We have our honeymoon flights and hotel booked! As if I could have been more excited for our wedding, I now have a relaxing vacation on white sandy beaches to look forward to. As a mentioned before, we signed up for a honeymoon registry through Traveler's Joy to help out with the costs of our 5 day stay in Barbados, but thanks to the generosity of my parents, frequent flier miles covered both our flights and so Nate and I just had to book our hotel! We chose a cute little hotel right on the beach, with a small kitchen in the room so that we can buy food from the grocery store near by and save on some food costs. Its close to the nightlife and the major shopping areas. I seriously cannot wait to lay in the hot Barbados sun for 5 days with my new hubby! Bring on the sunglasses and rum punch!
On a recent trip back to Yakima, I took my wedding dress, veil, and reception dress into Coralie's Alterations to start that whole process. Since I purchased the right off the rack sample of my wedding gown, it needs a few alterations. My reception dress is a tad too big and I am also having my Aunts veil altered slightly so that it looks a little more 2012. With all three of those alterations, I figured the more time I gave Coralie, the better. I love that she is going to alter my gown in steps, having me come in every so often to try it back on and then move on to another alteration. I have complete confidence that my two dresses and veil will be just perfect by June!
I met with a local designer to start the process of making our wedding invitations. Just like everything else with our wedding (and in life, really), it was important that we make our invitations reflect both our personalities. I just figured going the custom route was the way to go so that we get exactly what we both want. We hired la Happy (and here is her wedding on Style Me Pretty!) and I could not be more excited!! I am going the DIY route and Sally was so great about giving me as much control over the assembly as I wanted. My guess is that I will have lots more for her to help me with as the wedding gets closer. (Did you see her amazing calligraphy?!) I will definitely post pictures on here once we get some invitations all put together.
Next on my to-do list? I need to hire a DJ! I'm having a hard time picking one...and I'm sort of putting it off. I wish I could just snap my fingers and the perfect DJ (with the perfect price) would just fall into my lap! So far it hasn't been any easy decision. A DJ wasn't on our list of top priorities, so we unfortunately didn't allocate a ton of money for one. But a DJ can definitely make or break a reception, so its fairly important not to just go with the cheapest option. What to do? Do any of you have any stellar recommendations? I could use the help!
