Rings!

We ordered our rings last night!!  This was by far, the absolute easiest of all of our wedding purchases so far.  We both knew that we wanted just classic 14k yellow gold bands so we walked into People's yesterday and had them ordered in less than 20 minutes! Talk about stress free, the woman was very helpful.  I got a 2mm one so it would match the width of my engagement ring and not make the two of them together too wide.  I've read about some women who only wear their engagement ring on special occasions but I love my ring and couldn't imagine leaving it at home everyday...I think my finger would feel naked.  Ryan's ring is 5mm and I cannot wait to slip it on his finger in 95 days!!

On some more awesome notes...(yesterday was an awesome wedding related day!) the sales manager from the hotel we're having the reception at called to set up a menu tasting (woo!) so we get awesome dinner next weekend, and I also found out yesterday that the date for my bridal shower and bachelorette party have been set!! The shower will be in just a few weeks (18 days!) before my cousins all go back to school and I'm so excited for it :)  On the other hand, my bachelorette is scheduled for October 8th so my sister will be back home from school for Thanksgiving.  I'm told its going to be an all day thing, and that my MOH and one of my bridesmaids will be helping me pick out 'something skimpy' for my wedding night...no other details have been divulged so needless to say I'm a bit nervous about that one! I'm sure it will be a blast though.

I'm going to try to get through all the rest of the invitations tonight and must remember to buy stamps so I can send them all out before Friday.  We're moving into our new place on Saturday and I can't wait to have more time to focus on wedding things!! Eek!

Phew!

It was a busy last couple of week's so I didn't get much time to post let alone do any DIY stuff...we were incredibly busy planning/having our stag and doe and working on finding jobs and a place of our own to live...craziness let me tell you.  We're currently living with Ryan's mom, which is nice, we really appreciate her letting us stay but we definitely need our own space!  Ryan started a new job last week, not a forever type job, but its going to allow us to move out on our own again which is awesome!!! We're moving this weekend and I can't wait!!  The stag and doe was on Saturday and was an awesome success! It was so great to see family and friends that I haven't seen in awhile and a great opportunity for some of Ryan's family to meet mine.  All in all we made a good amount of money that will promptly be put towards our plans! First item on the to-do list is wedding bands so we'll be going out tomorrow in search of those.  Currently I'm working on addressing the invitations, which I've been putting off and putting off and putting off....but it has to be done, we are getting married in just 96 days!

I had an extremely unsuccessful shoe shopping trip the other day, I hate my gigantic feet.  Every time I'd find a pair I like, they either wouldn't come in my size (a whopping 11) or wouldn't be flat (Ryan's already 3 inches shorter than me), or didn't come in a wide width...damn wide feet.  But I've still got time thank god...may end up just going with green chucks haha.

I'm not sure if I mentioned before, but my cousin is doing our centerpieces as part of a project for one of her classes at school which is so totally ok with me lol.  We're doing 3 different size mason jars with a green silk gerbera and water in it and a floating candle.  Next to these, we're doing the table numbers in little frames from IKEA.  99 cents for a two sided frame, doesn't get better than that!  We'll put one of our engagement pics on one side and the table number on the other.  I have some ideas for table numbers (brown scrapbook paper with a green painted wooden letter?) but I might let Ryan have a go at designing them.

I finally found some nice glass pearls on ebay to use to make the jewelry for my girls, ordered them on the 13th of July and they're not here yet which is a little worrisome but I'm hoping they're just stuck at customs somewhere since they're coming from the states.  I think that's all I needed to get off my chest tonight lol I'm hoping that once we're in our own place I'll have more time for some DIY and finalizing plans!