Well, even with all of the chaos that has been the past two weeks, Austin and I have been able to gather up most of the addresses for our guest list and get out about 95% of our Save the Dates. We've now been able to send out about 175 of our 200 Save the Dates.
Now, sending out all of these Save the Dates got me thinking, we were planning on having around 125 guests at the wedding. Somehow our list has gone up to a little over 200. Yes, you read that right. It has almost doubled. Some of this is due to the fact that neither Austin or I expected his parents to want to invite so many people to this event, and some of this is due to the fact that we didn't realize how many of our friends wanted to come and be a part of things. Luckily for us, space isn't an issue with our venue.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll be able to get all of our Save the Dates out by the end of the week (yes, I do know that this is Thanksgiving). Here's hoping!!
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Day 6: Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Since today I'm supposed to write about whatever tickles my fancy, I figured I would use this as a great time to catch up on everything that has been happening lately.
Well, work has been absolutely crazy lately. Since the year is starting to come to a close, everyone in the office has been trying to work on budgets and calendars and holiday parties and all of that fun end of the year work. I've also come to the realization that I have quite a lot of vacation time left and not much time to take it, so I've been trying to figure out a time when I will actually be able to use my vacation days without completely inconveniencing everyone else. And having to deal with too much make up work. I hate taking a couple days of and then having a mountain of work once I get back...Anyways... Work has been pretty crazy lately.
And then there's all of the wedding stuff...
I've been able to finally pay off our photographer in full, which means I have one less bill to worry about! All $2500 has been completely paid off, with help to Austin's dad. We've got our florist paid in full, my dress is done, 2/3 of my bridesmaids and most of the caterer. I've been pretty stressed out about all of the wedding madness that I thought had to be done and we had to pay for, but I've come to realize that most of what we can do right now is already done.
I've also ordered and received all of our Save the Dates in. We had our engagement pictures taken a little over a month ago and we loved the way all of our pictures turned out. After showing them off to our family and friends, we realized that we wanted to do Save the Dates just for the fact that we could show off all of our pictures. After all, we had all of these great pictures, why not use them for something? So, we looked around on Vistaprint and found a great deal on Save the Date postcards . We were able to get 200 for about $50. Since that was such a fantastic deal, we decided to go ahead and order them and get them sent out by Thanksgiving. (And yes, the "we" I"m referring to here is more "me". Austin really didn't care too much as long as it didn't cost too much.)
I've been working on getting all of our addresses put together so I can make labels for all of our Save the Dates. Then I have to get stamps, which shouldn't be too much for postcards. Another great thing about getting our Save the Dates out is that we will have all of our addresses put together so that will be one less thing for us to worry about before we send out our actual invitations. So consider that two checks, one for our save the dates and one for having all of our addresses together!
On top of the wedding and work, I've also been trying to get things ready for Austin and I to go see Deathly Hallows Part I. Being the wonderful fiance that he is, Austin has agreed to actually get into it and dress up. If we weren't going to the midnight premiere I wouldn't have begged him to dress up, but we are. And he is. So in what little free time I have I've been trying to make a Gryffindor scarf for him to wear. I've also been looking around for a sweater that would pass as being a Hogwarts school uniform. And I finally found something! With less than two weeks to go, I found us sweaters! Now all that's left is for me to find a cute pleated, gray skirt....
Well, work has been absolutely crazy lately. Since the year is starting to come to a close, everyone in the office has been trying to work on budgets and calendars and holiday parties and all of that fun end of the year work. I've also come to the realization that I have quite a lot of vacation time left and not much time to take it, so I've been trying to figure out a time when I will actually be able to use my vacation days without completely inconveniencing everyone else. And having to deal with too much make up work. I hate taking a couple days of and then having a mountain of work once I get back...Anyways... Work has been pretty crazy lately.
And then there's all of the wedding stuff...
I've been able to finally pay off our photographer in full, which means I have one less bill to worry about! All $2500 has been completely paid off, with help to Austin's dad. We've got our florist paid in full, my dress is done, 2/3 of my bridesmaids and most of the caterer. I've been pretty stressed out about all of the wedding madness that I thought had to be done and we had to pay for, but I've come to realize that most of what we can do right now is already done.
I've also ordered and received all of our Save the Dates in. We had our engagement pictures taken a little over a month ago and we loved the way all of our pictures turned out. After showing them off to our family and friends, we realized that we wanted to do Save the Dates just for the fact that we could show off all of our pictures. After all, we had all of these great pictures, why not use them for something? So, we looked around on Vistaprint and found a great deal on Save the Date postcards . We were able to get 200 for about $50. Since that was such a fantastic deal, we decided to go ahead and order them and get them sent out by Thanksgiving. (And yes, the "we" I"m referring to here is more "me". Austin really didn't care too much as long as it didn't cost too much.)
I've been working on getting all of our addresses put together so I can make labels for all of our Save the Dates. Then I have to get stamps, which shouldn't be too much for postcards. Another great thing about getting our Save the Dates out is that we will have all of our addresses put together so that will be one less thing for us to worry about before we send out our actual invitations. So consider that two checks, one for our save the dates and one for having all of our addresses together!
On top of the wedding and work, I've also been trying to get things ready for Austin and I to go see Deathly Hallows Part I. Being the wonderful fiance that he is, Austin has agreed to actually get into it and dress up. If we weren't going to the midnight premiere I wouldn't have begged him to dress up, but we are. And he is. So in what little free time I have I've been trying to make a Gryffindor scarf for him to wear. I've also been looking around for a sweater that would pass as being a Hogwarts school uniform. And I finally found something! With less than two weeks to go, I found us sweaters! Now all that's left is for me to find a cute pleated, gray skirt....
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