Wedding Fashion

Being a bridesmaid can be quite an investment with buying the dress, the shoes, and wedding gifts. So, I decided to make my beautiful bridesmaids world a little bit easier and let them choose the style dress they preferred so that they will actually wear it again. They are choosing the dresses from the designer Lula Kate and ordering from Bella Bridesmaid in Homewood, AL (great store..I definitely refer it to anyone). The dresses the girls have chosen are incredibly beautiful. We are going with the same color and most likely the same shoe.

I am, however, having the hardest time finding the right shoe. The girls are already spending so much money on their dresses I hate to make them pay $70-80 more dollars on shoes. I found this incredible shoe on the Nine West website. It is beautiful and I know that I would wear it again, not sure about anyone else. We will see. I'm letting them tell me. I just hate to be that bride that makes everyone spend an arm and a leg on something they don't even like. I'm getting ready to just say, "Everyone get your own shoe, just make sure it's red."

Registries

Hey guys, just wanted to let all of you know where I am registered.

Macy's - website: www.macys.weddingchannel.com

Khol's - website: http://www.kohls.com/upgrade/gift_registry/kohlsgrw_home.jsp

Bed, Bath, and Beyond - website: http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/regHome.asp?order_num=-1&

Pottery Barn - website: www.potterybarn.com/registry

What started it all....

Rob and I met the summer after my freshman and his sophomore year of college at the University of Alabama. We were both in town during the summer which means there is a very select amount of people to choose from when it comes to hanging out. For the next two months our group of friends consisted of David C., Anna W., Scott C., Wesley, Ben, James, Ro and myself. We hung out all the time for the rest of the summer.

Once school started, we sort of parted ways. We both got caught up in our busy worlds. I especially was hard to get in contact with. He tried to get us to hang out more but it just never worked out.

Fast forward 7 months or so to the end of March. We took a picture together at Calvary's spring retreat. And after that we magically started hanging out all the time again. By April we had our first date and by May we were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. In the end of May we parted ways to go to camp. I went to Pine Cove while he stayed back waiting for his time at Camp Ozark. Side note: We had both been accepted to go to the same camps at the same time (he at Outback, first half; and i at Ozark, second half. I turned down Ozark and he turned down PC Outback).

I got back in the beginning of July and went straight to see him the second we got back in AL. When I got there Rob had a letter for me to read. In the letter he explained his feelings for me. He listed 10 reasons he LOVES me. This was the first time we had used the "L" word. After that he told me he loved me and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me.

A year later, we were engaged to be married the next summer.

Our entire relationship has been in a hurry, but there is no doubt in either of our minds that this is the right thing. We both love each other with a love that can only come from Christ.

We are getting married June 19, 2010 at a wonderful garden home in Alabaster. The house is small and intimate, right up our alley.

On this blog I plan to give you all the details of our wedding planning as it happens. Seeing as I've been planning for about 5 months already, I've obviously got a lot of catching up to do to get you where I am currently. I hope to log all the humorous frustrations (and maybe the not-so-humorous frustrations) as I go along. I am also very open to your opinions and suggestions.

I hope that you find our wedding planning blog useful and even entertaining as we inch closer and closer to our big day!

Thanks for visiting,

Caitlin