Wedding Shoes

Damn it. I bought them. I closed my eyes and handed over my credit card to the ladies shoes guy and got the fuschia Jimmy Choos to wear for the wedding.

Flowers!

I think these are totally adorable! How about for my bouquet?? hehe, I think mom would laugh then say no. Can you imagine me walking down the aisle with a doggie bouquet? Wouldn't be any different than me carrying around Sophie!

Other stuff!

I've decided that instead of spending a fortune on alterations to my wedding dress, I'm going to fatten myself up with a pound of pasta with chips and oh so good Salsa con queso.

Off to prettier things, my Valentine's roses from Belvedere Flowers. They're also doing the wedding flowers:

My new LV wallet! Well, almost. The one I chose has the french coin, not zippered.

Shoes!

So, still on the search for the perfect pair of shoes for the day. I need to find at least 4 inch heels, since I got a hollow to hem measurement.

I think these are cute:

And these, except for the heel is gold so I'm not so sure...

And, totally looove these:

Now it depends on how much I'd like to spend on shoes! Or maybe, I'll buy those Charles Davids for the after-party....

Soooo....

I've been kinda distracted and haven't blogged much. I'm getting a little addicted to brides.com. So anyways, updates for venues and vendors:

Church: St. Thomas of Villanova
This is my parish church. For those who know, I put the cap on the number of priests allowed at the alter. I told my mom 3 was the max (in addition to our pastor) and one deacon. I didn't want to end up with like 15 priests up there!

Reception: Radnor Valley Country Club
The space works well for us since it has a nice lobby, which we'll be doing a receiving line in traditional dress. We're doing a 4 course meal, with soup, salad, entree and dessert.

Photographer: Faith West
She's a really nice lady, which is a quality I looked for in photographers. Being in countless weddings and dealing with border line mean photographers, I made it a point to find someone that had a nice demeanor. And plus her photos are amazing! I totally love the custom album and the coffee table magazine. The magazine album is so unique.

DJ: EBE Talent
They are also doing the lighting for the room and dance floor.

Besides that, everything else is still in limbo. Big ticket items left are my dress, flowers and cake.

I was thinking about this for the bridesmaids

I'm not a huge fan of the fabric, so they're being custom made, but using this style.

I have some ideas for my traditional dress, but the colors will be gold and red. Anthony will be in gold.

That's it for now!

The Bling and other stuff

So, here's the ring


















And for those who know me well enough, the prospect of wearing one ring all the time.... hmmm, yea. So now, all my other rings have to go on the right hand...

So, yay me, decided to do the announcement cards myself. We're sending them with the engagement gifts to those who couldn't make the party. Used the martha stewart line of papers. There are cheaper options out there though. Took me forever! It's three layers with vellum wrap and of course a pink bow!



Last but not least, part of the cleaning the night before the party. My doggie Sophie getting "cleaned"

Engagement is done, yay!

So, after days of not sleeping until 2 or 3am, we are finally through the engagement. I took Friday off of work to attempt to finish some last minute favor bags, the announcements and clean the house. The tables and chairs were delivered from Anthony's rentals. They were quite nice. Chairs better be for like $3.50 each! Anyways, we managed to squeeze five 60 inch rounds into the family room.

Here are a few glimpses from the engagement:

I like this picture except for my necklace is inside my dress. grrr.


















Here's mommy and me. The other thing is my bracelet on my right hand was turned in the whole time. That was kinda annoying too.

And, as my favorite auntie calls, here are the million dollar pictures. Don't mistake the smiles for smiles, hehe. It's actually me, my mom and my other auntie laughing. In my culture, there's no kneeling on one knee for the proposal, hence the laughing.














Anywho, will post the link for my favorite pictures soon, as there are lots and lots! Also, I'll post the new bling soon, as soon as I figure out the settings on my camera.

BTW: blogger sucks with the html editor thingie. It doesn't do as I want it. Don't have time to re-do my post in html right now, so I'll fix it later. For now, deal with the funky formatting.