Seamstress-ness

Yesterday my mom and I went to the seamstress with our wedding dress - it was not nearly as awkward as I expected, AND I really liked the seamstress! To add to all that, the hair pin thing that I really like will work well to hold my veil on my head, so that's exciting. The whole alteration should only be $60-80. This is a very good thing.

I'm supposed to go back at the end of August to try it on. I'll keep y'all posted!

Complete Day of Wedding Craziness: Confirmed

That's right, ladies and gentleman! Come close, gather round, do not! be afraid, though this is quite the spectacle. Here's Rachel's zany schedule on Saturday, July 8th:

9:00-9:15 - Meet with the gramster (the Calgarian grandma)
10:00 - Add Chantelle to the gramster/Rachel duo
10-1 - Shop around and be the 3 delightful ladies that we are, have some lunch
1:00-??? - add to the fantastic trio GrandmaT (from England) and MOBster, add cookware/kitchen stuff to the registry, hopefully finishing off the kitchen portion of the registry
3:30? - convoy back to the house, make some delicious snacks, hopefully add Erin to the amazing quintet and....
4:00? - start making the wedding invites....

Now we will do that...until they're done. My suspicion is that with 6 people it shouldn't take TOO long at all, and that a wonderful day will be had by all! Tyler will probably come by at around 4 provided he gets off work at around 2:30 or 3, but, provided Lyden is home and available, he will probably end up playing FIFA 2006 downstairs (or perhaps NHL. It's a toss up). However, if Lyden is not home and available, he gets to make invites with us, which I'm sure he'll enjoy more than most (less confident) men would like to admit.

Oh the joy.

Now for today's update:

Stationery

I'm sure you've been sitting at home, biting your nails, wondering "how did Rachel's tiara time with her mom go today?" ... well, maybe not. But I'll get to that in a minute.

At lunch time today mum and I went first to get the stationery needed to make our invites. She had her mock invite created already, and while the template will change somewhat from what she initially created, what we ended up with will be quite nice and perhaps EVEN BETTER than her demo. We had to go to 2 places, the second place much better than the first. I won't mention what the first is, but the second very helpful and cheerful place we went was Scrapbooker's Bliss. I shall confess it immediately, this will never be the type of place I would hang out, but that is because I am not a scrapbooker. However, if you are, you're going to want to go there. I have linked it on the side! I must say, with all this advertising I'm doing for these various places, I should be getting paid.

Tiara?!

Did she do it? Did she cave? A lesser woman may have, but I entered and exited the tiara store without a tiara. It's not actually a store dealing ONLY in tiaras, they have other hair stuff and jewelry and all sorts of stuff I'm not particularly interested in. However, after receiving some considerably terrible service, I did end up with two hairpieces. One is a headband with all sorts of diamonds (not real of course) on it, and the other is this great piece for the back of my head/hair/whatever. It was too beautiful not to get. I don't know if I'll use them both, but I figured I'm not doing this trip twice, so I'd better get both just in case. With tax and everything they cost me under $50 (but not much under), so I thought it was worth it - ESPECIALLY considering the exorbitant prices I have seen for tiaras - $100 (AT LEAST) +!!! I was like "what kind of mental case spends that much on a ridiculous tiara that they will wear once?". I got 2 nice hairpieces for $50, and I'm proud of it.

Hopefully this evening over dinner Tyler and I will confirm that our pastor friend will be doing our ceremony. If not, we're in quite the fix...

That's all for now, folks!

Long Awaited? Update

I haven't written much lately just because nothing much has been happening with wedding stuff - lots of wait and see at this point. I'll give what updates I have though...

Seamstress

It looks like my mom and I are going to see the seamstress on Sunday (enter scary music here). Nothing like standing around in your knickers in front of a stranger. However, it needs to be done, so I'll just have to deal. Now, if for some reason the dress can't be altered, then I "get" to go wedding dress shopping, which is NOT my idea of a good time.

Photography

On the photography front, it seems as if we will go with Jenni Shores Photography, which is good. It's not a complete lock, but it is looking that way.

Registry

As for the registry, there's a never-ending joy :P ... we're going to add on to it on Saturday July 1st, I've made an appointment, so off Ty and I will go. After scrounging around the Bay, we're also going to check out a travel agency and see if we can register there for our honeymoon. Some people would rather just give money/contribute to our honeymoon, so I say, why not let them. Also on the docket that day is suit shopping with Sean (the best man/one of Tyler's brothers) and Lyden (my brother/one of the groomsmen). So that's Saturday July 1.

On Saturday, July 8th, it will be off to the mall again! - this time with my Grandma (from Calgary) and my cousin Chantelle in the morning - we plan to hang out, shop a little, then have lunch. After lunch we'll meet up with my mom and my other Grandma (from England, she arrives in one week [June 28th] with my grandpa and they're staying until July 18th) to add cookware to the registry. Tyler won't be joining that little hen party, he'll probably be working.

At that point, hopefully we will be about 80 or 90% done with the registry, and only have to make one more trip. Hopefully.

Invites

My mom has been making up mock invites for Tyler and I to look at. The first couple of invites were nice, but not really "my" style, but the latest one is exceedingly fantastic and I think we'll go with it. I'm excited about it! Who ever thought I'd be getting stoked for wedding invites? Not me. Anyway, then we have to make them all - I don't know what that party will look like but we'll have lots of help no doubt - Grandma from Calgary has said she wants to help make them, and perhaps Grandma from England would be willing to help as well, then of course Chantelle if she wants, and Tyler and me, and maybe one of the bridesmaids, Erin. I don't know ... I've basically just volunteered all of them :p. Of course they can say no though. If we have that much help, I'm sure they'll be done in no time. If not, it'll take a little longer, but I'm not worried about it.

Tiara?

This Friday mom and I are going to look at tiaras. Yes, that's right, tiaras. You may be thinking "Rachel couldn't wear a tiara, it's just not in her to do it", and you're right. But apparently they have other hair pieces too. We're also getting the stationary for the invites that day - it'll be quite the lunch break (minus the lunch).

Well, I think that's it - I guess more has been happening than I thought!

cake ideas

Imagine those cakes smushed together. Sorry they're different size pics - didn't know how to fix that...

Wedding Band & Potential Photographer

Today we picked up Tyler's wedding band :) If you really want to see it, you can take a look online: www.benmoss.com, then hit the "wedding bands" tab, then on the left hand side, hit "engraved", and then it's on the first page, in the right hand column, on the very bottom: # 420110043009. We like it. :)

We were also referred to Jenni Shores Photography: http://www.jennishoresphotography.com/content.html, so we're going to get a quote.

On the flower front, we got the quote and it was more than we anticipated, so we're changing some things to get it back down to the price we want. However, that's almost a lock.

That's pretty much it, I'm back to having 2 bridesmaids in town (Erin and Chadley), Christine is now in Saskatoon, and Kristen is in London, Ontario. I hope to see Christine and especially Kristen (haven't seen her for the longest), very soon.

More updates as they come!