The Wedding Site and the picky Fiance

So Fiance has more of a wedding fantasy than I do. When we were deciding on WHERE to get married--well--he had his mind set of a few criteria:

• a Disciples of Christ church--did I mention his father is minister? Oh yea and we're not getting married at his church
• A pipe organ--b/c his uncle is classical trained on the beast
  
• A pretty church--aka no mod 60s or late 80s contemp interiors
• Some what small--I want no more than 150 people there and I don't want it to look empty

Well. We found the perfect place. It is Crown Heights Christian Church in Oklahoma City, OK.

Pipe organ? Check. Disciples of Christ? Check. Pretty? Check. Small? Check.

And so. It has been decided. 

Also. Aaron set up a Knot page some where. And then we decided to do a tumblr page. We still need to flush it out. But at least it is there.

Enjoy!

Wedding Planning: The Dress

So, I will admit that I have not blogged in a while.

But that is because I have become addicted--or at least infatuated--to Twitter. It is the lazy man's blog. And, well, I am a lazy man--err, woman--at the moment.

I have promised to post about my wedding planning--so here goes.

I will post Wedding Planning Post based on details of the actual day.  Today, I will discuss The Dress. 

After Aaron proposed, I immediately started thinking about dresses. I began thumbing thru magazines, looking at styles, imagining The Day. 

I am not the big, princess pouffy dress girl.

 

And this see-through biz-nass is just not my style.

And was thinking something with straps or something very demure and slimming. And with straps. Did I say I didn't want to look like every other bride?

When my little sister--RaeBabe--was coming to NYC, the MOB suggested we go to Kleinfeld's to check out dresses and just have fun. I agreed and booked an appointment. 

Little did I know I would get my dress that day. I brought all my pictures. Told myself I would not buy a dress that day. And took a taxi--not the subway!--down to 20th and 6th. 

The consultant--RaeBabe of course knows her name and I have forgotten--looked at my pictures and looked me up and down. Said she would pull some dresses and why don't RaeBabe and I look at the dresses at the trunk show.

We picked out a few dresses--like I said, it wasn't serious--and I immediately put on a beautiful Amsale dress. (Aaron DO NOT LOOK AT THIS LINK)

And needless to say, it was perfect. And totally nothing like I had imagined. Slightly poufy, but still demure. Strapless. I was in love. And steely RaeBabe who never cries at anything...teared up. 

So, I tried on the other dresses. I looked boob-a-licious and curvaceous. But not bridal.

And after webcasting with my parents--my mother uttered a sob and dad was speachless--I bought the first dress I tried on.

Later this fall--during the Amsale trunk show in Dallas--my mama and I made a faux bridal appointment to try on my dress. She saw it and loved it. And I fell in love all over again.

Wedding is August 29, 2009. So much planning and still a ton of time!