From the Mind of AlphaBetsy

It's official, there is a very little over a month until the wedding. My life is becoming all wedding all the time. But it will be here before I know it and afterwards I will be married to one of the most wonderful men I have ever met. Makes it all seem worth it somehow. I have to tell you a story that starts out amazing, gets really scary (and kind of funny in hindsight) and ends back at amazing. I have said before that I was having trouble with my dress, like that it didn't fit. I considered buying the same dress in a larger size, but my color was retired. We went to talk to David's bridal and they said that the dress could probably be let out. Mom and I were going to take the dress to the shop on Tuesday, August 21, so on Monday night when Seth got home at 11:30 or thereabout, I decided I should try the dress one last time. And IT FIT!!! It zipped up with little to no problem and looked fabulous. I danced about for a minute in celebration and then asked Seth to get m...

My bridal shower was on Saturday. My sister, mother and aunts did an amazing job putting it all together. The decorations were so ridiculously gorgeous that I brought them all home to use for the wedding. :) Wall Art Table decoration The little bottles have watch parts and gears in them The danglys are keys and more watch bits Skeleton couple art made by my aunt and cousin Table decorations books and clocks  All Random, beautiful decorations family  admiring my new niece Angie eating. The happy soon to be bride Toilet paper bride #1 Toilet Paper bride #2 Toilet paper bride #3 Toilet paper bride #4  Toilet paper bride #5 - the winner Ready to open presents It's a bat!! Viking hand puppet... I call him Seth. :) Me and my friend Jen who came in from Pittsburgh

My wedding is in a little under 2 months, and it seems like things are coming apart a bit rather than coming together. My mother, who has been set to be our officiant since, essentially,  day one is getting cold feet, and is not sure if she would be comfortable officiating. She is afraid she will ruin the wedding, and that it would not be as meaningful as we want it to be. I know where she is coming from, but it puts a big wrench into our plans. Not only because we would be looking for an officiant a month and a half before the wedding, but also because I loved the idea of her being the one to perform the ceremony. To me it seemed the ultimate "giving me away". I also want her to be happy and comfortable too, though. This really sucks. On top of that my dress still does not fit. I know I have some time still, but I am really scared it is just never going to fit. I am going on Friday to buy a back up dress, just in case, but the color I bought my dress in has been retired,...

Saturday Seth and I, accompanied by Mark and Sarah (Seth's parents) and my mom and sister, went back to Buckeye Winery in Newark to bottle the wine we made for the wedding. We had a seriously good time. The bottling process was fun, but I kept being afraid I would over fill. Their auto corker was broken, so we used a manual corker that was honestly so fun that I was not sad about the broken equipment. The labels we chose turned out beautiful, and we got to label them all. We ended up with 30 bottles of each flavor of wine, so 60 bottles total. That was more than we expected, and will work out perfectly for us.  My mom came over the other day with the mock up of my jacket for over my dress, and it is amazing, so I cannot wait to see the real thing. Here is the mock up over my dress.  Of course the actual jacket will be made of this fabric.  I am going to be mailing out the invitations this week, and then we are real...