Wedding Dress Has Arrived!

After ordering my beautiful wedding dress way back in November, it has finally arrived! I went and picked it up with Andrea last weekend and it looks fab, I'm soooo excited! My veil was backordered but I was just informed today that it has now arrived also so I'll be picking it up this weekend while I am bra and shoe shopping for the dress... first dress fitting coming up in three more weeks and you have to have those items to fit the dress to.

Also, we picked up the five bridesmaids' dresses... they turned out gorgeous... and luckily the sash colour did turn out turquoise. We weren't sure from the tiny swatch of material if it was going to look blue instead of turquoise and then we would have had to remake some sashes... thank goodness we don't have to do that!

My sister-in-law Susan made us a beautiful hand stitched ring pillow - turquoise satin with white satin hydrangea leaves stitched on and a silver bow to tie the rings to. Thanks Suzy :) We are also going to start working on (this summer) little tutu dresses for Ava and Lorelei to wear at the wedding as flower girls.

Invitations & Cake Topper

Time has been flying by and now we are less than four months away until the big day! We are very excited... there are still quite a few things left to do, but we keep getting more done and it feels fantastic to cross another "to do" off the list that is currently two pages long!

I am lucky enough to have talented family members who offered to help me make my invitations... Katie my cousin and a bridesmaid and my aunt Sandra came down from Kamloops to help last weekend and we got 60 invitations done in a day!! So fabulous... that amount of work would have taken me at least three days to do on my own so I am very grateful for their help.

Here is how they turned out....

I finally found a wedding cake topper also! I had been looking at this one called "Love Birds" on weddingstar.com, but it with the cost of shipping it would have been pretty pricey. I was in Kelowna with Andrea today and we stopped at the Tickle Trunk and they happened to have the same one there much cheaper than ordering it online and shipping it.... yay... score of the day! So this will go on top of the cutting cake and I will surround it with light green hydrangea stems and maybe some pink icing flowers.