Invitations, Flowers, and Cakes....

For Spring Break, Chad and I went home to Marietta for a marathon of wedding planning. My mom has been wonderful through this whole engagement (I think she's having more fun than me...if that's possible?!) - she's helped in so many ways, considering the fact that Chad and I are 8+ hours away from home and trying to plan a nice wedding. This Spring Break was a wonderful time to see our family, but not much was spent relaxing. From the very beginning we had meeting after meeting after meeting...

On Tuesday we met with our Cake Baker, Jennifer, and picked out the wedding cake and Groom's Cake. Jennifer is from New Orleans, so we instantly hit it off with her. We love her and are so excited about the cakes. Not only do they taste fabulous, they are beautiful!!! Following our meeting with Jennifer, we met with the florist to finalize table decorations for the reception and the floral decorations for the Church. Poor Chad, I know his eyes were rolling in the back of his head by the end our meeting. I was even tired of talking about flowers (you know, me and my short attention span). Thankfully, we got all of that finalized and I am so excited about everything.

Wednesday, we met with Jim, my pastor, and talked about the wedding ceremony. It is going to be such a sweet time to have him as part of our ceremony. He's been my pastor since I was in the 4th grade. On Thursday we met with one of my best friends - Mandy. She will be the pianist in our wedding. I was in Mandy's wedding and our day just wouldn't be complete without her there. She is amazing! Thursday we finalized all of our music selections and talked about the order of worship for the service. Of course, this was the most fun for me. :)

All week long we worked on the invitations. Whew! I hand addressed all of them and then Chad and my Mom helped me stamp and stuff all of the invitations. Fun! Fun! I'm sure Chad is so glad to be done with all of that. So, that was our week. Full of fun wedding stuff. I feel relieved and now can move on to another list of things that need to be done before June 13. We have our first wedding shower in Bruce this weekend and Chad will be ordained into the ministry, as well. This will be a special time for our families and we're looking forward to it. (Pictures to come).

Hope all is well...Love to each of you -

Kelly and Chad

(Our invitations)