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.

Impatiently waiting...

Our monogram from Pink Design, is going to be so awesome on our invitations. If you need a monogram, contact Nicole now, you won't regret it!

Also awesome, will be our pocketfolds from Cards and Pockets.

I have even received the damask stamp I want to try to use for embossing from Impress.

So, why then, can I not show you my first attempt at an invitation? I still have no heat gun for the embossing! It was ordered on Monday by my lovely bridesmaid Audra as a Christmas present, but still has not arrived. I am not a patient person, and my paper is one of the elements I am most excited about (being beaten, of course, only by my awesome photographer Clary and my awesome planner Stephanie). Come on postal service, I am tired of making my friends invitations, hurry up!

My bridesmaids

I have been in two weddings. While I am sure there is photographic evidence of the first, my aunt's wedding sometime in the late-ish 90's, it will never be seen here. The second, my sister Audra's, was in 2006. My sister Kristi, my maid of honor, is to the immediate left of the bride (although half her face is being overtaken by the bride's veil).

My third bridesmaid is my best friend Alyssa. We met randomly at a lunch on a scholarship interview day when we were sitting at the same table. We both received the scholarship and have lived near or together 3 of the last 4 years as well as been in several classes since we are both super awesome business majors. We also serve on the executive board of a student org together. That being said, I just tried to think of any pictures we have together and if we have taken any, I don't have them. Lys, we must remedy that, at the very least, at graduation!

To all three of my girls, I love you!

Winter Break

As of 3:30 today, I officially have 3 accounting and finance free weeks! My first attempt at working on an invitation design will probably occur in the next week, as all materials for this project are currently on their way to me. I will be attempting an invitation à la Wedding Bee's Miss Fondue.

This doesn't mean I am going to keep blogging :)

1. Started your own blog - have I really done this? jury is still out

2. Slept under the stars -

3. Played in a band - i played clarinet through middle school

4. Visited Hawaii - no, but it's on the potential honeymoon list

5. Watched a meteor shower -

6. Given more than you can afford to charity -

7. Been to Disneyland - twice

8. Climbed a mountain - a small one

9. Held a praying mantis - no way, bugs are gross

10. Sang a solo -

11. Bungee jumped - terr.i.fied. of heights, just like stephanie

12. Visited Paris - i will before Doug gets any kids

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea -

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch - does graphic design count?

15. Adopted a child -

16. Had food poisoning - yes

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty -

18. Grown your own vegetables -

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France - again, with the no kids thing

20. Slept on an overnight train -

21. Had a pillow fight -

22. Hitch hiked -

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill - daily thought.

24. Built a snow fort -

25. Held a lamb - i do have a stuffed lamb?

26. Gone skinny dipping

27. Run a Marathon - I think about taking up running everyday, but never have

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice - Venice is on the list, not sure about a gondola

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run -

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person -

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors - this list is getting long

35. Seen an Amish community - driven through one only

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the leaning Tower of Pisa in person - the list, again

39. Gone rock climbing -

40. Seen Michelangelo’s David - another thing to add

41. Sung karaoke -

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant -

44. Visited Africa - not interested, Doug might want to go to Egypt, does that count?

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight - in Hawaii, when I get there

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted -

48. Gone deep sea fishing - don't like fish

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person - I want to go to the Vatican more than Paris (sometimes)

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen -

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma - needles and I don't get along, plus I have low iron

65. Gone sky diving - no way

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar - yuck

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican - I am not Catholic, but have an obsession with going there, is that weird?

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year's Eve

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury -

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person - It's pretty disappointing

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee