3 months, Florida Visit and Birthday Weekend!

What an exciting day! 

We will walk down the aisle in 3 month AND we are traveling to Florida today to check out the Panama City Beach area AND one of us is turning the GREAT 3...X! (We'll let you guess what that X number is)

We will be in Florida for a quick weekend, but hopefully will have copious amounts of knowledge about the area when we return so we will post it all then.  Along with some pictures, of course.

Now we are off to enjoy the Sunshine State, the white sand of the gulf beaches, and birthday cake!

Registry

With our wedding date approaching, you might be thinking to yourself...where are Sherry and George registered at?  Well, we will give you one guess, and also a big 'target' for that guess.

We are only registered at 'Target', or 'Tarje' if you are french.  If that store is inconvenient for you, check, cash, and gift cards are also welcome!  :)

Visit Countdown- 1 week!

One week and we will be in Florida to visit our wedding location, do some food tasting, and get out of the cold midwest winter (peace out down jacket, flip flops here we come).

Sharp Dressed Man

Since Sherry gets all the hype about her dress it's only fair to give George props for picking out a pimpin' suit.

Here is the scene:
Macy's, October 2011.  George goes into the dressing room with a grey Michael Kors suit.  Comes out as a dang sharp dressed man! (ZZ Top could be heard on the speakers through out the store). Even the sales man was like..."that's the one, that's it".  So you are thinking, yeah yeah yeah the salesman is in sales and he just wanted a sale so the compliment wasn't genuine.  However, George bought 2 suits and tried on 6 suits AND this one wasn't even the most expensive one, so the compliment was legit.  If you want to see what he looks like in this suit...you'll need to be in Panama City Beach on 4/28/2012!

Say Yes to the Dress

Sherry said yes to the dress back in October.  The dress, which is AMAZING if she does say so herself (to keep with traditional George has not seen it), was ordered from a website call 'In Wedding Dress'.

You can view the site here, take a stab at which dress it is-
http://www.inweddingdress.com/

The ordering instruction stated it would take up to 12 weeks to receive.  So she ordered and the dress showed up 2 weeks later, straight from China.  Her dress has traveled farther over the ocean than many people have.  the dress showed up in an envelope...shrink wrapping can work wonders.

Here's the skinny on the dress.  Sherry is frugal.  She finds a dress at David's Bridal, then searches the internet to find destination dresses and finds a dress on the In Wedding Dress site that is similar to the David's Bridal dress.  She was almost set on buying the David's Bridal knock off, but then she finds "THE DRESS" on the site.  She has nothing to benchmark the dress with - at least the one she tried on at David's Bridal was similar to the first dress, but with THE DRESS she has nothing.  However, since the dress was such a steal AND In Wedding Dress site gave her a coupon code to save money...she buys. 

George takes her dress measurements based off of a Your Tube video and some simple drawings on the website:
http://www.inweddingdress.com/measure.html

And the rest is history. 

The dress ended up being a little big at in the waist, but nothing a seamstress can't fix. 

The veil is Sherry's mom's veil, modified for 2012 (her mom got married in 1975 and the veil is 8 feet long with lace and a fancy lace crown).  The only thing left to buy is a garter.

We are definitely moving forward with the planning. 

2012- is here

And it's in full swing.  It's our wedding year ('12) and we are fine tuning the planning- the best part planning the honeymoon!

Dress Code

We are enforcing a strict dress code for the wedding--- CASUAL!  Khakis, polo, sundresses, and barefeet (shoes are recommended for the reception, however). We will be getting hitched on the beach in the paper white sand, so unless you REALLY have strong feelings to show up in a suit or evening gown dress, don't do it! 

This is what we envision- men in polos and khakis, females in a nice dress or equivalent.  It will not be T-Shirt casual, but not formal wear either- if you wear this you WILL be more overdressed than the bride and groom- big taboo!