*Sigh of relief

This may not be related to wedding planning directly, but I am sure glad that the Olympics are over. Since Ryan is American and I am Canadian, and I have enough Canadian pride for the whole nation, you can only imagine how strained the last two weeks have been... especially the lead up to the Gold hockey game this afternoon. Now instead of trash talking each others countries, we can go back to talking about what's important.. which look better on black, anemones or roses?


Though, I gotta say, gold does look better on red than blue. :p What? I just had to!

On going...

Last night as Mae and were discussing details about our upcoming wedding, she commented about how involved I am with the planning process. I guess in some way its inevitable as the wedding will be here in Jersey as opposed to Vancouver, so I can see alot of the venues and vendors up close etc. Conventional wisdom seems to say that the guy just usually steps back and lets the girl take the reigns of everything and he just goes yeah thats great whatever you want. For us its pretty important that it is what WE want.

Example: today while shopping I see a tie that may or may not be a good idea for our groomsmen. it has the right colors, etc. Take a pic, send it off to Mae, good call on the colors, but the pattern, not so much we both eventually come to conclude.

In Other News

As much as Mae has been on a search for her dress, I've been searching for something that would hopefully complement her well. I'm fairly certain I'm not going with an off the hanger tux rental, and have been doing homework of my own. A random outside favorite right now would be a suit from Band Of Outsiders:



BUT we'll see ;)

tbc

Say Yes to the Dress.

After months of taking clothes off and putting dresses on, 1000 terminology words learned and forgotten, and many many nightmares later, I have purchased my wedding dress.

It's true what they say, mothers cry, people stop talking and you feel like the most beautiful person in the whole world... but they didn't mention the need to lose half of your body weight as you look at yourself in the mirror.

As good as it feels to have something ticked off of the wedding to-do list, I am not looking forward to counting calories and eating those green little things. How much is liposuction anyways?

Just breathe.

Trina and I went to dinner/bubble tea to discuss wedding planning and to see what has to be done and when.


I think I'm going to hyperventilate soon. Did I even spell that right?

Maybe you can barf just a little bit now too..

Super super feelings mode, but I just have to say. Ryan has got to be one of the most supportive people I have ever met, I called him all sad today and he made me feel a billion jillion times better, and he even followed up with a few more messages that would make all you girls jealous. I'm so lucky to be marrying this guy.

The end.

If you're going to barf, barf now.

So, a lot of people have noticed that Ryan and I are pretty low key and laid back. Some people are a little skeptical about us and wonder if there is enough "passion" to last the rest of our lives. Actually, some people have even mentioned to me that they were really surprised to actually see us kiss in the engagement video! Really? Just because we choose to not be all over each other in public, you wonder if we really love each other? Uh.. and this rock on my finger and me moving away has absolutely nothing to do with love? Nothing? ...sometimes, there is no pleasing everybody.

I'm not doing this to prove anything to anybody, it's just a blog anyhow, so I'll just blog about Ryan and I and how these people are wrong (talk about not proving anything to anybody.. hahah..) I've never had a real best friend before, I've had best friends, but not that ONE that I can call whenever I want and that one that everybody identified as my best friend... that is until Ryan came along. I call him whenever I need to talk to someone, and he's the first person I think of when I have a problem. He's the one I laugh with and joke with and be a real kid with. I'm mean and sarcastic, and so is he. That's what I call love, I can laugh and play with him but at the same time I want to be romantic with him. That's just how it is.. and that's how it'll always be. It is what it is, we're just simply in love. Period.

And you know what? I can't wait to be old and wrinkled, but still slowly walk down the street and holding Ryan's hand. YEAH.


Oh yeah, for those people who are skeptical. NOT INVITED. :)

Do Work. x2

Just to add to Ryan's post below, I do have to say that being in a LDR doesn't help with wedding planning, but we figure out ways to be able to communicate as much as we can despite the distance. For all those couples out there (LDR's) who haven't discovered Skype yet, YOU HAVE TO. Being able to see and talk to the other person makes the distance a little easier to bear. Plus, it lets me see when Ryan pretends to think my ideas are good, but really he's rolling his eyes and pretending to shoot himself in the head..

Blackberries. I don't care about all you iphone lovers out there, I think this is the best invention ever made. My phone bills used to cost an airplane ticket to Jersey, but now it's more normal. Ryan and I message all day every day (literally), and it doesn't cost me an arm, a leg and all of the food that I eat in a whole month. If you don't have one, get on it!

Anyway, that's all I wanted to add to what he had said, as for wedding planning... I may have one item on the list crossed off fairly soon..

Do Work.

So while I'm snowed in for the day, I thought I'd say some thoughts on our wedding planning BESIDES the guest list. Since Mae and I are in a LDR, we're both around computers and the like alot. We can't really just meet for coffee to go over wedding stuff all the time, so obviously we'd be using them to help with our wedding planning.

Normally, I use an Imac when I'm at home, but here is the set up I have at my parents house:


Its not the most elegant, or cleanest set up, but it works.

Powerbook G4 with another 23" Apple Cinema Display: Having a big display helps alot, especially when you are looking at multiple websites, have alot of windows open, running programs etc.

Webcam: Mae just recently got a netbook herself and we've only now discovered the joys of skype. Late passsss! But its great because we can discuss things and send each other links for each other to check out and get feed back right away.

Google Wave: Wow. When I first got the invite for this, its usefulness was questionable, but now we use it to collect information and ideas we've been throwing around. For example, if an idea or a website looks really cool to one of us, we can send the link and or pictures to google wave to go along with all our other wedding stuff. (Google Wave is pictured on the larger screen above)

Gmail/Google Docs, etc: Google in general has been good for us, Gmail obviously for chat/communication, and Google docs so we can have access to documents and can alter them on the fly. I've been keeping my guest list on google docs so I can open it when necessary, make adjustments etc..

Blackberry: This thing has been around world and back, kicked, dropped, slapped, etc. And it still keeps working, and still gets me messages when I need them. Mae and I both have blackberry and use PIN, push email, and whatever else extensively on them.

HP C3100 Printer(Not pictured): This combo printer is good for printing out docs, pics, scan in pictures when we want to share something.

"So, how is wedding planning coming along?"

Stop asking me that!

"Am I invited to your wedding?"

^uhmmmmmmmmmm