Bridal Shower!

Last weekend was my bridal shower and it was perfect.  My sister, mom, and bridesmaid Kristin did a great job and I loved every minute of it.  Here, because you know you love my lists, are 10 random things about my bridal shower:

1)  I love the theme Laura chose...her vision was a retro tea party.  My mom found a tea house in town that turned out perfect for Laura's theme.  I love tea, I love chachka, and I love tiny food...perfect!

Laura likes that I look terrified of the tea in this picture.

2)  Having everyone stare at you while you're opening your presents is nerve wracking and made me go into stand up comedian mode making cracks about every gift.  Apparently I was funny though thank goodness.  Also, someone should have told me to close my legs.  Whoops.

3)  It wouldn't be a tea party without some weird hats.  Mine didn't fit on my giant melon of a head.

4)  Even if you don't serve booze, people are still going to get silly.

I can't believe someone agreed to marry  me.

5)  Seriously, by the time you're at your bridal shower and about to be at your wedding, you need to have learned to pose better in pictures!

Laura looks great, I look frumpy

6)  Breaking in your wedding shoes at your bridal shower:  genius AND cute!

7)  Force the moms to take pictures even though they hate it!

8)  Don't let people take pictures of you from underneath.

But seriously, how good is this rehearsal bouquet Kris made?!

9)  Some of your friends might not know you very well.....

Kelly thinks I need this.....

10)  There is nothing like being in a room full of people that are genuinely happy for you and love you.

Things I Love Right Now

I haven't posted in forever.  Life has been crazy.  Once you hit the two month mark in wedding planning it gets a little nuts.  All but 3 RSVP's down, bachelor party done, cold feet freakout vanquished....we're almost done people!  Since we're to the point where any wedding blogs I'd post would be spoilers, I don't have much to talk about.  I'm a little self-involved right now, I know.  So here are some things I love right now...

Any and all necklaces by FreshyFig

This hairdo.  I'm obsessed with messy buns right now.

Nom nom nom

These match nothing therefore they match everything

Can't wait for the honeymoon!

I want one of these.  Laura says no.

Vegas Baby!

Last weekend I participated in a rite of passage I legitimately thought I would never experience...my bachelorette party.  I never imagined myself as the girl wearing the veil walking around Vegas with a group of girls, but I'm so so glad I got to be her!  My girlfriends are the best and it ended up being one of my greatest weekends ever.  Here are some reasons why:

1)  The Paparazzi.  Thank G for the two moms in this group because otherwise we would have had zero pictures.  Vanessa went nuts with her camera from the very first minute of the trip.

2)  The Swag Bags.  Laura, the MOH, did an awesome job wrangling everybody and arranging hilarious, thoughtful, and kind of terrifying swag bags.  Add that to the bedazzled tank tops that made not one, but two of the guests cry before the trip, and we came away with some great loot.

3)  Alcohol.  I'm not going to lie...the booze was part of the reason the weekend was so fun.  There's nothing better than a group of tipsy chicks!  Especially fun, watching Vanessa try her hardest not to day drink and giving in around 2pm... valiant try Ven!

4)  Some tasty delish meals.  Well done on choosing the food MOH!

5)  Creepy/Cheaty Strangers.  Being hit on in random places, yelled at to NOT DO IT while wearing my bride sash, watching Kris ignore some dude who was trying desperately to hit on her and she had no idea, pointing out wedding bands on old married dudes...all priceless Vegas moments.

6)  Kristin announcing to the bouncer that she will NOT wait in line.  And having it work.

7)  Panties.  Leaving it at that.

8)  Drunk Texts.

9)  Beatles Love...seriously amazing show.

10)  The most important one.  These girls.  Love them!!!

Wine & Roses

Although I'm getting more and more sick of planning my wedding, (seriously I could give a crap about place cards at this point), I'm getting more and more excited about the actual day.  Mike and I visited Wine & Roses this weekend to finish up everything with our wedding lady Julie and for me to do my hair and makeup trials.  To be honest, I was not looking forward to getting my hair and makeup done.  I am really bad at telling hair people what I want and I usually end up not liking what I've agreed to do.  Mike and I didn't get into Lodi and checked into our hotel room until about 1:30am so of course we overslept and ended up racing to get out the door and make it to my 9:00am hair appointment.  Thankfully, once I got there and got checked in, the spa was incredibly relaxing.  They have you wait in a room calling the Tranquility Room and it looks like this:

Seriously gorgeous.  There is the fire going and comfy chairs to lounge in, and relaxing music playing in the speakers.  You look out the window and there are fountains going.  So pretty.

This definitely helped relieve some of my stress.  My hair lady ended up being this super cute girl and she really liked my hair idea so that helped a lot too.  This is what I asked her to base the hair on:

After playing around with it for awhile and putting on my hair piece, this is what we came up with:

I love how messy it is...it's very me!  It was a relief when that was over and it had gone so well.  I was nervous to get my  makeup done afterwards because A:  I don't generally wear very much makeup, B:  I am horrible at sitting still, C:  I'd never gotten my makeup done before, and D:  I hate having to sit in front of a mirror for that long.  Thankfully, the girl that did my makeup was really sweet and gorgeous and this is how it ended up:

I look gross in this picture, but it's not the makeup's fault!  I'm also a little freaked out about how my hair looks from the front, but we'll figure it out!

(fun fact, I didn't do either of these looks on my wedding day, I am the least decisive person ever whoops)

The meeting with the wedding lady went great and although I think we're spending way too much money, I'm really psyched to have our wedding at Wine & Roses.  Here are some pics I'm obsessed with right now of the venue.

Oh also, instead of printing and folding them ourselves like we planned, we stole 20 Lodi maps from our hotel.  We're the classiest bride and groom EVER.

Menus

Mike and I have gone back and forth about menus at the wedding reception.  We had started out saying we'd have one per table and we'd frame it in a cute frame rather than having one at each plate.  I designed something really simple and have been searching and searching for gray card stock to print it on.  Have I mentioned how hard doing your own wedding is in this damn town?!  Mike threw me for a loop the other day when he decided to announce that each guest should have a menu instead of doing the framed one per table.  I looked online and had picked out these from Wedding Paper Divas that matched our invitations.

I started playing with these today and got frustrated because they wouldn't let me cut out stuff I didn't want in there like our names.  I think if you're seated at the tables already...you know whose wedding you're at!  There also wasn't enough room for our entrées because their names are long.  I decided to make my own based on these.  What do you guys think??

I just have to order some white card stock and print them out.  Please give me your opinions if you think I need to change anything!