Such a nice feeling...

The wedding plans are almost finished!! Almost everything has been taken care of! We're so relieved! The only things left are: choosing/ordering the cake, deciding on a photographer and deciding on the bridesmaids dress which I'll be doing this afternoon! Other than that everything is taken care of!! (except for the last minute stuff like final dress alterations, getting the guests favors after we get all the RSVP's, paying the final payments on the venue, catering, flowers, cake, ect...) So we are both feeling very calm and enjoying the engagement!! It's so great!!

So satisfying =)

I have to admit that I feel pretty accomplished. Jeremiah and I put the deposit + half down on our venue, I put half down on my dress, we are finishing up talks with the caterer and about to draw up the contract and we are meeting with the florist on Monday. We spoke with the coordinator at the Gardens and she said we don't have to hire a live band, so that is a huge weight off our shoulders!! A huge cost, too! Haha. So now we're just looking for the cake, a photographer we like, the cake cutting/serving set, the flower girl's basket, the ring bearer's pillow and I need to find my bridesmaids dresses by Friday. It's all coming together so nicely!! It's been a lot of planning and work, but I'm having such a good time. I'm so lucky that Jer is so helpful and into all this, because I don't know how I'd do it by myself!!! But we're so excited!! We were standing on an aisle in JoAnn's Fabric & crafts store earlier today, looking at wedding invitations and things and it sunk in a little deeper what we were actually doing. We just got so filled with emotion and happiness!! We're planning the day that will cement our lives together forever. It's so beautiful to us. I swear I fall in love with that man more every day!! Anyways, I'll end my gushing and write more when new things pop up! Hope you're doing good! We love you all!!!

xoxo,
Cheryl

OUR WEDDING DAY!!!!

We have booked our venue!! It is all set! We'll be getting married August 30, 2008 at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge. We'll have the ceremony in the rose garden and the reception in the rose pavillion. We are so excited!! Now that it's a summer wedding we're changing the colors and that means the dresses will be different and flower arrangements and pretty much everything!! Haha, but it's going to be so beautiful!! Jer and I are going to send out the save-the-date cards soon, but we need more addresses. Please email them to me @ capacino21@yahoo.com. Thanks!!

xoxo

A much needed getaway!!!

Jeremiah and I had such a nice, relaxing weekend in San Diego. The planning has been CONSUMING our lives for over the past month so we figured it'd be nice toget away. We have some great friends (Dan & Alison) who live in La Mesa so we stayed with them. The weather was beautiful and we all just took it easy. It was great. Another big reason we went down there was to check out this thread show (like a trade show/fashion show) that was being held down there on Sunday. Dan and Jer are going to show their shirts and stuff in it once they've got some made. They were able to meet a couple of really cool people and get some contacts. They're so good at networking =). Overall, it was a productive and relaxing time! Now we're back and ready to get to planning!!


xoxo

-Change of plans-

Okay, so last weekend Jer and I visited an absolutley amazing place called Descanso Gardens. It's so incredibly beautiful there... So beautiful that we've decided to change the wedding location!! The ceremony will be held in the rose garden and the reception will be held in the rose pavillion, but it's just a great place. Really breathtaking. Go ahead and check out the website if ya like! (www.descansogardens.org). It'll still be the beginning of Oct. Either the 11th or the 18th. This way we'll be able to have it on Saturday instead of a Friday, which I didn't want to do. It'll be a little more pricey and we'll have to have live music since a DJ or speakers aren't allowed, but it'll be so worth it. I can't wait!!!