As of two days ago, we are now only 6 weeks away from leaving for Florida!
I feel like I have so many things left to do before then, and no idea how I'll get them all done... I guess I've reached the stressed out part of wedding planning haha (and this wedding has been relatively easy to plan for!).
I emailed the request for our Florida marriage license off already, so now I'm just waiting for the rest of the forms we need to fill out to be sent to me. Hopefully I see those this week.
I still haven't had my dress altered. I think this is the thing causing me the most stress, we took it to my mom's friend who is an amazing seamstress but she didn't want to do it (she was scared of ruining it due to the amount of beading/lace/boning in the top part that needs to be taken in). So, I have contact information for another seamstress here in the city, but her shop is closed on Sunday and Monday - so I'll try and call tomorrow.
We also still haven't even started our search for Luke's wedding day attire... We thought about renting a tux, but due to the length of our vacation it would be pricey/difficult. Luke currently only owns one suit, so we decided to just invest in another one for him to have and will be buying one. We should probably get on that...
Our photographer is now 100% paid!
We owe Disney the remaining balance for our ceremony and dessert party in 3 weeks, but we only have a little over $500 left on that bill. Our reception at Homecomin' is about 75% paid right now as well, so we're getting close on that bill too! I'll be so happy once everything is paid for (of course, some of it is sitting on our credit cards right now, but such is life...)
I started going through the tote of wedding stuff we've been buying all year...
We are not doing traditional wedding favours, and instead opted into doing awesome welcome bags. Every person is getting a custom tshirt to wear on a specified day - each shirt has a silhouette of a Disney or Pixar character and their title on the front, and their name is on the back under the neck. Everyone that is my family/friends is getting a blue shirt, Luke's family/friends will be in black and Luke and I will be in white (my least favourite colour, but I'll suck it up since it's my wedding haha).
The picture of our full tote has our FujiFilm Instax camera on top. We've actually had that for a few years, Luke won it at a work Christmas party
We don't use it often, but we thought it would be fun to use for our guest book. With such a small group, we're hoping that everyone will snap a bunch of pictures with it throughout the day, and we bought a book to put them all in. I also didn't want to use just plain film (although we do have about 40 pieces of regular film in case people are taking a lot of pics), so we bought some fun film packs for the day
Luke even found Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh ones on
Amazon!
We did a second engagement shoot last Monday (we loved our first ones, but I really want
Disneyland pictures haha). The photographer we hired posted our first sneak peek on her Instagram last night, I can't wait to see them all! We were not able to get the castle pictures I really wanted since we were there the day they were filming the Christmas parade, but I'm sure I'll still love what we got
Plus it just means we'll need to do another session with her in the future haha!
Since it was our second engagement pictures, we decided to go full Disney with our outfits haha. I had asked Luke the week before we left what he planned on wearing - he didn't know. He went to run a few errands one day, and came back with the sweater he's wearing in that picture - he was so excited about it
He loves Nightmare Before Christmas (and he loves Haunted Mansion, he had bought his tshirt from TeePublic last year), so his outfit suited him perfectly