Pictures worth a million words

We did it!

We are so pleased with how the wedding turned out! We could not have asked for a more perfect evening. Jack and I both enjoyed seeing everyone who was able to make it!

Thanks to everyone who helped to make our wedding day so amazing. We have opened the presents and love everything we got!

We are now working on redecorating and organzing our home.

Thank yous will be in the mail shortly!

Living the Bachelor Life

Well, Jack and I spent the weekend celebrating with parties. He was with his guys in Waterville, and I spent a night on the town in Kirkland with my girls! I had a crazy time meeting lots of new people, dancing, drinking, playing pool, and just hanging out at the bar.

Eventhough I havent talked to Jack yet because he comes home today, I am pretty sure he had a blast paintballing with all his friends. My brother even went along, which is pretty funny to think how fast Westin has grown up. It is kind of nice to know that they were given the chance for some more bonding time.

Lots left to do as far as getting the house done. And with all of this snow I could not be happier. It was so beautiful last night watching it fall.

10 days out

It's official! Jack and I met with the officiant tonight. We were a little nervous as we found her on craigslist. We met her in Renton at a Starbucks (my fav!) I had a feeling it was her, I saw her waiting in line to buy her coffee and I thought to myself 'I hope that is her!' She was friendly, nice, and best of all NORMAL! Ha ha. She had exactly what we wanted. She told us she has been very busy lately and it was great to hear that she has done a ton of weddings! We are both so relieved!

We have also been putting together our wedding favors, they are nothing big but I think they are perfect!

I am still in the process of figuring out how I want my hair done but this Friday will hopefully be the day!

I am getting very nervous/anxious/excited for my bachelorette party! It will be this Friday night and I really don't know any of the details. Jack's Bachelor party is this Saturday, they are going paintballing up in the mountains.

Kami and Rich are coming home early Sunday morning which will be great because it has been pretty lonely without them!

The tree is up!

Today marks a week since Kami and Rich have left for Jamaica. They have left most of the decorating up to Jack and I. We have put up a ton of christmas lights, the pointsettias are out (which are beautiful) and we finally got them a tree!!! It is so beautiful. With school still breathing down my neck, the wedding hasnt hit me yet. It still feels so far away.

Tomorrow I am meeting with Robin to practice wedding hair up-dos! We are also going to the courthouse tomorrow to apply for our marriage license and we are metting with the possible officiant this Monday.

That is all for now but I will make sure to update when we know more!

Can't hardly wait

So the cake meeting went well. It sounds like Katie will be able to make us the most beautiful and delicious cake I have ever tasted! It already sounds amazing.

We scheduled an appointment with an officiant we found online and are hoping the meeting goes well.

We are slowly recieving many of our reception response cards in the mail. It looks like we might have nearly 80 people coming which is great, it will be standing room only!

My mom has been getting pretty emotional lately, she can't believe her daughter is getting married, she said "these last 24 years have just flown by!" She kept mentioning that she can remember the day I was born just as if it were yesterday and how amazing it will be to see me get married the exact same day of the year. I just hope her tears are because she is so happy! Ha ha.

I know my family is incredibly happy for us because they love Jack. He is a wonderful guy and they are so relieved that I found someone like him to be a part of our family.

It sounds like our next big task is setting up and working with all of the lighting.

That's it for now...

Target has been great!

Yesterday I spent a good amount of time finding some more decorations at Target. I keep getting more and more excited! I also returned a few items that we didn't need and bought some things we did which made me feel great because I know we aren't wasting any money! The great thing about buying our decorations is that we will be able to reuse them again in the future! I still don't want to give away anything so everyone will just have to see it when the big day comes!

I am meeting with Kathleen and Katie tomorrow to do one more dress fitting and to discuss my dream wedding cake! I thought Jack would want to have more say but his only request was that it not be chocolate. I didn't have a problem with that at all!

Today and tomorrow will be spent trying to find some more baby pictures for the montage. Since my family and I have moved numerous times in the last 5 years, I still do not know where a majority of things are.

I have heard from many guests that they have gotten their invitations already! I am so glad everyone liked them! We are having a black and white wedding with hints of red.

I have been checking our wedding registry often and have come to realize that the sales change daily. Many of our items continue to be marked down which is great.

Our biggest concern of the moment is trying to find someone to marry us. We do not want someone extremely religious. I have given this task to Jack so we will see who is available. I had no idea it would be this hard to find someone. Orginially we had hoped for someone we knew to marry us but it turns out we don't know anyone.

Less than one month!