The ongoing Invitations Saga is finally over! This morning, I took the invitations to the post office and dropped them off to be hand-canceled and mailed. I am SO relieved to finally have them out. Now we wait for responses. I'm jealous of all the people on The Knot whose RSVPs are coming to them - my mom INSISTED that our RSVPs go to her, so instead of getting to check the mail excitedly every day, I just have to wait impatiently for my mom to email me updated lists of who has responded. I also have mixed feelings about the RSVPs...while I am very excited to be done with the invitations, and excited to get responses and finalize the fact that people will actually show up (lol), part of me is worried, because I know that some people won't be able to come, and I will inevitably be disappointed by some of the "no"s. At this point, it's still POSSIBLE that each individual person we sent invitations to could say "yes"...but once they RSVP "no", that's it. I'm weird, lol.
Another big check - last weekend we took our ketubah to Michael's to figure out framing. We weren't sure how we were going to do it, because we want to display the ketubah during the reception (so we wanted it to be in a frame for that), but we need to have it out of the frame to sign it at the ceremony. Well, the lady at Michael's was VERY helpful, apparently they do lots of ketubahs, and she suggested that we go ahead and get it framed, and just leave the glass out of the frame so we can sign it IN the frame, and then after the wedding we can get the glass put in. Brilliant! So that's what we decided to do. While at Michael's, we also purchased a couple of 8x10 frames for our baby photos that will be displayed on the guest book table at the reception.
Since the last time I posted, several things I talked about have been completed also! We got the marriage license, no problem, so that's ready to go. I also attended all FOUR of my dress fittings, so now my dress actually fits me, and is nice and crisp and clean (she cleaned it for me as well). It is back in my possession now, hanging in my closet until the wedding.
We also finished compiling a CD of classical music to be played while our guests are arriving to the ceremony location. We will have live musicians for the ceremony itself, but since we wanted a mix of classical and Jewish music, we decided to hire musicians to play the Jewish music (they are Klezmer musicians actually) and make a CD of classical music to be played before the ceremony begins.
A week from tomorrow night, we will be flying up to Maryland again - this time for my bridal shower. I'm excited to see everyone who will be there! And of course, my mom has our whole weekend fully booked with other wedding-related stuff, too. I'll be getting my hair cut for the final time before the wedding, we'll be going to the florist to finalize some stuff, and we'll also be going to the venue to decide on the exact spot where we want to have the ceremony (the grounds are HUGE, and they say that you can do it anywhere on the grounds). I'll definitely be posting again when we get back from that trip, to write about the shower and also other stuff we get done between now and then!
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Little Things
Our planning has kind of stagnated recently, and now that we're officially in 2011, I'm really feeling the pressure to get stuff done! We have gotten a few things done though...
1. Favors and cake topper - we ordered these a few weeks ago, and they have both arrived to my parents' house! My mom says the favors came out GREAT!
2. Dress fitting - I went to my first dress fitting on Saturday. On recommendations from people on The Knot, I went to Dora Baker, who runs a bridal dress alterations business out of her home here in Atlanta. She was very nice and helpful. She has to let my dress out a bit at the waist so that it will fall correctly before she can see what else needs to be done. I go back on January 20th to get the rest done (hem and bustle), and my dress should be ready for pickup on January 27th!
3. Bridesmaids dresses - ALL of my bridesmaids have finally ordered their dresses! This is a huge sigh of relief for me, since I had been really stressing about it. But it looks like they will all come in with a couple of weeks to spare before the wedding :)
4. Photo montage - Marcus and I went through a whole bunch of photos and finally narrowed down to 100 the ones we want in our photo montage (which will be shown at the rehearsal dinner). We will be mailing them to the videographer this week!
5. Maid of honor gift - I had already bought gifts for my bridesmaids a while back, but I FINALLY came up with a good idea for my maid of honor. I purchased her gift last week, and it should arrive sometime this week.
6. Invitations - this is an ongoing saga :-P My mom keeps changing her mind about things, and I was ready to kill her at one point last week. But we are OH SO CLOSE to finally being done with the invitations! We just have to send all of our spreadsheets to Marcus's dad (once they are completely finalized) and then they will begin printing! I really hope we get them out by the end of the month...
7. Marriage license - Montgomery County, Maryland (where we'll be getting married) is AWESOME, because their marriage license process is SO simple! We had to call their office to request a "non-resident marriage license application", which they promptly mailed to us. We have filled it out, and just need to sign it in front of a notary public. We were going to do that today, but everything is closed due to the snow, so we'll try again tomorrow. Once we sign it, we just have to mail it back along with the $55 fee, and we'll be all set!
So my to-do list is slowly but surely shrinking. Once we're done with the invitations, I'll feel a lot better. I think that's really the last BIG thing. After that, it's all details.
1. Favors and cake topper - we ordered these a few weeks ago, and they have both arrived to my parents' house! My mom says the favors came out GREAT!
2. Dress fitting - I went to my first dress fitting on Saturday. On recommendations from people on The Knot, I went to Dora Baker, who runs a bridal dress alterations business out of her home here in Atlanta. She was very nice and helpful. She has to let my dress out a bit at the waist so that it will fall correctly before she can see what else needs to be done. I go back on January 20th to get the rest done (hem and bustle), and my dress should be ready for pickup on January 27th!
3. Bridesmaids dresses - ALL of my bridesmaids have finally ordered their dresses! This is a huge sigh of relief for me, since I had been really stressing about it. But it looks like they will all come in with a couple of weeks to spare before the wedding :)
4. Photo montage - Marcus and I went through a whole bunch of photos and finally narrowed down to 100 the ones we want in our photo montage (which will be shown at the rehearsal dinner). We will be mailing them to the videographer this week!
5. Maid of honor gift - I had already bought gifts for my bridesmaids a while back, but I FINALLY came up with a good idea for my maid of honor. I purchased her gift last week, and it should arrive sometime this week.
6. Invitations - this is an ongoing saga :-P My mom keeps changing her mind about things, and I was ready to kill her at one point last week. But we are OH SO CLOSE to finally being done with the invitations! We just have to send all of our spreadsheets to Marcus's dad (once they are completely finalized) and then they will begin printing! I really hope we get them out by the end of the month...
7. Marriage license - Montgomery County, Maryland (where we'll be getting married) is AWESOME, because their marriage license process is SO simple! We had to call their office to request a "non-resident marriage license application", which they promptly mailed to us. We have filled it out, and just need to sign it in front of a notary public. We were going to do that today, but everything is closed due to the snow, so we'll try again tomorrow. Once we sign it, we just have to mail it back along with the $55 fee, and we'll be all set!
So my to-do list is slowly but surely shrinking. Once we're done with the invitations, I'll feel a lot better. I think that's really the last BIG thing. After that, it's all details.
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