Wedding Plans

Life is pretty crazy right now. As of today there are only 69 days until the wedding and it still feels like I have a million and two things to do. Fortunately, we got most of the boys out fits done. John's suit is completely done and looks fantastic on him. We also got shirts and ties for all of the boys. Anibal's suit needed to be re-altered because they didn't take the waist in enough. Ryan was just fitted for his yesterday and Jake, John's brother, was fitted for his a few days ago. Hopefully they will all be ready to pick up on May 9th. We just need to get shoes for them now.

I'm pretty much leaving the flowers in mom's capable hands. While I think that flowers are pretty, I in no way know what I am doing when it comes to picking them out or talking to florists. Luckily, between my mom and the florist that we are dealing with, I think that everything will look great.

My dress is currently being altered and will be ready for me to pick up on May1st. I'm so excited to see it on when it fits correctly!

I have now sent out just over half of the invitations. I hit a sticking point when it came to stamps and now have to wait until tomorrow to pick more up. The people who live close to me were fortunate enough to be given a hand delivered invitation that has a bow on it. If I were to send the invitations with bows, then each invitation would take 4 stamps to mail. My inner cheapness came out at this point and I decided that there was absolutely no way that I would be paying that much. So to fix it, I had to undo all of the bows that I had tied and turn them into just a strip of ribbon with a little embellishment on it. This took for ever because I had to re-cut all of the ribbon and hot glue it in place. At least I am done with the gluing process and it is just a matter of stamping at this point. Thank goodness!

There are many other details that I am trying to work out but I think I have done enough talking for one post!

4th File, 4th Photo

So I was reading Megan's blog and getting some insight into what it is like to become a mother when I got to her next post and saw that I had been tagged. I perused through my folder and was worried about what picture I would have to post but was pleasantly surprised to find that it was one that I absolutely love! It is not very often that our family gets a good picture of Anibal smiling but this just happens to be one where he is wearing a huge smile! It was taken on Christmas Day of 2007 when we were all gathered as a family. I love both of my brothers so much and I am so thankful for their love and support!

Suits!

Last weekend was a very exciting step in the right direction for our wedding. The boys finally got their suits ordered and two of them have even been fitted. As of right now, John and Anibal have both had their suits fitted just for them and are being altered as we speak. Unfortunately, they didn't have Ryan and Jacob's sizes in stock so they had to special order them. They will get fitted once their suits have arrived. This was also a monumental day because my mom finally met John's dad and my brothers finally met John's brother Jacob. Everyone seemed to get along really well and my mom really liked John's dad. Thank goodness! I love both my family and my new extended family and I'm so happy that they seemingly get along so well!