Wedding color nightmare

Colors are hard. I feel like whatever I pick I will have to look at for the next year. The easiest color combo for our wedding based on our tastes is light blue and brown.

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However, as much as I like these colors (they are everywhere in our house), I have some issues with them. Like I said, they are in our bedroom and living room, so I already see them all the time. That could be overload. Brown isn't exactly the best color for our June wedding. And, the blue is too close to Tiffany blue, which was my cousin's color at her wedding last summer. Since we have a large family who all attended that wedding, I don't want our color schemes to be near-identical. Pink is easy and something I would love, but the mister has already vetoed that one. Since I took those two colors out and I am not much of a red/yellow/orange person, I was left with two colors: purple and green. I really like the idea of purple, but dressing my BFFs in plum didn't sound so great. I can't find a shade of green that I like. So, I tried to start with a neutral. Grey is very "in" right now, although I can't say I am one to follow trends. I do like that it is a little bit different and that grey could also be silver if need be. So, I think we decided on that. Then, inspiration struck. Last weekend I went shopping at the fabulous new Forever XXI (or whatever the hell it calls itself now) and bought myself this:

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Mine is a bit blue-er, but I brought it home and showed it to Andrew and he said "That's nice. That could be a wedding color." So, I have looked up come royal/cobalt blue weddings and found some good wedding stuff...

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.... annnnnd, that's really it. There isn't too much out there in the way of dark blue weddings, but I think I can make it classy and reflect us. My only problem is the seasonality of it- is a dark blue too wintery? Are there colors I'm forgetting? I only thought I already had my whole wedding planned. Then I got engaged and that all went out the window.

Bridezilla Moment #1

It was bound to happen... I am far too picky to just brush things off. Oops. We went to book our wedding venue today with Andrew's dad and my mom in tow. The event coordinator totally irritated me to begin with because we were supposed to have an appointment. When I set it up, I told her "We really like the venue and we are ready to sign the contract." I would think that is kind of important. Someone is coming to give my company a nice chunk of money, and I would want to be ready. Instead, she greets us as if we have never been there (not like I expected her to recognize us, but at least remember my purpose!) and begins taking us on a tour. I stopped her and told her we didn't need one and Andrew walked off with his dad while I was with my mom. He called me into the back area where our cocktail hour will be held and said "You won't believe this..." I loved this room. It had icicle lights coming from the ceiling like this the last time I saw it: I wanted us to make our entrance down those stairs into the cocktail reception. I LOVE those damn lights... I'm sure you can see where this is headed... Andrew walked in that room, and the lights were gone. I would post a picture, but I think I was in some sort of denial, so I didn't take one. The ceiling looks sad, bare and industrial. This is where my freak-out began. I go to talk to the event lady, who, remember, had already unimpressed me today. I asked her what happened and she said that too many went out, so the owner took them down. I asked if they were going to be replaced, and she said maybe, but she wasn't sure if the plan was to put up more lights (although the lights are "annoying because they always go out") or something else. Apparently this is all the owner's doing. The lights are supposedly too hard to come by because it's not Christmas. However, a quick google search shows me that such lights are plentiful if only one looks. Argh. So, I got mad and almost didn't book the venue. However, a quick conference with my level-headed groom-to-be who has not been dreaming of this day for 24 years caused me to realize that this room was only going to be used for an hour. Although it sucks, it's not a deal breaker. We will just cross our fingers that the lights go back up this Christmas, or that something better takes their place. I did ask many questions of the event lady and express my displeasure, but what can I do? The venue is mine for 4.5 hours on June 11, 2010.

only a year to go!

I felt I had to commemorate this day. Exactly one year from tonight will be our wedding night. We are going to reserve the venue on Tuesday and I couldn't be more excited! Well, maybe I could be a *teensy* bit more excited... I wish I lived in Austin, or would have gone to UT, so I would have a reason to get married at the deliciousness known as Barr Mansion. (All images from their website).

I fell in love when I saw their ad in The Knot Magazine. It is super beautiful (this is just my favorite part- there are also beautiful gardens and a gorgeous Victorian style mansion on the property!) and also the only Certified Organic wedding venue in the U.S. I wish it were practical to move our nuptuals to Austin, but, it's not. That's okay. This is still amazing and will be even better when I get to incorporate US into it!

D. Jones Photo

I'm getting excited!

house update

The house is almost in order. All of the furniture arrived today and Andrew has already sorted through most of the boxes to see what we want to keep and what we don't. His dad has good taste in some things, so like he said, it was like Christmas, going through each box and choosing what we wanted to keep. This furniture switch has created a dilemma, though; now, we only have one nightstand. Our old nightstands are too short and too light-colored to match with what we have now. The new furniture is BIG. The dresser is on my side of the bed and the nightstand is on Andrew's. If I moved the nightstand to my side, his side of the room would be empty. If we get a second nightstand, my side will look too cluttered. The simple suggestions are a) getting over the loss of my nightstand (which I don't want to do- I need a place for my glasses, chapstick, lotion, charging cell phone, etc.) or b) switching sides of the bed (which for some reason, he won't do). So now, I am going to look for some nightstand alternatives, if such a thing exists... Enough of that. It's just so frustrating! I thought everything was going to come together and now there's something else to fix! As far as wedding thoughts go, I think I have decided to ask my cousin to do my make-up. I think she did her sister's, and although I didn't attend the wedding, it photographed well. We will see! Oh, and PS, on a TV-related note, I am so far LOVING The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien! He is just irreverent enough to keep his old fan base thinking he didn't sell out, but typical-late-night comedic enough that my grandparents will watch. PPS- I watched the Diversity Day episode of The Office today for the billionth time and I still died laughing about twenty times.