Day 272 - Maid of honor celebration

This weekend promises to be productive. Today is Jenny's birthday and we are to going to take her out to her first club to celebrate on the weekend. To prepare for my weekend with my maid of honor I have acquired lots of material required to complete the invitations and prepared myself to get all dressed up for a night on the town afterwards.

Promises to be fun and productive!

<3 your hippie bride

Day 269

Fortunately decided on my centrepieces and with the help of kijiji I was able to save $50 on them.
Now to get the rest of the parts to put them together. The frustrating aspect will be the candle holders. I think they are going to be difficult to track down. But fortunately I have 342 days left to find them all.

<3 your diy hippie bride

Day 266 - Who will marry me?

Today I am in a teary-eyed bridal mood today. As things have come together and calmed down I have gone back to simply being excited to marry my best friend. I love my husband-to-be and I am so excited to see the look on his face as I walk down the aisle towards him in 346 days!

Today, inspired by the matrimony of it all, I am comparing officiants and their fees. Not much to compare since they are all strangers to me and only names. As a result I went through the list and picked the officiants with the coolest sounding names.

I found this part interesting though. I received a few quotes of their cost from several J.O.P's which varied only slightly. The final e-mail I received was the lowest cost and the quote was accompanied with a statement that the cost is set by the Department of Justice. For their honesty I decided on them as honesty is important to me. This also saves me $200 from some of the other options.

<3 your hippie bride.

Day 262 - And it begins!

Today, with all of the necessary components in place I began printing and constructing the wedding invitations. The first two or three were .... not as attractive as the rest. After a while you get accustomed and develop your own system.
The most important part of course is ensuring everyone's personal RSVP ID is accurate as they are to RSVP online using it. Pretty exciting to get these started!

<3 your hippie bride

Day 251

Seeing as I may stop at this particular weight for now (out of fear of shrinking too small for my wedding dress) I thought I should upload an update weightloss photo for everyone.
As I look at the photos I REALLY can see what hubby-to-be was talking about ... my butt really IS gone! WOWZA!

Here I am at -33 lbs

had to wear my skinny jeans

left to right: -13lbs, -25lbs, -33lbs

sporting the original pants that I started in

What a difference! I will NEVER go back! 

Day 250 - Bridal showcases to come

As I narrow my checklist down even further I think back to my bridal showcase of last year and wish they had more throughout the year! I feel a bridal showcase would be quite useful as I'm struggling to narrow in on particular aspects.

Since they don't have them more often I figured I'd instead set up a facebook event and invite all who wanted to attend the bridal showcase this Jan. :)

<3 your hippie bride

Day 249 - Check...check

Checklist again:

• Man to marry - check
• Wedding date - Check
• Budget - Check
• Dress - Check
• Venue - Check
• Rings - Check
• Guest List - Check
• Invitations - Check
• Bridal Party - Check
• Photographer - Check
• Vows - Check
• DJ - Check
• Videographer - checkkkkiiisssh? 
• Money - um.... what's that? 

I really must hurry and decide on a videographer. I know I'm being insanely picky but it's important to me! 

<3 your productive hippie bride