It Might Be Over!

I was talking to Babe the other day about people getting engaged and getting married less than 6 months later. I wasn't saying it was a bad thing, I just found it interesting. I know weddings ARE expensive and I find it interesting that people have the money to do it big so fast. He said that not everybody wants and has a big, expensive wedding like I want. And I was like the wedding isn't expensive, the budget is actually lower than the average. And he said it's expensive when you don't have it.

Now, CLEARLY, no one really has a few, couple, lotta thousand dollars set aside to pay for a whole wedding on one day! So, no shit we don't have it at the time! That's why vendors allow you to make PAYMENTS!

So, now I'm like eff it! I don't want a damn wedding! Our pastor can hopefully marry us in his office one Sunday after church! {If he can because he goes to Africa every week after church.} I hope we HAVE the money to buy the marriage license! And I don't even want to go eat afterward!

I'M SO OVER THIS!!!

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!!!

As I mentioned in a previous posting, Babe and I had narrowed our selection down to six colors!!! I feel pretty accomplished after doing that! I don't want to set colors then end up changing them. I want to pick them and have them set FOREVER! lol.

I posted a poll on The Knot to ask the ladies their opinions of the colors. This is how it turned out:
Navy and Lime: 4
Navy and Pink: 3
Navy and Yellow: 1
Orange and Gray: 2
Coral and Brown: 2
Yellow and Black: 7 (and I was 1 of the 7 because I had to vote to see the results.)

Without my vote, Yellow and Black won by 2, followed by Navy and Lime. WOOO to the HOOO!!!

SO, I think that I will consult Babe about our colors being Navy and Lime with hints of Yellow. That way the two winners can be combined and I really think Black is boring, even though it's one of my favorite colors. We'll see what Babe thinks about this selection. *Fingers Crossed*

(Sorry that I always capitalize the names of colors as if they are proper nouns... but to me, they are! lol. (Guess I just wanted you all to know that I'm not dumb when it comes to English.))

Have A Seat

On Friday, Babe and I went to look at our venue, again. The outdoors Cathedral was actually set up for a wedding! GREAT... but not! lol. Babe said that the chairs are ugly and look like something he'd have on his patio. Ok, he was right! But I don't know that it's all that serious. The chairs were clean. This is what the chairs look like....

Well, that's the closet I can get to how they look. Anywho.... So, I told Babe that we could rent chairs from here. I'm guessing that their prices are okay. I've never rented chairs before. I just need to make sure that it's okay with the venue. And I need to make sure that their chairs are pretty and white!

Working Together

Babe has been calling me a Bridezilla. I don't think I am. He only says that because I really wasn't involving him in many of my wedding thoughts and would always cap an attitude when he had a suggestion. I finally told him that I would start from scratch {minus the venue and photographer} with the wedding planning.

He had been pitching color ideas. All of the colors he was picking were dark, fall colors. HELLO, the wedding is OUTDOORS in the SPRING! I decided that we could sit down and pick inspiration boards together! Well, I wanted him to pick 10-20 boards and I pick 10-20, which I already have some picked out, that you can see here. Then we would look at all of the colors together and see if we had any of the same boards. We'd then pick from the ones we had that were the same. Instead, we just looked at them together and picked a hand full. Now, he's given me permission to pick the colors. lol. Gotta love him! Here are the ones we picked together, in no particular order.

Orange and Gray

Black and Yellow

Coral and Brown

Blue and Yellow

Navy and Pink

Green and Navy

{All of the boards are from here.}

Looks like I still have a somewhat hard decision ahead of me, but at least it's getting smaller! Now, how exactly am I supposed to pick the correct ones?!

MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY! MONEEEEEY!

Today I decided that I would sit down and make an actual BUDGET!!! Well, I'm not sure if it's a budget, but I'm writing down how much I think I want to spend on everything. Hmm, I guess technically that would be a budget. I think I'll put a little more than I want to spend on paper so when I come under budget, I'll feel super accomplished! lol. We shall see how this goes.

Just a Test

Last week, My Publisher had a sale on their photo books. 20 page photo books that are usually $30 were only $5!!! They are on my list of people to use for our guest book at the reception. So, I decided to order one. I made it with various pictures of Babe and me, and I gave it to him as a "surprise". I must say that I love their product! They did an amazing job! The quality is great! They definitely have earned further business from us! Way to go, My Publisher!

My Day of Birth

So, July 3rd was my 21st birthday! We went to New Orleans for my b-day/Essence Festival. We had a great time. I never want to go back, but I did enjoy that 1st and last trip to The N.O.

ANYWHO, just wanted to post because it's been FOREVER! I do have a post coming up for you guys, though!