Engaged

For anyone who knows me very well at all, I love a good project. And, more often than not, I like them as distractions from the things I actually need to be doing. Getting engaged was perfect for me during med school. Planning a wedding when I should be studying is seriously right up my alley.

Fortunately for my time management, Dad wants to do most of the planning. I am in charge of making it all cohesive. Putting that art degree to good use, I suppose. As of right now I have my wedding website set up through The Knot. We have a date set for June 2. We've chosen our colors (and an aesthetic), and I have my invitations designed (on draft 3 right now). I have a guest list going through preliminary checks with the parents. I have a photographer lined out (Drew's fabulous sister!). I have a venue-- my dad's land in Hot Springs. I have an idea for the Save-the-Date postcards, just waiting to get those going with Abbie.

Right now, the only things I haven't mentioned are the flowers and the cake. The flowers are going to be all made of paper (origami!!!), so I'll be my own florist, in a way. The cake is an issue though. I need to talk to the people at Ambrosia Bakery in Hot Springs to see if they can do what I'm wanting. If not, I'm afraid I'll have to go to the Blue Cake in Little Rock. They are really fabulous, but they charge a boatload for transporting cakes out of Little Rock. Hopefully Ambrosia will pull through *fingers crossed*

Okay, so, here's our wedding website:
http://hayleydrew.ourwedding.com/

That gives a pretty good idea of the theme and the colors. The invitations to a better job, but when you're working with only a few templates on a wedding website, it's really hard to get something exactly the way you want it. I toyed with some larger paid websites, but I was disappointed generally. And I lost my money on those, but oh well. The Knot is the way to go.

For now, I need to get back to studying. But... so far, so grand!