Sneak Peek

Well, it's official!

I am now Mrs. Alfreds!!! Yippee!!!

I didn't want to post snapshots, I'd rather wait for the professional photos, but that seems to be taking an eternity to happen! Not to mention that due to Fay, we are having to do Day After shots for the outdoor pictures. Maybe we will have those by Christmas!!!

So...I thought I would post some sneak peeks here to at least update the blog!

This is a shot from our "after rehearsal dinner" (there was no formal rehearsal- who needed one for no wedding party???) given by Matt's parents at Wynlakes. It was beautiful and the food (what little I could eat) was FAB. I was so incredibly NERVOUS because HE was nervous! Otherwise, it would have been a cakewalk!! MR. Big and Carrie didn't do me any favors either- Rhea told me not to go see that movie and I went anyway!

Notice the pearls...I had purchased what I had been told was an authentic pair of 60 inch baroque pearls from ebay for $30!!! The guy at the jewelry store told me they were real freshwater pearls. Which meant they had ridges in them- not ideal but for $30 who could beat it??? I was SO proud.

WELL...my surprisingly romantic fiance who KNEW what I was doing when I purchased what I lovingly referred to as my "Ebay pearls" takes me aside at the dinner and CUTS THEM OFF OF ME with a butcher knife from the kitchen!!! OMG!!! Freaked out! He immediately replaces them with a pair of the most BEE-U-TEE-FUL pair of smooth 60 inch pearls from Cronier's- not ebay!!! What a guy! He has never purchased ANY jewelry for me in the 5 years we have been together (until my ring) KNOWING full well how much I LOVE IT!

Sweet huh? Needless to say, most of my nerves vanished at that point. I mean, would someone that wasn't going to show up at the church do something like that???

Here is a shot of the inside of Children's Harbor Chapel (no outside shots obviously due to the torrential rain-trees were falling). Jackie Gaut from Dana's Floral Design is FABULOUS! Highly recommend her for ANYTHING you need! So creative and such a joy to work with!

Close up of the wreaths (a little fuzzy):

And this is my bouquet:

Best part is...it will look JUST LIKE THIS FOREVER! (another fuzzy)...Which comes in very handy now that I have to redo pictures!!!

On to the Reception...

This is my table of "signature" drinks, Yummy Pomegranate Martinis (thanks for the introduction, Jennifer) :

I must add that the flowers above were from the Rehearsal Dinner and were provided by Al of Al's in Cloverdale. Thanks Rhea!

Up next...YUMMY cakes from Peggy McKinney of McKinney Cakes:

The bride's cake was a recreation of the design on my Swoozies reception invitation.
Didn't she do a great job? And it was OH SO GOOD!

Matt's Cake:

The top layer was his favorite yellow cake and the bottom was the crowd pleaser McKinney peanut butter fudge!!!

Here are the John Bonham replica drums that were on his table:

And finally, the basketball game that I purchased so that the guys would have something fun to do- it was a hit, lines waiting to shoot all night!:

They could also play corn-hole (?), a.k.a. tailgate toss with Matt's new Colt's wooden game and poker if they wanted.

There were also many GREAT photos taken in the make a memory polaroid section:

Anyway...until I get better shots, this is it!!!

Next up...HONEYMOON!

Uno, dos, tres!!

Hola Amigos!

3 days to go!!!(was that all Spanish up there or a mix of Spanish and French? I took both and tend to mix them since I never mastered either)

Can you believe it?

I can hardly contain myself!

THREE days until I am Mrs. Matt Alfreds!

Woo wee!

ABOUT LAST WEEKEND...

Went to Birmingham this past weekend...

this is how it ended:

Poor Whitney! I sabotaged my own weekend! The five of us took 1 car to Bham. Before we got ready to go out, I decided it would be best to go ahead and blow up my air mattress. It, of course, would not blow up in the room, so I had to go to the car and use the car adapter. WELL, I took Whitney's keys while she was in the shower, ran to the car with Robyn, and attempted to move the car closer to the hotel- so they would not see me blowing up the mattress since we said there would be 4 guests rather than 5! I stuck the key in the ignition, nothing. Tried and tried.

Uh oh, wrong key- it was Whitney's hubby's DODGE key! So, simple enough, I put Whitney's Trailblazer key in...NOTHING! Many attempts later, we read the manual. GUESS WHAT? There was a security function that DISABLES the fuel system if the wrong key is inserted or the ignition is "tampered" with! YES... I single-handedly disabled Whitney's fuel system. Which was SUPPOSED to reset itself after 10 minutes. TWO hours later, locksmith arrives. He is so young that he can't even grow facial hair! He "looks" at the car, proceeds to read the exact section of the manual to us that we have read NUMEROUS times. I let him know we managed to read it ourselves, prior to calling for help. GOH! SO, 2 more hours later we settle for a tow and a cabbie named Bruce! Such a nice guy! We missed dinner at Twenty-six, settled for the hotel bar...

THEN... we went to the Rare Martini courtesy of Mr. Bruce and had a BLAST!

What is it with me and THE BAND????

Whitney's car wasn't towed until Sunday morning-we caught a ride with a couple we knew that just happened to be celebrating their anniversary and had a Tahoe...7 sets of luggage, seven adults, lots of Summit loot and we are on our way home!!!

WOW! I need a vaca- fo sure!

Can't wait to see my peeps Saturday!!!

Tie My Shoes

DONE!...

I think!

I picked up the shoes and after a 4th trip to Penolia's to have some minor corrective dying they are ready to wear! I hope...depends on what they look like when I get to my car to see how they dried! Here is a sneak peek:

Long time, no post

Such a delay in posts. All I can say is it has been quite busy around here!

WEDDING UPDATE

The tie dilemma has been resolved. Matt took it upon himself to find one! He got it at The Locker Room- he could not have been more pleased with himself. And I must say, it is absolutely perfect! I made him take a picture of the flowers with him- that did NOT please him, but he actually took it in there once he knew they had a fuschia tie! So proud of him!

By the way, it takes JUST AS MUCH planning to do a small wedding as it does a big one. Not as easy as it looks! I will say I have been pretty successful in cutting out the stress thus far. Ask me again in September how it went in the end!

Anyone know how to lose 10 punds in a month? I SWEAR I could do it in college-what in the world is the problem?!?!

Below are the flowers that the floral designer is using for the wreaths. I will carry a lot of the same but with more fuschia and less orange.


ACTIVITY UPDATE
I just returned from a nice relaxing and fun trip to the beach with a couple of girlfriends. Lots of food, a little sun and great times~ thanks girls!!!
I will post a picture or 2 later- but not all of them!!!
Matt is currently learning a lot at a Continuing Legal Education Seminar at Harvard that they go to every year. Gives me LOTS of time to do wedding stuff...and watch all of the movies he won't! I am going to see Mama Mia with Cousin Megan tonight- can't wait!
He goes to VEGAS next week- someone had better find me something to do!

BABIES
If anyone would like to, Wendy is taking bets ($500) on our first child's arrival. She said things will be in the works this time next year- I took that bet and I will win! Matt's response was that Wendy better be ready to pay up- not respectable to not pay a bet you lose!!! OH- forgot the best part- he said he was taking bets for $1000 that I would be trying to have the conversation with him before this time next year- HA!

What else?
I have errands to run...more later!!!

Tie Options

Ok- Kristen said go with the $3.75 tie- I tend to agree, but I could never tell Matt it was $3.75. I bought a tie online the other night (see above) but it isn't solid and isn't as formal as a solid but the dots are so small it may still look solid. First thing Matt says is "What brand is it?". A discussion about snobbery and my willingness to wear Target clothes ensues! He says it's about quality. Guess what- it's one night, he will never have to wear it again...but what do I know?

All Tied Up

Ok- Iam not a good blogger!

I have NO extra time right now and what extra time I have is spent chasing down wedding details. That being said, I need HELP!

I have a very resourceful friend helping me look right now but we are having an awful time trying to find a solid raspberry/fuschia colored silk tie. NOT hot pink- more purpley than that. Here is a link (the raspberry) to something in that color:
http://www.solidcolorneckties.com/index.cfm/fa/subcategories.main/parentcat/9346/subcatid/31208

I would love to find a good quality tie in this color, but don't think I won't try the $3.75 raspberry tie as a last resort!!!

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
THANKS!

Kudos

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