Dashed Dreams...

Remember my brilliant idea of having desserts instead of cake?
 

And my worries about the amount of time involved, the money involved, the traditions involved, and oh yeah the part about if the reception site will let us? Thankfully, I have a fabulous friend who went to culinary school and offered to make our desserts for us-that took care of the time and money involved. Fishboy and I were pumped about this idea-we thought it would finally come to fruition...until I heard back from the reception site. And they gave our idea the big thumbs down. Making me a very sad fishie... 

And now it was back to the drawing board-a very restricted drawing board. Our reception site said that we could bring in cake or cupcakes, anything else would have to be ordered through them. Their list of desserts consisted of: cheesecake (yay!), cream puffs (boo), and chocolate dipped strawberries (yay! and boo)...and dashed my dreams of having a dessert buffet. 


Every cloud does have a silver lining though, and our venue does offer a build your own sundae bar which may be possible except for two things 1) I'll be wearing white, and I'm the person who ALWAYS manages to spill SOMETHING on myself-I can just imagine having chocolate sauce all down the front of my white dress and 2) it's a little cost prohibitive at 4.99/person, which doesn't sound like much but when we're planning on having 200 people that quickly becomes almost $1000 on a sundae bar-in addition to the $3000 we're already spending on food.


For the time being, our tentative plan is cupcakes-and although we're a little turned off by the trendiness of it since it's something that EVERYONE seems to be doing right now, it seems like our only viable option right now. But, I'm still a sad fishie for having my dessert bar dreams dashed.


I turn to you my faithful readers, do we serve cake, cupcakes, or find the money for the build your own sundae bar?

Shoes Fit For The Dudes

Fishboy has had very few requests in the process of planning the wedding. And since it's not just "my" day but "our" day, he's gotten every one of his requests filled. For example, he had a very specific idea on what he wanted for a tux.

While it isn't what I had in mind, and not what I would have picked it made him happy and that's what matters. The way I figure it, I got to pick out what I'm wearing, why shouldn't Fishboy get to pick out what he's wearing? Which brings us to his latest request... 

Converse Shoes! Now, I know it's becoming uber popular on the wedding blogs to see the groomsmen wearing Converse shoes with their tuxes but let's face it Fishboy isn't one to be stalking wedding blogs like you and I do. When I asked him why he wanted him and the dudes in the wedding to wear Converse he told me the simple truth...because their comfortable. Not because it's trendy, or cool, and not because he's a huge Converse wearer. But because he wanted all the guys to be able to be comfortable, or at least their feet. Did you let your groom get his way every once in awhile?

It's HERE!

Fishboy! Turn Around and Step Away From THE COMPUTER! This is not for you eyes! K, thanks love you!

 

Is he gone? Ok, good! Remember back 6 months ago when I told you all about the "perfect" dress that I'd found while I was shopping by myself? Or if you need a  refresher click on over and read all about it. 
  

  

I plopped my money down for the dress and walked out of the store, a happy fishie. I've been in an out of that store too many times to count in the last 6 months and never gave the dress a second thought so I'm not entirely sure what made me think of it when MOH Belle went shopping for her dress but as we're standing up at the counter paying for her dress I casually asked the nice lady if my dress had even been ordered yet. Her response? "Didn't they call you?" Alright, I'm not normally one to overreact but this sent shivers down my spine my brain went into chaos mode and started thinking crazy thoughts like 'they lost my order...', 'my dress has been discontinued...', or even worse 'the company went out of business...' now, I know that last one was a stretch but I was panicking. When I was finally able to mumble out "no, they didn't" the nice lady at the Bridal Shoppe told me "it just came in..." and then she said the best 7 words in the English language at that time "do you want to try it on?" Heck ya I wanted to try it on! And then the bad thoughts started creeping in, it'd been 6 months since I'd seen it what if I didn't like it anymore? What if, it's not the right color?, What if...what if...? 

And then I tried it on and all the "what if..."s went right out the window! I loved the dress, even more then the first time I tried it on. The color was perfect, and everything was fine in my little world.

Fortunately the dress really doesn't need much alterations...the strap is a little long and the hem needs to be shortened and the bustle needs to be added but that's all very doable so I'm super excited! Oh, and what's your opinions on the veil...I'm leaning towards the one in the last picture or none at all. But I'm not entirely sure!

Being City Slickers...

I'm a small town girl, born and raised. Fishboy on the other hand lived in the suburbs of the big city of Chippewa Falls his whole life. Neither one of us is big city kind of people so when our photographer Tricia suggested we have our engagement pictures taken in downtown Eau Claire, we were understandably skeptical. But, we were pleasantly surprised by the results! Who knew that we had some serious city slickers hidden under our small town, suburban exteriors.

Who knew those dance lessons would translate into some FABULOUS photo shots!

Tricia told us to walk down the middle of the road...in the middle of traffic! The instructions we were getting from her were too funny; "walk faster, now walk slower" ,"look at eachother not at the traffic", "look out there's a car coming".

If you look closely in the background you can see the cars coming towards us...we had to quick get in and out of the middle of the road to avoid getting hit!

The best part of this photo is fishboy's face, he's trying really hard not to laugh as there was a car coming towards us and Tricia kept us standing in the middle of the road to get the shot!

 I call this one the "Eskimo Kiss" since Tricia told us to "rub noses"

 

Another shot standing in the middle of the road, it's a great shot and avoiding cars was getting to be a game!

Tricia told Fishboy to look at me affectionately and I was supposed to look like I was taking a nap, which was fine with me since I was getting exhausted from dodging traffic.

The bench that we're sitting on, almost didn't make it into our shoot. There was a little old lady sitting on the bench when Tricia wanted to take these shots and after she got up and moved Tricia was telling us to "quick, run across the street before someone else sits there"

  

 
Tricia almost started crying she was laughing so hard after I popped my leg up on this shot. I can't remember her exact instructions for the shot but after I popped my leg up, she started laughing and telling me that's not what she meant.












There you have it, the two sides of the fishies! The outdoorsy country type and now the city slicker side. Which side do you guys like better? I like our outdoor shots in Irvine Park a little better then the shots in downtown EC but I'm glad we got the chance to hang out with Tricia since she'll be shooting the wedding photos!

It's The Quiet Ones You Have To Watch Out For..

I realize I've been a little quiet around here lately. I promise it's not because I have nothing to talk about! It's been a crafting marathon around here in the last couple weeks and I promise you that full disclosure is forthcoming! Just hang in there!