Another weekend up and down the turnpike (waving to the pole zombie both ways). Friday night was a quick trip with the rents to Moorsetown. Mom returned 2 possible MOB (mother of the bride) dresses to Lord & Taylor. They were in the running but have since been surpassed by other options. The final MOB dress hasn’t yet been decided on but I think we’re getting closer. Rob and I hung out in Barnes & Noble in their travel section, looking for good tour books for the Rivera Maya.
Saturday morning began with a quest for Bruce Springsteen tickets. New album = Tour. Tour = Bruce in Philly on Oct. 5 & 6. My computer apparently had some sort of magic. The Wachovia/Comcast ticketing website was supposed to put each user in a queue, to be served first come, first served. I only waited in the queue once and had no problem going back 4 more times for tickets. $1500 later, we’re going to see Bruce!!!! Invitations in the morning, Bruce in the evening. Sounds like a good Saturday (Oct. 6th) to me.
Then a quick lunch of grilled sandwiches and off to meet the A…/M… clan for MOB/MOG dress shopping. We met at Fashions by Penina on Main St. in Marlton. Both mom’s found some great options and shopping there was such a pleasurable experience! They let us take pictures of the dresses and Penina walked around handing out sparkling cider. Everyone seemed really nice and very helpful. A+ to them!
Saturday night & most of Sunday was spent working out the nitty-gritty details of our invitations. With Operation Invitations rapidly approaching (Oct. 6 & 7), we have to get everything finalized. And it’s all little things, such as – “do we make the tag 2.75″ tall or 3?” (PS – we’re going with 3″ b/c 2.75″ was deemed ‘squatty’). Once dimensions are estimated, how many fit on a page? If we make the Fish Lake Friday 2nd matte a 1/4″ smaller, can we fit strip of tag mattes down the side? Yes! Yes we can.
I have now completed the master templates for all paper pieces, except the tag closures. That will get worked on tomorrow night. We are printing everything out at home but Sir Speedy is cutting everything down to size for us on their giant electric paper cutter. YAY!
We said goodbye to Diggie tonight. He & Dad leave for their cross-country voyage on Tuesday. Diggie is living off campus at Alaska Pacific University (APU) this year and needs a car to get around. Hence the new, 2007, metallic brown, Chevy Silverado sitting in the driveway (complete with all the bells and whistles). It’s a pretty sweet vehicle and Diggie loves it. Visions of putting the 4-wheel drive to good use with some off-roading have been squashed by Dad. FYI – AAA will not tow you, if you’re more than 50ft off the road.
Anyway… the easiest way to get said new vehicle to the 49th is to drive it. According to GoogleMaps, it’s a mere 75 hour drive across the US & Canada, up the Alcan highway. Dad flys back on the 21st but we won’t see Digs until a few weeks before the wedding. Drive safe guys!!
Rob’s mom found her dress today! YAY!! I don’t want to ruin any surprises, so I won’t say much. In fact, I haven’t even seen it yet but I hear she looks simply smashing in it. But honestly, how could she not?! She’s such a beautiful person to begin with. One mom dress down, one to go!
Mom is having a little harder time making up mind about her dress. We have found so many gorgeous options, so it’s a lot to pick from. She, Aunt Becky & Dad are going out tomorrow b/c I think it’s been narrowed down to one dress. Now it’s just to pick the color. She’s going to look amazing in either color!
What pretty women we have in our lives!!
