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Instead of my usual sporadic waking up without having any particular thought in my mind, all the times I woke up last night I was thinking about wedding related stuff. What to do about showers, when to ask Amelia, when to go dress shopping... What about the photographer. Do I really have to meet the minister in person beforehand? What about all my friends...
So today I made decisions. The ceremony is going to be family only and any of y'all that so desire can come to the reception. As someone so aptly pointed out today: the young people only care about the party anyway.
I want a lingerie shower but didn't want one of my mother's friends who has offered to host it (can we say awkward?) so I think Amelia has offered. Problem solved! So the neighbors can host a get-to-know-you cocktail party so that the bridesmaids can meet the groomsmen and such. And I'm sure other people will be invited as well, but maybe not. We'll see.
The photographer I wanted had a meeting with another bride who wanted our date planned for tomorrow night, but I had her throw together a contract today and faxed it over to her signed this afternoon. She'll hold the date for a week (or until she gets back into town and we can meet her). I feel really, really bad stealing her out from under this other couple (she canceled the meeting and everything), but she says she'd rather do ours (she told our wedding coordinator (who also coordinated her wedding) the same). So yay. Hopefully she's better in person than the few minute or so I spoke to her on the phone today...
I still don't know when I'm going dress shopping, but I know who I'm taking along!
The minister... It would be so much easier if she actually preached at a church around town, but I'm not sure she does. My dad's the one who thinks we should meet her though... We'll see.
I've had "Smile" by Lily Allen stuck in my head all evening. Could be because I've listened to it twice.
Okay, so I love MIKA's "Grace Kelly" (the song the radio plays sometimes that sounds so much like Queen), fell in love with it in England (yay good memories of the music video, they still have the channel The Box over there), so I was going to look into buying their album... But all iTunes has other than the single is electronica. Sad. Oh well, less money to spend.
"I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
Ive gone identity mad!"
*happy*
So we finally took my car in to be repaired after I got rear-ended back in November. Took it in on a Monday. They ordered the wrong bumper, so it would be ready the next Monday instead. Nope. I called this Monday and it was ready, but oops, they forgot to check the exhaust system to fix the rattle. Okay, its still ready Monday, but mom wants my dad to take me over to pick it up. Fine. So we went over on Wednesday and it turns out they have to repaint the front bumper. He couldn't take me over today, so they'll have had the car for almost 3 weeks. Dumb. And even though it was ready on Monday, it took us going over on Wednesday for them to realize that they forgot to take the tape off the grill from when they painted the front bumper. So they took it back around to the back, took it off, but the discoloration that looked like tape goo didn't come off, so they had to repaint it.
This is the place that would keep me on hold for 10 minutes, until I hung up and called back, when all I wanted to know was whether my car was ready or not.
So today I made decisions. The ceremony is going to be family only and any of y'all that so desire can come to the reception. As someone so aptly pointed out today: the young people only care about the party anyway.
I want a lingerie shower but didn't want one of my mother's friends who has offered to host it (can we say awkward?) so I think Amelia has offered. Problem solved! So the neighbors can host a get-to-know-you cocktail party so that the bridesmaids can meet the groomsmen and such. And I'm sure other people will be invited as well, but maybe not. We'll see.
The photographer I wanted had a meeting with another bride who wanted our date planned for tomorrow night, but I had her throw together a contract today and faxed it over to her signed this afternoon. She'll hold the date for a week (or until she gets back into town and we can meet her). I feel really, really bad stealing her out from under this other couple (she canceled the meeting and everything), but she says she'd rather do ours (she told our wedding coordinator (who also coordinated her wedding) the same). So yay. Hopefully she's better in person than the few minute or so I spoke to her on the phone today...
I still don't know when I'm going dress shopping, but I know who I'm taking along!
The minister... It would be so much easier if she actually preached at a church around town, but I'm not sure she does. My dad's the one who thinks we should meet her though... We'll see.
I've had "Smile" by Lily Allen stuck in my head all evening. Could be because I've listened to it twice.
Okay, so I love MIKA's "Grace Kelly" (the song the radio plays sometimes that sounds so much like Queen), fell in love with it in England (yay good memories of the music video, they still have the channel The Box over there), so I was going to look into buying their album... But all iTunes has other than the single is electronica. Sad. Oh well, less money to spend.
"I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
Ive gone identity mad!"
*happy*
So we finally took my car in to be repaired after I got rear-ended back in November. Took it in on a Monday. They ordered the wrong bumper, so it would be ready the next Monday instead. Nope. I called this Monday and it was ready, but oops, they forgot to check the exhaust system to fix the rattle. Okay, its still ready Monday, but mom wants my dad to take me over to pick it up. Fine. So we went over on Wednesday and it turns out they have to repaint the front bumper. He couldn't take me over today, so they'll have had the car for almost 3 weeks. Dumb. And even though it was ready on Monday, it took us going over on Wednesday for them to realize that they forgot to take the tape off the grill from when they painted the front bumper. So they took it back around to the back, took it off, but the discoloration that looked like tape goo didn't come off, so they had to repaint it.
This is the place that would keep me on hold for 10 minutes, until I hung up and called back, when all I wanted to know was whether my car was ready or not.