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YAY! more 2012 brides!

So far I have booked the church and started gathering all of my invitation stuff. I'm DIYing my invites, so when I get coupons for Archiver's I get a thing or two (and saving a butt load of cash!).  We have looked at 3 reception locations as well.

Right now we are planning our engagement party which is in early August. I don't know how I'm going to wait so long!

On a side note, if one more person says to me "2012?! Well at least you have lots of time to plan!" one more time, I'm going to scream!

@ILuvDance17: Haha, I know how you feel, I swear, 2 years isn't a long time to plan considering some places fill up that far in advance!!! I just smile, nod, and think if you only knew how much work planning a wedding (especially with so many diy aspects) was you'd change your tune!!

We are planning our engagement party for 3 weeks from now :)

Got engagement pictures done.

We are going to visit some venues next week.

Oh, and we bought our wedding bands (had to take advantage of our "merry money" from JBR!!!)

Other than that...just bookmarking all the amazing ideas that other bees have had.

I'm getting so impatient waiting until 2012- ack! I have so many ideas buzzing around in my head about what I'd like to do. It gets a little hard sometimes, but I know it'll be worth it. :)

My master plan is to have the church decorated in white and ivory and the reception colors will be dark purple, gold, and ivory.  I want the BMs to wear dark purple dresses and carry white flowers.  I'm thinking about having all of the reception flowers be fall colors...haven't decided on that yet.

Yep! I danced for about 20 years. I danced at a studio for 18 years then danced on my college dance team for 2 years.  Since I just graduated I guess I'm a retired dancer!

We are planning a fall wedding with an outdoor ceremony and an indoor/perhaps tent reception.  We have narrowed down our venues to either rustic barns, wineries, or scenic overlooks.  We have not decided on our colors yet but I did buy my dress. Its monique lhuillier scarlet.  I didn't plan on buying the dress yet but since it is an older dress I didn't want to take the chance that it would be discontinued!

Any of you 2012 brides buy or try on dresses yet??

Bad lighting, and too big of dress, but you get the idea...this is the first time posting pictures of the dress ahhh such a weird feeling!!!!

I LOVE the back of the dress!! I want to go dress shopping, but I'm afraid I will get weird looks when they ask when the wedding is!

@ILuvDance17:Thank you!...umm...we are DATE TWINS!!!! I didn't really receive any dirty looks, after I explained that we are saving up for our wedding so that we can do it right (not that there is a wrong way to do a wedding), most people were really supportive.

hmm...Maybe I'll go dress shopping this summer then!

YAY for date twins!

@ILuvDance17: I think you should go try on some dresses...if for no other reason than to look around! It is so much fun!

Thank you! I love my dress too and haven't regretted getting it so early. My back is my favorite part but in person the front is much more beautiful because the lace is so pretty but on my crappy camera +bad lighting you can hardly tell. 

@lilyfaith:I love the dress! Does the sash come with it?

@kms31690: Thank you! I love your colors...we are having a really hard time picking colors because of the time of year.  To me, fall wedding screams warm colors but all the color combinations that I show my fiance, he turns down.  He wants blue.  I am having a hard time finding a way to incorporate blue that wasn't the blue velvet mess that was my aunt's wedding (I was the flower girl...ok so I was 5, those bridesmaids dresses still give me chills) or a light blue summery feel...

@RayRayFurious: We are having our engagement party next month too! It is kinda informal but I am still really excited to get the two families together!

Thank you guys again for the complements! I am so excited to get it in (not until November !!)

@lillyfaith: I love that dress and love the sash even more! I have one like that for my engagement party dress!

@mannellal: Blue could be pretty in the fall, very unexpected! Maybe a light blue with accents of fall colors?

I'm so excited!....I am meeting with a photographer on Monday to set up engagement pictures! I've known the photog for years, so I know he will be doing all of our pictures. We will be doing our engagement pictures this fall when its not so ungodly hot!

@ILuvDance17:Where did you get your engagement party dress? I am having a hard time finding something that is not too casual but not too formal.

I found mine at The Limited.  Its a straples black dress that hits at my knees and it has a white sash/belt with 4 white flowers in the center.  I can post a pic in a few minutes! I LOVE it!

Here is my engagement party dress!

(let's hope it works)

That is so cute and looks great on you!  Are you having your engagement party at a friend's , parent's, your house? Are you going to a restaurant? We are having ours at my mother's house.

Thank you! I love it!

We are having ours at the church where we will get married! Sounds strange, but the "undercroft" is all swanky.  We thought it'd be nice to introduce everybody to the place where we will get married!  An added bonus is the parish picnic is the same night as our party, so we will head over there as an after party!

Thats great! I never even thought of that! 

I know! My mom thought of doing it there.  Even better is, I don't have to prep the house for entertaining people!

You are so lucky! We have been putting so much work into the backyard.  We have a gorgeous backyard so I am really lucky but it is alot of upkeep.  Sorry lilyfaith for hyjacking your board!

I'm sure your party will be FABULOUS! Can I just admit...We are really hoping that somebody asks where we are registered.  We are dying to register and that would give us an excuse to do it!