So, I've gotten the invitations sent out, and so far I've gotten two RSVPs back. One was a glad acceptance from my boss and her family. They love me and we've worked together for years, and have a friendship outside of work, so I expected that one.
What I didn't expect was the decline I also received. My own grandmother isn't coming to my wedding. I found out that she's only gone to one wedding in the family out of the four that have happened...but still. It's more than a little heartbreaking.
On the plus side, Brooke is definitely going to be our flower girl (whoo!) and...yeah. That's it. I'm kind of surprised I haven't gotten back any more RSVPs, to be honest. Most of my friends and family are very punctual and prompt.
Well, that's it. That's all I've got for now. Off to work to earn the money to pay for all this :-)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Hopefully my hand holds out!
The RSVP cards are here, meaning I actually have to start getting the invitations out now. I'm being incredibly lazy and just addressing the envelopes myself. I was going to print them, but I don't have enough extras in the correct size to play around with my printer settings. So, while Nate goes grocery shopping, I'm going to be here addressing envelopes and getting ready to head to the post office. It's amazing when you realize that...yeah. We're getting things done! finally!
The bags I got for the girls showed up today, too...and fortunately the purple I used for Christi's bag didn't come out super girly and dorky like I feared. It actually looks very good.
My hand is cramping just thinking about how many addresses I'm going to have to write today! Fortunately, I'm going to save a little bit of money by breaking decorum and hand delivering a few of the invitations. I figure that if I see certain people almost every day, I can go ahead and invite them personally rather than spend the money to mail invites out. Yes, it breaks decorum and formality, but we've never been that formal and we're on a tight budget.
I'm off to brave my list of 50something envelopes. Away I go!
The bags I got for the girls showed up today, too...and fortunately the purple I used for Christi's bag didn't come out super girly and dorky like I feared. It actually looks very good.
My hand is cramping just thinking about how many addresses I'm going to have to write today! Fortunately, I'm going to save a little bit of money by breaking decorum and hand delivering a few of the invitations. I figure that if I see certain people almost every day, I can go ahead and invite them personally rather than spend the money to mail invites out. Yes, it breaks decorum and formality, but we've never been that formal and we're on a tight budget.
I'm off to brave my list of 50something envelopes. Away I go!
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Wow.
It's starting to hit both of us just how close our wedding is now. The invitations showed up yesterday, and looking at them just makes it so much more real. In just over two months, all the planning and the stress will be gone, and we'll be Mr. & Mrs.
Wow.
Anyhow, the invites are here, and we went shopping to find random wedding stuff we needed. We now have all the favor bags we need, and we found an album that we love love love, so there we go with that. We also picked up the last of the flower petals we're going to need for Brooke and for the tables and some pretty seals for the envelopes. I don't think I have much left, really. Monday the RSVP cards and the bags for my girls should be here, so that will be the last of the deliveries for a little while..unless, of course, I find something else random for the girls that I just have to get for them :-)
That's all I've got. We're getting closer on a solution to the catering problem, and as much as it pains us, we're going to get that done very soon.
I'll update with pictures as soon as I have the time!
Wow.
Anyhow, the invites are here, and we went shopping to find random wedding stuff we needed. We now have all the favor bags we need, and we found an album that we love love love, so there we go with that. We also picked up the last of the flower petals we're going to need for Brooke and for the tables and some pretty seals for the envelopes. I don't think I have much left, really. Monday the RSVP cards and the bags for my girls should be here, so that will be the last of the deliveries for a little while..unless, of course, I find something else random for the girls that I just have to get for them :-)
That's all I've got. We're getting closer on a solution to the catering problem, and as much as it pains us, we're going to get that done very soon.
I'll update with pictures as soon as I have the time!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Deliveries and Caterers and Invites, oh my!
Delivery #2 showed up yesterday, as scheduled. So far, so good. Tomorrow should be the arrival of my invitations, followed by the RSVP cards on Monday. I still have to get envelopes for everything, but that's alright. The bags for my girls' gifts should be here sometime that week, too.
I know I'm harping on and on about waiting for UPS deliveries, but in all honesty, that's the only place where we're making progress. We're still at a stalemate with how to trim some of the cost with the caterer so we can afford it ourselves.
We have hit the first snag with invitations and guests, though. There are several people who have assumed they are invited that, due to our budget limitations, we can't invite. There are also several people we haven't spoken to since the engagement, since long before the engagement, that have asked where their invitations are. Nate and I made a rule when we agreed to our budget that we're only inviting people who are active in our lives. If it's someone we haven't even spoken to since high school, then we aren't inviting them. As much as we'd like to invite everyone we know, it just isn't reasonable for us at this time. Needless to say, it's frustrating to be pelted with emails and phone calls from people we figured didn't know about the engagement in the first place. Weird how something like a wedding makes people suddenly want to get back in contact.
Oh well. We've been kindly explaining to everyone our budget limitations and how we're doing a smaller, more intimate ceremony, and so far people seem to be OK with our replies to why they weren't invited. Next week when I send out invitations is when things are going to get *really* interesting, I think, since several of the people we're inviting are college friends who still live with roommates, and we aren't inviting the roommates we barely know. I know at least one of those people is the kind of drama queen who will take it as a personal insult and get offended and try to cause some sort of trouble. To be honest, I'm almost looking forward to it, just for the entertainment value.
I know I'm harping on and on about waiting for UPS deliveries, but in all honesty, that's the only place where we're making progress. We're still at a stalemate with how to trim some of the cost with the caterer so we can afford it ourselves.
We have hit the first snag with invitations and guests, though. There are several people who have assumed they are invited that, due to our budget limitations, we can't invite. There are also several people we haven't spoken to since the engagement, since long before the engagement, that have asked where their invitations are. Nate and I made a rule when we agreed to our budget that we're only inviting people who are active in our lives. If it's someone we haven't even spoken to since high school, then we aren't inviting them. As much as we'd like to invite everyone we know, it just isn't reasonable for us at this time. Needless to say, it's frustrating to be pelted with emails and phone calls from people we figured didn't know about the engagement in the first place. Weird how something like a wedding makes people suddenly want to get back in contact.
Oh well. We've been kindly explaining to everyone our budget limitations and how we're doing a smaller, more intimate ceremony, and so far people seem to be OK with our replies to why they weren't invited. Next week when I send out invitations is when things are going to get *really* interesting, I think, since several of the people we're inviting are college friends who still live with roommates, and we aren't inviting the roommates we barely know. I know at least one of those people is the kind of drama queen who will take it as a personal insult and get offended and try to cause some sort of trouble. To be honest, I'm almost looking forward to it, just for the entertainment value.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
More Deliveries, More Impatient pacing
Chances are that UPS won't deliver until after I go to work. Therefore, I'm preparing a signed note to the UPS driver to either drop the box in the specified area, or take it around the corner to my dad. Here's hoping that my note works.
Today's delivery should be my underoos, followed on Friday by the invitations and the RSVP cards should be here on Monday. That gives me a couple of days to assemble the invitation package and get them sent out on Friday. I realized that I forgot to put an email RSVP availability on the invites or cards, so I guess I'm going to just be getting a lot of mail for a few days :-)
My wedding band is still on back order, so we remain only 1/2 a set. Nate knows his band is here, and he knows where it is. He's still a bit pissy that I won't let him have it until July. He wants to wear it now. It's so cute when he reverts to being five...at least for the first two minutes. Then it's just annoying :-)
So, that's it. We're at a stalemate as we (I) impatiently wait for UPS to show up. Since I do work today, though, I need to scamper away from this computer and get some housework done. Boo, housework.
~The Future Mrs. K
Today's delivery should be my underoos, followed on Friday by the invitations and the RSVP cards should be here on Monday. That gives me a couple of days to assemble the invitation package and get them sent out on Friday. I realized that I forgot to put an email RSVP availability on the invites or cards, so I guess I'm going to just be getting a lot of mail for a few days :-)
My wedding band is still on back order, so we remain only 1/2 a set. Nate knows his band is here, and he knows where it is. He's still a bit pissy that I won't let him have it until July. He wants to wear it now. It's so cute when he reverts to being five...at least for the first two minutes. Then it's just annoying :-)
So, that's it. We're at a stalemate as we (I) impatiently wait for UPS to show up. Since I do work today, though, I need to scamper away from this computer and get some housework done. Boo, housework.
~The Future Mrs. K
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Gleeful arrival!
So, shortly after my last post, UPS showed up! Huzzah! I now have one part of the gifts for my girls! *happy dance*
The next scheduled delivery, according to the webtracker, is for Wednesday, which should be my undies. After that should be wedding invites, then the bags for the girls, and then the RSVP cards.
There's a nasty storm rolling in, so I'm venturing away to shut windows and see if I can get any good pictures. I'll post some pictures of some of my wedding collection soon, too.
The next scheduled delivery, according to the webtracker, is for Wednesday, which should be my undies. After that should be wedding invites, then the bags for the girls, and then the RSVP cards.
There's a nasty storm rolling in, so I'm venturing away to shut windows and see if I can get any good pictures. I'll post some pictures of some of my wedding collection soon, too.
Impatiently awaiting UPS
I have no patience for things to be delivered! I love getting mail and deliveries, so I get insanely excited when I check the UPS tracker, and it says it's on a truck for delivery to my home! I think what bugs me the most is that the UPS hub is literally a five minute drive from me, so I get really antsy wondering where on the route I am today. Usually, since we are so close to the hub, we're right at the end of the driver's route.
I'm so impatient! Today's delivery should be the manicure kits I ordered for myself and my girls, then by Wednesday I should have my undies that I ordered to go under my dress. By next Friday at the latest I should have the invites! As I was typing this, I got the shipping confirmation on the invites. Monday is when the RSVP cards should be printed, so those should be here by the 11th at the very latest. I'm so excited! Honestly, I love mail and deliveries, so I get very excited when I get things that aren't bills.
That's about it on the wedding front, actually. Well, other than something completely random and silly.
Our announcements, invites, and RSVP cards are all part of a matching personalized set offered by American Greetings. Originally the plan was to do our own design, but after pricing it out, this way was more cost effective and less time consuming for us. Well, part of the collection is also a set of thank you cards. I was considering matching the thank-yous to the rest of the wedding, and have since changed my mind.
Dan (soon to be father-in-law) has been cleaning out various things in his house that he doesn't want or need anymore. This has resulted in me getting several classic books that I've been wanting, some great old cookbooks, and $15 from half price books for the stuff we didn't want or need. Well, one of the items Dan found stored away was a large box of various stationary sets left behind by Nate's mom. Some of them are just obnoxiously cute, but most of them are very classic and make me smile. I now have an excuse to buy a new calligraphy set! I'm going to use the various sets to send my thank you cards. I'm so excited! Have I mentioned that I love sending mail almost as much as I love getting mail? I'm seriously thinking about just randomly mailing friends notes on the pretty sets...just because I can! Mwaha!
Which reminds me...I need more stamps!
That's all I have for now, wedding or otherwise.
I'm so impatient! Today's delivery should be the manicure kits I ordered for myself and my girls, then by Wednesday I should have my undies that I ordered to go under my dress. By next Friday at the latest I should have the invites! As I was typing this, I got the shipping confirmation on the invites. Monday is when the RSVP cards should be printed, so those should be here by the 11th at the very latest. I'm so excited! Honestly, I love mail and deliveries, so I get very excited when I get things that aren't bills.
That's about it on the wedding front, actually. Well, other than something completely random and silly.
Our announcements, invites, and RSVP cards are all part of a matching personalized set offered by American Greetings. Originally the plan was to do our own design, but after pricing it out, this way was more cost effective and less time consuming for us. Well, part of the collection is also a set of thank you cards. I was considering matching the thank-yous to the rest of the wedding, and have since changed my mind.
Dan (soon to be father-in-law) has been cleaning out various things in his house that he doesn't want or need anymore. This has resulted in me getting several classic books that I've been wanting, some great old cookbooks, and $15 from half price books for the stuff we didn't want or need. Well, one of the items Dan found stored away was a large box of various stationary sets left behind by Nate's mom. Some of them are just obnoxiously cute, but most of them are very classic and make me smile. I now have an excuse to buy a new calligraphy set! I'm going to use the various sets to send my thank you cards. I'm so excited! Have I mentioned that I love sending mail almost as much as I love getting mail? I'm seriously thinking about just randomly mailing friends notes on the pretty sets...just because I can! Mwaha!
Which reminds me...I need more stamps!
That's all I have for now, wedding or otherwise.
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