Honeymoon Update!

Oooh, my pocketbooks are feeling significantly lighter.  This weekend, Roger and I purchased our VIA tickets - Halifax to Montreal, Montreal to Toronto, and Toronto to Vancouver!  We used our four $100 gift cards (courtesy of Air Miles), which was about 15% of the total.  Not too shabby!  Of course, this means if anyone was planning on donating VIA Rail gift cards, it's too late.  But we're leaving the expense on our Deposit-A-Gift registry site, because goodness knows we'd be grateful to a gift that helped us cover the costs! 

But money matters aside, it's one of the first major purchases we've made for this honeymoon, and we're both very, very excited.  Our other purchase was to buy plane tickets to Halifax: we fly out on Friday afternoon via Porter (yay warmed espresso cup luxury!) and will be staying at Aunt Irene's that night.  I haven't yet had anyone offer a location for a possible get together while we're down there (it would have to be Saturday day or Sunday night), but it's still three months away.  Lots of time.  And we still haven't bought our return flight from Vancouver, but we're stalking WestJet for a seat sale.

Roger and I are very excited at what we've got lined up already: a night at the Waverley Inn in Halifax, possibly a trip to the Biodome in Montreal, and definitely sushi in Vancouver.  Anyone have any other suggestions as to where to visit?  I know I'd love to see the Japanese Gardens at UBC, and Roger wants to go for a hike along the way (possibly through Stanley Park, or somewhere else on the West Coast)... so exciting!  We're looking forward to this trip just as much as the whole wedding!

Earrings and Invitations!

On the road to completing all my wedding items still outstanding, I can now cross Wedding Jewellery and Invitations pretty much off my list!

Here's a picture of the completed invitation, with a chiyogami-lined envelope:

  

 And here are the lovely marcasite earrings I found at Costco, of all places:

I'm off to check all the other things I still need to do, but I know I've got a hair trial and a meeting with my florist to book for August.  And let's face it... August is CLOSE.

Shoes!

Woo hoo for sales!  Went to my favourite shoe shop (Bos & Co.) and found these babies hiding in the sample sale room - pretty much a collection of size 7 shoes, with suuuuuper reduced prices.  Got these and a pair of summer sandals for $50.  Like, with taxes.

Ta da!

98 Days Left! (So TheKnot tells me...)

Can you believe it?  We have barely three months left until chaos descends on a small village called Bronte.  Here are a few of the things we've accomplished recently:

1.  Updated the registry to now include towels and placemats and baking pans and a corningware casserole/roasting dish.  Sweet.  Got a little carried away and might have registered for chocolate, only to turn around and buy it ourselves.

2.  Talked to our dance studio about estimated pricing for bachelor/bachelorette party, and have pleasantly discovered it will NOT bankrupt us or our guests.  Present pricing looks to be about $25 a head for space rental and teachers.  We'll probably bring a party tray of sushi or two.  Yum.

3.  Nearly finalized both massive family turkey dinner and wedding reception catering - this is very, very good.  Now we just have to look into rentals.

4.  Bought a strapless bra (I love you, Change!) that doesn't make me a) look flat or b) feel really uncomfortable.  Just comfortably uncomfortable.  It's pretty and lacy and ivory.  Now all I need to do is finish the dress to go over it.  Which leads me to...

5.  Put the dress over the bought netting fabric on Kristina's judy.  Looks pretty good.  Next step is to make a mock-up of the underskirt(s) and decide on/find a lovely caramel-y coloured cotton gauze to go under it.

6.  Cashed in 2800 AirMiles to get $400 worth of gift certificates for VIARail.  We'll probably book the tickets asap after we get them.

7.  Are officially booked at the Waverley Inn in Halifax.  We still haven't bought our flights, but are on the lookout for a good deal (probably will fly Porter to Halifax, as soon as we know when exactly we're flying out).  We are also still figuring out if we can do a hosty drop-in thing in Nova Scotia for the family up there, but haven't heard from anyone offering the digs yet.

So I figure that isn't too bad, right?  Roger still has to get his suit, so that means Harry Rosen trip in the near future, and the invitations are in the works with a local Graphic Designer friend of mine who has good printer hook-ups, so that's soon to be completed as well.  All is fiiiine.