Welcome to Rachel and Michael’s wedding website! As the big day gets closer, we’ll be updating this site with how the plans are going, so check back occasionally. I (Rachel) will probably be doing most of the blogging, but maybe I can coax Mike into writing an entry or two. Leave a comment and let us know you visited!
Well, it’s Christmas Day, and after having our family plans foiled twice (once by an ice storm, and now by the flu - Mike has it, and I’m hoping I don’t get it!) we are spending Christmas together, just the two of us. Well, I suppose it’s the 3 of us, if you count Lucy.
Mike and I opened presents last night (yes, we are impatient - but it just means that we now have an extra day to enjoy our presents!) and I was so excited about one of Mike’s gifts to me. He created a book with pictures of the 2 of us throughout our relationship. It’s a “timeline” of everything since we met, from Grease to New York City to our cruise together last year to the engagement party, and everything in between. It was so sweet! And yes, I cried.
Having all our Christmas plans ruined makes me surprisingly… happy. It’s such an amazing feeling to know that, even when nothing goes as we planned, I still get to spend this amazing holiday with an amazing man (and a super cool dog). It’s such a great feeling.
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope your Christmases are full of… no ice storms, and not having the flu!
Well, the Save the Dates have been sent! For anyone visiting the site for the first time, welcome! Leave a message if you want and let us know you visited. Check out the Hotel Information page for details on the rooms we have blocked off at local hotels for the night of the wedding.
Wedding plans are going great - I can’t believe we’re getting married 6 months from tomorrow! I got my dress in already, which is great since it means one less thing I’ll need to stress about as it gets closer.
Check back here occasionally, since we’ll post information about the wedding and how plans are going. Leave a message and let us know you visited!
As we get closer and closer to the wedding (less than 200 days now!), we’re getting more and more things done. It’s nice to check things off the to do list!
One of the things we’ve done is get blocks of rooms at a few hotels near the wedding site. Check out the Hotel Information page to get info on the hotels that are available.
We’ve picked 2 hotels: one downtown (in walking distance from the wedding site) and one farther away, for those who might prefer to stay somewhere outside of downtown. The room blocks will stay open until about a month before the wedding. Please send us an email if you try to reserve a room and they’re all booked!
Barely 6 months to go - it’s coming up so soon!!
It’s hard for me to believe that our wedding is 7 months from tomorrow! We are getting so excited!
I don’t want you to think I’ve been shirking my blogging responsibilities. I’ve been updating my blog at BridalBuds about once or twice a week. However, I don’t want to repost all of those on this blog, because I don’t want you to know too many details about our wedding, or it won’t be as exciting for you!
I did buy my wedding dress last weekend! That was pretty exciting. I found a picture of it in a magazine, and after trips to a few different stores, I tried it on, and I knew it was the right dress!! I’m so glad to have another big decision made.
Recently I started blogging for a wedding blog called Bridal Buds; you can check out my first post here.
Wedding plans are going well. I can’t believe we’re less than 8 months away now!
At the beginning of January 2009, Mike and I had no plans to get engaged anytime soon. However, thanks to a date night with a long wait for a table at our restaurant of choice, we ended up strolling around the mall, and fell in love with a beautiful ring. A few short weeks later, the ring was mine, and I was Mike’s!
While at a different mall today, Mike and I passed another branch of the same jewelry store, and stopped in to have my engagement ring cleaned. 20 minutes later, we left, with a once-again shiny engagement ring, and… our wedding bands! We had no plans to buy them, but we finally each found the PERFECT ring, and thanks to a very talented (and not over-pushy) salesman, we decided to go ahead and get them, rather than risk never finding the perfect ones again.
Yet another thing we can cross off the to-do list - yeay!
I use a few different wedding websites to keep track of the different aspects of wedding planning (budget, guest tracker, to-do lists, etc). These to-do lists come preset with tasks and dates to correspond to where we should be in the planning. I typically check these to-do lists every few days, to see what items are coming due, and to make sure we’re on track. Typically, a new item will appear every 2-3 weeks, with something vague like, “Think about your perfect wedding dress”. CHECK. Those are EASY.
Then, all of sudden, every time I check these lists now, I’m getting ACTUAL to-do items - a LOT of actual to-do items. Register for gifts? Reserve hotel rooms?? Send save-the-dates?? Can’t I just think about it some more?!
As it turns out, no, I can’t just think about it. I have to actually do things now!
Less than 9 months to go - let the count down begin!
I can’t believe we’re already only about 9 months away. It seems like only yesterday I was still sitting at my desk, staring at my ring, lost in thought over how beautiful it was, and so excited to have it on my finger… oh wait, that was yesterday.
I must say, lately I’ve been doing more planning for the honeymoon than the wedding. The cruise we’re taking is going to be amazing! I seriously can’t wait.
Nothing really new with planning to report. I’m going dress shopping next month!! That makes me happy.
Mike’s mom is designing our save the dates and invitations. She’s put together some great designs - I can’t wait for you all to see them!
We finally posted some of the engagement pictures - let us know what you think!
Things are coming along well with the wedding planning. In a few days, it will be less than 10 MONTHS until we’re getting married, which is unreal to me. Time is flying by so fast!
It’s been a while since I’ve written this, but the planning has been coming along somewhat slowly recently. However, it’s starting to sneak up on me - and make me realize that we can’t put everything else off for forever.
This past weekend, Mike and I picked out our wedding cake baker and cake design! We met with an incredibly talented baker, and ate some incredibly yummy cake. Trust me, you guys are going to like our cake.
Also, we booked our honeymoon this past weekend! We’ll be taking a cruise to Bermuda. I’m definitely getting excited!!
As soon as Mike shows me how to post a picture gallery, I’ll post more of our engagement pictures.