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).

Or, Watching Erin's Hair Change Color Throughout the Years

While we have been working on wedding stuff over the past week, there isn't much to report yet. We are heading up to Schenec next weekend (just booked the tickets, in fact) to meet with a photographer and do some other wedding things.

But, we HAVE made some changes to this little blog of ours. Firstly, we moved the ticker thing to the top of the blog so we can keep track. (Who knows why I want to know that it's "8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day" until the wedding rather than just the number of days but whatever.) We also added a SLIDESHOW! Whooo. Basically if you want to see about 56 pictures of Erin & Jimmy thru the years just look to your right and check it out. What's most hilarious about looking at pictures from the last 6 years of my life is watching my hair color and style change drastically. Oh, and it's fun to make fun of our outfits. Stuff like that.

We're going to do the first "Meet Our Wedding Party" post later today, starting with our siblings, Tim and Claire. Enjoy.