Getting Back to It. Flowers!

I Have not really spoken much about the flowers in my wedding. In recognition of one of my favorite flower sneding holidays I decided to post a few of my inspirations.
The name of the flower shop is Bailey's Flowers.

Left and Right are my bouquet inspirations, I'm going with fall colors, black roses, leaves, berries, red, and orange. The one in the center is what the flower will look like for the groomsmen.

There will be a few festive centerpieces on the tables at my wedding. I am bringing in Halloween trees and will also have some table lanterns. The florist shop is creating arrangements that look like these photos with cirly willow and flowers strewn in. The purple flower on the right is a Hydrengra bunch. Mine will either be purple like this or a redish color. There will be some in my bouquet and it is what the bridesmaids will be holding.

The flower girl at my wedding will have a small purple bucket with fall leaves and red rose petals. She will be so cute!

Everything is Set

Just an update to let everyone know that the wedding date has officially been changed to Sunday November 9th. Everyone is re-booked and when it comes to it I will mail out invitations. I'm planning to mail them out a lot sooner than needed because I want to give everyone a chance to respond.
This kinda stresses me out now because who can I find to do my hair and makeup on a Sunday? Yikes! All of the places I would have used are closed and to do an at home thing would be way to much money. I have a few friends who may be able to help me but it looks like my tattoos are going to have to show, (sorry Sandy) I won't get the hairstyle I wanted and well we will find out about the make up later.
The Facility will only let us do the rehearsal on Monday through Thursday nights so some of my or Tony's family may not even be able to attend depending on their work schedules. Hopefully it will all fall into place.
Tony still wants all of our stuff to have October 31st written on it because that was our chosen day but what can we do? It would be silly to lie to ourselves. Maybe we will simply celebrate on our original anniversary date of November 2nd. November 9th means nothing to us. It was just a day that happened to be open.
To all our friends who are religious and have to attend church on Sunday we completely understand if you do not show or if you only show for the reception just let us know a head of time so we can plan for it. (That is after you get an invitation)
To any out of towners if you take the weekend off there is at least a lot of fun things to do in Fort Worth and Arlington. I don't know where I will be depending on the baby status but if nothing else I can direct you to fun places.
The doctor told me that I will have to have the baby by Halloween so Hopefully I will have him or her before then and be better active when family and friends arrive. Wish for the best!

On other news we have picked out baby themes and colors so it needs to hurry up and be time to know if it is a boy or girl!

Sniffle! (a long one)

As everyone who reads this should already know I have discovered that I am eight weeks pregnant. My due date is the week before my wedding. Not everyone was supposed to find out until I knew for sure I would carry but the cat is long out of the bag.

As most of my friends also know I have been beyond upset the last few days because within the week that I found out Tony and I were finally having a baby I got more crap from those who love me than I ever have in my life. I have not yet even gotten the chance to be happy about the baby.
Some people voiced their opinions on my Halloween wedding, some people voiced their opinion about my baby out of wedlock, others told me that I need to bump up or push back my date, most treated me like a child who is completely incapable of making a decision on her own. Not a single one asked me how Tony felt in all this. Thanks everyone I really needed that the first week I found out that I was having a baby and that I was possibly going to miscarry again. If I was 16 and only knew Tony for a month I could understand the crap I have been getting but I'm 22 and we have been together for what will be 5 years by the time we get married.
To everyone who kept their moth shut for a little longer thanks for at least waiting until I stopped bleeding and had a chance to calm down to talk to me about things. Which I should add was Monday. I bled for over a week.
What no one gave me was the chance to explain that I had already checked into things I already checked into the availability of the chapel, and most everyone else. The facility was booked every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in November except for Friday the week of and before Thanksgiving. None of the vendors will work the day after Thanksgiving and honestly who wants to come to a wedding then? I cant even take off work that day! Two of them were busy the week before. Also eveyone kept telling me about the stress the wedding was going to put on me and that I did not know what I was getting into. No one stopped to hear me about already having everything booked and taken care of. No one took into consideration that I plan weddings, this was not exactly my first one. Oh and lets not forget how fat I will be by then.
Yesterday after consulting with my obgyn I was told that based on my sonogram they expect me to be at least a week early however if I am late they will HAVE to make me have the baby by Halloween, no later because it would be unhealthy for me.
The facility also let me know that the first two Sundays in November opened up. The 2nd and the 9th. Now I am just waiting to hear back from the vendors.

Our choice for the day is the 9th as long as all the vendors are good with it also. We still plan to have a Halloween wedding which I am sure will make so many in my family happy however, we have already spent soooooooo much on the decorations and all that it will be dumb to change it.
On that note I don't understand why Halloween is such a horrifying date to get married on or why a Halloween theme is so bad. It is actually a date and theme that is perfectly common. I never said that we would be hanging from hooks in our backs while reading our vows or that everyone should come in a Halloween costume. We love Halloween. We also love the fact that the first time we met was close to Halloween and that when we started dating was close to Halloween a year later. We like that my birthday and our anniversary of November 2nd was just before and after Halloween. We like that Halloween is the day of rebirth and new beginnings and thought that would be a perfect way to start our lives. We also liked that Halloween is a day to honor those who are no longer with us because in the last few years Tony and I have lost several people who we loved dearly. Whatever childish morbid things people think of us because of it is simply based off a fantasy.
Tony and I are not children. We know how to think for ourselves and we know what works for us.

About the baby. There is still a chance that I will miscarry although the doctor said that he thinks it will be ok. Tony is hoping for a boy as most do. I am simply hoping for healthy and a girl would not be bad either.

If I have offended anyone I am sorry but trust me it does not equal up to the grief Tony and I have felt in this last week. To everyone who supported me and kept my head up, Thanks I really needed it. Even those faceless people who tried to chear me up while I was an uncontrollable mess at work. I am deeply embarassed but was completely out of control. To everyone who gave me crap I know you love me I love you too, I just wish you would stop looking at me as a child.

Kisses! Wish us luck!

Update!

We met with a new cake lady today. Her name is Erika and she runs a company called Confections in Cake. She had us taste and drew up a diagram of what our cake could look like. She was much much better than the other crazy lady. She, however, is using fondant to cover the cake but it is ok because she makes her own, let us taste it and got a go from me. I still dont like the texture. Tony liked it so i'm happy.

Dog Gone Demolition

Don't let those sad eyes fool you! She is a plotter.

Sooo... I was talking to Tony the other day about wanting to replace the windows in our home next year because they are a bit drafty and well I guess our beloved baby girl dog wanted to help us out...

I was standing outside talking to a neighbor about flowers when I hear a noise. I look around to the front of my house and see that miss Maxie-Pad decided to put her big head through an open window, causing the screen to fall half out of it's secured position. I walk to her as she is reaching for footing in the flower bed and say "Really? Was that necessary?" She wags her tail in response.

I walk back into the house where she happily greets me at the door. I can't spank her cause she doesn't realize what she did wrong and she is just so happy that whatever she did got me back into the house. I drop down on one knee and say "Who do you expect to pay to fix that?" She places a paw on my shoulder and licks me in the face.

Guess she hates the drafty window too.