Wedding To-Do's

Being the over-achiever, obsessive list-maker, likes-to-have-everything-done-way-ahead-of-time girl that I am, I have a lot done already. At least it feels like I have a lot done. When I look at my wedding planning binder, it seems like I have nothing done. So to make myself feel better, I'll putting together a list of the things I have done. I've gone through 6 ceremony locations and am now meeting with my 7th on Tuesday, so cross your eyes for lucky #7!

• Picked a date
• Picked our wedding party
• Found a reception site and booked it
• Found a caterer- had a preliminary chat and they blocked out the date
• Planned a menu
• Found a photographer- meeting with him Monday
• Picked our color scheme 
• Found my cake baker
• Ordered the comb for my veil (my Uncle is supplying the tulle- he's a wedding planner!)
• Bought a wedding present for my very handsome fiance- one I picked out a very long time ago :)

And oh yeah… Bought My Dress!!! (that definitely required capital letters).

I'm pretty excited. And also quite verklempt. For those of you not fluent in Yiddish, a definition from Urban Dictionary: Verklempt:  "The state of being overcome with either too many, or not enough, choices;  frozen; overwhelmed; unable to think."

Basically constant state of verklemptness over here. Send chocolate!

xoxo, Kate

Some news...

So, this happened.

Can I just be girly about it for a sec? *Squeal*!!!! 

Okay, I'm done. But seriously, YAY! 

Shmeeguel proposed December 6th (the night we were celebrating his birthday). I made dinner, which deserves it's own post because I'm pretty sure it's a surefire meal on how to make someone propose, and then we changed into our pjs and started watching Big Bang Theory on the couch. A Jared's commercial came on tv depicting a proposal actually taking place in a Jared's store, and I mentioned to him that I would hate that because strangers would be watching you and it seemed impersonal. "But I still have 6 more months, right?" says He (about our pretend rule that we always have 6 more months until we'll get engaged). And I say, "No, you only have until New Years, and then I'm gonna start taking bids from other guys". And he gets all pretend huffy and then says, "I definitely have until New Years?" and I say yes…

And then he takes the ring out of his pocket and says,

"How about now?"

I kid you not. 

Oh, how I love this guy.

July 26th, 2014 is our date. We're pretty excited about it. 

P.S. You're going to have to deal with a lot more wedding posts, because you better believe that I am DIYing out the wahzoo. I can't wait to show you some of the projects that I'm working on! But I'm still going to continue with recipes and other DIY's and photography and fun stuff like that. I'm back!!!

xoxo, Kate