4 Months to go!

These months are flying in all too quickly! 
We can't believe the speed at which this year has gone - next week will be September already and it's as exciting as it is terrifying.  For sure.

We haven't really done much this month except think a bit more about locations for the ceremony and photographs.  We would still like to get married on the Sheraton roof terrace but we'd be stupid not to have a back up plan should this fall though.  I think for photographs we're leaning more towards heading over the Brooklyn Bridge and into Brooklyn because the views of the Manhattan skyline are the best from here.  There are a couple of art installations in Brooklyn Bridge Park which we've fallen in love with, so providing that they're still there, we'd love them to feature in our photos. 

The photos are literally the only one thing that I get palpitations over - I want them to be great, and I have all the faith in the world in our photographer Amber, Michael and I are just terrible at getting our photos taken.  I've literally never found a photo of myself that someone else has taken that I like.  We're both horribly self-conscious and I do worry that we won't be able to relax.  Tips welcome!

I accessed my Facebook account from a computer for the first time in months and noticed that I had a string of unseen messages in my "other" folder.  These are usually messages that come from people who aren't on your friends list.  Amongst the messages from people asking me questions about things I'd been selling months ago on a buy-and-sell page, there was a message dated February from a lovely lady from Ireland who was also planning an elopement to New York.  A quick click onto her profile told me that her wedding had taken place last month and she had some truly fab photographs to show for it.  I sent her a quick message to congratulate her and ask her how she found the experience and she absolutely gushed about how amazing it all was.  She sent me a link to her photograph album (which was stunning, New York is just the best backdrop) and she told me some stories and answered some of my questions. She's promised to be a valuable source of information for us and has been so great to chat to - how lucky that I checked my messages on a whim!

We're just too excited :)

5 Years Today

 

Today marks 5 years from the day we met.

Happy 5 year anniversary to my best friend.

Every day with you is an adventure.

I love you!

You're Invited.

Being organised as ever, our invitations arrived in the post today!

I get the majority of my post delivered to work (to avoid those little red slips that summon you to the Post Office when no one was in to receive the package) so I've already had them out of their box.  I'm really, really pleased with them! I can't wait to get home and show Michael - I know he'll be happy with them too. 

They took so much hard work and effort to get right. Picking an invitation is hard work as it is, with so many options to choose from.  I ended up designing mine almost from scratch, but with a basic template to help me.  The company who printed them is based in America and our invitations arrived with a "Made in New York City" stamp which we love.  I spent countless hours at my computer designing different variations and we had a few different samples sent out to us (each one taking a week or two at a time to arrive) but the design we ended up picking was our absolute favourite.

Tip: If designing and ordering your invitations online, it's worth checking out the American versions of the websites.  We originally designed ours on a UK site but happened to sign into the American site by mistake.  Out of interest, I checked the price in USD against the price in GBP and there was a dramatic difference once the exchange rate was applied.  I was also able to track down lots of discount codes and coupons that were exclusive to the American version and we ended up with discounts of 20% on our invitations and 50% on some additional matching stationery we ordered to compliment them. YAY.

We ordered 2 variations of the same design as our family invitations are slightly different because we're having a champagne reception/cocktail hour before the main reception starts.  It's just an opportunity for our families to meet and loosen up a bit before the party starts!  We can't wait to send them out to everyone.  I am ridiculously impatient when it comes to these things and I'm looking forward to seeing the RSVP's roll in.  It's exciting!  We'll likely send them out in late October,which seems like ages away to me right now.  I like the idea of hand delivering each invitation personally so I think we'll take an evening to wrap up warm and venture out to deliver them to everyone. We'll obviously have to post some of them, especially as we have so many guests flying over from England for the occasion.

Another thing ticked off the to-do list :)