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Yea, it's crazy how quick it's going, especially since we're overhauling some of our planning right now. I just wasn't happy with our menu choices and couldn't pick a cake for the life of me!

Oh lord have mercy I'm SO excited!!!! I feel like things are slow for us because what's that? Oh yeah. Still no ring. Grrrrr HA! We find out today if he got the job so keep your fingers crossed because that means I get a ring!!!!!! :D On a planning note, we are booking our caterer next week so that's pretty much the last "big" thing off the list. Now it's time for the billions of little things....

I can't believe how quickly this time is going by!!!!!

@nurselindsey I love all the fondant cake pictures, but my FI hates fondant and I've never found another person's fondant to be enjoyable (weird, I know, but they all taste different than mine and I don't like it). So, buttercream is our only choice, but now I'm not even sure I want a cake...maybe cupcakes...or pie...or who knows what! Also, congrats to your FI for getting a great job. I actually just got a possible job offer yesterday out of the blue for a place I didn't think I could get a job at. Hopefully I'll know by the end of the week.

[Edit] I posted my To Do list in a different topic on the boards, but mostly I'm hoping to get the dessert and menu figured out, renew my passport (NWR), make a mock-up bouquet, book our photographer, price out our (new) menu and work on my origami cranes. Oh and work on our invitations. I've already got them written up, so now I just need our GM to design the border and a bow to put on it and then I can hopefully get the materials ordered and printed up and ready to send out.

@nurselindsey: Thanks for the encouragement, no news today unfortunately but I'm hoping for the news tomorrow! And I know what you mean, I feel engaged but people look at me like I'm a psycho and I don't want to have to lie and say my ring is getting sized...ugh. Oh well! And congrats on your FI's new job, that's soooo exciting!!!

We have our invites designed and I'm going to order paper in May, hopefully have them done by June. I'm going to just print them and put them together a few at a time to save my sanity ;) Waiting for the ring for e-pictures which means waiting on STD's but we'll see! So I think mainly it's the little things for me too. I need to print off a checklist and see what I have left...although the week before finals? The sight of that list might give me a heart attack, ha! :)

@hsearle: I really "lol"ed at thinking about you wearing the band around the house. I totally would! :) If he's not there to complain, why not?! ;) You're just letting your fingers get used to the company, haha! Also feel free to vent if you're lonely while your FI is gone!

@nurselindsey: Yeah, I feel that way too but for some reason people just don't take me seriously. Oh well...I'm hoping it'll be coming soon. We were supposed to find out about his job yesterday but the lady never called back...maybe today :/

Do any of you have any good suggestions for a good check-list that has pretty specific details?

@KansasPrincess11 I use pretty much all of the different lists and then I have my own in my head of the different things I know I need to get done.

@Toffee: You're a stronger woman than me, I would forget half of the things and be running around like a crazy person! :)

@hsearle: HA! I love it, I'll be right there with ya in my jam-jams, no worries :) I sent you a message with my email, thank you!!!

@KansasPrincess11 Don't worry, I'm used to doing that anymore. If it helps, I try to write a list at least once a week of what I want to get done by the next week. My FI and I have a weekly meeting where we talk wedding so that he knows what we're actually spending money on and why it's worth it.

@hsearle Yay! Date twins! What time of day are you having yours?

Is anyone worried about snow? I have a crazy fear that nobody will come because they'll get stuck in a blizzard or something on the way up, because nature has to make up for having a mild winter last year.

@hsearle: I did! Thank you SO much! I'm also passing it along to a friend who is engaged! :D There are a lot of things that don't apply to me so I'm just switching them out for random things I think of ;)

@Toffee: My answer when he asks "why?" is: "Because we'll have the prettiest wedding!" and he laughs and writes the check...Ahhh gotta love it. He just doesn't get the details though. He thought the dress, locations and food was all we would have to do! Um, not so much honey ;)

As for the snow I'm praying for the perfect balance, snow enough for beautiful pictures but not so much that nobody can make it! It's very hit or miss here in Kansas, we'll either have the most beautiful snow or it'll be 45 degrees and sunny with all the ugly dead trees without pretty snow on them. I have a feeling that since I picked the one time of year that I WANT precipitation that I won't get it. If I had planned a spring wedding it would be perfect ;)

@hsearle I'd like a copy too. Can't have too many lists. I think we're having ours at 1:30 or so with the reception immediately following. We wanted it early enough in the day that people would be ok to drive home that night and not slide off the road.

@KansasPrincess11 I know what you mean about the snow. This year it didn't hardly snow at all, so I'm hoping for like 3-6" on the grass so that it's completely covered and I won't get muddy or gross taking pictures.

@hsearle We were hoping (more like I was hoping) to get some pictures taken yesterday or Sunday, but the weather got all icky, so we couldn't do it. We're now hoping to be able to do it this weekend instead. I had planned on having a later ceremony/reception, but we've since decided on not serving a full dinner and instead serving a contemporary meal instead, so we wanted it earlier so that guests didn't expect a full meal. And that way it will still be light enough to take pictures outside in the snow after the ceremony.

@hsearle I definitely will share and I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures! We still have to look for wedding rings, the FI has narrowed down on his, but I haven't looked hardly at all. I'm thinking about baking up some different cupcakes to decide what flavors/combinations we want. I'm definitely going to be doing some chocolate cupcakes with tangerine frosting or possibly chocolate cupcake with tangerine frosting as filling and german chocolate cake as the frosting on top. I made a cake this week in the second combo and it was seriously amazing.