Secret Wedding Weekend

Two weeks ago Christina secretly flew into town for two days so that we could have an intense wedding planning weekend.  The reason for such secrecy was because we knew that if word got out we would never be able to keep people from stopping by to say hello or calling to try and make plans. Thus I had almost two entire days with my greatly missed best friend to help me make decisions on decorations and bridesmaids dresses.

Christina flew in late Friday evening with the Bohlender family after helping them in Colorado for a few days.  My parents were in town that weekend so Mom and I went together to pick her up. I walked in the B’s familiar kitchen door, threw my arms around Christina, and wept. I haven’t been away from my sister for more than a week in 4 years so the last two months have been heart breaking. Especially dealing with the death of my grandfather while she was about 1100 miles away.

The next morning we headed to The Roasterie with Sarah Clark (a bridesmaid), Jessica Orr (friend), and Theresa (friend) to try our hand at wedding planning. Sarah was kind enough to take some pictures for me so that I could post them here.

Alas, dress searching turned out to be a big fat waste of time. That was when we discovered that the ones we wanted were back ordered. At least, for the first time, we were looking online in the same state and could compare notes in person instead of over Skype. Our few attempts in real stores proved discouraging, deflating, and confusing.  At the time of this blog, we are finally past the picking stage and into the ordering stage and I cannot describe my joy at moving on. However…in terms of blog writing…we’re not there yet.

The day was BETTER spent talking over fabric streamer options and working on a hotel list to suggest to guests coming from out of town. Oh. and laughing. I think this picture was not too long after Christina’s second massively failed attempt to rip circles out of a napkin to use as an illustration.

There have been many, many times I’ve congratulated myself on deciding to take my brother’s advice and go for the 17 inch computer screen for my laptop. This was definitely one of those times. It’s a long piece of machinery, that’s for sure, but the pro’s outweigh the computer so it’s a win. Trying to fit four and sometimes five people around the screen would have been impossible with Christina’s tiny screen.

As things turned out, Hobby Lobby was having a 50% off sale on all of their fake flowers, greenery, feathers, etc.  I was able to grab a bunch of things that interested me for half the price and have them on hand while we talked colors. Christina met with Chad (Joshua’s roommate who is heading up our decorating) the next day and went over specific decorating ideas that they both had, including and negating some of the things I had purchased. After coming to a few semi final decisions, I was able to load up on all of the things we needed from Hobby Lobby and have been storing them in my room ever since. I am REALLY excited for the decorations. I think they are going to do an awesome job!

All in all, it was a great weekend.  We accomplished so much and having Christina here really helped ease some of the anxiety I’d been feeling at having to plan a wedding by myself. It was so good to see her and have a nice chunk of time off work to just wrap my wedding thoughts in nice concise little boxes instead of having them jotted down all over the place.

After that weekend we had definite ideas for decorating, specific branches and flowers and feathers and colors narrowed down, a framework for bouquets and lots of dresses scratched OFF the list.  Theeee end.

 

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