Less Than 2 Weeks Away!!!

So it is crunch time! And yes I may seem calm to most but I am truly stressing.  I know I should relax but I have learned that planning a wedding is much more stressful then I imaged.  I can't believe we are only 13 days away from the big day.  It feels like just yesterday that we had 430 days to go.  I know I promised more house pictures but those are coming soon because Will and I just ordered our living room set.  Once that is here I will post pictures of the upstairs too...until then it's wedding, wedding, wedding.  This past month has been nothing but the small little details. Not to mention that we are now on our fourth wedding coordinator since our venue has yet made another change in their staffing.  However, this time I think we are set and things are starting to fall into place. 

It has been nothing but crafting for the past few weekends and here are a few photos to get you up to date on our Martha Stewart adventures.

At Deleplane Cellars counting corks for our place cards

Wedding Favors

Festive Lanterns for the outdoor tables

The mantel decorations that my Mom and I have been working on. The pumpkin will soon have a monogrammed 'W' on it

Will and Gary busy at work on our table seating.  Thank you pinterest for the idea of putting every ones name on a sticky note so they are easy to arrange over and over again! 

That's it for now.  We are currently in the stage where we are constantly sending emails to bridesmaids, vendors, guest, etc. so there isn't too much to post about that.  We are having a phone conference with our photographer this Thursday to go over details.

On another note-Thank goodness for my Mom!!! Today was her first official day of no work now that she is retired and she was busy shopping while I am at work.  She has been such a big help!

This Place We Call Home :)

The house is almost complete! Getting our floors done was a mess....we picked the worst contractor possible and it was a headache working with them but after all is said and done it finally came out the way we wanted.  We have been living here for over a month now and we are starting to settle in.  Pictures are finally going on the wall and I love going shopping for nick-nacks (when I am not shopping for wedding things).  So here are a few before and after pictures of the first two floors finally! The third floor pictures are coming soon, I just need to hang a few pictures in our guest bedroom tomorrow morning and then I will post the upstairs pictures. 

 



Before and After in the Basement

Its amazing how different furniture placement can change a space!

Before and After entry way with our new wood floors

One more take in the basement :)

Before and After in the living room...we still need a couch in this room so for now all you get to see is the fireplace.

Before and After dinning room. I love our dinning table, thanks Heather ;)

Our new kitchen with our new lighting and tile back splash

Before and After breakfast nook (ignore the white & symbol on the wall, I still need to paint it black)

The floors make such a big difference!

No more carpet on the entry way stairs!

So that is all the pictures for now. More to come soon.  

Besides working on the house, my Mom and I have been super busy wedding crafting and I have lots of pictures to post soon. 

I can't believe we are three weeks away from the wedding!  Tonight I was spending time with Will and my parents and I realized that even though I have been stressing myself out with all the details, planning the wedding has been an exciting time and my family has made a lot of fun memories together.  We have defiantly had some great laughs along the way and at the end of the day I am so grateful for my family and our love for each other!

Painting The Town(house) Red...I mean GRAY!!

YEEES our new house is now GRAY!! Gray is everywhere in diffrent shades and tints. YEEES was our painters favorite word.  He used the word yes at least twice in each sentence and even used it when the answer to our questions was sometimes no.  But, he did beautiful work on the house! The paint was completed the day of the bridal shower and the floors are currently being put in.  The flooring guys are little bit messy so we will be needing some touch up paint on the walls after all of this is done.  But the good news is there is no more mauve on the walls or shades of split pea soup!!! Take a sneak peek at some before and after pictures.

Before and After in our breakfast nook!

Before and After in our basement...hello eggplant :)

Before and After in the second stairwell

Before and After in the foyer

Before and After in the living room

Before and After in the kitchen + a new tile backsplash

So long mauve and spounge paint! I never really enjoyed you on the walls.

Bridal Shower: 85 Days Till I'm Hitched

First, I have to start off by saying I have AMAZING bridesmaids and a GREAT mother! They did such a wonderful job organizing, planning, and decorating for the shower!  This blog might be sweet and short with words but full of pictures!  :)  I had a wonderful time at the shower and am so grateful for all of our family and friends that came to celebrate our upcoming wedding.  The party started at 2pm and we had some foods and drinks. 

Entry 

Drink Table

Engagement photos as part of the decorations

Refreshments :)

Cute Gift Table Sign

My WONDERFUL bridesmaids 

Advise wreath

Cute ring and dress cookie favors for all of the guest :)

Then we got started with a quick game so that the guests could get to know each other.  We played a bingo game that was similar to a "find someone who" game.  The squares on the bingo board described different people that were invited to the shower and the guests had to find a person that matched the description and get five in a row to win a prize.  For example, some one of the boxes read "went to middle school or high school with the bride" and the guests had to find either my friend Corinne or my friend Malia in order to fill that bingo spot.  Donna was of course the first to get bingo because she is great at games!  Lydia came in at a close second and they both won a prize :)

The BINGO winners!

After bingo we played a game that Sara had made.  She and her husband interviewed and recorded Will and I had to answer the same questions Will was asked to see if we had similar answers.  Sara divided the movie into three parts: 1 Questions about Will, 2 Questions about me, and 3 Will's this or that.  I got a little nervous and didn't do too well with part one but I rocked part two and three :)  Will as super silly but it was fun for people who didn't really know him very well to see him on the video.

If you look close you will see Will being interviewed on the TV :)

Questions in the game

Me in the hot seat

After the game I opened gifts.  We got some wonderful things for our future house.  Overall it was a wonderful shower and I had a terrific time.  Unfortunately I didn't get a picture with everyone before they left but here are a few :)

Jennifer a great friend of mine from George Mason 

My beautiful mother and soon to be mother-in-law

A family friend of ours who has known me since I was a baby and it turns out she knew Will when he was  a child too!  What a small world!