My baby

It's my 200th post so I thought I'd share with you a little glimpse of the future. This is apparently the baby me and my guy will make. Not sure where the blonde hair comes from though.

A Futile Wedding Fight

Every bride in some part wants to be a frugal bride: get a deal on fabric for centerpieces, find your dress as part of someones sample sale, or be able to use your uncle as both officiant and DJ. And there are tons of books, websites, and lunatic ravings of women gone mad to tell you how to do just that.

But there is one entity in the wedding industry that no matter how much you scrimp and save you can never best. And even if they do not meet your expectations and requirements of the contract you make you cannot report them to any BBB.

I refer, of course, to the post office.

You are, according to every etiquette guide on earth, to send paper invitations through the mail, oh but that's not all. There are also those Save the Dates you've been working so hard on, and the shower invites. And you cannot forget about the thank yous for all those parties or Emily Post will stomp on your fingers with her hard riding boots.

I swear the post office must have some draconian deal with any writer about to talk about the proper way to send out invitations (or STD's, RSVP's, Reception cards, Thank You's, and any other way to contact your guests). It is required that everything have a stamp on it, even better if it has a couple. The internet is this evil thing that will suck the life out of both your wedding and marriage.

But everyone knows that stamps aren't that bad, just a little 42 cents for one of them. Oh, but that's right, you're inviting more than 10 people to your wedding. And you'd really like them to send back their RSVP's so they need stamps. Don't forget about all those thank you notes too.

So before you know it your nice simple wedding has raked in $150 for the post office without batting an eye and there isn't a single thing you can do about.

Ceremony pro pics

Here are a few of the professional ceremony pictures from Sisters Photography that aren't the okay stand the bride and groom up and change everyone behind them. Everyone has to do them (especially to appease parents) and everyone has seen basically the same thing.

So instead here are the pictures at the ceremony of us being ourselves.

This is a posed picture, but I swear to God both of those guys make the exact same faces in regular life.
I just love my tall flowergirl.My best friend and I are kinda goofy sometimes, she sure loves the rabbit ears.









I love this picture as she's smiling just as bright as ever but as you go down you can see that she's shifting her feet in her shoes just like a little kid."Okay Dad, now you got to take a right. What do you mean you're at the airport? How the hell did you wind up there?"I call this my "I am waiting for a bus" pose. It'll be all the rage in weddings soon, trust me.Help, my neck is being eaten by flora! Get the roundup!We had a few write ins for the ring bearer after a failed nap and some anxiety disorder.I so badly wanted a picture of me and my friends. While I had a relatively small party some of my good friends filled what some would think as less glamorous roles because they wanted to (IE why I had a 21 year old flower girl and someone on guestbook). And just because they weren't bridesmaids or have to get special dresses didn't mean I did not want some pictures with them.We're still waiting on the reception ones, which I am sure are way more fascinating (I think there's a picture of me drawing on my tall flower girls boob).

A pro pic sneak peak

We just got our professional pictures in yesterday and while I've been fighting with photobucket to get them uploaded I've flipped through some but still have to pick which ones I like best.

I do have a few little sneak peaks to show you all though (I'm sure you're just thrilled at this point. In fact I bet you woke up thinking, God I hope I get to see more wedding pictures from someone who's already posted all of theirs).

And since on can only take so much sap on a lazy Sunday morning, here's a fun candid shot where it looks like someone killed the bride. I'm actually leaning back trying to get a hold of an unhappy toddler but I like the other story much better.

We still have to wait on a bunch of the reception pictures, which I'm sure you're all much more excited about.

Happy Guilty Wedding Day

Guilty's getting married today to her Baddie.

It's gonna be a fireworks extravaganza (which I hope doesn't involve the fire brigade).

I'm sure all of you bloggers have seen Guilty around, if there is anyone who is sure to leave a kind word or two on a wedding blog it's Guilty. She's the Jimmy Stewart of wedding blogs.

Much luck and love on you guys special wedding day.

P.S. I wasn't kidding about the fire brigade.