Nancy and Thomas

[nle5]

Well, I finally decided I would make a wedding journal on here so everyone could see our wedding planning progress. The wedding will take place on March 11, 2006 at 3:00 PM in ***p Verde, Az. We have finally decided to get married in the ***p Verde United Methodist Church, where I attended as a child. My family has always been very active in this church and there are still family members which attend church services every Sunday. Our wedding colors are navy, hot pink, silver, and ivory. I will wear an elegant wedding gown in ivory and the groom will wear an ivory tuxedo. The bridesmaids will wear navy dresses. The guest list includes almost 200 people including the officiant and spouse, dj and spouse, and photographer and spouse.

The reception will be held at the ***p Verde Community Center about 1 mile from the church. We are planning on starting the reception at 5:00 PM so pictures can be taken after the ceremony. My family is going to cater an Italian dinner which will include several types of salad, spaghetti with meat, spaghetti without meat, and italian bread (this of course is the start of the menu, more might be added later). We will include dancing at the reception and are going to book a dj for the event.

Tom and I have also worked very hard on our wedding website. We had it on one server and then it was taken off of the server for unknown reasons. Therefore, we changed it to another server and it works better than ever. There are also pictures of the happy couple on the wedding website. I have tried to upload some on here but it has not worked as the files are too big. I have asked Tom to try and optimize the pictures so you will not have to go to the website just for the pictures. However, we do not mind if you take look as we have put a lot of hours into the wedding website. With Tom being a web designer he knew exactly what to do without having to pay to go through one of the wedding website companies. Here is the link to the new wedding website .

I will be posting pictures of various things we have decided on which include different attire, flowers, cake, decorations, etc.

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I have choosen a dress from David's Bridal. The dress is going to be ivory with a cathedral train. I do have to get the dress altered with a bustle so I can dance at the wedding reception. Here are some pictures of the dress.

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While I had a hard time deciding what type of veil I wanted and if I wanted a tiara or not I finally decided on the following veil and tiara. After I get my veil made and my dress in from David's Bridal I am going to have bead work done on the veil that matches the dress.

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After looking at a lot of dresses I felt appropriate for the junior bridesmaids to wear I finally choose a dress. I will have two junior bridesmaids, my oldest daughter and her best friend. The dress is shown in the picture in two different colors but I can order it in one solid color which the two girls like better. The dress will be in navy.

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I have picked out the following tiara for the two girls to wear with their dresses. I was going to get the flower girls a tiara and the junior bridesmaids wanted one as well. Here is a picture of the tiara.

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The flower girl attire is going to include the following dress and tiara. I am going to have two flower girls, my youngest daughter and her best friend. My FMIL crocheted a flower girl basket and once I get a picture of it I will post the picture.

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As most of you know from reading some of the other forums, my FH's uncle made my cake top. I am adding a place for it here since I want to keep everything all together in one thread.

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This was probably the hardest thing to agree on since I kept trying to find an invitation with two hearts, which is our wedding theme, and then he wanted a particular edge on the invitation. I think we changed our minds at least 5 times and went through numerous wedding invitation catalogs and websites. The invitation will have navy lettering and this invitation will print the front out with the lettering color choosen. The envelope will have a silver lining. I think this is neat since the whole invitation will have navy print. Here is the one we finally chose.

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I found a place which prints up personalized banners. I decided to get one for outside the reception location so guests can find the place easier. Here is what the banner will look like once it is ordered.

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The wedding cake was pretty easy to figure out what we wanted. I told him my aunt would make it for us and that I wanted to make sure it had a fountain. Even though we went through several Wilton Wedding Cake Books we soon decided on one. I love the picture of the cake and know my aunt will do an excellent job. The cake will also have several stairs in which I am trying to find some figurines of bridesmaids and groomsmen to place on them. I also would like to try and find a figurine of a flower girl and ring bearer. Here is a picture of the wedding cake.