Almost 6 months out!

According to the little ticker I put up on the blog, Ronnie and I are almost exactly 6 months away from our wedding date. We already have so much done, but after talking with my mom yesterday I thought it would be a nice idea to make a cohesive list of what exactly I have left to do. Nothing is in any order of importance:

• Get the bridesmaid dresses situated - According to David's, the absolute latest I should do this is 10 weeks prior to the wedding. I'd like to take my Michigan girls in sometime next month to at least see how everyone feels in the dress, and then they can order it sometime before the 10 week mark.
• Get my alterations started - I'm 99% sure that I won't be going with David's to have this done. They wanted to charge Christina $100 dollars (!!!) to have the babies flower girl dress altered so I'm going to go somewhere else. Auntie Kay gave me a card for someone she works with who does alterations, I just need to call her.
  
• Write our ceremony - I've kind of started this, but I'm a bit of a procrastinator.
  
• Finalize invitations and get them addressed & mailed out - Still have plenty of time for this. I don't think they will even be sent to me until about 3 months before the wedding.
• Videographer? - I wasn't sure if we were going to do this, but mom says Dad's friend Bill might be able to help us out.
  
• Nail down rehearsal dinner plans & morning after brunch
  
• Hair trial (and probably some nice highlights 2 weeks before the wedding)
• Finish our registry
• Determine wedding dinner menu/go for tasting - I think the Henry Ford does this about 3 months ahead of time.
  
• Settle wedding night transportation - I need to get with the Dearborn Inn and see what the latest they will pick up guests is, and how all of that works.
• Get all of our music situated. i.e. First dance, daddy/daughter dance. Make sure that all of the requests from our website are given to the DJ.
  
• Finalize my accessories
• Fill out our wedding worksheet and give it to our planner at the Henry Ford - This is the worksheet I talked about forever ago that made me nervous about how much we have left to do. Now it should be a piece of cake.
  
• Figure out honeymoon plans - will we make any dining reservations for our time in Disney World, and what shore excursions should we do on the cruise? Actually, I can start making dining reservations next week so Ronnie and I have to plan what we want to do, but I don't think we can do anything for. the cruise until we are 3 months out
  

It looks like a lot doesn't it? I've actually already had a few dreams already about planning going wrong but really it's a list of stuff that's really easy to do. For fun, here is everything that is already done:

• Created a wedding plan - colors, formality etc.
  
• Ceremony and Reception sites booked.
• Guest list compiled and pretty much so finalized.
• Officiant - Yay Ronnie Sr!
  
• Save the Date magnets ordered and mailed out.
• DJ booked.
• Flowers planned and Florist picked.
  
• Photographer booked. Engagement shots done.
• Gown purchased.
• Wedding website completed.
  
• Booked Cake baker.
• Honeymoon arrangements.
• Mens Formalwear is planned. Ronnie is already fitted.
• Invitations booked. - invitations, programs, escort cards will all be done by our stationer.
  
• Wedding bands purchased.
• Hair stylist / Makeup artist booked.
• Favors - Photobooth. They are also doing our guestbook and helping us get pictures from our guests with Eventis.

The done list doesn't look as long as the not done list now that I've typed it up but all of the booking and hard stuff is out of the way. Phew, I hope I'm not forgetting anything! Google documents just came out with some awesome wedding spreadsheets that I fully intend to take advantage of sometime soon. No more using notepad to compile my lists!