Bridal Party Pampering and Brunch

We’ve roughly decided that our ceremony will begin at 4pm, which gives me plenty of time to get ready without being in a rush on the “morning of”. The downside is I know I’ll be up at 6am, ready to throw my dress on and get things underway! I’m also generally a worrier about being “on time” for things – I hate HATE hate to be late to ANYTHING, to the extent that I would rather be an hour early than a minute late. So, I’m trying to prepare myself to not be in the rushrushrush mind set on the morning-of. For me, personally, that means having a plan for the morning’s activities that walks a fine line between having enough things to do to keep my mind off of the time, and not being so jam packed that a time...

The Guest List and Wedding Party

We sat down today (or should I say, we laid in bed and talked about today…) to go over our official guest list and wedding party. As I started to delve into all of the topics that go along with planning a wedding, so many things came back to the number of guests – so we thought this would be the best place to start. We both started by outlining our family members, knowing that these would be “must invites”. Next came a collaborative brainstorming of our friends, which were separated into the “must invites” and the “would like to invite”. Being so early in our planning stage (and not having even a clue about our budget at this point), we wanted to make sure that we had a list that could be cut down if necessary. We...