I bought my wedding dress this past weekend! Can't wait to wear it on our big day. :)
Since the engagement, I've been entering into several different sweepstakes. I've already won a set of Lenox toasting flutes for our big day, lost a free engagement session, and, in the latest set of sweeps, entered to win a $100,000 wedding and wedding planner through Crate and Barrel. The entry (go vote for us) is here: http://www.ultimateweddingcontest.com/entry/103183
It's been kind of fun entering these sweepstakes, but it's also been a little strange - asking people to vote for you is difficult and feels a little smarmy! It's something fun to do, though, and it would be really nice to win a huge prize that makes planning just a little bit easier.
To enter into the contest, we had to create our first real wedding registry - you can view it from the link to the entry page I posted above. That was a lot of fun. Crate and Barrel had cute pre-made collections, i.e. "Everything You Need to Have a Fabulous Mantel." I chose a few of those that fit our personalities ("Everything You Need to Display a Personal Photograph Collection," "Everything You Need for a Fabulous Bar," "Everything You Need to Host a Cheese and Wine Party"). After adding these collections to the registry, I added a few settings of dinnerware that we liked and, voila, I had a qualifying registry!
I still can't wait to go to Target and use one of those awesome registry guns, though. :)
Speaking of wedding deals, my favorite store, Hobby Lobby, has 50% off of diy bridal supplies this week! I don't like a lot of their bridal merchandise (it's either too traditional or too tacky for my taste), but I was able to get 24-packs of wedding bubbles for $2 each, which is a steal! I also bought some ribbon on sale in the colors that I like and some stick-on gems (pearls, blue & purple gems, etc.) for the bubbles.
Wedding planning is stressful, but it's also a really great diversion from the horrors of graduate school, let me tell y'all.
