Breaking out my dress

There was a discussion recently on the wedding community I'm a member of, asking how often us future brides take our wedding dress out of the bag. There were some people who said they left their gowns at the salon to keep themselves from putting it on all the time. I have to admit, when I first brought mine home I put it on quite a few times. I've gotten better about leaving it hanging in the closet, but every time I get something new for the wedding, I like to bring it out and see how everything looks.

Since my necklace came in the mail, I haven't had any time yet to try it on with my dress since Ronnie and I have had all of our days off together, but he's at work tonight so I brought got them both out and tried them on:


Trying it on with the dress has made me wonder, does it look too gold? Also, since it is one long necklace wrapped around multiple times, it is hard to keep it in any kind of order. I was trying it on with some draped in the back and while walking around it would roll back to the front. There is probably a way for me to keep it from doing that, but I'll need to play with it a bit before figuring it out.

I know it's been almost a month since I've updated, but we haven't been doing too much wedding related lately. Since I'm at work today, we had Thanksgiving dinner with my mom and Kevin yesterday night. While I was over there we did a little run through of the guest list. Since we have a pretty good idea of how many people from out of state are coming, I ordered some Save the Date magnets from Magnet Street. I even got to use a discount code that I found on Snippet & Ink. Score! The website was super easy to use, so I'm hoping that I like the magnets when they make it to the apartment. I'll post some pictures of them once I have them mailed out.

We've had a few people ask us where we are registered at, so we started doing that about 2 weeks ago. I think we have most of the basics covered, but we are going to wait to register for bedding and probably china once the date gets closer. The first set of dishware we picked out is already being discontinued.

And so this isn't just a text only post, here are some cake toppers that I think are really cute:

I finished our wedding website!

There are still a few minor things I have to add to it, but our wedding website with all of the official information is all finished. You can see it at: www.makingwebbhistory.com! If anyone in the wedding party would like me to change their picture, please e-mail me a new one (sara at pepitojones.com) and I will do it ASAP.

Of course, I will still use this blog for all of my planning ideas and such (I'm not too fond of the mywedding blog they have available) I just thought the website was a good and easy way to find all of the information. I hope you guys enjoy!

Some more wedding stuff is happening!

Tonight I ordered my necklace! As you may recall, the back of my dress is very low cut.

At first I wanted some kind of statement necklace, but everything I was really looking at was a bit too distracting with my dress. My next thought was pearls, they are classic, but I didn't want anything too plain or boring. Tonight I found this necklace on etsy and it's perfect!

Because the back of my dress is so low, I'd like to wear some hanging in the back a la Coco Chanel because she is so fab.

On another jewelry note, Ronnie and I went to the jewelers to have my engagement ring inspected and cleaned. While we were waiting we started looking at bands. They were having a big friends and family sale so we picked them up. It was a bit unexpected but we are really happy with our choices:

I've been e-mailing someone back and forth about custom designing our invitations and tonight I talked to her on the phone. I ordered a sample pack of her work this week so it should be here by the time my next work trip is over. She had some AWESOME ideas on the phone so I'm super excited about working with her. I'll post a link to her website as soon as I put down my deposit with her! I've got to get with my mom about a finalized guest list before I figure out how many I need to order.

We booked our honeymoon!

I'm so excited this week because we booked our honeymoon! We've been talking about doing a Disney cruise for a really long time, and what better time than for our honeymoon? We're doing a 4 night Bahamas cruise that leaves on the 29th of August. I'm a little bummed though because it's so early so I can't do any planning on the website. Ronnie teases me because I really love doing that stuff, he says we are going to have to get married again after getting married because I'm not going to have anything to do otherwise. :D We're thinking about adding on a stay at the Magic Kingdom afterward, but we will probably do that closer to the time that we leave.

In other news, I've started working on our wedding website that will have all the official details. I'll post a link once it has more stuff on it!