Planning

Lately I have spent many a sleepless night fretting over our wedding. Time passes by so fast yet so frustratingly slow! We have SO much more to do and so little time to do it! I feel very rushed for the first time, as if the clock has finally begun ticking down the time.

There are 8 months left until our wedding!!

We've made a list of Things Still Needed that reaches all the way to the bottom of the page!

The end of February will hopefully find us in a much better planning place with our caterer and florist down. And then March will be a busy busy month of getting down a lot of the details.

And then the next 6 months will be spent crafting, readying and bracing ourselves!!

Who would have known so much would go into an event that is really quite short?

Exciiiiited!!!

Today we got in our (free) samples for invitations from the stunning Bella Figura!!

They sure know what they're doing. They sent a bunch of little sample things. And maaaaaaannnn, once you have it in hand it's so hard to turn away from it. And Adam, ever the demanding diva, WANTS them! It's a LITTLE bit over our allotted budget depending on what options we pick (and can be just at budget depending on options). He keeps saying "We're getting them! These are it!!" I'm trying to be the stricter harder decision maker but it's hard! Cause I want them too!!

We'll see how we decide in the next couple of weeks.

In other news,

- We are way ahead in planning than all the "ultimate wedding planning guides" suggest we be. We're at about the "4 - 6 months before" time frame even though we're about 9/8 months away.
- This morning I played dress up and put on the entire ensemble. Gown, shoes, late night coverup/sweater, hair accessories.
- finding catering has turned out to be a total pain in the butt.
- We recently got matching journals for writing drafts and such of our vows and love letters to read after the wedding.
- we have both agreed, we're sick of waiting around and want to just have our wedding now.

Time passes SO slowly when you have an even like this to look forward to.

Merry Christmas!!! (Belated)

Hope everyone had absolutely wonderful holidays!!

We were incredibly busy during the entire holiday season (like always) but we had a wonderful time! We were happy to see so much of our family and only wish we could have spent more time and seen EVERYONE. On Christmas Eve we started out the day at Reina's house in South City and ended the evening at my mom's house in Half Moon Bay. On Christmas day we headed back to Reina's for brunch and exchanging gifts. In the afternoon we headed to my aunt's house in Pleasaton.

Adam and I were bad and exchanged gifts a little early: Christmas eve day afternoon. But it wasn't TOO early!!! Only a little...

If anyone's interested, for Christmas Adam got me a new dress I wore Christmas Eve, an Angry Bird, a dancing video game, and a pair of earrings. I got him a Bear Grylls machete (what was I thinking?!), a gourd for mate (South American tea), and a little family portrait. (Which is what the video is made from). We were both happy and felt extremely spoiled. And it's a little cheesy and our favorite part of Christmas is just spending time with each other. Even if the drive is far, we're running from one party to another, we aren't spending enough time with parents or siblings or cousins, at least we're together.

Now, less than NINE MONTHS UNTIL THE WEDDING!!!!!!!!!!! The stress is starting to press in. We're hoping if we ignore it, maybe it'll just plan itself!

Merry Belated Christmas!!