Centerpiece Ideas.

Who doesn't love centerpieces! Some say they can set the mood for your reception. Bryan and I agree on some level we want them to be fun, but we want them to resemble us in some way as well! I absolutely love the tall candles, tealights, and tall and short vases with some lilies! Also, I have seen some underwater flowers (idea given to me by my friend, Emily, who is getting married this June) with some floating candles on top. And, I really like the little charms to put around the vases to honor Bryan and I's grandparents we never had a chance to meet in our lifetime (we each only have one grandmother living). For table numbers, I saw this idea on another wedding done, perhaps on Snippet and Ink's blog. The table numbers were done in important years of the Bride and Groom (born, important events in their lifetime), both parents' anniversaries (big milestones), grandparents' anniversaries (25th, 50th, so on), and even when the Bride and Groom's 25, 50, and 75th anniversaries would be. I think it would be a great way to honor us and our families. Plus, it's fun! Or, we can name each table after a favorite place or event we have been together since we both love to travel and listen to all kinds of music!

One might ask the reason for our planning so early. We have both been given the advice of starting early with wedding planning. It gives you time to look out for great sales and ideas while you are at it. Plus, with my classes (loving them by the way!), both of our jobs, and other events taking place in our lives, we both keep pretty busy! I do recommend all Brides to give themselves some time to plan a wedding after getting engaged...it makes it more fun and less stressful (although in the beginning it always seems overwhelming).

P.S. I am going to my first Monster Truck event in KC this weekend. It should be very interesting, and I am really excited! Wish me luck that I leave with the same percent of hearing I entered with...basically, I hope I don't go deaf! Haha. Have a great weekend! Love.

They Said Yes...

Having a passion for graphic design, I came up with the idea a few months back to design postcards to ask my best gals to be in our wedding. I posted the design I sent them, each one with a personalized message of what they mean to me and asking them to be a bridesmaid/maid of honor! And, they all received the postcards a week ago and said YES!

My Lovely Gals Are (starting from who I have known the longest)...

Maid of Honor: Jessica Fazio
Bridesmaid: Bansi Shah
Bridesmaid: Beth Lindsey
Bridesmaid: Brandi Lindsey
Bridesmaid: Martha Leahy
Bridesmaid: Susie Phillips
Bridesmaid: Kari Sherman

I am so excited for these ladies to be a part of our wedding day! I wish I could have asked more of my best gals, but unfortunately, my mother thought I needed to cap it off somewhere. And, I guess twelve was not an ok cap. So, Bryan or shall I say, Cute Fiance, and I came to the number seven. Apparently, in both Catholics and Jains, seven is an auspicious number, and since everything in the Indian culture is done with good fortune, we are in good shape! I can't wait!!! It's surreal to think I am helping to plan this wedding, and less than 18 months from now, I will be getting married. I guess it will start to really feel real when the bridal showers, bachelorette party, and apartment hunting with Cute Fiance begins...all of which I am ecstatic for!

Nothing new other than staying busy with school, which is going great, so far! Kansas City is supposed to be getting some gorgeous weather the remainder of the week, so I plan on enjoying some of it outside! Maybe, I can start running outdoors again! Next post to come are centerpiece ideas. Very fun!

Love.

Future Glimpse Part II.

I might be a blogging queen this week b/c I have come across a lot I want to share. But, I will spread it out over the week! Earlier Tuesday, I had put pictures up of an Indian-American wedding I had seen on The Bride Cafe's blog. She happen to place more photos of their wedding I had to share! And, through their photos, I found out they did an American ceremony (like we are doing) as well! He even changed into a tux like "Cute Fiance" wants to, and she remained in her Indian outfit like I want to! How great to see that all of this is possible! I really loved the picture of her mom shedding some tears. I know how emotional I am, but where the heck do you think I get my emotions aka tearing up ALL the time from...BOTH of my parents. I can't imagine how much they will be crying that day as I will (but I know it will all be happy tears!). I just hope "Cute Fiance" (I love it) is not overwhelmed with the emotions my family and I will have! Haha. I cannot wait to see how our pictures turn out. Indian weddings are filled with rich, bold colors, which end always in beautiful photographs! And, I shall mention, we have finalized our wedding colors to pink and green (like originally planned) with a hint of orange! I think they will look gorgeous! I can only imagine the bridesmaids and my bouquet with those colors. Enjoy the pictures! I'm sure another post will be coming very soon. Love.

Something To Dream About.

My oh my! I sure have been quite the blogger in the past two days. I cannot help it. I'm finding wonderful blogs and ideas I want to share. You might remember the blog I posted yesterday of the Virginia wedding that would have been probably the kind of wedding Bryan and I pictured! Well, I came across Laurel Denise's blog today while eating lunch and absolutely love, love her work. She is a Virginia born gal who now lives in NYC as a jewlery and graphics designer! Talk about one of this girl's (me) dreams. How awesome would that be? It will happen one day...I'm just in the process of figuring out how and when. I should master one profession at at time. Haha. First of all, her wedding in VA was beautiful and makes me want to live there apart from CO. She had her bridal shower there...you have to see these pictures. What a cute, cute shower! Second of all, to be a designer in NYC working at Bryant Park and other places around the city is awesome! She has a really cute personality it seems and it shows in her work. And, I love how she refers to her fiance and now husband as "Cute Husband." Maybe I should start referring to Bryan as "Cute Fiance." Within her blog, I came across more designer blogs for wedding and other uses. I added them to my list of "Blogs I Am Lovin'."

From Decor8, I came across another Indian gal marrying a man from the islands. They're wedding must have been breathtaking from the colors and scenery as the pictures below show. Love.

Future Glimpse.

I was reading The Bride's Cafe blog, and I just had to blog about this! You would not believe what I came across...a wedding that will happen almost similar to Bryan and I's wedding! The photographer for their wedding, David Abel, was AMAZING, and you all can see just how rich the colors in Indian weddings are. For someone who wants an Indian white based dress more than a red based dress, her wedding dress was BEAUTIFUL and her bouquet is about the same colors I want for my bouquet! (For those of you who do not know, in the Indian custom, red is the traditional wedding dress color as opposed to white.) Wait until you see some of these pictures. All I can say is wow! Check these pictures out! More to come on flower bouquets I came across. Love.

Dream Wedding...

I just spent some time (taking a small break from looking at a geotech report..sounds fun, right?) looking on one of my favorite blogs, Snippet and Ink. I came across this wedding that was on an estate in Virginia...talk about the dream wedding Bryan and I wish we could have, but with traditions, it could not happen. However, I can dream through some of the pictures from it that I absolutely loved:

How CUTE!!! I love how fun the food was, the cake was beautiful, the scenery was gorgeous, the favors were caramel apples, and everything that could have been printed was cross-stitched by the bride with some help of course! How fun!!! And, what a CUTE couple! This would be exactly the kind of wedding we would have envisioned...maybe when we renew our vows we could do something like this! Also, I took a sneak peek at my other favorite blog, The Bride's Cafe. I found some awesome shoes that maybe I can hope to find to wear on my wedding day. It is a combination of the fun style I like to wear with a hint of Indian mixed. They are by L.A.M.B. Check them out. Love.

My Second Love Part II.

First of all, what a weekend. School really has been keeping me busy! But, I am learning how to stretch my work out over the course of the week rather than compiling it all in two days! Haha. So, the majority of my weekend was spent studying. We did visit Lawrence Friday night to see the older XO girls, which was a BLAST! What a fun town. And, yesterday we went to a friend's house to watch the Superbowl. What a CLOSE game...I would have loved to see the underdog team win, but what can you do?! It was a good game on both teams part. Busy, but great weekend overall!

Not much has been going on lately in the wedding planning department. Until my parents have found a few ceremony/reception sites they want narrowed down, we won't be able to do much. Although, my dad put Bryan and I incharge of investigating cake and transportation prices. Bryan found a great company, which has a party bus to hold either our wedding party+us or our wedding party+their dates+us. We're not sure what we want to do on that yet. It would be great to have their dates come with us, but it comes down to how much we can spend on transportation. I don't think we will worry about that until we have to start booking the party bus! But, I am excited they have party buses to hold either sceniro.

As far as bakeries, we found a great bakery (after about 20 phone calls between the two of us), Wedding Wonderland, which will do it for a reasonable price. We figure of the 250 guests, about 200 would eat cake, since we will have other deserts available as well. Bryan and I finalized what design we are wanting...I posted it on a earlier post. The picture is below; simple, elegant, and probably will taste a lot better without the fondant frosting-my take: if we are spending money on cake, and we might be left with the leftovers, why not choose something that will taste wonderful! The bakery will charge $1.55/serving, 4-tiered cake, each tier can be a different flavor (ex. chocolate, strawberry, white, etc.), and with delivery/set-up, the cost will come out to be around $450 max. How awesome?! We read on the Knot some reviews of past and current brides using this bakery, and how much they loved it!

Love.