My Dream Has Come True

Barn Dance Held Here

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Our Wedding: The Napkins

It feels funny to be writing a post about napkins, but when you're not having your dinner reception in a typical wedding reception venue, you have to think about these kinds of things! To go along with our rustic theme, my cousin Stephen's fiance' Kelly suggested we use bandannas for napkins. I loved the idea, but unfortunately I couldn't find any in bulk all in the same color that were perfect for what we needed them for. So I juggled the idea of getting monogrammed paper napkins, but wasn't thrilled with that. All of this brings me to my story of the deal of the century... Josh and I were shopping at the Meijer Outlet in Grand Rapids where I stumbled upon a 4 pack of cloth napkins which were originally $4.99 each. Before I got too excited, I counted how many packages there were. I counted about 45 which means there would be 180 napkins. Dissapointed, I was on my way to putting the package on the shelf when the sale price caught my eye. .30 cents!!! So I called my mom to ask if it'd be worth it to spend the $14 for the majority of the napkins we needed. She said yes, but advised me to ask an employee if they happened to have anymore. Since it's an outlet I wasn't expecting them to have any in the back, and I was right, they told me that was all they had. So Josh and I grabbed every last package they had on the shelf and decided to walk down a few more aisles before we left. This is where the story gets even better. As I'm browsing down a completely different row, my eyes were suddenly fixed on MORE napkins! So Josh and I quickly counted how many more were there and realized we had the perfect amount, with even a few to spare! So, we got 66 packages for $20.99 when at full price the napkins would have been about $350! Needless to say, I've never been so excited about cloth napkins.

I debated sharing this picture because I don't want to give too much away about our wedding and all of the details, so consider this special :)

6 Month Countdown!

Yesterday I recieved this message in my inbox: 

Time is FLYING!

Priceless Pictures: March 2007

For our 2 year anniversary Josh and I made homemade gifts for each other!

Our Wedding: The Colors

For the past few years I was convinced that my wedding colors would be pink, pink, and pink! But as the planning started occurring my color ideas completely changed!!! Here are some inspirations for the colors we will be using:

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Ouch

On Saturday Josh and I were planning on finishing up our registries but before we wanted to go out to grab some lunch. We had just sat down and I grabbed the seat of my chair to move it closer to the table. Unfortunately the seat of the chair wasn't connected to the base of the chair so my fingers slipped perfectly in between the two and in that split second and I sat back down crushing my middle and pointer fingers. My first reaction was to pull my fingers out and I was greeted by blood and the majority of my finger nail hanging loosely off my middle finger and luckily my pointer finger looked fine. Right away I think I was just in shock. I showed it to Josh and he of course asked me if I was okay. I then started sobbing, so he gave me the keys and I went to his car. He grabbed the food and came to the car to take me back to his apartment. Just as Josh was shifting the car into drive I realized I didn't have my purse (so thankful I remembered before we left!) so Josh ran in to grab it and then we were off to his apartment. Realizing he only had bandaids, Josh called my sister to see if he could bring me there to bandage it up. Still crying, I got back in the car and Josh drove me to CC and Chris'.  CC was able to put some infection protection on my finger, bandage it up, and give me some medicine for the pain. I'm so thankful to be living near family! I love you Josh, CC, and Chris!!!! Despite the pain and ugly finger that I got out of the situation it was neat to see how Josh and I were able to handle the situation together. I was a little irrational shortly after and told Josh I was going to have an ugly finger for our wedding day,  but he was able to give me the advice that I could always put on a fake nail to which I responded, "not if there isn't a nail there to glue it on!!!" Looking back on that conversation now, it's pretty funny. Josh is such an encouraging person and I am so thankful for him! The past few days have been weird adjusting to not using my middle finger, but it's slowly getting better!

I do have a picture of my finger pre-bandage, but for the sake of those who don't like blood this picture will have to do:

200 Days!

 Today starts the 200 day countdown until the wedding!! Is it too early to make one of these?

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