into the brick face of the fireplace. It seems to be diverting the heat enough, so we'll see.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Annnnnd, just to add more to the fun, last night we discovered the kitchen sink leaks. I remember when we had our inspection Hans told us there was still one rouge ceramic pipe under there to keep an eye on. Surprisingly enough though, it's the pvc pipes and they've obviously been leaking for a while. It smells like moldy broccoli under there. Good thing nothing of value is underneath. Just the left over paint cans from when the house was painted while it was on the market. I had intended to take them out, clean up under there and move our cleaning stuff under there. Now, until we fix that, and probably the floors under it that are probably rotting, it's nothing but a bucket so we can still use the sink with minimal fear of further destroying our floors. Not that we like them anyways, but still. I had every hope to lay new floors over the existing since I'm terrified of what an 81 year old sub floor looks like and have no desire to find. I may have to face that fear now. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been in contact with our new coordinator a bit. I told her I'd get hold of her after the new year to set up a details meeting. Asked about menu tasting and she said we can set that up whenever. So I'm thinking I may contact her next week about that and set something up for prior to our details meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have my florist appointment and the final cake appointment on Friday afternoon. Once both those things have deposits down on them I can draft our vendors list to have both for myself and to give to the Ramada, as they require one. I still need to call our DJ again about adding the ceremony music to our contract. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of details, I started putting together a list of all the different "details" things that I need to have an answer to when we go to the meeting, such as "centerpieces", "arch decor", "aisle decor", "linens", etc. I figure if I can give a super detailed list, including pictures when possible, to the Ramada, then they can just replicate it on the day of and I won't have to answer any questions or whatever. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also met up with my friend Brittany yesterday and asked her if she would do a reading at the ceremony. She said yes and I'm sooo excited for her to be part of our wedding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've started to go through my wedding pinterest board and put together a must have list of shots for our photographer. I'll have to have my mother and Rob's mother draft formal family line up must have pictures. I plan on having a list of everyone who will be in pictures, in the order we plan to take them, and give everyone in them a copy so they know when they're needed a for how long. I'd like to take only about 20 minutes for formals then move onto wedding party and then just us pictures. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lauren is officially my first bridesmaid to order her dress! Those need to be ordered by December to be here on tim and have time for possible alterations. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday I went adult trick or treating, as I called it. I drove down maybe about ten miles of the Seneca Lake Wine Trail to go a cork gathering rampage. I went to maybe seven or eight wineries and it's great because they just dump the corks in a bag and off you go. Love free stuff! I got about half of what we need. If I had the time I would have drove more of the 40 miles trail and been able to get enough, but I'll just go again in a few weeks. I'm going to use them to make escort cards. I figure since we live in wine country that can be my slight nod at that. Plus now my car smells nice like fine wine. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I feel like I'm forgetting stuff, but maybe not. Anyways...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">200 days!!! That's a mere 28 weeks! Or 6 months, 2 weeks and 5 days. </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-43949260245012128382012-11-01T18:08:00.000-07:002012-11-02T08:52:57.663-07:00Coordinating Conundrum <span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Little snafu today... our coordinator is leaving our venue. I'm a bit sad about this. She's been there 15 years, all the vendors in the area know her and love working with her. She has nothing but amazing reviews. I was so excited to work with her. And that was coming soon, after the six month mark. And now she's leaving. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't hear this from our venue though, which is some what disconcerting. I found out at work. Our secretary called to confirm our date and room reservations for our winter luncheon, conveniently being held at our venue. She called the coordinator who confirmed, then gave her the new name and contact information for the new, soon to be coordinator. I planned to email to current lady tonight, but I go too caught up with other house things. It's on my to do list for tomorrow. Just... frustrating. I've read too many horror stories on The Knot about girls having the coordinator switched and things not going well. I'm hoping because we still have some time that'll work out alright. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Otherwise, on the planning front, all the silks I bought showed up. We officially have all our flowers except for the few real ones we're getting for myself, Rob, and our parents. I also bought shoes. I found them a few weeks ago and wasn't ready to commit. I went back for them and they were marked at 30% off. Score!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My dress... I'm stressed again. When I picked it out, the sample was an eight and fit perfectly. But sometimes samples are stretched out from being tried on. I got measured and all my measurements were in between sizes, three different ones to be exact. The consultant told me to pick whatever I was comfortable with so I went with a ten, thinking that was safe. But I tried on some party dresses with Emily and Annie a month or so ago now and those were all eights and fit perfect. I wanted to order an eight when I ordered the dress, but I was nervous it'd be too small and I'd end up in tears. Now I wish I had gotten an eight so I wouldn't have to pay for so many alterations. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lastly, rings. My engagement ring is a large, awkward shaped ring that takes up a lot of finger real estate. It's going to be difficult to fin a ring to put next to it. My thought has been to move it to my right hand permanently post wedding and put something flashy in it's place. I found what I wanted online, but the price recently went up. Like way up, like doubled in price up. So in a panic I went to a bunch of jewelry places to search for something similar in store, only to come up disappointed. I finally caved and tried something on next to my ring. I can fit a very thin, small band behind/under it, but I'm not sure. I'm so torn about what to do. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm ready for this wedding to happen already so we can be married and happy and move onto the marriage part. I'm really excited for the wedding, but seven more months might kill me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyways, today marks exactly seven months! Woohoo!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Update 11-2:</b> A letter came from our venue today. It was really nondescript, just stating there was going to be a change in contact person and that someone would contact us soon with the updated contact information. So it sounds like they haven't actually hired a new coordinator yet. The name that the coordinator gave our secretary was the Sales Director's information, so she must be the stop gap until someone new starts. Hopefully someone's in there soon and we can get caught up on the new person's information and schedule a time to meet them. Frustrating. </span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-9571330788378555762012-10-24T07:07:00.002-07:002012-10-24T07:07:48.423-07:00House Keeping Checks<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been vaguely productive this week. Wedding wise at least. The rest of my life, not so much.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Made a florist appointment</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Temporarily postponed my make up trial until after the holidays</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Called our DJ to add ceremony music to our contract. He was on another call and was supposed to call me back but never did. This is just pretty much how he rolls and I'm not concerned. It'll get added one of these days. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ordered ten more bouquets of orange gerbera daisies. I now have enough for all five girls bouquets and all our centerpieces.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ordered three bouquets of purple tulips for the five groomsmen/best man boutineers and to fill out the girls bouquets a bit more. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's it. Once we secure the cake and florist we'll have all our vendors booked except for the rehearsal dinner caterer. But that's not a big deal, the place we want to use is aware we intend to book them at some point. Otherwise it'll just be detail now. After the six month mark we can schedule our first appointment with our venue coordinator to start on the details and what not. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We also Have Daniel's wedding coming up soon; mid December. I'm pretty excited to go down to Chattanooga and see everyone and enjoy someone else's love and hard work. Then after that we can start talking to Daniel about our wedding too, since he'll be officiating for us. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As for the rest of my life, I've been unusually tired. I've been going to bed early and sleeping right through Rob coming home from work. Normally I wake up when I hear him come home if I'm not still awake, but the last week or so I've slept through it. I'm a really light sleeper. No idea what the deal is. Getting up to work out has been harder than usual too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Iron Girl registration in one week. Time to get my triathlon juices flowing. Mini Mussel registration is in three week. Going to tri my tail off this year with three races. Game face time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">220 days to go until wedding day. That's 7 months, 1 week and 1 day!</span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4913567329399923290.post-61971947367539997162012-10-15T18:11:00.002-07:002012-10-15T18:11:59.500-07:00Picture Perfect Updates<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, wedding updates, go!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I bought 150 plum napkins and 150 eggplant chair sashes. I gave the two different color names because that's what they were listed as on the classified posts I purchased them from on The Knot. I know they'll be different shades of dark purple and I don't really care. The table runners I bought a few months ago are a slightly different shade of eggplant then a sashes which showed up over the weekend. So goes life. It'll be dim lighting in the reception, so people won't notice anyways. The napkins should be here any day. I need to do something about the wedding stuff. It no longer fits in the guest room closet. The door no longer closes, and with napkins still to come and two more orders of silk flowers to be placed, it's only going to get worse. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I need to reschedule my makeup trial. I really need to make it for after the holidays when I can spring the extra money. That means I need to call soon since the trial is scheduled for next week. I also need to call about placing a deposit with our baker and set up a first floral appointment. I plan on sitting down and making all those calls in one swoop some time this week. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just sent Emily the tentative shower guest list. There's a few people I'll need to add at some point and a few addresses I need to round up. A few peoples addresses have changed since we originally got them all back in February, so hopefully people will be quick to get back to me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Scott took out engagement pictures on Saturday. We went out to camp and the weather was perfect, the sun was shining and the leaves looked pretty and colorful. We took most of the pictures on the challenge course, so they'll be very different and unique from the typical engagement pictures people take. Scott already finished up editing them and put them on a disc that he mailed today. They should be here tomorrow or the next day and I'm sooooo excited to see them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rob and I started to finally actually plug some music into our DJ's online playlist builder. That's fun, but it's not broken down specifically enough so I'm keeping a very detailed running list in a word document as well to have when we meet with him once the date gets closer. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm too tired and headache ridden to rack my brain for non wedding related updates. Work, working out, keeping the house in order, having some really good weekends with Rob and our friends lately. I have my National Credentialing CHES exam this Saturday, so fingers crossed for me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also, friends and family coming to the wedding, remember that room reservation are now available After April 16th you will not be able to get a room and odds are you won't find one anywhere else in town. Geneva is a summer vacation town and is booked solid everywhere all summer. Please plan accordingly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As usual, 229 days left, or 7 months 2 weeks and 3 days!</span>The Soon-to-be Mrs. Fieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434952160725589367noreply@blogger.com0