The Story of the Heat Stamp & Tie!

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HEAT:

So today I was pretty happy about having electricity and heat for the first time this week. My roommates are making a formal compliant and asking for compensation to BYU. BYU sets up our mediation and we basically take our landlord in and hopefully something will get done about all the problems we have had this year.


We typed up a 5 page summary of all the bad things that they have done this year and what we want! The heat was like the final HUGE straw that broke the camels back... You put SEVEN girls in a house for 3 days without HEAT OR LIGHT during midterms and there is HELL to pay!

STAMP:

I stopped by the post office today to ask one of the post men if he knew if I could get pretty stamps the week that the rate changes... He said NO! He said they release new stamps a few weeks later and for the first month or so its only flag stamps. He said the only way I could do pretty stamps was to buy 41 cent stamps I liked and then add the 1 cent stamp too it. EH I thought to myself... Pretty stamp would then look cluttered by UNpretty 1 cent stamp and seeing as I am a matching FREAK! I am sticking with the liberty bell forever stamps... They go in the trash before the announcement does anyway, Right!?
TIE:

I had a fantastic find today!!! I had found some ties online for my wedding that I really loved. They had them in XL Regular and Kids, all the same color and they were silk! I really loved them and the fact that the site had Free shipping and 30 day money back return policy! I was caught up thou on the fact that they were going to cost me a ton. I kept telling myself, ties for one day for all the guys to match should not be this much and I was sure I could find something cheaper.

So I went to the local tie store in the mall... What a hellishly fun event that has been over the last 3 weeks! Trying to get those moronic 16 year olds to tell me own to get 5 of the same color xl tie at one store was like trying to teach my dog French! I told Dan that the only reason putting up with their crap was worth it was the fact that the ties seemed to be a pretty good quality, they matched and they were CHEAP.

LONG STORY SHORT! I found today that the original ties I wanted were on SALE! (well the XL) and we needed 6 of those so it was divine!

As the table turns

So no fun stamps for us on our wedding invitations. We are planning on sending our invites out on the 19th or so of May (somewhere around then) and the stamp price changes to 42 cents on the 12th! So I don't know if their will be any nice 42 cent stamps that week. I was going to buy 41 cent ones but I don't want to stick 1 cent stamps all over.

So whatever!

Mary Dempsey helped me figure out finally what I am doing for my centerpieces. She guided my mental ideas and encouraged me to look for an interesting red vase and I found these fantastic hand blown blood red vases that are about 12 inches tall... They have a small opening at the top and are the perfect fit for my three flowers!

They will go on top of mirrors which will go on top of our red square toppers... So the same flowers from the last post will be the 3 flowers in each of the vases.

We finally settled on doing some flowers for the bridesmaids to hold and I ordered my flowers from Cactus Flowers in Tempe. My sister in law Kate used them for her wedding. I am so excited!

We finally have found enough Christmas lights for our reception. We did not buy enough right after Christmas and found it near impossible to find them off season, but thanks to posting my need on Craigs List, a very nice old retired man had 60 boxes of lights unopened that he had gotten from Lowe's after Christmas and was willing to part with them for below what we found them in December! I am very thankful to him!

So my original ideas have changed over the last 4 months and we have 4 months to go until our wedding! But hey, I figure my ideas can't change too much anymore now that we have actually purchased a lot of the items we will need!

I am not entirely sure what the theme of my wedding is but this is how its going

Bridesmaids outfits... Matt's wife Kandice was the first to try on the whole look... Her shirt and skirt both need to be hemmed like 4 inches but its getting there..
Possibly what I do for my wedding flowers...
I want a parasol! (Dan laughs every time I say this!)
And Paper Lanterns like these (no pink)!


I love these stamps for the invitations...

Update on life

The past few weeks have gone by in a flash. We are down to just a little over 4 months till our wedding. I am having a hard time with getting things in order, doing school, making it to all my appointments with bishops, doctors and counselors, and working close to full time as well as planning our wedding and our life after that.

Right now we are in the process of finding an apartment, planning our budget, saving money for deposits and bills...

I am glad I love Dan because, well, I don't think I would go through all of this work and stress for anyone else. I never complain about doing most of the planning, he is so busy with school and I want that to be his main focus.

Anyway we are working hard together to be prepared for our future and I am proud of both of us for the decisions we have made in regards to our marriage and nothing can change that.

I love SHOES

Walking through Nordstrom's today I spotted this hot little number calling my name!!! I had given up on finding the perfect wedding shoe, but here they are!

Photo Shoot

Never did senior photos so we are doing senior year of college photos. Kate did a fabulous job with these and I can't wait for her to do my wedding photography!!!