The Beginning of Wedding Planning

As soon as Jay and I got engaged I was so excited to start wedding planning. That week I bought 3 bridal magazines! I flipped through them multiple times and had a nice set up of color coded markers to note what I liked. The boys laughed at me because it appeared that I marked EVERYTHING! Eventually I just ripped out what I liked after looking through another time or two because I was sick of having tons of magazines sitting around, otherwise I would have taken a picture.

We initially thought we'd get married in Raleigh. We're spending the summer here, we're hoping to move here after we graduate, and we could possibly save money because only the important people would come out there! We were hoping for July of 2013, and then maybe even December. But that plan fell through. Since we're not for sure whether we will be coming back here or not it didn't seem practical to have to leave from wherever we were living for a weekend in Raleigh if we didn't end up here. We also quickly became overwhelmed with everything we would have to get done by the end of the summer.

So then we decided we would have the wedding in Dallas. It's convenient to Houston, both our families could help us plan while we were away and we could always have a place to stay at my mom and grandma's. A July wedding gave us plenty of time to plan, but of course we had to change our minds AGAIN! We decided with me starting graduate school in May and Jay hopefully graduating in May and hopefully starting a job shortly after we realized neither of us could take off time for a honeymoon or to head out there in advance for last minute stuff. The most important factor being WE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT FOR A HONEYMOON, that's the best part of the wedding!?!?!

An accurate representation of how we felt at the time.

So we called our mothers and said SURPRISE! We want to get married in May instead. Of course they were okay with this. My mother threatened that if we moved it up to December of this year she would kill us, but otherwise we were safe :) (all of these decisions happened in a matter of weeks by the way)

So since this decision we've been able to go full out wedding planning, which of course means to first and foremost pick a venue! Between Jay & I and my mother and grandma (who are over the moon excited) we've finally found a place we love and cannot wait to sign our contract! We've got 11 months to the wedding and we can finally get going on something since we have a place and a date almost set!

Only 300 something days to go!