The Blonde Diaries

Well today is the day

I am super nervous. You see Mike and I went Saturday to talk to the Downtown Aquarium about hosting our wedding reception. Unfortunately, there were a ton of additional fees not disclosed on the website so what was in our budget quickly because out of our budget. It was super gorgeous and the people there are very nice and friendly so if you are in Houston and don’t have a tiny budget like we do (our own choice) please go visit them and have your reception there. You cannot be disappointed.

Tonight we have an appointment with our new favorite site: The Houston Zoo and I am really nervous that there will be additional fees and such as well and we won’t be able to get married there. We are really trying to keep our costs down while having a fun/unique wedding. I just hope that I didn’t get our hopes up too high only to have them crushed again. Our problem is that we aren’t from Houston so we haven’t attended any weddings here to know which places are nice and special and which ones are just hotel ballrooms which just don’t fit our personality and style at all.

So if you are reading this today, please send me some good thoughts as our meeting is at 6:30 tonight and I hope I can come back and post some good news.

Personal Creations

Woo Hoo! Some more good news on the wedding front. I am about to have another large and a small item checked off of my planning list on Friday. I am going to meet with the reception location and sign the contract for my wedding reception and put down my deposit (Yippee!) and then once I have that booked I can purchase the cake topper since our date will be firm! See I like the topper below and want to personalize it with our names and dates over at Personal Creations but until I put deposits down on the 2 large items I just feel too nervous to go ahead and order this quite yet. I guess maybe I’m being a tad silly but weird things do happen and sometimes they happen to me! It’s not quite Mike and I but it will have to do. Precious Moments just doesn’t do anything darker haired than below and neither do many other companies and the ones that you can mix and match just aren’t as cute. Luckily Mike is ok with this one.

Now I just need to get the contract in my hand so I can read over it with my mom before going on Friday so there are no surprises. Guess I better put in another call over there. I am hoping the girl is just following up with the caterer on one of my questions and will not be this hard to get a hold of every time I need something. Hopefully I am just over stressing on something that is nothing. Wish me luck!

Yippee! We booked the Houston Zoo!

I am so excited right now. My wedding planning dreams are becoming a reality. Today, I was able to knock the reception location off of my to-do list (ie booked and deposit paid!). I’ve been keeping it under wraps with most of my friends and extended family but today I can officially announce that Mike and I will be having our reception at the Houston Zoo!!! It is going to be fabulous. I still do not have really good pictures of the room but I think it will just mean another trip over there to visit the critters and see the site. lol Luckily, we are zoo members so we can go at any time for free and just wander through during a normal visit.

I was a tiny bit sad though because I learned that the otters will not be out that night because they “bunker down” for the night behind the scenes. Not sure why they have to go in for the night (it is an enclosed area and they have sleeping areas) but I’m sure there is a good reason.

I found a few pictures on the zoo’s website to share.

Entrance to building

Inside entrance

Inside set up with a few tables

So I’m excited. Of course more photos will come. I think the next thing on my list will be getting the cake and photographer situated. I am a teeny bit scared of the flower people so that is on the bottom of my list for right now.

Weekly Wedding Update

Well it is Saturday and I haven’t given my official wedding update yet. Last time I wrote about it was Monday after I booked the Zoo! So this week has been a pretty quiet week. Mike’s been out of town but I still did some googling related to the wedding. I’ve been trying to get an idea of possible flowers to use. Nothing has stood out so far and I’m not too impressed with the flowers in “season” in July so I’m going to have to get creative and figure some things out when I find a florist.

So besides the reception getting booked, my wedding shoes arrived from Target. They are silver and fit so that works! I also had my first bridal/wedding shower today and boy was I surprised. You see today I was suppose to be meeting with some girls from the Sunshine Rewards Forums for a let’s just meet type deal. Well little did I know they were talking about me and had planned a surprise wedding shower for me! I was so surprised and so thankful that they did this. I was truly touched. I will post some pictures once they send them my way.

So for this week I am going to order the cake topper and start working on my scrapbooks. I also think I’m going to start working on inviting my attendants to be in the wedding and figuring out what I want to get them. As of right now it’s between some freshwater pearls or a travel toiletry bag. Maybe if I can find a good price on both then I’ll put the pearls in the bag to give them the day of and they can wear them to the wedding.

Oh My! We have officially hit the one year mark!

It hit me last night. One year from today, yes today, July 11th I will be getting married. I am super excited to finally be at the 365 day mark and able to count down to 1 but I am also super nervous about everything. Will it all come together? Will everything continue to go smoothly? Will I be able to avoid fights with my family, friends, and fiancee over this wedding? Will I finally see the light and realize the weight won’t melt from my body on its own? So many questions and so many variables. I know the only thing I can do is continue to remain calm, collected, and work on myself and let everything else fall into place without worrying or stressing.

So here’s to the official 1 year countdown. I cannot wait to see the end result and get married to Mike and start our married lives together.