At this very moment in 2 weeks M and I will be married!  WOO HOO!  I still cannot believe how quickly the time is passing.

Today is also special for another reason, Prince William and Kate Middleton were married this morning (if you live in the US anyway).  I haven’t watched the actual ceremony yet since it came on at 6 o’clock this morning but I did manage to get to work in time to see the “kiss”.  Not super impressive but very sweet.  I can’t imagine kissing my new husband or wife in front of all those people, all waiting to see a kiss.

I wouldn’t bring up the royal wedding but I feel like it has made me even more excited.  Being able to see a wedding right before my wedding kind of makes it hit home, like WOW this is happening, soon!  But it also makes me excited for all of the hubbub if you will.

With 2 weeks left I can pretty confidently say I am DONE!  That’s right, short of printing out the note for the guest book I am done.  All of my projects are complete, everything has been printed out (with the exception above) or written out or tied or glued.  And I just remembered we still need to figure out our tables but that too is a pretty quick fix and half way complete.

Home stretch here we come!

~k

Starts today!  I’m not really sure why I decided today was the day but the official countdown starts now at 15 days!

This afternoon I went to get my hair done.  So much better!  It was looking pretty rough but I knew I needed to wait till closer to the wedding.  I am blond again, not that ever wasn’t, a quick trim and my hair looks nice again. 🙂

I must add the day did not start off so well.  I mean literally I woke up and my day was a disaster.  I won’t go into more detail, though it is pretty comical now.  Something was lost, it was found and we moved on.

~k

I feel like the only thing I can think about is our countdown.  Two weeks from today and at this very minute I will be sitting in St Lucia having a nice cold beverage and it will be heaven!  Ahh!

Last night and this morning I spent a lot of time on youtube searching for songs.  I think I have found my new walking down the aisle song.  It’s definitely different then what I was looking for but I just couldn’t seem to find exactly what I wanted.  Song after song and this one particular song I kept coming back to.  I think it will be good.  I am happy with these choices for now so hopefully it won’t change in the next two weeks.

~k

I knew this would happen but now I’ve become obsessed with music.  M and I realized last week that it would cost entirely too much to have his brother P play for our ceremony.  Due to amp rentals or airline fees, it added up to a large chuck of change for a few minutes worth of music.  And while we’d really love for him to play it seems silly to spend that much money.  We asked P if he could record the songs we wanted him to play but he didn’t have the right equipment.  BOOO!  So now I am in the process of trying to figure out what songs to play before I walk down the aisle.

When we originally asked him to play I only gave him one song, the one I would walk down to.  I told him to just “throw” something together.  Now that this has changed I have got to find some filler music.  I have no idea what I’m even looking for.  I know I don’t want anything traditional but now that leaves my searching for something that will “fit” our wedding, download them and burn them to a CD.

I’m hoping something will hit me soon.  But until then I now have something else to do. 😉

~k

Over the weekend I finished up the last of my wedding related items….mostly.  We still need to figure out our tables but I have everyone on a card and just need to fill in the table number.  And I need to print out the guestbook instructions.  AND, I finally had the menus printed.  They turned out pretty well, considering people will just the throw them away.  But they will add a little color to the table and I like that.

I still can’t believe the wedding is getting so close.  18 more days.  And even less time till we leave.  EEEKKK!

Now that most, or I should say all, of my DIY projects are done I’ve become obsessed with making sure my teeth are sparkely and white.  I bought some white strips this afternoon and I can’t wait to make my smile dazzling.  I’ve even decided to cut out my morning tea 🙁 and my cherry coke zero.  Double 🙁  But it will be worth it.

~k

I had a great time with the Knotties last night.  It was fun to get together and talk all things wedding, eat sushi, and drink wine.  We will have to do it again soon.

Today was uber boring at work.  No one was there and there was literally NO work to be done.  They finally said we could leave at 3:15 as long as all the work was done.  You can bet I was all over that.  Once I got home M and I decided to take a nap.  It’s a rainy, dreary, cool day so a nap was perfect.  🙂

And finally 3 weeks from today it will be official.  Apparently someone was feeling sweet and gooey because he posted on his FB page, Three weeks till she’s mine.  Awww, such a sweet gesture.  M is normally the “funny” guy so being super sweet and gooey caught me a little off guard and truly warmed my heart.  Awwww!

~k

The future in laws were in town last night so no blog.  They took M and I to a nice dinner at Midtown Grill in North Hills.  Everything we got was delicious.  This is definitely a place M and I will return to.

Tonight I have a Knottie get together with the girls in town.  There are 2 new girls that will join us tonight.  I am excited to see my knottie friends I met a few months ago and meet the new ones.  It’s always fun to meet new people.  And we are going to get sushi, yummy!  I never get sushi unless I go with my co-workers or the girls want to go.  M isn’t a fan and doesn’t do well with shellfish so….

Tomorrow is Friday!  YAY!  The week is almost over.

~k

With 24 days left till the wedding I feel like things are moving along quite nicely.  Just a few more small details and I feel like I will be DONE with wedding planning.  I might actually be a little sad about this.  I mean I like all the DIY projects I’ve come across.  What ever will I do?  Eh, I’m sure I’ll find something because this is not actually what I am going to blog about today. 😉

My point above, which never formed was this, with 24 days left you really shouldn’t have much more then small things left to do.  However, it seems several of my knottie friends are still having “guest” issues.  From people who want to bring their teenaged kids, to groomsmen without flights or pants.  Yes there are groomsmen, in weddings in the next month without plane tickets OR pants.  Some still haven’t finalized if boyfriends/girlfriends are coming.  (you know a rant is coming)

COME ON PEOPLE!  Get your shit together!  How hard is it to RVSP?  I mean really, someone sends you an invitation and they include a nice little addressed stamped envelope.  All you need to do is fill out the form, mind you for the ADDRESSED people only, and send it back by x date.  By no way shape or form are weddings cheap.  Actually add wedding or bridal to anything and watch the price list immediately go up.

I am completely baffled by the complete lack of respect or courteousness I’ve heard many knotties complain about.  It honestly makes me angry for them because while they are trying to plan a wedding they are having to deal with rude inconsiderate people.

Thankfully M and I had a pretty good idea of the people attending our wedding so we didn’t bother with RSVPs.  We also chose to not include a wedding party since we both felt it was a lot to ask our friends to fly hundreds of miles for our wedding let alone make them feel as though they “must” be there because they were a bridesmaid/groomsmen.  Now I understand this works for us but not everyone and that’s fine.  Part of planning a wedding is figuring out what is and is not important.  I feel as though some of the things we’ve done have definitely made our wedding planning much easier on us.  And I like easy.  🙂

Point of today’s post, be courteous people be courteous.  This should hopefully help to keep bridezilla in her cave.

~k

M and I didn’t really have much planned for the weekend.  We had planned to run some errands on Saturday and pick up a few more things we will need for the wedding and our trip.  First we headed to the mall but didn’t really find what we were looking for.  As we were getting ready to leave the lights in Macy’s flickered a few times.  When we got outside the sky was cloudy but it didn’t really look bad.  We then headed over to Old Navy.  The wind picked up, A LOT, but still no rain.

A few minutes later we decided to run to North Hills and hit REI.  By the time we parked in the underground garage at Target the rain was coming down.  We decided to run in Target grab a few things and wait for the rain to pass before heading up to REI.  We walked around for a little while grabbed the stuff we needed.  I finally told M we might want to check out before the power went out.

After check out I grabbed some popcorn and a drink and we walked back to the car.  By this point the sky was black and the rain was pouring down.  We put our bags in the car and walked back to Target.  About this time the power went out.  We ended up standing in front of Target (note this Target is in an underground parking garage) watching the rain eating popcorn.  Popcorn was a great idea considering we had no idea what was about to go on.

We stood with a large group of people from Target outside for probably a good half hour.  The store employees made everyone leave the store when they lost power.  M and I started to check the weather and FB on our phones.  This is when we realized a tornado had just hit downtown Raleigh.  Crazy huh!  Once the rain died down to a drizzle we headed back to the car to go home.

As we left North Hills all the street lights were out and there was debris everywhere.   We ended up over by the mall only to discover Glenwood had flooded in places so we took the back roads.  As we drove we noticed more and more insulation around.  We have no idea where it all came from.

When we got home we turned on the TV and learned just how bad the day had been.  There had been multiple tornadoes around the area leaving destruction in it’s path.  A Lowe’s hardware store had been hit and was wrecked.  Multiple houses and neighborhoods destroyed.  Thankfully our house and neighborhood were fine.  But there are still people without power and some without homes.

It’s weird because as M and I were driving home, clueless to the happenings of the day, we were talking about the last time either of us had taken a weather warning seriously enough to sit in a closet or bathroom.  I guess we will both pay a little more attention next time the weather guys forecast “severe” weather.

This week has dragged some major ass.  Each day has seemed as though the clock was close to stopping but finally it is Friday.  This week is only minutes from being over for me.  WOO HOO!

Today also seems as though it will bring some good news next week.  *crossing fingers*

~k