Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert's Wedding

Ok, so I promised that I would blog about the wedding and all the wonderful details but I will have to wait for a while for all of the pics and details to come out through the media. We were told we have to keep it on the DL for now. BUT, when it comes time I will be sure to share with you a day by day breakdown of my amazing opportunity and involvement in the Shelton's wedding!

For those of you who don't know - the florist I work for was chosen to do all the florals for Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert's wedding and I GOT TO GO and work my butt off! It was completely worth it though! Sorry I have been MIA for a while, I was gone to Texas for the wedding for a week and have been crazy busy with work since I got back - not to mention miserable with nasty allergies! Hope to be back on the blogging trail soon! In the meantime go out and get yourself a copy of Us Weekly to see some of our floral work and ceremony decor! In honor of the country cuties, cheers - with a glass of whiskey on the rocks...

getting close!

I have been absent once again, it is becoming an issue. Once I get home from work the only thing I feel like doing is making dinner and going to sleep! And I never know if people really read this nonsense so I feel like no one is really missing anything if I blog - if you are a reader and don't follow me leave me some love in my comment box!

Last week I got the call that my dress was in so I packed up some wedding stuff and headed home to see the beauty! I was very anxious because I had not lost that much weight and I am still not satisfied with the way I look so I was afraid I would not like the way I looked. I am excited to say that as of today I have lost 12 lbs and 3.5 inches off my waist in about a week and a half!!! I am very proud of myself and I hope that it keeps coming off!!! OK, back to the dress - sorry I get side tracked very easily! I knew that the dress would need to be hemmed for sure and that there would be some other minor changes as well so I went into the fitting knowing that my dress was not going to look the way it will on the wedding day. The dress that I tried on was not the same color that I ordered so when I walked into the fitting room (with HUGE mirrors on every wall! eek!) there was my beautiful WHITE WHITE dress hanging in all its glory! My mom and I were so excited to see it again in person, it has been six months since we had seen it last! It looked a little different but I remembered it ( I can't lie - I looked at it probably at least once a week since we purchased it) but I was surprised at the color. I wanted to wear white I just didn't realize it would be this white! It has a sheen to it - so it kinda glimmers in the light so its not a flat white.

The owner of the store is the one who did the fitting and she is so great, I was glad that she was there to do it. I slipped into the dress and she started lacing it up in the back and I can just see the panic in my mom's eyes - she starts to freak cause she thinks she is not going to be able to lace it up the day of the wedding so I see her studying what Sher (the owner) is doing, then she starts asking a million questions and all the sudden became a paparazzi!!! And if you know me, I do not like random pictures of me taken AT ALL - I HATE it, I like to know when you are taking a picture and at what angle - I hate candid photos! So here she is clicking away and I am not even all the way laced up! Gotta love her though!

So I am standing on this little wooden box in my wedding shoes that are not that tall but when you are standing on a small wooden box in one spot for like ten minutes straight your ankles start to throb! Finally it is laced up and I am in it and to my surprise it is quite a bit too big! I was relieved, but a little disappointed because it did not look the way I wanted it to. Since I have been losing weight they are not going to take it in until my next fitting which will be my last I believe, so hopefully once it is all said and done it will look fab and fit like a glove. So we looked at and stared at it and walked around a little and then I got back up on the box and she started to pin the hem. Wow, I knew I was short (somewhere between 5"1 and 5"3), but she jacked that hem up - you could have made a reception dress out of the fabric they are going to cut out of it! So that took a while and I just stood and my mom continued to ask questions and take pics.

Then when everything was pinned up we got out my veil and feather fascinator and attempted to make it look right - we have been having issues with the veil, it does not want to behave! Sher got it to look pretty good and my mom was making her show her how she did it and then took more pics of it in my hair so she can remember...

So that was my dress fitting experience. While we were there we picked up the rest of the bridesmaid dresses to deliver to the out of town girls - it was my first time seeing them and they looked great and I still love them too! All the guys have been fitted for their tuxes and I just picked up the girls shoes, I immediately made Haley (Matt's younger sister and my roommate)try on the whole ensemble and it looked great!!! I was worried that the shoes would not go well with the dresses cause I got them online without seeing them or the dresses in person so I am so relieved that they go great together, I just hope everyone's shoes fit!

In other news I am mentally preparing myself for everything coming up at work, moving and the wedding. I have today off and possibly tomorrow then basically work almost everyday the rest of May - I have a big trip coming up for work that I leave for next week, we will be gone Tuesday through Sunday, we are headed to the Southwest and it is going to be hottttt!!! I am excited though, it is going to be some really cool floral work! Matt and his dad are going to be moving stuff into our first apartment while I am gone (very excited I don't have to do any heavy lifting for that, but I will be in 90 something degree weather so I don't feel too bad!)

Well that is all for now since I just wrote quite a bit for one day! Hope everyone in KY is getting excited for the Derby, wish I was able to partake in the festivities! I will cheers you with an invisible Mint Julep today!

down in the dumps

So I am not having the best week, just down a little and pretty overwhelmed! Once May hits I am going to be going non stop with work & wedding stuff - I am trying to prepare myself. Everything right now is pretty low key though so I am getting kind of nervous that I won't be able to keep up once everything starts getting crazy!

The bridesmaid's dresses are in, I won't be able to see them for a week or two but I hope they look great! My dress is in between somewhere in China and Louisville, KY. Who knows! I hope it arrives soon cause it is getting down to crunch time for fittings and making sure everything is in order! The bridal store says that it should be there in a week or two.

Matt & I put down a deposit on our first apartment together! We are staying in BG, we had hoped to move towards Nashville but everything we looked at was way over priced for the amount of space we would be getting. We figured we might as well stay put until Matt graduates and we have more income to put towards a nice place close to Nashville.

Everyone is starting to get their invitations, my mom sent them out last week and she has gotten about 20 reply cards back which is exciting! I hope everyone replies so I don't have to call people... that would not be fun!

I have been doing my TurboFire workout for about a week now and it is crazy! At first I did not think it was that bad, but then I had my first HIIT workout yesterday (which means high intensity interval training) I almost died!!!! Oh my gosh, it was insane! I hope to keep it up and stay on track. Well that is what I have been up to lately! Cheers to a great week!

exciting things

I love me some Tori Spelling & all things wedding, so naturally I am super excited about her new show sToribook Weddings that starts tomorrow!



I am going back into my hair stylist next week to show her my veil & possibly do another run through of my hair. This is a picture of the first run through, not sure if I will keep it like this or not. I like it, but it is very heavy in the back cause I have a ton of hair! I am excited to see it all with the veil. I am waiting for my dress to come in also, I haven't called - I figure it would be better just to be patient but I am getting kind of nervous that neither my dress nor the bridesmaids dresses are in. I am getting ready to order the girls shoes & possibly make them some little stud earrings to wear.



If you know me, then you know that I am a night owl and I like to watch infomercials. I have seen infomercials for Chalene Johnson's TurboFire many many times and finally decided that I HAD TO HAVE IT!!! I started researching it - reading reviews, checking for the best price etc. I found a brand new set on ebay & bought it! Now I am just waiting for it to get here & bust my butt!



My mom is working on addressing the invites & I decided on the stamps which I love because I love flowers & purple is one of our colors!



In other news I have been emailing all my vendors like crazy - they are probably super annoyed by me, but I like to be informed and in control! Matt & I designed our gobo last night - which is a light design that will be on the wall at our reception with our monogram. I really like what we designed & can't wait to see it at the venue. We are also looking into doing some up lighting throughout the seating area at the reception - hopefully it is in the budget!! I am working on changing the centerpieces a little too, I will know more soon about that & will be sure to update you! Cheers to you all! (all pics from google, Frazier Museum website, & personal photos)

opening day!

In honor of opening day! GO REDS!



wish we could have been there : (

you are invited!

whew, I have some catching up to do in the blog world! I have been all over the place in the past few weeks! I started a new job in TN, I have gone home twice in the past three weeks and been trying to catch up on laundry for like a month - not to mention the mess and Valentine's Day decor that is still up!!!

This past weekend my parents friends threw Matt & I a couples shower! The theme was movie theme and each guest was given a movie and had to base their gift off of the movie, then Matt & I had to guess which movie it was! It sounds easy, but some of them were difficult! Some of the things we got were a fan from my parents (gone with the wind), a waffle maker (julie & julia), an ice bucket with our new monogram with playing cards, dice & stuffed tiger (the hangover), and one of the most difficult came from Matt's parents who spoiled us with six wine glasses, six napkins & napkin rings, six votive holders(with fleur de lis on them!), six shot glasses, & some home scents (the sixth sense)- we were completely stumped on this one! Those were just some of the amazing gifts we got! So blessed with amazing friends & family!

That was Saturday - Sunday we went to church then came home and began addressing the invitations outer & inner envelopes! We chose to do them on the computer instead of hand written or pay to have them done. We did not get a lot done considering it took about 2 hours or more to get the right template and alignment (thanks to my wonderful future hubby who figured all of it out). Once we got going we got quite a few done! This is when it really started to hit me (the shower & invites getting sent out), we are really getting married!!! I can't believe it is time for the invites to be sent out - for some reason this makes it so much more real! I will blog more soon about all the other things going on! Here is a sneak peak of our invites! Cheers!

a few of my favorite things...

hey y'all! Hope everyone had a great weekend and for those of you out there that were on spring break I hope that it was fabulous and know that I am quite jealous! My weekend was pretty uneventful, Matt and I were supposed to go up to Cinci. to hang out with his parents and go to a gun show (Matt just got a new hand gun he is obsessed with), but that did not happen so needless to say I was bummed to be staying in BG instead of going to the big city for the weekend...

Anyways, I thought it would be interesting to share some of the things I can't live without and some guilty pleasures. So often I am reading other people's blogs and it is nice when they share some funny and interesting things about them that I so often think to myself hmm, I am glad I am not the only person that does that/likes that/says that etc.



Some of my favorite things - material things:

- diet coke & diet dr. p
- my laptop
- WE network ondemand
- facebook ( it is more like a sickness!)
- junk/reality TV (another sickness)
- skype (the only way I can function when I am not in the same city as my niece)
- Penn Station (crossing my fingers that BG gets one asap!)
- conditioner (my hair is extremely temperamental)
- an occasional coca cola classic (guilty pleasure)
- my brita purifier (I have a faucet water phobia!)
- flowers (obsessed- my favs are peonies, garden roses, tulips, and orchids - I HATE roses, especially red roses! I know weird..)
- co bigelow mentha lip shine spearmint lip gloss
- cell phone (even though it is pre historic I am eventually going to get an iphone)
- clorox disinfecting wipes (I use these things on the reg!)


those are just a few of my favorite things! What are some things you can't function without?! Do tell! Cheers and happy Monday!

Ps I finally ordered the wedding invites, more about that later!