So yesterday it was 100 days until we really say 'I Do' in Hawai'i! Oh my gosh! As soon as we finally got home we were stuffing envelopes and perfecting our invitations for their arrival to our friends and family!
The day was a little stressful because of the sheer number and pressure of literally starting from scratch.
All the days leading up to it trying to figure out the style of the addresses, the amount of invitations, information cards, and RSVPs... oh my gosh, head reeling... stars bursting... how am I going to get all of these done?!
With a lot of love and time given by my beautiful mother + amazing fiance, those envelopes were stuffed, addressed, and mailed the very next day (Friday)!
When I started writing this, it was 99 days until we say 'I Do'... but now that I'm back here to edit, it's now 96 days until 'I Do'! It's been quite a roller coaster!
As soon as I got home Friday, Shawn came to pick me up so we can pick up our wedding bands! It was so exciting!
8.15.2015
Friday night, after all the invitations were sent out, Shawn treated me to a very special sushi night and took me to my favorite store, Home Goods. Nobody can understand the joy of Home Goods unless they experienced it themselves! Friday was amazing.
Thanks to my amazing girl friend, Lauren, we figured out how to put curtains over Shawn's glass sliding door in his apartment (despite the horrible vertical blind jutting out so far)! The revelation was awesome and the result was perfection! Lauren totally made my day when we recreated her technique. And the result just makes it so much more home!
Saturday morning Mom took me out to mail out the invitations that need special postage as they are going overseas to different countries.
That evening Shawn + I drove to Allentown to meet an amazing couple who is getting married in September. Spending our evening with them was like spending an evening in Sicily with my family. It was amazing. The food was perfection, the company even more amazing. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
It made me think of how excited I am that this time next summer we'll be getting ready to fly out to Rome with my family and Shawn will get to meet all of my cousins in Sicily and see all the incredible sites I was so blessed to experience last summer. It is going to be a trip of a lifetime and I cannot WAIT for all of the amazing adventures we're going to have and Husband +Wife and with my adventurous family!
Today is Mother's Day. We went down to South Jersey to have brunch with Shawn's mother and family which was really lovely. Shawn's mother was really moved which was sweet. We got her a really beautiful card and a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
We came home to prepare for my mother's special day next. Shawn helped me pick out our favorite flower combinations and created our own bouquet, even though Mom is leaving with Dad for Italy this Tuesday. On our Home Goods date Shawn helped me and we found the perfect picture. In gold foil it says "You are my Sunshine" which is something Mom used to sing to me all the time. It really meant a lot to me and I was hoping she would love it, too. Shawn also grabbed some cherries which turned out to be a huge hit. It didn't even occur to me that was something Mom would have wanted, but Shawn is always thinking outside of the box. It was special because she really loves cherries!
Anyway, this was long entry and I plan on updating every day until we make it in the single digits! Very exciting!
Aloha ❤