So, on Tuesday, we went and got my dress fitted, met with a potential wedding officiant and went to our ceremony/reception venue to make some final decisions and meet with the party rental place about lighting. So here is a recap about the day...
Dress Fitting - although my cousin did document this occasion in pictures, I obviously can't put them on the blog. The tailor is a really nice lady, but the dress shop (who is now closed) is not my friend. They ordered me a size 12 in the dress. I definitely could have fit in to a 10 and still had room. This pisses me off because now I have to get it altered, including the lace, which is NOT what I wanted to have to do. If you buy a lace dress, make sure you ask them what size they are ordering for you because it's one thing to have to take in satin, but lace is so much more difficult. Hopefully my tailor is as good as she seems!!
Officiant - the lady that we met with is very nice. She is also very organized, which I have an extreme appreciation for, especially since we are doing this from 1,000 miles away. We talked to her and liked her and I don't really know what I'm looking for, but I wasn't immediately sold on her. I didn't have that feeling with my dress, either, so maybe I'm just not that kind of bride.
We don't have someone here who either of us grew up with. The priest that married my mom and dad and baptized me passed away quite a few years ago, and there isn't really anyone else who knows both of us and would be good at officiating the ceremony so I think that the nice officiant who is very organized, has good ideas and is in our budget is going to be as good as anyone else we will find. CHECK.
Reception Venue - I need to start this section by talking about how fantastic Callie is at Ceruti's. She is our event coordinator and she is so helpful, she keeps in mind that we are on a tight budget and she has been fantastic to work with. I would recommend contacting her if you are thinking about booking a Ceruti's venue.
Being in the room makes things SO much easier to visualize and decide. We picked out our table cloths in about 3 seconds. We decided that we are going to do a two tiered head table so that we can center it and put pipe and drape behind it that we can up light.
Those are really the only decisions that we had to make there, but it was nice that J got to see the place again... it's been a while since he was there.
Lighting - the biggest "issue" I/we had with the reception venue was the lack of color. Obviously, it's nice to be able to incorporate your own color into a blank slate, rather than having to deal with an already existent colored decor. We decided that we wanted to add some color through lighting on the walls so in October, my mom and I went to a party rental company and this week, they came out to Ceruti's and met with us to make a final decision on how many and what color.
She brought colors that were exactly what we want... a dark purple and a lime green and they are going to be great! We are putting lights on three of the four walls. Initially we were going to only light two of the walls, but the one we weren't going to light is the one you see when you walk in, so we added three lights for that wall and we are all set! The lights are going to cost about half as much as I thought they were, so that was a bonus as well!!!
Flower Girl - I also so my flower girl today and talked to her about a dress. I decided I really want her to have lace on her dress in some form or fashion. I found a few options, but I think I'm going to ask Jason's mom again if she could make a dress with specific measurements and then she could have it altered here. OR, I may check and see if the lady who is altering my dress could make a flower girl dress with some of the lace from my dress that she has to take off. Hopefully I'll figure out what direction to take on this in the next week or so. I'm kind of apprehensive about buying a dress online, so that would be my last choice, but here are the dresses I found online and liked.
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There's also been a lot of projects going on around the house, but there's more to come on that later!!
Awesome! Sounds like you've got a lot under control!
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