The Countdown....

At this time in exactly 7 months, we will be officially married, and just sitting down for dinner at the reception.

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The Bay Registry

Today Tyler and I worked on our registry. We added some plates/place settings, flatware, stemware, a kettle, a colander, knives, a salt/pepper grinder... stuff like that. We were lucky, because we hadn't made an appointment, but there was a scanner that they let us use and they helped us out A LOT. We were happy to get over that hurdle. There's still tons of kitchen stuff we should put on the registry, but that's ok, we accomplished a whole bunch today, and at least we've put a dent in it. Apparently someone at our church already went and checked out our registry and commented that there wasn't much on it! lol - at least people want to buy us gifts... that's a good "problem" to have!

I added the website of the flower place to the side bar...I didn't even know where it was til we checked it out, and I've been in Douglas Square countless times.

I also added a link to the Bay Registry site...

The Latest Developments...

Reception

Mom and I visited and booked the Ranche Restaurant this week (link on the side). We're excited! :) It's beautiful there and we'll be able to get some great pictures.

Flowers

Mom and I also went to a florist in Douglas Square today and picked out the flowers. Yikes! We picked out all the bouquets and corsages. It was quite the ordeal. The florist was good help and I'm happy with what we've decided. They're going to put together a definite price quote and then we'll go from there. I can really see how people would blow a LOT of money on flowers, there's so many different places you COULD put them, and so many different types. However, we kept it pretty simple. I'm a simple girl. Thankfully, lots of the decorating will be done for us already, since our wedding is so close to Christmas. :)

The Registry

Tyler and I have started our registry at the Bay (we actually started a couple of weeks ago, I just failed to mention it), but I'm afraid our first attempt was rather pathetic...we only picked linens, towels, and bathroom accessories, and we were there for about 3 hours. We're picky! Plus, we don't want to but a whole ton of stuff on the registry that we don't want, or that is exorbitantly priced. I don't want my guests paying silly prices for things! We're going to have to book some time in the coming weeks and try to add to it.

The next big hurdle will be the photographer. I have some friends who are photographers so we'll have to see how that all works out. After that, I'm not sure where we go... I suppose the men's suits...

What I'd really like to do is plan the ceremony... that will be the most special time for us. The celebrating will be great, we just hope that through the ceremony we can portray just how much there is to celebrate.

In 32 weeks today, Tyler and I will be getting married. A little bit surreal! In all this, may we be faithful to remember our Companion on the way...

The end of the bridesmaid dress drama

Unfortunately, my bridesmaid in Edmonton was not going to be able to make it to Calgary before September, which made it just too hard to be able to get a dress for her, so we decided that she could be a part of our wedding in a different way, and that I'd find another bridesmaid.

As sad as I am about that, I'm VERY excited to have my good friend Christine (fellow Grace Baptist Church intern) be my bridesmaid instead.

So tonight Christine met my mom (and grandma, and our friend Alice) at Bellissima, and they bought all 4 dresses... one is coming from Edmonton after all.

So, the color is dark navy, and it's pretty, and we're good to go.

Both sides of the story...

My mom has a blog! I added her to my links.

Happy Birthday Grandma!

The reception....

...will more than likely be held here: http://www.crmr.com/theranche/. Mom and I are going to check it out on Wednesday. We would have the place from 11am-4pm. The ceremony will be held at our church (I've linked it on the side bar as the place where I serve), likely at 10:30, and we hope to be over at the restaurant by noon.

Welcome to my new blog! :)

This is the place where those who are interested can hear the latest on preparing for my December 30 (2006) wedding ... it will hopefully be especially helpful to my out of town bridesmaid/maid of honor... hopefully I can keep everyone abreast of things!

I am very newly engaged (2 weeks today in fact), yet it already seems like we've been planning this thing for a month ... in a good way, mom! On Saturday my mom, Chadley, Erin S, and I went bridesmaid dress shopping. We went to a couple of bridal shops and then abandoned them for the mall, where we thought we may be able to luck out and find something good. In fact, we found some nice dark blue dresses at Bellissima, and I'd link you to pictures of the dress on their website if they had one. No matter. I'll post pictures of the dress once we get our hands on them, that is if we can.

The situation with the dresses right now is that we can get 1 small and 2 mediums of this dress in Calgary, but we can't order a matching dress from a store out of town (ie Edmonton, where there is one waiting, hopefully) without buying it. So I'm hoping Erin T will be able to make the trip to West Ed at some point this week to take a look at it, try it on, and if it works, purchase it. If it doesn't work... well, we're probably hooped. 3 dresses - 4 bridesmaids = we need to find a new dress. But hopefully it doesn't come to that.

I have my dress already, I'm wearing my mom's dress, which her grandmother bought for her, so there's some fun history behind that. I pray I won't become a psychotic mother who tries to force her daughters to wear the dress because of some silly "tradition" that I'm trying to establish here! (For the record, that's not what my mom's like, it was my idea to wear her ... "our" ... dress). I just like the dress and would like very much to wear it. We need to take it to the streamstress, I expect we should probably do that within the next couple of weeks.

Once we get the dresses, then hopefully we'll have the color, and then we can send the men out suit shopping. Tuxes aren't Tyler's thing.

I feel like I am already walking down the aisle, it's just extremely long and windy. By December we will be approaching the end of a long pilgrimmage, yet at the same time it's just the first watering hole on our journey. And as we walk, we will have Company along the way....