"Casey"

Guess what we did last weekend???  Registered!  It's like creating the ultimate Christmas list!  I'll do a separate post on our adventures in registering, but I have a funny post to share first... 

Of course after getting home from registering, I wanted to find our registry online.  When searching for "Jason Becker" there were 5 or 6 that came up.  No surpise there.  Jason and Becker are both fairly common.  But here's what you get when you search for "Casey Kuhn."

There we are... the 2nd one listed... But do you notice anything out-of-the-ordinary???  Well, take a closer look:

Yep... two Casey's getting married.  WEIRD!!!  "Casey" isn't even that common of a name!  And they think people from Kansas are weird...

Mail Time!

There's nothing better than getting some honest-to-goodness REAL mail (intermixed with the bills, junk mail and credit card offers)... Unless it's getting a package delivered!  And look what was waiting for me at home!!!

Ignore the camera cord... sorry!

 What's in this box???  Well, besides all of this fun:


There's 2 smaller boxes... containing what???  These beauties!!!

Colors look funny in the picture... it's a dark gray with metallic pink print

Pink with silver metallic print

We ordered 200 of them... I figured I'd use these and intermix them with some solid ones (black and/or white).  Don't know yet if I'll put them out on the tables, or at the bar, or where... but we got 'em now! :o)

See how awesome they look together???

...swoon...

A Little Something for the Guest Room Closet!

Yesterday was another big expensive day in the wedding planning process.  What did I buy???

MY WEDDING DRESS!!!

Remember the dress I liked from our shopping extravanganza???

I was really struggling with buying the dress.  The dress I fell in love with more than I wanted to spend.  It was at the top end of my original price range... but with Jason getting laid off, I just couldn't justify spending that much on a dress I'd wear for one day.

This dress isn't one I could find used online either... it was a private collection made specifically for/by the dress shop owner.  It wasn't a common designer with a style number I could just google... so I started looking elsewhere for a new dress.  But I just couldn't find anything I liked in my new price range. :o(

Then I got an e-mail (or rather, 12 e-mails because the wedding world believes in selling your e-mail address and sending you multiple e-mails over the same thing).  The email???  Well, it was informing me that the dress shop was having a sample sale.

The good news: I'd be saving 25-75% off the price of the dress!

The bad news: The sample was about a size too small.

After the first e-mail, I got excited!  I called my mom to tell her about it... unfortunately, she would be on the sandy beaches of Florida the weekend of the sale.  Bummer.  Well, I mentioned something about the sale last weekend when we were in Pitt, and Jason's mom decided to come up!

After the twelfth e-mail, I was worried... was this going to be a normal day of shopping, or would there be a two-hour line outside the door, our would it be like the running of the brides craziness you see on TV?  How crushed would I be if someone go the dress before I did?

So, Jason's mom and I got to the dress shop about 45 minutes before they opened.  NO ONE was there! :o)  So after a quick coffee run, we were back at the dress shop waiting for the doors to open.  We were the first ones there, I tried on the dress again, and it *almost* fit (I've lost some weight since this summer)!  They will need to move the panel behind the corset strings over a little (it's got 3 inches and needs to go over an inch-ish).

What was my response?  Debit or Check? :o)

So now, there's a pretty white dress hanging in our guest bedroom closet (don't worry, it's in an opaque bag, and Jason won't care enough to look at it).  HUGE relief to have my dress!