253 Days to Go!

Well, we have 253 days left before the big day! And some things have finally been locked into place! It's been a very busy couple of days!

1. We have finally SET THE DATE. It is locked in and going nowhere! Sunday October 23rd, 2011 at 1pm.

2. We have set some of our musical things! The intro for the ceremony will be a slack key guitar hawaiian lullaby version of Pachelbel's Canon. It's a beautiful cover. Our first dance song: Make You Feel My Love by Adele. Father/Daughter dance: My Little Girl by Tim McGraw. Throwing the bouquet: Little Miss Can't Be Wrong by Spin Doctors. Throwing the Garter: Girls Girls Girls by Motley Crue. Last song of the night: Goodbye Goodbye by Oingo Boingo We still need to figure out some other songs, but that's what we've got!
Here is a link to our music list!!

3. Yesterday we went to Shane Company and we purchased our rings!
The one near the top of my finger is my wedding ring. It has to be custom ordered, so it will be to me in 6-8 weeks. They have to make it in my size and hand pick the diamonds and sapphires for it! It's beautiful!

Lauran got a Titanium band that looks like this:

4. We ordered our guestbook from the Guestbook Store. The cover looks like this:

The inside is the casual style pages. They are double sided and give folks a chance to fill out stories and memories and draw pictures. It will be something nice for people to do between the ceremony and the food and dancing.

5. We set our date and paid our deposit and signed the contract for our venue and for our photographer! We will also be putting down to have engagement photos taken a little later in the spring when the cherry blossoms are out! We are having it at the Troutdale House and our photographer is Martini Photography.

6. I am thinking of buying this garter from Etsy:

7. We did get our reservation at the condo in Maui set up! We just need to buy plane tickets and preorder for some of the activities we want to do! :)