Dress #1 Fail

Text message to my planner at 2:47 pm today:
Zipper on dress broke had to cut me out new one being ordered karma owes me a damn good wedding

This is the best pic I have of the offending zipper.

I knew there was a reason I ordered early, plenty of time for a replacement dress with a working zipper

The good news: I ::love:: the dress. It looks even better in ivory than the white one I tried on. Now we only need to get one with a functional zipper.

Wedding Hair

I am impatiently growing my always shoulder length hair out so that I can have my hair just like this on wedding day. Except no veil. Whether or not I make it remains to be seen. Going to see my dress for the first time tomorrow!

Photos by Jessica Strickland

I'm in love

With a ceremony location. In case you haven't gotten the message from my recent posts, I have had a terrible time locating a ceremony church. My home church would be a 35-40 minute drive from our reception location, so I wanted to find something closer. In the past two months, I think I may have talked to 70-80% of the United Methodist Churches within 15 miles of our reception site. All, for one reason or another, have been crossed off the list. I was thisclose to giving up and making guests drive, when I discovered Bothwell Chapel on the campus of McKendree University. It is affordable, adorable, historical, and we can have the pastor from my home church marry us! Also, with all the curtains on the windows open (they aren't in the picture below) the light will be perfect for Clary!

I'm really trying not to get too excited because it can't be booked until a year before, but Stephanie and I are hoping to do whatever we can to beat anyone else to it.The one issue is that there is no center aisle, but we can deal with that for an almost perfect location, right?

Pictures taken by me on this beautiful, warm day. I knew it was going to be good when I switched over to my new Spring purse last night. Thanks American Eagle for providing a little sunshine in my recently gloomy life!

My dress will be in tomorrow

and I still have yet to determine a ceremony location!

Everything is either ugly, booked, doesn't marry non-members, or wants $1,600! My home church is too far away from our reception location.

Going to look at another option tomorrow, but I'm beginning to feel hopeless.

I have an awesome photographer and videographer, but no place yet to actually get married! So frustrated...

I need help

or a personal shopper, or something.

I went today to get some more clothes for work, since the 'I'm a student who always wears jeans and a hoodie' look won't work at my internship and I would have to start repeating clothes way too soon without acquiring some more. I spent at least 4 hours at the mall and various other stores and ended up with one pair of pants. One. And I can't even wear them because I have no brown shoes. And I think I may also be without any tops to go with them, but I'm not sure because I have, for some reason, no idea what goes with brown pants.

Dillards had a ton of stuff 50-75% off, and I still got nothing. Except 4 t-shirts, a hoodie, and coat all for Doug! I tried on at least 6+ shirts and 10+ pairs of pants in Dillards alone. I did find about 5 suits that I really liked, but my office is definitely too business casual for any of them. Is it weird that I kind of hope to get a suit-wearing job so I don't have to deal with this ever?

Is it possible that I am just not a business casual girl, that I can only comfortably live within the casual and suit realms?

Shopping advice, I need it. Or someone to just take my credit card and deal with this for me.

Looks like I might like him, huh?

This was at his cousin's wedding last June, just posted by his father (don't know how I feel about Dad's on fb, btw).

Trisha, I promise you are next, I've got to make sure I can give your pics the attention which they deserve and I most definitely don't have, as I am now facing what is quite possibly my longest to-do list eva.

Finally got the camera battery

and now I have no time to use my camera! (and I really should be doing homework and not posting)

If a reception location has been difficult to work with but has great natural light, is it worth it to deal with them?

I have full faith that Clary can get beautiful pictures like this one regardless of the light situation...

but shouldn't I do whatever I can to help her?

So, should I book with the frustrating "keepers of the good light," as I have affectionately nicknamed them?

sweet pics are coming

... as soon as I make it over to Creve Coeur Camera for a new battery.