Tonight I decided to ask my mother to handle the floral arrangements for me. She would have had to go with me anyway since I suck at this stuff and she has such an eye for this. I just don’t know when I will have to time to do it so I figured she could do it and do it better then I could. I called her, she agreed and sent an email with the few things I need.
So yay, that is doneish.
I have my printable invitations right here, I looked up the nearest Kinkos and printed out directions. I have set up a word doc and pdf of both the invitation and RSVP card. Simple but elegant IMHO. Now all I need to do is go to the store and get them printed.
I plan to do this either tomorrow or Wednesday, then the Canadian addresses will be sent from Canada and the US from the US, to make life easier on all parties.
I still have to print the blue cards informing everyone that the Bride will be wearing light blue (and to not wear that color) and the address labels, but I can do that here at home. (My mother still insists that these need to be hand addressed but if I want them sent out then I need to just run off some labels because this is getting silly. I am running out of time, and I know this is my fault as I am not the most punctual person when it comes to details like this.
If you have not sent me your address please do so immediately. I am seriously lacking on addresses and I know people are going to get mad at me over it.
Also, the non-north american invites might not go out as it seems like those people won’t be able to attend and it might come to a price issue. I am pinching all the pennies I can, but if I can, I will send them along later. It is a time and money issue, not a I don’t care about you issue.
thanx
So it seems the women in my family got together and decided that my amazon registry was not enough, one there is not enough on there, and two there are a lot of people who don’t shop online and want to go to a store. So I said fine and went where I was told to go. Granted there are no Targets in Canada but that was the original problem, the only store to register with that is both in Canada and the US is sears and honestly, no. I don’t like what they had to offer and their online side was seriously lacking for a couple who falls under the “Young Urban Blogger Type” demographic.
Anywho, here is the Target registry I am trying to link the two up so they are connected. It should be possible considering Target is powered by Amazon.cm (According to the footer on their side) and Target.com is a partner of Amazon.com (according to Amazon.com site). So it should work, but how to do it is a mystery. I have a customer service ticket set up so that should work. 🙂
So I ordered the invitations. I bought the kind that you can print yourself, so the plan is to take them to Kinkos or something like that and get professional printing on them. I chose to go this way because I really liked the invitations. They are simple and minimalistic and pretty. Basically because my dress is a light blue color and Fred will be wearing his uniform which is green for all of the decorations and other items I am going for a nice simple white. The linens are all white, I want to order a white lilac bouquet (I still need to do that) and now the invitations are white, so this will look good I think.
Now I just need to think of a good way to put in the invitation that the bride (me) will be wearing light blue so people don’t wear that color. I don’t mind if people wear white, just don’t wear my blue 🙂 If I was having a bridal party I would probably want them all in white. I mentioned the idea of the mothers wearing white to Momacita and she was dead set against that. More rules about weddings that I don’t know.
Well now comes the hard part, the invitation list. I still don’t have many addresses and it is frustrating. I will figure it out I am sure.
Still to do:
is there anything else I am missing? not sure, please suggest things to me
So this past weekend Fred and I went to Yarmouth NS for Pre-Cana (or pre-marriage prep as the Sister running the program called it in her emails). It was supposed to be two days, a few hours of introduction Friday night and then a full day on Saturday.
Calling in advance I secured the last room available in Yarmouth earlier in the week. It seems that there was a Hockey Tournament, a Volley Ball Tournament and a Bridge Tournament in town that weekend.
Driving down we hit some snow and sleet, it was manageable but got a bit nasty 20 minutes outside Yarmouth, we passed a truck that went right off the road and into a highway sign. It was pretty sick looking. We got our room, ate supper rather quickly only to find that the Friday night portion was canceled due to weather. That was slightly irritating. Granted Fred wanted to go early into the room it was being hosted before supper to check things out, I said we would just find an empty room. I was wrong, should have checked. Oh well.
So we had a night of a rushed meal, went to the movies and just relaxed the rest of the night.
Saturday morning we went in, were the first to arrive and discovered that not only were we on the older curve of the couples there, but that there were about 30 other couples there.
It wasn’t bad, we covered a lot of things Fred and I have either handled or dealt with already. There were some things we hadn’t done, like the talk from the lawyer. Our sponsor couples were pretty neat, a little emotional but good. It wasn’t a bad experience, it wasn’t a great experience, but it was nice. As Fred says, it was a lot like his PLQ, something to go through, covering topics mostly you have covered before, if you are committed to it you will walk away with something positive from the experience and just one more thing to tick off the list as you prepare for the next step. Which is good.
No, we did not get excommunicated, as Fred kept joking about beforehand. It was much more lay style then religious. Yes it is a catholic thing, yeah we met with a priest while there, yeah there was a little bit of scripture being read, but on the most part, church was pretty much missing.
There seemed to be a big focus on blending families (second marriages, kids from previous relationships) and mixed faith marriages, and this surprised me a little, but made me happy to see.
Next up, invitations, getting addresses has not been easy, and I know, this should have been done already.
Oh, and another note, Fred and I took out a line of credit to pay for the wedding so I can actually make purchases which will help move things along. So once the credit cards are in and activated things will move along there.