Bridal Bling!

Today I ordered the bracelet that I'll wear on the wedding day. I'm super excited about this. I had been putting it off, and even considered DIYing this. But, I've been so busy, I just decided to go with the one I found on Etsy from BridalBling. I think it will go great with my earrings and dress.

Here's the bracelet that I bought:

LOVE IT!

Bridal Portrait Teasers!

I'm so excited! Today my photographer posted my bridal portraits in a gallery on his website!! I think they came out even better than I expected. I was worried that I was posing weird or making a funny face or something in all of them, lol! Plus, I like my hair and makeup even more than I thought!! So, I'm not going to post a full length shot, but I'll give you some teasers for now. I don't want my fiance to stumble upon the pictures, although he knows to stay away from this blog.

Oh, and in these pictures, you can see the bouquet that I DIYed on Sunday afternoon. I was more stressed about making this one because it would be in pictures, but I think it came out even better than my trial!! I used pink tulips, ranunculus, and carnations and tied the stems with a pink ribbon.

Wedding Rings!!!

I picked up my wedding ring tonight! I'm soo excited, it turned out beautifully! I wasn't sure the diamond band would look when sized down to a size 4.5, but it looks great!

I'm not too great with taking up close pictures with my camera, but here are a few:

I can't wait to wear the wedding band with my engagement ring all the time!!

Check, Check, Check!!

We're getting a lot done! This weekend, we paid the remaining amount due for our wedding rings. Mine got sent out to be sized and should be back by the end of the week. We got to bring Kevin's home, since it was already the right size. It's all been very exciting, it's getting so close. My fiance's ring, taken with his blackberry, lol...

I also ordered our guest book tonight. We are using MyPublisher to create a custom photo guestbook using some pictures from our engagement. I'm very excited to see how it turns out, I'm sure it will be awesome!

Tonight, I finished what I'm calling our "additional info enclosure cards." I previously bought card stock that matches our invitations to create small cards to include in our invitations. The cards will direct guests to our wedding website so that they can find more information about the wedding, accommodations, and directions. I thought this was an important thing to include since there are some invitation recipients who didn't receive Save the Date magnets, which had our website on it.

Finally, we reserved our wedding night hotel room. We're going to stay at the Marriott Raleigh City Center in downtown Raleigh. We got the Romance Package, which was a great deal for an executive room including breakfast for two the next morning, chocolate strawberries and a bottle of champagne upon arrival.

We have a lot to do this week, so check back to see what all we get done!

We're into the double digits!

99 days until the wedding! Wow, back when we got engaged {581 days ago...1 year, 7 moths ago}, I felt like this day would be soooo far away. Well, it's here! We're finally in the double digits, I can't believe how close the wedding is. I'm really glad that we've been getting stuff done almost every day. Yesterday, we picked out the mens' tuxes and today we picked out and put the deposit on our wedding rings!

The groomsmen will be wearing tuxes from Mens Wearhouse with silver vests and bow ties. My fiance will wear the same tux, but with a white vest and bow tie instead of the silver. We really love the classic look that these will have.

We ordered our rings today and were lucky that they had them in stock. So, we won't have to wait multiple weeks for them to come in. I was really relieved since a custom order would have meant getting the rings last minute before the wedding.