Too Ambitious?

Somehow I ended up adding something very odd to my bucket list. I want to run a marathon. Yes, me who only started to seriously exercise in the past couple of years. I don't think I can run a full marathon, it's over 26 miles! My goal is for a half marathon. Maybe Disneyland's half marathon? Nothing like running through the happiest place on earth to keep your spirits high. :) Dearest wants to find one that's a month or so before the wedding so we can use the training to whip us into shape for the wedding as well. Two birds with one stone sort of plan. I think he's nuts. :)

Waiting Game...

At this point, the wedding has now become a waiting game. I just booked the florist, which was the last of the vendors to nail down. The next thing on our list of things to do is to taste the food and decide on the menu... which doesn't happen until January. In the meantime, I'm still working on our invitations. It's a ton of stamping, but I still have quite a while before they need to be done.

Other than that, we're gearing up for the holiday season. I busted out the Christmas music a couple weeks ago. :) We're planning on hosting a Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, so that'll be tons of fun. And of course the Christmas tree and shopping for gifts!

Wedding Update

A few updates with the wedding- we booked our DJ! They always say, the music can make or break a wedding... so we went with a well known and highly rated company. Their customer service thus far has been amazing! We couldn't make it out to their showcase of DJs, so they mailed us a DVD recording to watch with a bag of popcorn! Very nice touch. Dearest and I are still, well I should say Dearest, is still deciding on our music. He has an idea for our first dance, but we'll see. :)

Aloha honeymoon! We're going to Hawaii for our honeymoon! Sadly our road trip wasn't feasible (too many days to take off, etc). Dearest has never been to Hawaii, so he's really excited. I'm sure we'll have a great time kayaking, snorkeling and hiking. Oh, and eating delicious food! MMmmm I can taste the fresh fish already...

Our Ultimate Marriage Test

For our honeymoon, instead of going somewhere tropical like Hawaii or somewhere romantic like Paris or somewhere just down right fun like Australia, we've opted to go on what I like to call The Ultimate Marriage Test. It's going to be 2000 miles, 2 countries, 4 states and 18 days of 24/7 togetherness. The road trip of a lifetime... to Canada! :) We were going to go on a mini-moon to Disneyland, but Dearest wanted to go somewhere new and we're going to Disneyland for New Years Eve anyway. It's not set in stone, but it seems like what we're leaning towards.

Since we're also taking Italian this semester (yes, I'm going back to school, but this time for fun) we are planning to go to Italy for our 1 year anniversary. We figure it'll give us over a year to become fluent.

Speaking of Hawaii, I'm going in a couple days! Yay! Maybe all that swimming and running on the beach will whip me into shape. I'm trying to lose that last 5 lbs! And I'm sure eating chips and all that cake tasting didn't help. :D

Delicious Cake!

We went cake tasting this past week and boy was it yummy! I never knew there were so many different varieties of wedding cake. There was chocolate with chocolate mousse, vanilla with strawberry preserves, lemon with lemon cream, chocolate with raspberry mousse... I could go on for a while. After tasting enough cake to consitute a meal, we decided on the flavors we're going to go with. Each tier will be a different flavor, so be sure to look out for the variety! :) We're scheduling a later appointment to figure out the design and look of the cake.

Didn't Make The Cut

I thought I'd give ya'll a little taste of my wedding dress shopping experiences. Here is a dress that didn't make the cut. :) This was my #1 choice until I found THE dress. I love the detail on the top. Doesn't it make me look super skinny? :D

Engagement Pictures... Check!

A couple days ago, we had our engagement pictures taken by our amazing photographer. Even just viewing a few of the shots on the small screen of her Canon (yay for brand power!), I knew that we had gotten the best photographer for our big day. She's so fun and easy going about things, making what could have been a seriously awkward 3 hours into a fun time with friends. The pictures wont be done for a few weeks and I am SO excited to see them and share a few with you!

And if you're looking for a great photographer at a very low price, let me know! :)