We've decided on a purple, orange, and white scheme. I've been playing around with the idea of adding some bold pink and greens, but we'll see. Here are some samples:
Bridal Party
All of the girls are set for the bridal party: Amanda (my sister), Danielle (childhood best friend), Jillian (best friend from NFTY), Jackie (college roommate), and Angela (college roommate). Neal pretty much knows who he is going to ask but has not asked anyone yet. The boys are lucky, they have way less to do so they can be asked later on.
Bridesmaid Dresses
All my bridesmaids are meeting up this weekend to look at dresses! Some of them have already tried on at David's Bridal, but we didn't find anything we really loved. The girls are all such different shapes that it might be hard to pick something everyone loves. I'm playing around with the idea of different dresses that are the same designer, material, and color.
Wedding Gown
My dress... well there are two dresses that I really like right now. I still haven't fell madly in love with a dress but I do feel somewhat pressured to pick one. We are only about ten months from the wedding, and I need to have one picked about 8 or 9 months out. I really love the trumpet and mermaid style dresses but I can't find any that have the perfect amount of sparkle to them. When I ask people their opinions I get very mixed reactions - mostly because the dress style is so unique. I'm just not sure that I want a typical a-line dress.
Photography and Videography
Booked! We are having Lawrence Photography. We've seen wedding photography done by our photographer at our venue and loved it. So happy to have both of these set.
Flowers
Booked! Flowers by Brian is a company who also has a lot of experience with our venue. They are going to bring and decorate a huppah because I hated the one at Leonard's (our venue).
DJ
Neal is working on finding us a DJ. The biggest problem is that there are too many! It's so much to go through each of the popular DJs. We are starting with the list that our venue gave us.
Save the Dates
Almost done! They'll be going out this week, as soon as we get some more stamps. Last week Neal and I put the magnets into the envelopes. Yesterday I printed all of the address labels. Today I put all of the address labels on them and return address labels, and all of the stamps we had. We have about 40 more to stamp and then we'll send them all out!
Rabbi
We met with Rabbi Karol towards the end of June. It was a great first meeting, and we have our next one in October. He'll be doing our ceremony. Check out the ceremony section of our website for more information about our wedding ceremony.
Summer 2010
This summer was pretty crazy with wedding planning and work. I was so busy with camp and classes, and Neal with his job, baseball, and softball. One major highlight of the summer was our trip out to Illinois where I was able to meet most of Neal's family. It was great to put faces to names and I can't wait to see everyone again at our wedding in July. Now the academic year has begun and Neal is back to class at Queens College for his teaching certificate, and I'm taking a grad course through NYIT towards my Masters. And we're super busy with planning our wedding!
