Totally forgot to tell you guys that I got my wedding dress!! On April 12th. Got it from Davids Bridal for under $300. It was love at first sight. You know how you dont specifically know what you want, but when you see it you JUST KNOW? Well thats pretty much what happened. Just like with the invitations. I bought it the same day I found it...online.
My mother gave me much grief about the fact that I bought it online and did not allow her to experience her dream of going around to stores with me and trying on dresses. There are so many implications of being a bride. One of which is that you are held to so many different expectations of everyone including ppl that know you, but that I dont know all that well. They just put all their dreams on you. So excuse me if break traditions and debunk all of the cliches. Gonna have to live vicariously through someone else. Still love yall though :)
Soooo today I waited to try on the dress for everyone to seem as if I were trying it on in the store. Thats the best I can do. When I go to buy the veil we can try it again. I saw someone trying on a dress with their veil and it made me feel a little warm and fuzzy inside. It will be a new experience for us then too.
Reluctant vessel meeting in the middle. Life is Sweet,
charlAMAZING
Sunday, May 9, 2010
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Next on the calendar is to meet with the cake folks and the designer for the brides maid dresses to look at fabric next week. Come back to find out what happens.
Too GOOD to be True
Sorry I am a few weeks late...Please forgive me as the demands of life are ever present :)
Anyhoo...I have been busy. Met with Mr. Planner last week to go over timeline stuff and choosing an invitation design. We paid our money for the venue. Its at Mr. Planner's church now. Decided that I would rather go the DIY (do it yourself) route on the invitations and make them myself or at least buy the imprintable invitation kit. But having a company do it is out of the question. So here is the conflict I ran into after making that decision.
On Monday morning I began doing my research for some invitation templates. Found 2 that were the perfect design, but one that was the MOST perfect design AND PRICE...
The name of the product at Party City was "Platinum Damask Imprintable Invitation Kit" which included 50 invitations/envelopes; 50 reply cards/envelopes for the clearance price of $18.74 (orig 24.99...which still isnt bad)! Here is where conflict no. 1 comes in....I need 7 boxes. They only have 5 left online in stock. I ordered them as soon as I called around to 3 stores to find out if they had more. Only one had them. This store just so happens to be on my aunts side of town so she agreed to pick them up for me and I pay her back later. GREAT so I went ahead and ordered them. As I am arranging for them to put some on hold for me conflict no. 2 rolls around when I called the store to make sure the guy is pulling the right item I need off of the shelves. So I clarify by saying "the black and white damask right?". THEN HE SAYS no actually they are silver >>screeching halt noice<< "Um so..." He says, "yeah as I was walking up to them they did look black but when I got to them they are actually platinum...like silver."
So lemme get this straight...
~I checked out the picture online-CHECK
~Stared at it many times bc of the simple fact that it was too good to be true-CHECK
~It says "platinum" but I assumed it was black with a lining of platinum (that I cant see)-CHECK
~I got super excited and ordered them online and forgot to ask when I called the stores the first time-CHECK
~Thinking about revamping my color scheme just to match all of these invitations I have ordered-CHECK! LOL
And thats exactly what I did until....conflict no. 3 greeted me the next morning in my inbox.
The next morning I got an email saying that my order has been CANCELLED because they were out of stock! So my thing is, why didnt the product say out of stock instead of letting me go through the whole ordering/paying process? My aunt had to take back the invitations and waste precious time and gas. And we all know those are precious commodities no one can afford to waste in 2010! They did not charge my card so that was not the issue. But the website still doesnt say that they are out of stock...what is that about?!
"Platinum" invitation that threw me for a loop...still got me fooled.
back to []one. Life is Sweet,
charlAMAZING
Anyhoo...I have been busy. Met with Mr. Planner last week to go over timeline stuff and choosing an invitation design. We paid our money for the venue. Its at Mr. Planner's church now. Decided that I would rather go the DIY (do it yourself) route on the invitations and make them myself or at least buy the imprintable invitation kit. But having a company do it is out of the question. So here is the conflict I ran into after making that decision.
On Monday morning I began doing my research for some invitation templates. Found 2 that were the perfect design, but one that was the MOST perfect design AND PRICE...
The name of the product at Party City was "Platinum Damask Imprintable Invitation Kit" which included 50 invitations/envelopes; 50 reply cards/envelopes for the clearance price of $18.74 (orig 24.99...which still isnt bad)! Here is where conflict no. 1 comes in....I need 7 boxes. They only have 5 left online in stock. I ordered them as soon as I called around to 3 stores to find out if they had more. Only one had them. This store just so happens to be on my aunts side of town so she agreed to pick them up for me and I pay her back later. GREAT so I went ahead and ordered them. As I am arranging for them to put some on hold for me conflict no. 2 rolls around when I called the store to make sure the guy is pulling the right item I need off of the shelves. So I clarify by saying "the black and white damask right?". THEN HE SAYS no actually they are silver >>screeching halt noice<< "Um so..." He says, "yeah as I was walking up to them they did look black but when I got to them they are actually platinum...like silver."
So lemme get this straight...
~I checked out the picture online-CHECK
~Stared at it many times bc of the simple fact that it was too good to be true-CHECK
~It says "platinum" but I assumed it was black with a lining of platinum (that I cant see)-CHECK
~I got super excited and ordered them online and forgot to ask when I called the stores the first time-CHECK
~Thinking about revamping my color scheme just to match all of these invitations I have ordered-CHECK! LOL
And thats exactly what I did until....conflict no. 3 greeted me the next morning in my inbox.
The next morning I got an email saying that my order has been CANCELLED because they were out of stock! So my thing is, why didnt the product say out of stock instead of letting me go through the whole ordering/paying process? My aunt had to take back the invitations and waste precious time and gas. And we all know those are precious commodities no one can afford to waste in 2010! They did not charge my card so that was not the issue. But the website still doesnt say that they are out of stock...what is that about?!
"Platinum" invitation that threw me for a loop...still got me fooled.
back to []one. Life is Sweet,
charlAMAZING
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