vendor madness

This week has been insane!!

I have been frantic, trying to coordinate our various vendors for our next trip down to our destination wedding site. On the one hand, it is nice to know I can knock all the vendors out in one weekend, BUT on the other hand, organizing all these parties into a small time frame has been challenging at best.

The Bakery that we would like to make our wedding cake, for instance, can't be bothered to meet past noon!! Seriously? Yes. She just didn't seem concerned that my fiance and I will only be down there for 3 days and our mornings were already very busy! Welcome to island time. Clearly, there's boating to get done later in the day. Oh and they only bake 5 FLAVORS-- Vanilla White, Key Lime, Yellow, Chocolate, and Orange Sunset. The also have 5 choices for icing/filling: Vanilla Buttercream, Key Lime Buttercream, Raspberry Buttercream, Strawberry Buttercream and Fudge. Here at home, I would have my pick of all the creative flavors in the universe, but them's the breaks when you have a remote destination wedding. More complications: I am marrying (the most wonderful man ever) Mr. Picky-Pants or Captain Plain-and-Simple. Neither of us like chocolate, so that's out. And he wants *just* vanilla with strawberry buttercream filling. Lovebug, that's soooo plain, how about adding in Key Lime? "I don't like lime flavor." How about adding in a little Orange Sunset? "Sounds weird." I am still working on his flexibility, but at least I finally made an appointment! The good news: My mom and I ate at the bakery last weekend and in spite of the small selection, the taste was out of this world. Yummms. AND, we'll have other dessert choices at our reception aside from wedding cake!

at least it won't be this cake :)


We also were able to secure a florist, a photographer, a DJ, my hair and makeup trial, and our menu tasting for the reception. What a busy weekend! Additionally, this means we will need deposits for all of these vendors (except for the reception site which we did last week) all in one weekend! Only one teensy, weensy detail left to find-- The Officiant. That's only that person that does the actually marrying. Deep breath...I'm working on it.

2 jobs

I'm tired. Really, really tired. I've worked three 14+ hour days this week and I can truthfully say: IT SUCKS! But Boyfriend is working 2 jobs too, and we both decided that it was for the greater good and, most of all, it is temporary. It's going to be a LONG summer though. I already miss the pool that I don't have time to lay beside. My bestest best friend sent me a text tonight in the middle of my grueling 2nd job: "I know that's not where you want to be right now--just try to smile and think Wedding Bells" --- It worked; thinking about my wedding next year makes it all okay! I am too tired to smile however.

And speaking of weddings, I've done lots of work making plans and trolling the 'net for ideas--I will update soon!! xoxox