Life Lately

So if you follow me on Snapchat, I previewed some exciting happenings for me and Stephen this past weekend. We've been engaged for the past seven months and I'd like to preface this post by saying I've been planning our wedding since we reached year three (could've been sooner but let's just go with it). Stephen and I knew early on that we wanted to get married one day. When ya know ya just know. But we were both still in college and knew we wanted to graduate before we made any plans in that direction. But, naturally, that didn't stop me from planning the most magical day of our lives. I wasn't going to be overconfident and book anything prior to an engagement -- duh-- but I had all my ideas, checklists, and wants written down for when I needed it.

I couldn't find the wedding book I wanted so I made my own.

Since July of 2015 we have secured the following:

- venue and reception location
- my wedding dress
- DJ
- photographer
- photobooth
- cake baker
- caterer
- wedding planner
- wedding night suite
- honeymoon
- officiant
- flowers
- decor
- calligrapher
- MOH/bridesmaid dresses
- shoes
- hair stylist

and I have successfully made and or picked out the following:

- save the dates
- rehearsal dinner invitations
- MOH/bridesmaid invitations
- wedding invitations
- flower girl/ring bearer invitations
- make up artist

I'd say we're off to a pretty good start! Also...about 90% of this has all been done since like...September. I've been doing nothing since then but making payments and staying in contact with everyone. So for the past few months I've been feeling pretty bummed because there's not much for me to do right now.

This past weekend, on a whim, Stephen and I decided to create our registry! Oh my gosh, y'all, I was SO stinkin excited!!! Everyone always talks about the power that you have when you pick up the scanner. It's true...and it's dangerous. We have been talking about what we want to make of our registry and to be honest, together we've accumulated so many things that we don't have much that we need to register for. So...we made a list of the things that we'd really like and since the list was quite small, we created a Honeyfund to help us with the rest of our honeymoon.

We narrowed down the locations we were registering at to three and called it quits. Anthropologie, Bed, Bath & Beyond and (of course) Target. I was super excited and focused while we were doing this that I forgot to take pictures until we got to Target.

I was so happy to be doing something for the wedding after not doing anything for so long. I'm thankful I'm a planner but I wish I wasn't so proactive at the moment, although I might be thankful for this in a few months when it's crunch time. 

Also, when we got home, I spent about 1.5 - 2 hours adding/removing things from our registry, so there's that. So much for the list. I'm going to blame it on the scanner. Yeah...the scanner.

When you were at this stage in planning, what was

on your list to register for?