Save-the-Dates and Shoes!

A couple of weeks ago, we completed the most exciting task (for me, anyway) on our checklist so far: we mailed out our save-the-dates! As I may have mentioned in an earlier post, Marcus's dad and his wife own a printing company, so they are doing all of our paper items (save-the-dates, invitations, programs, thank you notes, etc.) for free. We are VERY thankful to them for doing this for us!

Anyway, after much back and forth emailing with Rochelle (Marcus's dad's wife), we finalized the design for our save-the-dates! We got magnets, because a) they are useful, b) they are right there on people's refrigerators, so they're less likely to be misplaced or forgotten, and c) magnets are fun! This is what our save-the-dates look like (I've blocked out our last names since this is the internet and I don't know who will see this):

Isn't it pretty?!?

My other big accomplishment last week was getting my shoes! Here there is a story that must be explained before I show you a picture of the shoes. When Joel and Shosh got married, Shosh told me all about how she was able to get away with wearing platform sneakers, and how it was amazing, because they were comfortable, and nobody could see them under her dress. I vowed right then that I was also going to wear sneakers to my wedding! So I asked Shosh where she got her shoes. She sent me a link to the EXACT shoes that she had! I noticed that they didn't have them in my size (I usually wear a 6.5 or 7, they had 6.5 but not 7). I searched a few other websites, and eventually found a size 7 on Amazon. But then I was reading the reviews people had posted about the shoes, and several of them mentioned that these shoes run small, so they recommended getting a half size bigger than usual. I asked Shosh if that was the case for her, and she didn't remember, but she thought that sounded about right. So I wasn't sure whether to get the size 7 or a 7.5. I asked my mom what she thought I should do, and she told me to buy both sizes so I could figure out which one fit me better, and we could return the other pair. I did a little more research, found a site that had both sizes in stock, and ordered the shoes!

They arrived on Friday, in all their sneaker-y splendor:

I get to wear sneakers at my wedding! I am SO EXCITED that my mom is not fighting me on this!!!

This weekend, I need to go to David's Bridal to look at the color I chose for the bridesmaids' dresses. My mom went dress shopping with Cara (one of my bridesmaids) and her mom last week, and apparently the color looks really different in person than it does on the website. So now I need to go make sure I really want that color, and if not, figure out which color I DO want. The saga never ends!