To catch up on the past 9 months of my wedding planning charades here goes:
Within a few days of the proposal my maid and honor and I went to a local boutique to look at wedding dresses with no luck. We had to have a darn appt. So that following week my mother and I went when I had one. Since I have been looking online at dresses for over a year just waiting for this day to come I was prepared with a list and pictures. A few hours and 15 dresses later I found the perfect one. Paying for it was not easy and about three months later and a lot of heart ache my mother pulled through and surprised me by paying for it with all my assesories.
In late November we took Engagement/Christmas Pictures at JCPenneys, they turned out rather decent I say. We sent them in with all of our Christmas cards announcing our engagement.
Since then, I started looking into venues and such for the wedding itself and reception. We found out that our original Budget of 5k is not going to cover the wedding that I would prefer. So with a lot of consideration we are trying to up it to 10k if anyone in our families would lend some decent $.
We still do not have a date set. Scotts brother has recently joined the United States Army. Since he is so close to him, I wanted to set a date convenient for him. Some days I just want to give up and walk right into the court house and say our "I do's" and ironically Scott won't let us. Scott isn't the romantic type and he's sort of a hill billy so he's cheap on everything but, deap down inside he wants me to be happy and he knows I have been dreaming of this day since I was 10. It's hard to organized anything untill an official date has been set as every bride to be knows that is the ultimate "first step".
