Shoes and bands

We picked up our wedding bands this weekend. Also, picked up some new dress shoes for the big day, very comfy. Megen, who loves shoe shopping, tried to get me to buy another pair of new shoes -- for every day wear -- but one shoe purchase in a day is enough for me!

She's already found a pair of shoes for the wedding from Nine West - she wears them to our dance lessons to get a feel for them.

Dance, Dance

Signed us up for dance lessons next week. It's going to be wild.

Old Town Alexandria

Old Town Alexandria is a fun, interesting town with lots of great restaurants and bars, shops and historic sites to see. After our rehearsal dinner, we're planning on meeting up with our guests in Old Town for drinks - more details coming soon.

Visit Alexandria is a site with lots of details about Old Town.

Invitations have left the building

We finished the invites this week and mailed them out.

Sunday, sunday, sunday

Today we're off to order our invitations, order our wedding bands, and meet with a florist. We sent off the contract for the DJ this past week. Just need to book a guitarist for the ceremony.

Update

Bridesmaid dresses are ordered. We're close to picking a DJ, and strongly considering a guitarist for ceremony music.

I'm crazy stressed at work so Megen - who is totally awesome - is doing all the wedding planning. The house is starting to fill with candle holders, vases and other assorted wedding peripherals. We're having trouble finding more indoor smore makers, though -- but the candy buffet for take home favors should make up for it.

Rehearsal dinner - Megen heard there is an Irish pub on the Navy Yard grounds so we're looking into that, or maybe getting a room at Murphys which is in Old Town.

We're pretty set on our invitation design, just pricing vendors now. And right after I finish writing this, I'm leaving the office (I consider Sunday afternoons my "day off") to pick Megen up so we can go shopping for wedding bands.

Bridesmaid dresses

Megen decided on a bridesmaid dress this weekend. We've dispatched courier out across the intrawebs to get measurements and such. Her wedding dress is presently hanging in our guest bathroom on the hanger that goes on the door. None of our closet hooks are high enough. It was wrapped in a sheet so that I couldn't see what it looked like.

The flower girl, Martie, loves her Aunt Megen. In fact, she once referred to me as Aunt Megen's friend. My cousin, Sonia (Martie's mother) emailed us this story -

Speaking of Aunt Megen, last week Martie was pretending to talk to a bunch of people on her "cell phone". She talked to her Aunt Sue, her dad, and Aunt Megen. Her conversation with Aunt Megen was hilarious. Martie said "He did WHAT? He's being silly again?!" I'm guessing the he is Uncle Ashley. Then you guys discussed having a St. Patrick's Day party with everything green. And then when she said good bye only Aunt Megen got an "I love you".