Howdy, stranger.

I've been really remiss in updating this blog, because real life got in the way. As I mentioned in my last post, I was laid off from my job, and decided to move out to the West Coast. So I took just a little over 2 months to finish up my house to put it on the market (oy what a lot of work that was!) and have been here almost a month now.

EC came out for a week's visit during those 2 months and we actually managed to get a lot done for the wedding. We booked our photographer (the second one that I really liked), and booked our first choice of venue, a gorgeous botanical garden (I'm thrilled!). Not only that, but we have our officiant lined up (EC's youth pastor while he was growing up), a family friend will be doing our flowers for us, and a friend of mine is going to be making our cake. Since the ceremony and reception are going to be taking place in the same general location, we don't have to arrange transportation, and the caterer automatically comes with the venue. It's a little pricier this way, but I was going to have to make some sacrifices to have my semi-unique wedding. (so described because it's not a church wedding/hotel or banquet facility reception)

EC and I are wanting to keep things relatively simple, so our entire wedding party will be my sister as Maid of Honor and his best friend as his Best Man. That's it! Well, and his niece and my friend's daughter as flower girls. No ring bearer - I mean, come on, it's a pillow holding fake rings.

I'll get into specifics in another post.

So next up - coming up with a design for our invitations. I wanted to design them myself and have them printed at an Office Max or something, but I don't know Adobe Illustrator or InDesign at all. I might have to outsource this part of our invites, haha.

Oh, and trying to get in shape for our wedding and engagement photos. The photo session is coming up in 3 months when we come back to town for a short visit. There's nothing like important pictures to put a bee in your bonnet to get into shape!