hair

which hair do you like? any of them? i dont know what to do.

Gonna Get Married!

Sometimes (all the time) I can't even figure out how I got to this point in my life. I am so glad that I found Casey so young, and I can't wait to get married to him.
We just finished a 23 week class on marriage and it has already changed our relationship so much. Right after we finished, we started week one of the marriage prep books that Casey's parents gave to us when we got engaged. It was fun to already know a lot of the answers after finishing EE.
I love learning about the woman I am supposed to be and about the role God has designed for me. I love the role I have been given. I can't wait to carry out God's plans for me and to be the Godly wife that He has taught me to be. I love thinking about our sweet little home, making dinner, cleaning the bathroom, and welcoming Casey when he comes home.
Gosh, I am so so blessed.

Table numbers, place cards, Save the Dates

TEN DOLLARS for all!! :)
Apparently BIGLOTS bought out the Martha Stewart wedding collection or something. I'm not a particularly huge fan of martha stewart craftycrafty things, but $2 for 40 cards and envelopes (times 3) and $2 for 40 table place cards (times 2) is nooot bad!
We only need 100 Save the Dates (bought 120 for $6), so the extras are going to be used to make Table numbers (we only need seven of those) so the extra extras can be used as backup thank yous/shower invites/something.
hooray!


They also had:
-just married sign for car
-flower girl basket
-ring bearer pillow
-invitations (imagine getting all your invitations for $4! if casey and I weren't particular about the invitations we wanted, we'd totally go for it!)

I'm so excited to be finding things for so cheap! :)

my dress

i found my dress. and i bought it.
on eBay, for $330. (!)
brand new with tags, exactly my size and the color I wanted, just PERFECT.
and it came with a free crinoline!

Original Price (without crinoline or bra or shoes or accessories): $699

hooray!
I cant show pictures because I am afraid of Casey seeing it.
Well... I can do this:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v260/Nootable/wedding%20dress/
password: wedding.

Casey you better not peek!!!

I need off-site storage.

Today Casey and I drove to Mission Viejo to buy our Champagne Glasses. We got 83 glasses for $80, which is the best deal you will find anywhere. We could have rented them for .70 each, costing us $58.10, but we decided that it would be better to buy them for a couple of reasons.
1. If they break, we don't have to pay the $20 fee per glass for the company to replace them.
2. We can resell them after the wedding! Then they cost us nothing!

We found them through craigslist, and bought them from a lady who had spend $90 buying them from someone else on craigslist before her own wedding.

Does it matter if wine glasses/water goblets don't quite match the champagne glasses? Not to me.

But ahhh what do I do with all this stuff for a whole year! My bedroom is cramped enough as it is, and living with my parents means that I only have my bedroom as a storage option. :/

I had heard this before, but I've now found it to be absolutely true: add the word 'wedding' to anything and it becomes about a billion times more expensive.

photobooth

i want a photobooth at our wedding. so badly. but of course, when money gets tight it is the first thing to go! and by the looks of it, money is going to get tight. I would much rather have all of my friends and family there though, than have a freaky old photobooth...
unless i can have both!
i dont know where a lot of these photos came from, because i have been saving them up for a while. I think MAYbe we can do this though!
most of the following pictures are just a piece of upholstery fabric tacked to the ceiling and a digital camera. i don't think we could actually MAKE a booth like one of the pictures is (someone's husband made them tat for christmas i think!) but we can sort of get the feel of booth.
and if we could find cheap enough film, we could use polaroids instead and have people paste them into the guestbook next to their advice/well wishes. right?










im not sure how i feel about all of the glasses and mustaches though. is it too much??

Save The Dates

Save the Date inspiration:



I think this is such a cool idea! I am not really sure if we're going to do it, but if we did we would basically do what the picture shows and on the back write any information we know so far (like, the date.)
and mail it out like a postcard.
we'll seeeee.