Thank you everyone for all the comments, and to the new readers who joined in while I was on hiatus. I usually reply to every comment, but since it's been over two months since I've last been here I'm going to skip it this time. And I also apologize to all the PJs I was following, I've been doing a very poor job of catching up and commenting, but I hope to rectify that soon!
A lot has happened since my little ring scare, but unfortunately not very much has been wedding related. As I mentioned way back in my very first post I was attending school for costume design/creation, and as of this past Saturday I am officially finished! I'm pretty excited. The program was extremely intense in the last semester, and my fellow students and I had to deal with more than our fair share. We put on two productions, for one of which I had to make two late nineteenth-century ballgowns. I made a late nineteenth-century tailcoat tuxedo for my DF (and got a lot of questions about if he'd be wearing at our wedding, no way! -
). And I also made a 1910-1912 replica gown for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking.
Our class's final project was to make the gown from the underwear out and then present it in a fashion show. Since the program is in Halifax, Nova Scotia there was A LOT of press around our event and I was interviewed by the radio, newspaper and the local tv news. The whole thing was insane, especially considering all this was happening while I was putting in several 16-hour days of construction into this gown. Oh, and did I mention while all this was going on we also had to juggle two different faculty/staff strikes (that were luckily averted in the eleventh hour) and a six-week long transit strike. At this point I'm barely recovered but I've been looking too forward to getting back to my PJ to stay away any longer!
[Wedding stuff starts here]
Needless to say after all that exposition, I don't have a ton of updates to share. However, DF and I made the major step of actually calling Disney to start our DFTW process!
We called first in February, while I was at home for reading week/spring break, because it was my understanding that we could start after the 18-month mark. Well, apparently that's changed. The lady on the phone told us they wouldn't talk to us until the 16-month mark, which was March. Fine. We called back last month and we are officially in the system! We told them our preferred date, location choices and scheduled a site visit for this upcoming August. So excited!
I have to ask though, is that all that is typically covered with the wedding consultant. I feel like I should have millions of questions or something but I don't know if I should be asking the consultant or waiting for our planner... or really what I should be doing at all?!
Other than that, DF and I have been making a lot of headway with our invitations. We have most of the pages for invite-books finished, and we just need to make a few more graphics and wait to settle a few important details - like, you know - the date!
Then we'll be all set for printing and constructing. We're hoping to have them sent out by September at the latest so that no one can say we didn't give them enough time! (They probably still will, but, I'll worry about that later).
This weekend is a bridal show that my mom and I are going to go to. My mom asked me pretty early on if she and I could go to the first couple of these things just she and I, which I'm fine with. Generally my mom and I have similar taste, so I'm not too worried about major drama between us over picking a dress, but I guess this weekend is the first test.
Okay, now that I've bored everyone with all that text, hopefully next time I'll be back with some photos of pretty things from the show!