The ring is on the finger. Gown is hanging in the closet. Date, place and time have been set. Engagement portraits have been taken. The fun has begun! Finally! All the little details are beginning to pop up and need thoughts and decisions. My goodness, there are so many choices out there for every aspect of a wedding. Like anything else, the internet can help or hinder by offering so many choices. We make the mistake of going online to get ideas for something and find something, click on it, that leads to something else and that to something else and that to something else. It reminds me of looking at a picture of a doorway taken in a mirror. It goes on and on and on and on.... LOL You don't make a decision because you are afraid to, you might miss something!
Like the internet, TV offers waaaaaaaaaaay too many wedding ideas as well. One afternoon a week you can sit and watch wedding shows on one channel for hours. Two evenings there are wedding shows on for four to six hours. That doesn't include the wedding cake shows! And if you watch David Tutera's My Fair Wedding, you know theme weddings are the thing! I would never have dreamed we would have a theme wedding. Well....
Remember that first post? I think I may have mentioned the Princess' dream was for an outdoor country wedding in the mountains? We had to drop the mountains. We had to drop the outdoor. Now, the country has been dropped. LOL See what I mean? Too many choices.
The final decision for the theme was totally different because of the change in venues. Now that the wedding will be a true production, in Bainbridge Little Theatre, guess what the theme will be? Come on, guess. MOVIES! Betcha didn't see that coming. LOL The Royal Couple are media nuts. Walking Wikipedia on movies, music, and books. The Princess can just about quote the scripts of most 80's movies. Oh, to have her memory. [side note you probably are not interested in at all, but I am having a nostalgia moment here so bear with me: when she was 18 to 24 months old, we read books to her every day, several times a day. She memorized them. She would sit and look at the pages and recite what was on each page. People thought she was reading the pages. I remember the looks she would get in the doctor's office--astonishment. So funny.]
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| Hmm. What time does Love Boat come on? (age 18 mos) |
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| Get me a pen & paper. I feel a letter to the editor coming on! (age 2) |
Back to the themed wedding. First order of business was Save the Date cards. Because of my sister and a home-based business she has, our Save the Date Cards were pretty inexpensive and so easy! Send Out Cards allows you to design your card, import your address list, check the ones you want to send, and hit "send". The cards are printed, addressed, and mailed for you! You can go back and check to see where the card is: in printing, at post office, delivered, returned. Much cheaper than having Save the Date cards printed, then having to address them and stamp them. Saved HOURS and DOLLARS!! By the way, you don't have to just send Save the Date cards, you can send birthday, anniversary, get well, congrats, anything. My sister sends out family reunion reminders each year. And boy was that good...because she already had all those addresses saved in the Send Out Cards site! You know how painstaking it is to gather addresses? If you are planning anything....go to her website and check it out. Or if you want to set up birthday cards to be sent out for the year, you can personalize a ready made card, or design your own and set it up to be sent out on the date you want it to be mailed. How much easier can it get!!!!!!
There is a template for a postcard or greeting card on the Send Out Card site; you just choose the template you want to use and you can download photos for your creation. Really easy. I used some of the shots that my niece, Mallory Creel, took in Havana for the engagement portraits. She did a wonderful job. Check out some of her work at Live*Love*Photography. Cost is about $.90 per card (including postage!) and there is no addressing or stamping! How easy can that be? (The first batch I sent out, I used my sister's page and I forgot to change the return address! LOL)
Now, that we have Save the Date cards, we can concentrate on flowers and tablecloths, and all those fun details. Can't wait to tell you about the rehearsal dinner! What fun it will be!
Memories from Bainbridge Little Theatre:
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| first Childrens Summer Workshop, June 1990 (love those pigtails!) |
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| Four children from Bainbridge were invited by Jim Lillethun to participate in South Georgia Opera's performance of Hansel & Gretel. John Dubay, Clyde Washington, and Lil Princess were among those 4. They performed in Tallahassee (Princess w/strep throat), Thomasville, and Bainbridge. December 1990 (black shoes & socks on front row) |
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| 2nd year of Childrens Summer Workshop. Princess in red shirt and costume on front row. June 1991 |
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| That #25 a charmer even at age 2. |
