Let the Wedding Planning Begin!

With a ring on my finger I felt much better about my wedding planning process.  Danny had told me I could start planning when we had decided we would get married.  There was just something weird about it though.  I was planning and saving pictures I loved and ideas I wanted to use and I had started my wedding planning binder to organize everything into, but I still wasn't sure when I was going to be able to use all my stuff.  After all, the planning process had really started when I was about five.  Weddings were all about the beautiful frilly dresses.  That was also the year I was in my first wedding.  Never mind that as the flower girl I cried the whole way down the aisle.  The point is that I have LOVED weddings since I was little.  It's why I do wedding planning on the side.  So of course I couldn't wait to start the Official Jenna Sheridan (and Danny Sheridan too) Wedding Plans.

My family was great!  (Well, after they quit fighting over my room!)  Josh loaned me his IPhone after he loaded the wedding planning app onto it.  With that I could check how many days and hours I had left to plan.  I could enter my budget and it would automatically calculate how much I had left.  Plus it was pink, and who doesn't need more pink in their lives?  Then my dad decided they should give me some money to help pay for the wedding, in addition to the beef they were providing.  And my grandma said she would make the cake (and eventually almost everything else that needed to be made).

I was also blessed with the MOST wonderful six bridesmaids a girl could EVER ask for.  And the weekend after the proposal was also the Central Oregon Wedding Expo.  So, Sarah, Erin, Michelle, my mom and I headed to the conference center to, in their words, "Win me some stuff!"

Michelle, me, Sarah, Erin

This was in the parking lot before we went in.  They didn't make me wear the tiara and boa throughout the show, mostly because I had so carefully chosen my outfit for my first outing as "the bride."  They were very understanding!

 

 

We did win some stuff.  I got a $10 gift certificate to a local restaurant.  Michelle won a cake (which she then used at my shower) and we got lots of goodies throughout the event.  However, mostly the vendors were for things that I already had booked.  What I really needed was a venue, a DJ, and a caterer.  Those were the pamphlets I focused on when I got back home. 

 

Oh, and we were going to need some dresses...but that's another story.