Happy Birthday Nathan!

Nathan celebrated his 26th birthday today! We started celebrating by going to get our marriage certificate this morning, then Nathan had lunch with his good friend Nick. For dinner my parents and sister came over for dinner.

The wedding has crept up on us and is only eleven days away! There is still a lot to do, but it's mainly small things. We are both starting to get really excited. I think we are really excited about the honeymoon, we are both really ready for a vacation!

oh a little bit of everything

We haven't made a post lately due to a million things going on. We have completed and sent out the invitations though and have started receiving response cards back. Mostly we have been working on the little things. We didn't realize how much stuff there was still left to do! Nathan's newest task is putting together a backdrop for the cake and wedding party table. Trying to put together two very different ideas and opinions is proving a little difficult. No worries though, we'll get it figured out. 

We had our bachelor and bachelorette party's a couple weeks ago. We both had a lot of fun. We are both the grateful to have such great friends and family! 

Nathan's friend, Nick, was able to snag free tickets to two Cardinal's games. So we went to St.Louis over the weekend to watch the games and see my friend Ali. It was nice to get away from the stress of wedding planning even just for a day :) 

More engagment pictures

Last week we had another set of engagment pictures. I really wanted outdoor pictures back in October but it was raining the day of our session so our photographer agreed to do another session for us. And since Nathan loves getting his picture taken so much we took her up on the offer! Some of them look really goofy. It was really, really windy that day and was about to rain any moment. Check out the link... http://www.weddingsbylvonne.com/mp_client/pictures.asp?action=viewphotos&eventid=26475&categories=no&keywords2=no&eventgroup=

We also got all the invitations sent out this week! It's getting closer!!

Flowers & Couples Shower

My friend Courtney came over tonight and helped put together my flowers and the bridesmaids flowers. It went a lot smoother than we expected and we were able to get them all wrapped. I just have to go back and tie knots in them tomorrow. Just one more thing to check off the list!

We had our couples shower Saturday which was a lot fun! Andy made two specialty drinks for us. Everyone had a great time. Thank you to everyone who came. We are so blessed to have such great friends and family! 

NashVegas

This past weekend the bridesmaids (excluding my sister because she is not yet 21) took me down to Nashville, TN to have a pre-bachellorette party since three out of the five girls will be out of the country for the real bachellorette party. Dena will be in South Africa for her social work trip, Cari L. will be studying chimps in north Africa and Carrie Reineke will be taking a class in Germany. They have all promised to be back in plenty of time for the wedding. :)

We had a lot of fun. It was definitely our weekend. Carrie booked an awesome hotel and we didn't have to wait in lines anywhere. The girls gave me a sash and a boa to wear which I was way to excited for!

Tuxedos & more

After work tonight Nathan and I met to look at tuxes. We went in with a general idea of what we wanted. Nathan was pretty easy going until I suggested fuscia vest and well that did not go over well! Nathan will be wearing a white vest with a white tie and everyone else will have a grey vest and black and white tie. We priced them at Bridal Warehouse but knowing us we are going to do a little searching for better prices before make a final decision.

We have started to put together the favors that will be placed on the tables at the reception. This is a huge task! The printers (office depot) were not able to cut the labels since they are on clear label paper so I am going back by hand and cutting out each sticker and putting them on the mini paper bag. FUN FUN since there are only 500 of them!

I have taken the advice of a co-worker of mine and we are doing something different with the rose petals for after the wedding. We are just putting them in a basket and letting people take a couple on their way out instead of separating and bagging 500 of them. Nate absolutely loved this idea...he hated every second of putting the first 25 together. I think I will take them apart so he doesn't get too upset. :)

Overall we feel like we are making real progress! Now if Michael's will only get our paper in so I can finish our invitations we will sitting pretty!

Passorts & Invitations

Are passports have finally come in! They have all the correct information and the pictures aren't too horrible so we are set for Antigua!

A week or so ago I went with Carrie, Lindsey and Sara to look for fabric for the table runners. Lindsey and Sara are going to help with the runners since I have no idea how to use a sewing machine! We found some black satin material now I just have to figure out how to get enough of it ordered and in time.

I also realized after spending an hour or so folding vellum pochette wraps for the invitations that I was not going to be able and do 165 on my own so I called in Bridesmaid Adrienne for some help. She was very willing to take it slow and make sure each fold was exactly on the line....I already owe her for dealing with me!

In the midst of all the wedding planning Adam Christopher Rudolph decided to join the rest of us on March 19. He was born at 7:19pm measuring 19inches long...I think his favorite number will probably 19 :)

Over all March has been a fantastic month for the future Embrey's. We've got a lot of wedding stuff accomplished and are looking forward to our last couple months of being engaged!