Did I Really Need a "Pitch"?

A few months before we were engaged, I was told that I would be a good wife because I am extremely organized. (Which is definitely true). I was told that my organizational skills should be the basis of my "pitch" for wifehood. Obviously I don't think I needed to pitch my "qualifications" to Jimmy or anything, but I do (for better or worse) pride myself in my ability to organize (and possibly obsess over) lots of things.

This weekend we contacted a bunch of Etsy sellers for various secret elements of the wedding (maybe monkey butlers, who knows) but also for boutonnieres for the guys.

I don't want cut flowers for the wedding so the boutonnieres are all either dried things and different textures of fabric, etc which is perfect. I'm then going to try to make coordinating fabric bouquets (with Anna's assistance, of course) which I'm pretty excited about. And then everyone gets a keepsake! Everybody wins. Here's what ours will be based off but with our specific color choices:

Brown and Green Rustic Boutonniere
by
PixelandHank

So cute! (yes, Jimmy was involved in the selections of these. Don't worry.)

I also, (perhaps obsessively) made an Excel grid of the other elements of the wedding that we need to make arrangements for or make ourselves, etc. It's very color-coded and it's full of formulas and I'm definitely more excited about in than Jimmy is but I think he still appreciates the work that went into it.

Jimmy's working on the music almost exclusively which is good for me because it seems so daunting at this point. I mostly search for things we've decided we want and present Jimmy with the ones I like best. Then we pick from there. It's a very involved process and I'm sort of grateful for the huge rain storm this weekend so we could stay in and figure everything out.

Soon I'm making Jimmy talk about our honeymoon plans on here (hint: It's not as icy as its name suggests and it's greener than its neighbor's name suggests the neighbor is...wait. I think I lost it somewhere. Anyway, it's Iceland).

Strike A Pose

I know, I know. That title is totally lame but it's the first thing that popped into my mind so now we're all stuck with it.

We have an exciting announcement to make on this here wedding blog which is: We. Will. Have. A. Photobooth. At. The. Wedding.

(photobooth? photo booth?)

Sorry for the drama but we are very very excited about this development. If you remember the Save-the-dates, you saw that Jimmy and I have actually used photobooths in the past. We're not obsessives about it (well, maybe I am) but we are extremely excited to have one at our wedding.

We're renting it from Saratoga Photobooth Company. Check them out. All the photobooths are vintage and cute and yet, fully digital. Perfect.

We'll also be using the photos as our guest book so everyone better get in there at some point. This means you, Mom. I want to end up with a giant framed picture of photobooth strips of everyone who attended. Now if only I had enough wall space for such a thing... Ah, one day.

We just passed the "7 months to go" mark and I think we're doing pretty well. Can't wait to get those photobooth props together tho. So much hilarity.