You Will Be a Modern Bride!

While you aren't ready to throw away all wedding tradions, you want a wedding with a twistYou're more inspired by celebrity weddings on E! than from bridal magazinesWhether this means getting married on the beach barefoot or a mariachi band for the reception...Your wedding will be a blend of old and new - white dress cocktail, personalied vows, whatever suites you!!!

What Kind of Bride Will You Be?

More fun stuff

Here's a bouquet I really like. At this point I am leaning towards using gerbera daisies as a "theme"...not sure though. Since the wedding will be in late September, we might go with either a fall theme, the daisy theme, or just a color theme. I really would like to use a green/yellow color scheme.






I found this picture of a fall cake from a baker's website, I believe it was Jacques's Cakes. I like the fall theme and the sugared leaves. Very pretty.




















This is the monogram that a fellow Knottie made for Troy and I. There were a few made, but this was the final design that we went with. Not sure where exactly we will incorporate it yet, whether it be invitations or what, but it's still cool to have!






In other news, I'm sick again. I came down with this latest bout of the plauge on Wednesday, and now I have a raging ear infection in BOTH ears. Which means I'll have to take time off work AGAIN one day this week to go get more antibiotics. I hate having to ask off work to go to the doctor. Ug. And I'm sure she's always pissy about me being sick. But you gotta think: I watch children. Not just her children, other children too. AND I'm doing nursing clinicals in a nursing home. There are germs there. Not everyone can have a wonder immune system like she does. Anyway.

I'm going to go take some more medicine and sleep. Later!

Busy bee

Soooo busy this week. Started nursing clinicals on Tuesday night, which was a stress case for me in itself. We're at the nursing home for the next 4 weeks, and it's a bit intimidating.

Also, Troy's nieces are staying with us, which causes even more stress for me, because I can't follow my usual routine....I get very OCD during the week with when I go to bed and stuff....little hard to follow that when there's a 6 and 10 year old bopping around in the living room.

Oh well.

At least I have my dress....I seem to have gotten into the habit of saying goodnight to it everynight...I'm a head case.

Anyway, I'm waiting for my monogram designs to come back that I'm having made by a fellow Knottie. Hopefully in Sage/Buttercup or Sage/Silver for the wedding colors. Then it's off to work out, babysit, and enjoy more nursing home fun. Oh, and Troy's dad is here unexpectedly this morning, so I'll go play hostess.

Troy owes me this week, I believe. Good thing our anniversary is Saturday. I'm pushing for some earrings. ;-) (Shhhhhhhh, I got him a Video iPod!!!!)

Dress pics!

My dress from eBay that I bought for $40!!!!

Above: Where we're getting married(Libby Hill Park) in Richmond. Ideas for a beach destination wedding were scrapped when we realized how many people we wanted to invite.

What do you think?

I'm considering turning this blog into a wedding planning blog for the time being. Anyone have any objections? I didn't think so.

I have all my planning stuff on TheKnot.com, and talk non-stop in the online communities....oh man, it's addicting. They have bios, and everyone puts ALL of their wedding ideas pictures into the bios...I lose so much time just reading one after another. Here's a link to mine, which I just started putting together today: BIO MANIA!

I have so many ideas, and I like so many things that I see...but with a budget that is literally nothing, it's hard to not be able to have everything. Most of the girls on the Knot are having what I call "normal" weddings. They have to buy things like place cards and centerpieces and OOT(out of town) bags and all sorts of fun stuff. I, on the other hand, am having a *very* informal wedding, at the beach. There will be no place cards. There might be OOT bags...if we have anybody actually come to our wedding(it's a destination wedding at the Outer Banks). Sigh. I know, waaa waa, right? I don't know....I love the way we're doing things, and in the long run, I know I'll be happy about it...sometimes I just feel like I'm going about things the un-natural way.

I'm SO looking forward to going dress shopping next weekend with Kim!!!!! I'm absolutely estatic!!!!! .........although, I do have to say, I found this one really really beautiful dress......it's 750$(WAAAAY too much money), and not really fit for the beach. You can see it in my Knottie Bio. We'll see. There's a bridal shop right down the street from me that speciallizes in that particular line of gowns, so who knows.

Anyway, back to searching for the perfect beach house for our wedding....or rather, the cheapest with the nicest view. I'm very picky...so this might be a while.