A Woman's Best Friend

Aside from diamonds (which I already have!), shoes are the next best thing. So, obviously I've started looking for some shoes to wear with my yet-to-be-seen wedding dress. I haven't gone shopping for a dress, but I figure shoes are shoes. I can kinda decide my shoes and bring them with when I go dress shopping.

I've thought about doing something like this...

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Going a little funky:

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Doing something classic...

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Being completely ridiculous:

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Or just going barefoot. We'll see.

It was seriously like the apocalypse...

So... around 11:00 this morning, our hot water heater exploded in my apartment...
With my Save the Date cards sitting on the floor...

Anyone else see the possible destruction coming?!

Thankfully, all was not lost. The nice neighbors realized that water was coming into their apartment from ours and called maintenance. When my roommate, Meghan, got to the house at 11:30, the maintenance guys had huge vacuums sucking the water out of our apartment. By the time I got there at 12:30, all the water was off the tile, but our carpet was still a small pond. The carpet guys had managed to move all of our furniture- including things on the floor like my laptop, blankets, pillows, textbooks, and my Save the Date cards! YAY!

Absolutely nothing was ruined. We got very, very lucky with our small flood. Right now, my apartment is in total chaos with furniture moved off of wet spots, into my hallway, and some giant fans and dehumidifiers all over my hallway and the living room. They are hoping to get our carpet pads replaced in a few days and in the process of our carpet getting ruined, we got our stove top, toilets (yes, toilets. Both toilets in our apartment went out and we were having to use the toilet in the clubhouse.), kitchen light and base boards fixed. They are thinking they may have to even rip out part of our wall to fix it because of all the mold that's been growing for who knows how long.

On a happier note, I found an awesome website for free fonts! I literally downloaded close to 100 fonts for free! I'm planning fun ways to use them in invitations, programs, response cards, and whatever else I want. They're so cute!

Anyone need some free fonts!?

STDs!

Of all kinds, colors, and shapes. Except, the good kind. Of paper. And really only one size and one shape. And one color. To inform you avid blog-followers of the date of our wedding. Which, if you do read this blog, you already know, just now you'll have something to hang on the fridge. These save-the-date cards were finished in just one night! It took me all of... three hours? to line, print, cut, stuff, seal and address. I give you...

THE STDs!

Those are the self-lined envelopes I made. Pre-purchased envelopes, but the pretty paper was all me, baby.


These are self-made using templates on Word. Not the fanciest thing, but I'm proud of them 'cuz I made them myself.

Expect them in the mail relatively soon.

Invitations... again?

So, with our new color added to the basket, of course new invitations were created.

I started to look at pocket fold invitations recently and decided that I really liked the look of them. However, to purchase pre-made pocket fold invitations, even without inserts and such, is still ridiculously expensive. So... I give to you:

MY DIY POCKET FOLDS!

(All photos courtesy of yours truly!)

With the new color, it gave me new opportunity to try my hand at pocket fold invitations. I'm pretty excited about them. I'm going to change them up just a little based on how the response cards fit in. So, we'll see. But, I wanted to go ahead and give you a peek at what to expect when your invitation comes!

Holy Cow, Batman!

Yeah, Batman's got nothing to do with this post.

But wouldn't a Batman-themed wedding be epic? (Although, SO not happening!)

It's been a while since the last blog. Wedding planning came to a stand-still as finals happened, some plans got rearranged, and no date was set. For a few short days, I was not even going to come back to OU. I was planning on coming home to Allen, working for a semester and going back to school in the fall at UNT, UTD, etc. Those plans quickly changed because we realized that it would take me extra semesters to finish at home, and thus equal more money. So, in the end, it sums to the same amount of tuition. What up. Coming back to OU. My roommates were thrilled, I was thrilled, and I am taking an extra semester to graduate for my sanity. (Still graduating a semester early!)

But, then, coming back to OU after previously cancelling all of my classes, left me with few options for classes. After arguing with the bursar, I got my holds cleared and I came back to my apartment. Upon my return I checked my e-mail and found an e-mail about online science classes! WHAT?! So, I looked into it, got enrolled in every single one, and I am now in three online science classes (that will count for my major coursework!) and one online elective credit. Hooray for epic semesters.

So, with my free course schedule I get to do schoolwork when I want to do schoolwork-- within reason, of course. I still have to turn things in on specific dates. But, seeing as I have all this free time during the day, I got a full-time job to pay for said wedding epic-ness.

Speaking of wedding, we have changed colors up a little. I kept looking at wedding blogs, wedding sites, wedding magazines, anything for weddings, I was all over that. So, I started to think maybe I didn't like our colors. Maybe I should try something new that's not so typical "wedding" as pink and black. But, I couldn't get my favorite flower in any other color I like besides white and pink, so we (Yes, we. Trenton actually helped make this decision!) stuck with pink. However, we're adding green to the mix to add extra color so it's not so... girly. Even I was getting sick of the Pepto color that was our wedding.

More of wedding news: WE SET A DATE! Finally. Even though we've been engaged for a little less than two months, it's really hard to look at this pretty rock every day and know that a date is not set. There's not a date set for my bling to get a buddy-- known as my wedding band. I'm so excited to be a Mrs. and even more excited to be Mrs. Trenton Holloway! Now all that's left to do is, you know, everything. Lots of planning, crafting, scheduling, shopping, etc.

July 9, 2010, people! Remember it.