I'm so relieved!

I feel like everything that I've been stressed about with the wedding is finally taken care of and I don't have to stress anymore. I was having a really hard time finding someone to do my hair on a Sunday morning because I live in Utah and everyone is closed on Sundays. I found a lady named Paula and she did hair and makeup with tv shows and movie stars and stuff like that. She said she was available on the day of my wedding and she would be happy to do my hair and makeup....THANK GOODNESS!!! And then I was worried about Miranda's and Amber's hair. Well Amber doesn't have much hair now cuz she cut it all off so she can just leave it down and it will be cute and then Amber said she would do Miranda's hair so that's a relief. Our invitations are at the printer right now and should be done next week. Julie found a flower place that's fairly cheap for lillies. We'll go look at tuxes soon. I got find a day when everyone can go in. My dad prob has the busiest schedule. I guess they don't all have to go the same day but I think it would be better so that we can get all the same thing without any doubt. We'll see. I'll have to talk to my dad and James and see what his friends want to do. The only thing I'm a little nervous about is when Amber's dress will get here. Cuz once it gets here, we have to ship it to CA so she can get it altered. I'm worried that there won't be enough time. It's due to be shipped at the beginning of May, but I don't know. I would be devastated if it didn't get here in time. I have an alteration appt with Miranda next week. We're both getting altered. I was hoping that I could be able to take off a lot but I don't think I will. I haven't lost any weight since I got my dress....maybe like 3 pounds. Its depressing. I wanted to lose a bunch of weight before the wedding but I don't think that it's gonna happen. Oh well. I love James and he loves me and that's all that matters.

More wedding stuff....I'm exhausted!

So James and I went to pick out our cake last week. We went to this place called Carrie’s Cakes. This lady makes these gorgeous cakes out of a bakery in her basement. We went to her house and had a few samples of their cakes. We picked a lemon cake with buttercream frosting. Oh man….it’s so tasty! I didn’t want to share it with James and his mom. I could’ve eaten it all to myself. We picked a 3 tier cake that is round. The top and bottom tiers are the lemon and James wanted one that was Almond flavor. I personally didn’t like the almond one at all. It tasted like lotion. It reminded me of tanning lotion. But that’s what he wanted so I let him get it. The cake has ribbon on the bottom of each tier and little white dots all over the whole cake. I’m going to keep the dots white and I ordered black ribbon. We’re going to put red rose petals on the table by the cake and then get a bundle of white calla lilies tied off with a black ribbon and put it on top of the cake. I’m excited. I feel like I’ve accomplished so much toward wedding planning. We also met with the officiant last week too. She is a reverend who has been doing weddings for 25 years. She had us both fill out a questionnaire about each other and then she said she will take what our answers and her view of how we are as a couple and will write our vows for us and write our her own ceremony for us based on what we want. She is such a nice lady and she was really funny. She is like that crazy old lady that everyone loves. She is kind of high priced though. She charges $275 for the ceremony. In a way I don’t want to spend that much but I really liked her and I think she will be good for the wedding. She is very open and can help put our ideas into what we want. I’ve never been married before so I don’t really know what to expect for the ceremony. The traditions, the vows, the prayer and what not. I want a prayer but I don’t want a religious ceremony. I think it would really make my grandparents happy if we did one. I want to do some special ritual. They have a few different types of rituals that can be done. I think I like the rose ceremony where we buy a vase together and we both put a rose into the vase to signify our first love as husband and wife and then we keep that same vase and do the same thing every anniversary and repeat our vows to each other. I think it sounds cool. We'll see. We picked out our invitations and chose the font we want and we went to get them printed on Saturday but the place we had in mind is closed on the weekends and they close at 5:30 during the week. That's crap! Those hours are so retarded. So we have to find somewhere else to get them printed.