Wedding: Official Engagement Photos

I finally uploaded pics from our photographer. Our engagement photos were taken at Norfolk Botanical Gardens in Norfolk, VA. As mentioned in my previous post in was super cold that day. Ironically enough, the next weekend it was like 80 degrees out, stupid Hampton Roads weather...click here to see the entire set.

Wedding: E-Sesh!

Here is a link to a sneak peak of my engagement session that was shot not too long ago. It was frigidly cold that day and other than looking a bit "cold" in some photos (in temperature, not emotion) they came out beautifully. I had the opportunity of not only working with my photographer, but he brought along his colleague William who was there to provide some amazing shots as well. These are Williams photos, I will post Chris' photos as soon as possible! Enjoy!

Wedding: Ring sizing

So wedding planning has all but consumed my life. Its all I can think about. I love planning events, parties, etc. My brother-in-law can't believe my sister and I are related since she is more of a go with the flow type and I like everything to be pretty precise. We are planning for August of next summer, but we have to finalize it with the church and see if we can get a reception venue with a matching date. And that's were we are with planning right now.

As for my ring, that has been a slight bump in the road. I went to get it sized a few weeks ago. I needed it sized from a sz. 7 to a sz. 4.5 (yes I have small fingers.) The first jeweler I had look at it said he wouldn't feel comfortable taking it down to a size so small bc it would jeopardize the integrity of the ring. As you can see from the picture I have two small rows of diamonds cascading down either side of my ring in a prong setting. He said stretching it would open up the prongs etc., etc. So it was either that or find a new ring. So we went back to the original jeweler where my fiance got the ring from and they said they would gladly re-size the ring. Which we were happy about. Until I got the ring back after having it sized and was totally bummed as to how my "new" ring turned out. There is a very prominent "bend" where you can see the ring was sized down and the middle part of the ring seems paper thin. I'm bummed bc I gave it to them with confidence that they'd do a good job. They were much more helpful and accomodating than the first jeweler we went to but like I said I can't help but feel like I should have heeded the first jeweler's warnings.

Luckily, the jeweler who did resize my ring also explained to me the option of having it taken in to get it recast in my size altogether. Granted that will take 4-6 weeks, which is why I went for the resizing option first. Either way I will most likely have it taken in to have my ring recast in my size. I wish I would have done that option first. Ahh well live and learn. So if there are any of you other ladies with small fingers that needs their ring resized, I highly recommend you just have the ring you want made in the size you need, versus having a larger ring sized down.

I don't want to seem picky, but it is my engagement ring...something I'll have and cherish forever...so I want it done right. Is that so wrong?

A very SPECIAL 4th of July!

I know the 4th of July weekend is long gone and we are approaching a new weekend but I have had a lot on my brain this past week because I GOT ENGAGED last Friday! The now fiance, surprised me in front of my family during a 4th of July BBQ dinner. He knew 4th of July is my fave holiday so he succeeded at making it extra special for me :)

I will admit I already have an idea of how I want our wedding to be. Can't help it, its every little girls dream right...so I've been planning things in my head ever since we started seriously talking about getting married in the near future. He totally surprised me because when we would discuss it he would always tell me 2010, we'll do it 2010. So I figured, okay don't expect anything until 2010. Which explains my especially surprised reaction in the pictures below!

So naturally you'll probably see a lot of wedding posts from now until the actual day. Luckily I never really planned my blog to be about any one subject in particular, just "anything that gets me through the day" so it works. I'll still be posting my scarce sewing projects but I've been trying to shy away from Etsy lately, as to not tempt myself since I do have a wedding to save up for now :P Also, I don't know if I've mentioned it here before, but I was in the process of building inventory to start an Etsy store myself, and so that will most definitely be put on hold as well. But ack...soo many temptations, like this great fabric sale mentioned at mmmcrafts! I still desperately want to build my fabric stash...sacrifices, sacrifices. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend...I'll be taking in my ring to get sized, oh how I'll miss it so :P