My Wedding Day Accessories

Earrings
Bracelet

Necklace

Veil

Tiara

What do you think??

3 Months to Go!

Wahoo! Only 3 Months to go before the big day! I am officially giddy and so excited that its hard to contain myself!! YAY! Yay! Yay!!

Shower Gifts!

I am not sure if I have enough gifts for the shower.... heres what I have bought and I am going to put them together in like mini baskets.

I purchased from Bath and Body works:
- 17 Antibacterial Foam Soaps
- 4 Body Sprays
- 4 Body Gels
- 4 Wallflowers

Also my Grandma Finn is making towels that loop around like your stove handle so they stay in place. I know with my family they are always a huge hit in the white elephant auction each year at Christmas. I am not exactly sure how many she is making total but I have seen around 20 or so and I know she is still working on them!

I know I have to work on a little kids gift. I figured I would make some of the body sprays and gels for the young adults but I need a couple gifts for kids 10 and under. Any suggestions?

Do I need more prizes?! Also any ideas on games? My mom and I were drawing a blank on them! The only one I know we are playing for sure is give a present win a present. You use a kitchen timer and when we are opening presents you set the timer for a certain amount of time and whoseever present I am holding up at that time wins a prize! It was ahuge hit at my friend Jessica's shower. I was also going to do a bingo if we could not think of any other games. I have seen two different versions one that was all the items that Ryan and I put on the Registries and when I open them they cross them off! Its keeps people entertained during the opening of the presents. Also I have seen Bingo where its all about the couple, bridal party etc! Let me know your thoughts and ideas!!

Double Digits!

We have finally hit double digits! Only 99 days until our wedding day! I am so excited but just a little nervous about everything I have to do in the next 98 days!! Yay!!!

Registries!

Ryan and I thought when we started registering that it would be fun! We were so wrong. It was so much work and we always just left the stores exhausted and annoyed. We decided to register at Kohl's and Target plus our bedding is at Bed Bath and Beyond. We decide not to put Bed Bath and Beyond on our shower invitations though because all we registered for there was our comoforter, sheets and bed skirt. So we didn't want people to go there and expect a whole registry when its only 3 things! We started working on them about 3 weeks ago and we have gone back a couple of times to finish them. The second time we were at Target they did not combine the new registry with the old one so we had to call corporate to get them combined and then yesterday we were at Kohls and everything we registered for and took off would not download so we had to redo it all. We were not happy! Last night when we got home we sat down and made an excel spreadsheet of everything we registered for and classified it by the room to see what we are missing. Please check out our registries and see if you can spot anything missing!!! Thanks we really appreciate it!!

http://www.kohls.com/upgrade/gift_registry/kohlsgrw_bridal_landing.jsp

http://www.target.com/registry/wedding/portal

Engagement Pictures

Our photographer emailed me today and are pictures are available. I am not sure exactly why she uploaded them to Walmart but I am guessing they are the cheapest to print. What I am going to do is get the CD of them and then I will get them printed myself. If you would like some please let me know and I will get them to you as soon as I get the CD!! I hope you enjoy! Please leave comments on which ones we should order the more opinions the better!!!

http://photos.walmart.com/shareethumbnailshare/AlbumID=30122752/p=173171216310630424/l=10619167/g=3480855/albumcount=1/pns/share/p=173171216310630424/l=10619167/g=3480855/cobrandOid=1011/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB/action=_xffurlnotdefined

Shower Invites!

These will be coming to a door near you soon!!

Let me know what you think!!!

Reception Cards

This is the wording I have for the reception cards...not sure if I really like it but its what I got so far. Please advise!

To help us celebrate,

please join us for the Reception

at five o'clock in the evening
Buffet served at five thirty
Dancing to follow

Kawkawlin Township Hall

1836 E. Parish Road

Invitation Wording!

Ryan & I are working on getting invitations ready to go out to the printer. We are in between two invitations so once Ryan picks which one he likes better I will be ordering those. I just want to have time to address all the invitations and also I am adding a ribbon to all of them so I would like to have sometime to complete that and not feel rushed on it. Here is the wording! What does everyone think. I am sure it is a standard thing but who knows these days.

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Dore Jr.
and
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Metzler Sr.
request the honour of your presence
at the ceremony and celebration
with the marriage of their children
Amanda Lee
and
Ryan Charles
on Saturday, the twenty-fifth of October
Two thousand and eight
at one o'clock in the afternoon
Trinity Episcopal Church
815 N. Grant Street
Bay City, Michigan

I feel.....

Relieved!!!

Ryan and I went and got our engagement pictures done yesterday in Lansing. This was the first time we actually met face to face with our photographer and I have to admit I was a little nervous about it! SHE IS NORMAL! She is actually a teacher and she does this on the side! Her pictures that I have seen our beautiful and I like her alot!!! She was great! She did what we wanted and guided Ry & I through everything which is extremely important for us. We are not very good with things like how should we stand and such. We should be getting the pictures back around July 26th! I will have them up as soon as I get them for your viewing pleasure!!!!