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!

New Job!

I have finally landed a full time job! It's back in the banking industry I go. As of Monday, March 2 I will be employed by First Federal Savings Bank. I will a general teller for now, which is fine with me. Full time jobs in my field are extremely hard to find in the Evansville area right now, so I'm just taking what I can get.

These beautiful roses were delivered to me on Friday at work as Nathan's way of kicking off the perfect Valentine's weekend! Saturday morning we got up early and started a perfect Valentine's Day. We got our passport pictures, lunch with my parents, registered for gifts, church and a movie (Confessions of a Shopaholic, which is just like the book. It was fantastic! I think Nathan liked it too.)

Nathan had fun using the gun at Bed Bath & Beyond. Although I think he wished it took less than THREE hours to use! :)

Another breakthrough in wedding planning happened this weekend. We have decided on a cake person! Everyone we had looked at was completely out of our price range so the two of us sat down and put our thinking caps on and came up with another option, that is almost half the price everyone else was quoting us!! We are already solving problems together! :) 

Big Week for Planning

Wedding plans and decisions have been running wild this past week. We have picked up our printed invitations, now we just have to get and make the vellum wraps that go around them. Over the weekend we bought JoAnn's out of fuscia ribbon for all our wedding projects. We were also able to find our unity and mothers candles. We both wanted something simple and just so happened so see the same one at the same time so we knew the one we found was meant for us! Plus we agreed on it simultaneously so we had to get it!

There has been a small snag in planning. We met with Father last night and he put a huge damper on the after ceremony celebration. He told us we can not throw anything as we walk out of the church! This is still under negotiation so we will see if we have to change our plans.

My Mom, Dena and Carrie Reineke went to SuperBride Sunday and found some great new ideas. Some which Nathan thinks are a little excessive but you'll have that sometimes. It was a lot of fun. We tried different cake vendors and have narrowed it down to three places we are looking at for the cake. I have the design, now I just need someone to make it! :)

-Some non wedding news: We survived the winter snow storm. Our backyard looks like a tornado went through then dumped snow on top of it. The only damage we had was on the front of the house. A branch came down and tore about five pieces of siding. Nothing that Nathan can't fix.