Must Take Photos

Lately all I've been thinking about is how our wedding pictures will turn out. Our photographer Julia is amazing and every time I check her blog and see all the new pictures she has posted it just makes me want to tap my heels together three times and wish I was at my wedding day 8 months from now.

I've been collecting pictures from all over the place. Including other knotties, google, TK and so on. So much that when I give Julia our, well actually my must take list she's going to think that I'm crazy. I have so many must take that is insane. I just can't think of having to decide between them, they are all so WOW!

Now you probably think I'm nuts. But here take a look.

You see what I mean? I can't decide on just 2 or 3. And to make it worse this is only a fraction of all the pictures I've collected in the past year and a half. I guess the worse part of being engage for over 2 years is that you have too much time in your hands to plan and get more and more ideas. I've come to the conclusion that the longer you are engaged for the more expensive your wedding will be. Do you agree or disagree?

Happy Thursday!

Shoes... decisions, decisions

Now that I have my dress I think is the right time to start looking into shoes.

I've always wanted to wear color under my dress. However with the way my dress is designed I don't know if that would be possible. My dress is white but it has some pearl color to it up at the top and bottom that really stands out and I don't know if wearing Caribbean blue or Turquoise would look right.

I thought of matching my shoes to my garter, you know the same colors and such.

And if you really think about it the shoes will be under the dress so is not like everyone is going to see them, not to mention that I will most likely just wear the color shoes for pictures and for the beginning of the reception. Afterwards I just plan on changing my shoes to cute flips flops or comfortable dancing shoes. Any opinions?

So. My goal for this upcoming weekend is to go in search for the perfect wedding shoes, whether it be online or at a store. I'll let you know how that turns out. Wish me luck.

8 Months to go!!!!!!

Yayyyy! This is so exciting.

It feels like it was just yesterday when we had 22 months to go. And although we are still pretty far out the time is getting closer and that makes things so much real. I haven't had much checks recently but within the next couple of months I'm sure that I will be checking off some things from my to do list.

Happy Monday!

Dress....check!

OK so I went to David's Bridal on Friday night with my MOH and 2 BMs.

I tried on dress after dress after dress and nothing. I was getting frustrated because I knew that I was not going to find "the" dress there. I just went because I wanted to check my options in PA before going to a different state (NY).

Then, without expecting it I tried on one dress and I felt good in it. And when I got out and showed my girls they were speechless. They kept going on about how this was the one, that I looked great in it and so on. And that just made me feel even better. Finally we were getting somewhere lol.

That dress was my favorite thus far. Then I came out with another dress that followed that one and again my girls were going wild.

I'm so glad they were able to go with me :D

We got there at 7 and it was 9pm and we were still there because I couldn't decide between the two. Finally I decided to come back the next day with my mother, since she's paying for the dress, and with my FMIL. I made the appt and we left around 9:30pm.

The next day I was super sick. I couldn't get out of bed to go to my appointment. That made it even worse because I wasn't able to get another look/feel on how the dress looked on me. So I started talking to FSIL about the pros and cons. I showed pictures to my mom and posted some pictures of me in the dress for my lovely knotties to see and give their opinions. And finally after hours and hours of laying in bed sick and debating between two fantastic dresses I made a decission.

I ordered the first dress that I tried on and loved. And so far I've been getting great feedback on my decision.

There's only one issy bitty tinny problem. I don't plan on posting a picture of the dress on the blog. Well at least not for now. Reason being because I don't know who reads my blog and I'm sure that some of my guests going to DR (not many but some) do read it and I really want everyone to be surprise when I walk down the aisle in my fabulous dress. Another reason is because the only picture I have of my dress is of me wearing it, now if I get a picture of a model wearing it I'll be sure to post it. In the mean time I'm sorry for leaving you in suspense so far away from the wedding day.


Happy Hump Day!

Dress Shopping

A few days ago I went dress shopping for the first time ever with my mother, sister (who is also my flower girl), and my son.

I was super excited yet so nervous.

Was I going to find "the" dress? Was I going to like the dresses they had? Will the dress I like be within my budget? Will the dress I decide on be just like the one I'd imagine? Or will it be something completely different?

I had so many questions that I felt like vomiting. Seriously.

Well needless to say I went dress shopping and to answer the questions that where making me sick... Nope I did not find "the" dress. Yes there were a few that I liked but none that made me say WOW. The majority where in my price range so that made my mom happy :)

One little problem was that my mom and I had something entirely different from what we thought "the right dress" for me would be. She was wanted a dress that would made me look like a princess. And I wanted something sexy, elegant, beachy, and so on. Though at the end she said that it was my wedding and to decide on a dress that I loved. She made my day by saying that and that made me so happy. So I'm hoping that I can find something that we both love.

Tonight will be day #2 of the search for "the" dress. So wish me luck and I'll be back with more details from today's search :)

The Beginning

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was sitting down in the cafeteria one day after school reading a book (Ghetto Girl). When all of the sudden this annoying guy came and sat next to me. He was cute. But I was not interested. He kept asking me questions such as "What's your name?" "What are you reading?" What is the story about?" "Are you new here? I've never seen you before". I couldn't concentrate and I couldn't wait to get out of there and away from him. He was just talking so much. lol

The next day I had stay after school again. When I got there I noticed he was sitting alone in a table almost all the way to the back of the room. I assumed that he wanted me to go sit with him. Well... that's not what I had in mind. I pretended not to noticed him and sat all the way in the front and on the opposite side of him. A few minutes later he gets up to get a drink of water from the water fountain right next to me. As he was walking back to his seat he stops by me, hands me a piece of paper and tells me to call him whenever. This was back in February of 2005, a couple of days after Valentine's day.

From that moment on forward we would always see each other in the hallways, during lunch, and sometimes after school. It wasn't until late March, after my 18th birthday, that I called him and we made plans to go out for ice cream late one evening after he got out of work. We had a great time. We talked for hours and hours getting to know each other and before we knew it we had a connection going on. After the ice cream we headed for a drive down a road called "Constitution Drive", it's said to be haunted and what not. Then we went to a park and we sat inside the car talking while watching the deers eat. Out of nowhere he says to me in a serious voice:

"What if I told you that I'm a killer. That I find young pretty girls and take them out on dates then I rape them and kill them. I usually bring them out to this park and bury them in the woods"

OMG my heart was beating so fast that it wanted to come out of my chest. I didn't know what to do. My eyes got watery, my voice was gone for like a minute or so. I was just speechless. He seemed so serious about it. Finally I said "I don't believe you. You wouldn't do such a thing".

and he says "yeah, you're right. I wouldn't do such a thing. But I scared the living hell out of you right?"

Ahhhh..... I just wanted to kill him myself at that point. lol. Ughhh I was so mad at him for saying/doing that.

Awhile later we drove to another park near my house. There we talked some more and we played some basketball, or I should say he played and I watched. Mind you that by then it was already 3am and a school night. We were probably at that park for another hour or so. Then he drove me home, walked me to the door, and said goodnight. He was very very respectful and that made me like him even more, especially after such a wonderful night.

A few days later we had a second date and then a third date. On the third date we had our first kiss and it was magical, it was everything I hoped it would be. During our first kiss there was a song playing. It was "Solo por un beso" by Aventura and that made our first kiss so much more special.



to be continue....

First Kiss/ Our Song

"Solo por un beso" by Aventura

This was the song that was playing when we had our first kiss. The lyrics are amazing.