Alicia in her Dress and Houses!

So Alicia, Erin, and I when for the bridesmaid dresses on Saturday Dec. 17th. I managed to get a picture of Alicia in the dress, but Erin was a bit fast for me. While I was outside the changing room with Alicia, Erin managed to get the dress on and off. I'll have to catch her at the first fitting!!!


Also, Ryan and I had our first appointment with a realtor on Thursday. We were less then impressed with him. We told him we didn't want anything in Pocono Country Place and all he kept showing us was Pocono Country Place.

When we got home I looked through my Realtor.com account and found three house that we liked. 2 of them are in Indian Mountain Lakes and the other is in Emerald Lake. So we made a few appointments for Monday to get a walk through and they also e-mail us a bunch of other houses in our price range. So I think we are off to a good start with house hunting!

Invitations

Robin was nice enough to order about 20 catalogs with invitations in them for me to look over. She told me the process would go smoother if I didn't have Ryan involved too much, but against her advice I did have Ryan look at them (sorry)! But I think he may have actually found the invitation we are going with, so it actually worked out well. We narrowed it down to 4 choices and I ordered a free sample of all of them. Here they are, let me know your opinions and don't forget to vote on your favorite one in the wedding poll!

Top 10 Reasons We're Getting Married (there are too many words here for me to write down the whole thing, but it's very funny).

When Ryan and Amanda met; They were drawn to each other.

She Loves Me. He Loves Me.

This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.

One last thing, I do have pictures from our latest trip to Brides by Sandra; but I must ask my editor to fix them before I post them, so expect those pictures real soon.

The Limo, The Photographer, and a Reminder

Well, we did get a few things accomplished this past week, even though Christmas is coming so fast. On Saturday I called Limos 4 Less in Stroudsburg to get all my information on the Limo. They usually do 3 hours of service, but I think we will need an extra hour since we are going from Monroe County to Easton and back. Also, they only had black limos, but I actually think I'd prefer the black, but would that be weird? If nothing else I could look into Pocono Limos.


Now with the photographer, help would be greatly appreciated! I'm leaning towards The Pros, but since we are on a limited budget we would probably go for the Classic Package, which includes 60 prints and an album of 36 pictures. But if anyone knows of a photographer that might be cheaper (but is still good) let me know.

The Pro's Classic Package

Finally, one last reminder for the bridesmaids- Alicia and I are going for a fitting at Brides by Sandra on Saturday, 12/17 at 11:30 AM. Anyone who has not gotten fitted for the dress yet is welcome to meet us there. The dresses need to be ordered by January 31 and this will probably be the last time I can go with you guys, since I will be starting classes in January.

Our Registries

Robin had suggested that we do our registry a little early so people could buy us Christmas and birthday presents from it, and we can get the things we desperately need. So we thought about it and talked it over with a few people, and decided that the best places to register were JC Penney (for the more expensive items) and Target (for the cheaper everyday items). So here are the two links if anyone wants to look, (There is also a link to the registries on the right hand side of this page, right before the polls.)

Target's Registry

JC Penney's Registry

We had lots of fun shooting things with the gun! I think I hogged it most of the time, from Ryan! I think we also realized we have two complete different tastes. I like things a little more wild and with a few different colors and Ryan likes things a little more plain and simple. But I think we compromised well and found a lot of happy mediums.

We obviously have never registered before so if you see something on there that is completely out there or something we might need but forgot to put it on, just write a comment on the blog about it and we can fix it.