New Chicago Blogs!

I have been reading:

Chicago Bride to Be

and

Wed in the White City

Congratulations, Ladies!

New Look

I’ve been messing around with a new look for the blog, I like it clean, and I originally made this blog as my home improvement blog, but as we all know, it has been slowly making it’s way over to the wedding blurg.  So I have a new title!  I still have 8 months till the wedding, so I might as well give in to my bridely urges till then.  I also actually made a custom header, so I’m proud of that.

Also, I’ve been a bit ill, so I’ll be posting more next week.  I have had a very sore throat for a few days.

In wedding news,  I finally finished talking to the photographer about our Engagement Book, and the final proof should be coming out this week!  And I also am talking to a florist.  This is good.  I need to get this stuff done.

Nightmare

I woke up on my wedding day and took my clothes off to get into the shower. For some reason my hair was wet and I looked in the mirror. My hair was spotty ad bleached in random places. And my face was orange! I had a stripe of orange self-tanner dividing my face from my nose up.
Also I was in the house I grew up in, where I haven’t lived in 8 years.

THEN I somehow put on my wedding dress and it was twisted around my middle so the sweetheart neckline dipped in my armpit.  So I put on a full-on long sleeve lace dress and tried to find my veil.  But I didn’t have a veil.  Luckily, Amy came and gave me the veil she wore in her wedding, pictured below.

Amy and I on her wedding day.  I was MOH.  This is when I woke up.

Thank You!

I have had a huge outpouring of support from everyone about my wedding woes.  Thank you so much, blogosphere, and bridesmaids, and friends.   I am going to make more of an effort to ask for help instead of freaking out.

I love you very much.

Love,

Me.

Bridesmaids, look no further!

Seriously, if you are a bridesmaid, don’t click here.

Scratch off STD’s

I love these and would use them if we didn’t already get ours.

Scratch off Save the Dates!

Adorable.

Sip and Scan

The Macy’s Sip and Scan was full so we are making our own.
Thursday, January 22
Location: Bed Bath and Beyond on Clybourn
First we will drink beers at the Goose Island Brewery, then off to register. I told my FMIL about it and she
recommended we bring a flask.

Will we?  Only time will tell.

Wedding Anxiety

I need to get this off my chest.  I have serious wedding anxiety.  More and more every day I wish we had just eloped.  I am really looking forward to my wedding, but when I think about all that I need to do it makes me feel like hyperventilating. 

This isn’t helped by the fact that in the past 2 weeks I have told 2 people that I don’t have a dress yet and they responded with serious shock.  Like the “What do you mean you don’t have a dress!?!?”  Kind of shock.  Thanks guys  I have been spread a little thin because I am still working full time.  Haven’t lost my job and devoted my life to blogging.  And I don’t work at home.  Also, did I mention that I am in grad school full time? 

I feel bad when people talk about the bonding they did with their mother over their wedding.  My mother and I haven’t spoken in 3 years, and I don’t want to speak to her.  I will invite her to the wedding, but no, i’m not asking her for input on what flowers to buy.  And I cried during Bride Wars because all of my bridesmaids live in different time zones.  None live in mine, so I don’t have anyone to go search for chargers and candy buffet jars with.  It sucks.  And I’m feeling bad asking people to travel in this economy.  And then I feel bad when they say they might not make it.  It’s incredibly selfish, but if I went to your wedding, don’t you have an obligation to come to mine?

Ill get over it when I find a dress.  If I ever do.

Candy Buffet Update

I got 3 apothecary jars at TJ Maxx for about $10 each.  They are adorable and look much like this.

Without the candy and the labels, nach.  Do you think the jars should have lids?  I think it’s unnecessary.  Some other jars I covet:

this one I can’t paste here.

And I’m going to need some scoops, too!

Brrrr.

Issued by The National Weather Service
Chicago, IL
3:46 am CST, Thu., Jan. 15, 2009

… WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM CST /1 PM EST/ FRIDAY…

A WIND CHILL WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM CST /1 PM EST/ FRIDAY.

BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE WITH NORTHWEST WINDS TO PRODUCE DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS OF 25 BELOW TO 40 BELOW ZERO THIS MORNING. FOR A BRIEF TIME THIS AFTERNOON… WIND CHILLS OF 20 BELOW TO 30 BELOW ARE POSSIBLE BUT ARE EXPECTED TO FALL BACK TO 25 BELOW TO 40 BELOW TONIGHT. SOME IMPROVEMENTS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AS AIR TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO WARM INTO THE POSITIVE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE ZERO.

A WIND CHILL WARNING MEANS THE COMBINATION OF WIND AND VERY COLD AIR WILL CREATE DANGEROUSLY LOW WIND CHILL VALUES. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA OR DEATH IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.