as i'd hoped, the wedding show this weekend has kicked me back into wedding planning mode.
i've been in touch with our travel agent today, after a few months of radio silence. books and pricing for 2012 still aren't readily available, but we have a resort in mind, so she contacted them today about group pricing for the dates we want. she's also looking into flights out of winnipeg [for josh's family and our wedding party] so we can coordinate dates/flights and adjust anything accordingly.
i wrote lindsay a giant email yesterday, so she can feel back in the loop. i included links to any dresses i'm interested in, for her and for myself. i don't really need anything from her, as maid of honour, at least not at this point. i think she feels like she should be doing more, but right now there's really nothing that i need her to do -- other than write down the texts i send her, like friday night's "linds, in case i forget, i want a giant blender like the one they have at the keg for slushy drinks at the reception. that's my one brilliant bridezilla request." [yes, i was drinking slushy daiquiris at the keg. yes, they were delicious. yes, i stand by my request as brilliant.]
beyond the booking of our trip/wedding, the next thing on my mind [at least in this moment] is engagement photography. i'm half-ass looking online right now. toronto's expensive. ugh. i have a friend who is in her second year of a 2 year photojournalism course, and has also done extensive photography while travelling all over the world, so girl knows her way around a camera. shortly after josh and i got engaged, elena offered to do our engagement photos as a sort of wedding gift. i thought it was terribly sweet of her, and have been looking forward to it. unfortunately, she lives a couple of hours away, and i haven't seen her in months. in fact, we've hardly spoken since she made the offer. so, i'm going to email her about it, but i'm not going to hold my breath. also, i'm too polite to say "but you said you'd do it as a gift". if she does a shoot for us, that would be awesome, but i know that she has a lot of schoolwork on the go, as well as plans to visit peru this spring/summer, and other things going on in her life. so, we'll see.
the other option for engagement photos on the cheap, is that i'm keeping an eye out for groupons. for a while, it seemed like every other week there was a groupon for pro photography at a solid price. of course, now that i'm on the hunt, i haven't seen one offered in a while, but i'm sure they'll cycle thru again. it may be a bit of a crapshoot, booking a photographer that way, but for $50 i can hardly go wrong. at that price, we could even do more than one shoot, and still come out cheaper than a lot of the photographers i'm looking at online or saw at the wedding show.
as i mentioned, i "pre-registered" with the bay at the wedding show on saturday. now i'm just waiting for them to call us to set up an appointment to go in and do it up for real. joshua and i are both currently drafting wish lists in our heads, getting ideas for when we get to play kid-in-a-candy-store [or ange-in-a-housewares-department] and make our registry legit. i'm still so torn about the whole registry thing... on one hand i feel a sort of guilt and selfishness, and on the other i know that this is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and that just because i ask for something, doesn't mean anyone has to actually buy it anyway.
i think that's all the wedding jazz on my mind at the moment. i appreciate y'all bearing with me. |
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Oh, I wish you lived closer! I'd snare you a screamin' deal with my photographer buddy. She RULES behind a camera, particularly when it comes to making people look beautiful while showing who they are.
My mom did our engagement pictures and they came out adorably. I wish she had done our wedding pictures because her friend did them and they sucked. 
