Crisis number 1

I'll admit i've been pretty lucky. this whole wedding planning thing has gone pretty smooth so far. Mom is taking care of most of the work, I just approve things. I'm too busy to worry and stress about little things like plates and napkins or ribbons or whatever it is that normal brides stress about and worry about. I've heard that once you hit the last 3 months that's when everything goes haywire. Thats when it gets crazy and that's when you become Bridezilla. But not so much, we're just 2 and half month away and aside from school this has been relatively stress and crisis free.

until now.

Last week while just 3 days away from taking a huge exam that was mostly on Neuroanatomy (which might I add is no walk in the park) I get a friendly email from the travel agency we booked our honeymoon from saying that there has been a change in our flights and I need to contact them. Obviously I'm expecting nothing, maybe just a couple minute time change or something simple and uneventful of the sort. so I email them back and promptly get a reply telling me that our flights to and from DR have been cancelled. yep cancelled. and we can either change the dates of our trip or change to another airline and pay up to 400$ more for the flight change.

commence freak out.

I probably wouldnt have been so upset about it had I not been stressed and freaked beyond belief about my exam that was two days away. but whatever the reason this set off a hysterical crying that went on for hours. Of course I call Mr. Coastie and my dad begging for one of the men in my life to help me out. we decide to change the dates of our honeymoon and push it back one day, no big deal right? right. every thing is solved right? WRONG

after speaking to the travel agent and informing him we will be pushing the trip back one day and will just be booked on the new flights he gets back to me and tells me that the resort doesn't have the same room we booked for the new dates and we can either downgrade (ew) and receive money back or upgrade and pay $100 for the upgrade. well It turns out the "upgrade" is really a downgraded room that is ocean front (so it cost more because the resort considers it an upgrade when actually the room itself is a downgraded room) essentially they were telling us we need to pay $100 for a worse room.

not happening.

Seeing how upset I was Daddy came to the rescue (like he always does) and I passed the issue over and continued to study about my test trying not to stress and freak out about the whole situation for the week it took them to figure it out. the result? The resort ended up transferring us over to their sister resort which happens to be a nicer more expensive resort and we get our same suite for free. In essence we upgraded resorts which would have cost us an extra $400-500 to do except we got it for free. Now staying at the nicer resort we also have access to the restaurants pool amenities etc. of BOTH resorts where before we only had access to one.  So all in all we lucked out!

Crisis number one officially averted

What did I learn from this you ask? Well for one I remembered what Dads are for. and secondly I learned that good things can come from bad things. Hopefully this is the most stressful of things we will encounter over the next two months, but something tells me thats just wishful thinking.

99 days to go

I can't believe were already under 100 days until the wedding. Time has been flying by and I've barely noticed it! I must admit as stressful as it is its kind of nice having something like Medical school to distract me from the approaching wedding. It makes the time go so much faster and I'm less stressed about it than most rides I know. of course I say that now, talk to me at the end of may when we've got less than a month left and Im smack in the middle of finals, I'll probably be a nut case.

We picked up our wedding bands a few weeks ago and I wanted to share them. I'm in love with them. Ive been periodically just taking them out of their boxes and staring at them becuase I can't wait to put them on. I'm weird, yes , I know.  anyways here they are

Craft city

The wedding is soo close, its just a little over 3 months away and there is so much to do. I finally decided i need to stop making lists of things i need to do and start doing them. So early this week I took a study break and headed to Michaels for a shopping spree and have been weddig crafting a little bit each night after i finish studying. hers a few of the things Ive come up with so far

Door hanger for our hotel room the night of the wedding. I got this wooden hanger from michaels for just 79 cents:

 

I painted a base coat of yellow and then used scrap book pieces (also from michaels) to decorate it and this is the result:

 The next project was a flower girl basket. Luckily it is coming up on Easter time so alot of baskets are out and around, I found this yellow basket on sale for $4.00,

It is metal with small pearls and glitter on it, even though I thought it was cute as is, we don't want our adorable little flower girl carrying an easter basket, so I spruced it up with some ribbon around the handle and a few bows

Another thing I've seen in pictures during my wedding website browsing is a banner. I decided to make a "Just married" banner that will hang on the wall behind the sweet heart table. All I needed was some cardstock wich I already had, Paint which I already had and a $1.00 spool of ribbon

 I cut cardstock into rectangles and the triangled the bottom, Then I painted letters free hand on each of the pieces. I took a hole punch and put two holes in the top of each of them and simply threaded the ribbon though!

 And Voila! just married banner is complete (and hanging on my wall for the pictures sake)

 and lastly I wanted to make a wooden sign for the driveway entrance to the wedding. Its sort of a long driveway into the location and I really wanted something to put on the street for the guests to know they are in the right place.   So I bought a wooden arrow for $6.00 and painted it with stencils

This will go on a wooden stake and be placed at the entrance of the wedding venue.

I also had a chance to do some mock ups for centerpieces this weekend and I think I've nailed down what Im going to be doing. A few mason jars, some candles, sunflowers and a little wooden heart are all going to come together to make what I hope are amazing centerpieces. I've decided not to post pictures of the centerpieces because I dont want to ruin it for the guests who are readers :)

I have about a million other projects to get done but I feel very productive so far! theses three months will fly by and I can't wait

We Do!

I had a chance to hit up Michaels a couple of weeks ago and picked up some wooden letters to paint to sit on the cake table

I figured these would look cute laying on the cake table in front of the cake but they needed to be painted

"just once i wish you guys would call me on tuxedo night"

The boys went to order tuxedos today, i convinced them to snap a few pictures for my wedding scrapbook. which clearly means im going to post them on here :)

The  Best man

Mr. Coastie <3

with this ring...

Buying our wedding bands has been something both Mr. Coastie and I have been looking forward to for quite sometime. we had planned to buy them around Valentine's day to catch some sales and save a few bucks. So as we started talking about our wedding bands my parents mentioned that they had their original wedding bands from nearly 30 years ago and that we could have them. Since I wanted a white gold band I decided that it would be really neat to take their bands and have them melted down and made into a band for me. As for Cole's band he wanted a tungsten ring based on their durability and look. So we headed off to the jewler and then to the mall to hit up Kay, Zales etc. for Cole's band.  after some price shopping and a long decision process cole ended up with this: 

 and my band is to be seen, its in the process of being made.

  so wedding bands are officially ordered !

Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world

Ive been on the search for the perfect wedding shoes for about 6 months now. I knew I wanted yellow. but that,s about all I knew. At first I thought flats are the way to go because lets face it this girl doesn't do heels. I searched and searched and couldn't find any I loved enough to be my wedding shoes.

Suddenly I remembered that Mr. Coastie and I have a little bit of height difference. And by a little bit I mean like well over a foot of a difference. I actually started getting concerned that if I didn't wear heels we'd have a problem dancing and even getting in the same frame for pictures (this my friends is a constant struggle) So I resolved that I'd need heels. But again, this girl doesn't do heels. So I decided a nice low heel would give me some height but I'd be less clumsy and less likely to fall on my face (which may still happen).

So with a new idea in mind I set out on my search and I came across some fabulous yellow satin Nina shoes that are only 2 inches, a perfect color and exactly what i was looking for on Zappos.com and they were on sale so after staring at them for a month I bought them!so after just 2 days I got a pretty box in the mail

and they are fabulous, The picture doesnt do them justice and the color is differen in person but you can get the idea

 A couple weeks ago I was at Michaels craft store and picked up an "I Do"  Decal  because it was on sale, so even though I wasn't sure what I'd use them for I went ahead and bought them. Once my Shoes came in I found the perfect use, and this will certainly make for a great photo op on wedding day

So my shoe search has come to an end and the small details of my wedding day look are coming together!