I've been wanting to create a blog for sometime now, just to get my feelings out, my experiences, and maybe also to help me stay organized?! I'm a soon to be bride, getting married in a little less than 7 months and I'm sooo excited!!!! We have been engaged for 7 months and some change already. Thus far I have gotten alot accomplished!! I have booked my photographer and cake lady back in January. I bought my dress, veil and petticoat in February (I would post pictures, but since the entire world can view this, I best not.) We have our caterer/decorator, our church and reception hall (which is at the church) and I don't know if I'm forgetting any of our other major things.
We are doing our wedding on a budget. I'm trying to be super practical in everything I choose for it. My parents are graciously paying for it and I'm not wanting to blow their pocket books, and with that they are super thankful!! hehe To me I don't see the point in spending a ton of money on a wedding, but thats just me. I personally would rather use the money my parents are spending on the wedding and put it towards a house, but they want a wedding and deep down I would probably regret if I didn't have one. Planning our wedding has had it's ups and downs and near stops, almost, but I'm thankful that as of right now we seem to be on track with mostly everything and are moving full steam ahead!!! I'm also trying to incorporate as many DIY projects as I can in order to save money too. They are what I'm most looking forward to!! I will be posting them with pictures as I go along for reference for everyone.
Just to give you a little insight to our wedding, here are some things we have decided to do for it. First of all our colors are ruby red, chocolate brown and ivory. We will be getting married in our church, which is also the church I grew up in. We are still deciding on if we want to use the HUGE sanctuary with the beautiful pipes and stain glass as our back drop, or our adorable quaint chapel that is lined with stained glass windows and a huge stained glass window for the back drop. It's all going to depend on the numbers of people will be coming. Our chapel seats 200 comfortably, our sanctuary seats like 1,500. lol We definitely won't be having 1,500 but we may have over 200, we are just going to have to see. Our reception will be in our fellowship hall. Yes, I know it's not at all fancy or anything, but again, I'm a bride on a budget, and you can't really turn down a $100 fee for a HUGE room and plus our guests won't have to drive to another location!!! It will be fine and it will decorated beautifully by our very talented caterer/decorator!!
FI and I still haven't decided on our honeymoon, well we have but just not sure how we are going or when we are going. We are planning to do a roadtrip the weekend after our wedding up to Louisville, KY and then over to Williamsburg,VA and then back down to Fredericksburg, TX then home. But that will also be in the middle of winter and there will probably be snow up there in KY and VA, and needless to say, we are Texans and driving in snow is not our Forte, sooo we may fly in or just wait til April or May to go.
OK non wedding stuff: I have 3 more classes left this summer semester until my final in my Technical Drawing Class. I can't wait!! I'm going back to school to get my CADD degree!! I only needed 11 classes to get the degree when I started looking into it and thought, hmm why not!!! I'm kinda tired of what I'm doing (previous job before the one I'm at just completely drained me I believe of any type of likelihood of me staying in this type of field). PLUS with my CADD degree, I'll be making pretty much double what I am now, then FI will be able to go to school full time, I'll be bringing home the bacon, and he can get his degree sooner!!! That atleast is our plan as of now!! FI just started a new job as a Pipefitter Helper. This is his second week there and it's been tough. He had a heat stroke yesterday, poor thing. They have to wear Nomex (fire retardent suits) and they are HOT! plus a hard hat, goggles, gloves, huge boots, and then be in this God awful heat, I dont' know how they do it!!! It's horrible!!! He's making good money though,but still, it's soo hard. He's a tough guy, and he likes the people he works with, which is a BIG plus soo hopefully everything will work out.
Ok, that's all I have for now.
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