10 days!

you guys were right. once you get in the 2-month period, time goes by super fast. we're down to 10 days! so we're having our final meetings with our vendors to ensure that they'll be there next saturday and finalizing the itinerary with our coordinator. the devil is in the details, right? with that said, i'm extremely sleep-deprived. if i had known i was going to be this exhausted, i would have taken this week off too! but i don't want to use up all my vacay days...got a 7-day cruise coming up at the end of november, and possibly a trip to the philippines early next year, so gotta save up! on a side note, my mom's sister got approved for a visa! so she'll be able to attend my wedding! my mom is super excited, since her sis would be her only blood relative to have crossed over stateside. but that also means she's moving into my old room, and i still have stuff in there. and i so don't have time to pack up that stuff before the wedding. so my mom will employ my maid-of-honor to do it for me! hahahahahaha good luck steph! love ya sis!

two more!

2 weeks or 14 days or 336 hours or 20160 minutes or 1209600 seconds...

...until OUR WEDDING!

it's cram time! i haven't been getting more than 4 hours of sleep a night...i wonder if it's all the anxiety? ya think? :-)

weekend...

talk about busy weekend! took a vacation day last friday to do more wedding stuff and help mom prepare for saturday's bridal shower. we also met with the photographer to select the photo for our engagement portrait.

saturday was my bridal shower. i had sooooo much fun. the party was planned by my lovely bridesmaids, who did a phenomenal job with setup and the games. when i walked into my parents' house, they were putting up the pink and white streamers, i could see the food prepared on the table (thanks mom!), and the glorious cupcakes waiting for people to start devouring them (woohoo yazzie!). the games were hilarious...haha, the "how well do you know michelle?" stumped everyone. yes, people, i am a closed book. i think my mom got two answers right out of 14 questions. GEEPIS! second game was a scavenger hunt. there were some random items in there...but thanks to the efforts of the pitogohin clan, judy walked away with the prize by having 19 out of 20 items! final game was the "dress the bride". OMG. my girls were awesome. they allowed themselves to be the guinea pigs and get all dolled up with toilet paper and makeup. yes makeup. wow. we had some interesting looks. oh, and of course there was the battle of the clothespins. it looked like cristalle would take the prize, but ate viv caught her off-guard and she dominated all competition. and have i mentioned the food? especially yazzie's cupcakes and cake? soooooo good. she totally needs to start taking catering orders. yaz, do you have business cards?

so a BIG thank you to everyone who helped plan the shower, and another BIG thank you to everyone who attended. the party wouldn't have been as fun if you all didn't attend, and i thank you for taking the time to come celebrate with me. :-)

sunday was quieter. francis and i met with our wedding coordinator and we worked out kinks in the itinerary and timeline. hopefully our vendors can accommodate this newer schedule, as we have to tack on an extra hour each for photographer and limo. but we're still in flux right now...so we'll refine it as we get confirmation from everyone.

19 days people....19! we're in the teens now!

stupid fedex

FedEx "misplaced" the shawls for my bridesmaids! DUDE! I was provided with a tracking number, but the shipment never left the facility. I ordered these in JUNE, and I was supposed to get them in August, and I kept pestering the company where I purchased them with emails on status updates on the order. Thank goodness for Anthony who is being diligent in finding out what went wrong with the shipment and made the decision to reorder the shawls from Alfred Angelo just in case they don't find the original shipment. So whichever they find first will be sent to me by September 20-something. GEEZ!

Day 25

i'm so determined to be productive. francis and i worked on our timeline this past weekend. we started practicing for our first dance. it's SO difficult to keep a straight face. we're fine if we're not looking at each other, but when we're dancing and make eye contact, we start cracking up. yeah. that bad. we got our engagement photos back from harvard photography...and we couldn't stop laughing. *sigh* we can't be serious about anything apparently. we're set for the wedding rehearsal and the music for the ceremony. thanks to ms. christine do (i owe you!), additional flowers have been ordered for our cake *yum*yum*. bridal shower this saturday at mom's house. we have a parents' meeting tomorrow night to discuss stuff. oh man...that means i need to figure out how to feed them. darn my inability to cook! must think of good takeout. :-)

one month!

One more month folks! Time is zipping by obnoxiously fast. Only one more month...to have the house all to myself. Hahahahaha.

We're wrapping things up and finalizing all the plans. I have to give a BIG thank you to Francis and my favorite ladies for letting me have my "freaking out/frustrated/I'm-so-stressed" episode last weekend. Venting sessions are awesomely good...even if they don't make much sense when you're having them.

Tonight we're meeting with the coordinator at St. Denis, as well as the music director. So we're going to get the plans for the ceremony in order, and then I can finally work on the programs. YAY!

Oh yeah, I need to work on the slideshow too. DOH!

yay!

Happy 29th birthday Francis! Love you!