Updates...

I have a really hard time finding things to write about lately. You would assume that the closer you get to an actual wedding date, the more you would have to do. When in reality there is a weird lull that occcurs between the beginning and the end of marriage...I meant the end of wedding planning, but I think the original comment is pretty true as well. Anyhoo...

Let's do some updates: my invitations are in my possession, the majority of the addresses are also in my possession, I have ordered stamps, and I am really excited about how the invites turned out. In my attempt to make my wedding English themed, I have tried really hard to keep the invitation aspect under control. If I had an unlimited budget, I would go crazy on the paper aspect of my wedding. I love calligraphy and letterpress and clever wording and all that is a wedding invitation. However, I feel like I have hit the highpoints of the invitations that meant the most to me, so I am happy with the end product. You will all be receiving them soon!

My dress should be in Rogers by the beginning of April. I am very excited about this concept and glad that when I try it on this time around, I will be at least a little thinner than I was the first time around. All good things.

Cody and I took engagement pictures last Wednesday with Jeremy Cavness out of Bentonville. We had a lot of fun and are really excited to see the pictures. The entire engagement pictures idea was a bit daunting to me at the beginning. Trying to capture love within a still shot seems to be a task that usually leads to 900 pictures of people kissing in different outfits. Neither Cody or myself are into the kissing picture idea, and I feel like we still had a good time and captured some of our own personality and style...hopefully.

In other news that does not have to do directly with my wedding, my best friend Katie is recently engaged to her boy toy A.J. I am super excited and happy for both of them. I think they will make an awesome married couple and seem to be on the path to many years of happiness together. I have known Katie since literally we were like 5 years old. Our paths crossed again in high school and we hit it off as the best of friends. It seems like yesterday I was illegally driving her car down 6th street to visit our friend Art and get into all of the trouble we could find. I appreciate friends like Katie and I am very happy she has a found a guy as nice as A.J. It is so weird to me the way life ends up. I would have never guessed as a sophomore in high school Katie and I would be in the situations we are in (engaged, careers, houses, adult lifes). I am glad to have a friend still around who experienced high school with me. In a way Katie and I will be forever a part of the halls of Southside High School, despite the fact that we have both moved far beyond those years. It's good to have old friends to recount the times that were good. Hopefully, there will be many more years to recount in the future.

On a purely selfish note, I am happy Katie got engaged because I get to relive the wedding planning experience from the outside in and I am a little relieved about that. Good luck to you, my friend!

T minus three months until I am officially hitched. Woohoo!