First Things First

I just got a blogger award from Anais, over at Through Green Eyes! Just wanted to thank her for passing on an award to me. I know I don't have a huge following whatsoever, I'm a big commenter though! Both Anais and Amber, from Girl With the Red Hair, are extremely loyal commenters, so much love to both of them! and my family - they're just lurkers though (my mom will send me an email occasionally commenting on my postings, while my dad will just say something to me).

Next First things First! Location. Do you know how difficult it is to find a location? Granted I'm only a week and a half into the search, but i know I need to really find one soon since the date I want is 10/10/10, but i do have a second back up date which is 10/17/10 -- either of which would totally be fine with me. 10/10 is just easy to remember, 10/17 would just fall on being my favorite number.

Side note: 17 has been my favorite number for the longest time. But the weirdest thing is the number 17 keeps popping up EVERYwhere! I just see a bunch of numbers and always manage to configure the numbers to make the number 17. it's making me think that I should pick that date. We'll see though, it'd be sweeter if it was on 10/10 cuz that's the day he proposed. Who knows? I'm going with the flow.

When I look at hotels, I'm like - everything just seems the same over and over again. Then i get into the whole beach wedding kind of thing, which is what i've always wanted since my older sister got married in the bahamas. it was pretty sweet. but the stuff i'm seeing is so kitschy, and cheesy, I just can't imagine me and fiancé (do you have any idea how weird it is to type that!) getting married under those cheesy things?!

Then I'm also seeing these great ideas -- where people rent beach houses that are right on the beach and throw a party there. I'm thinking this could really work. His parents and sister and niece could stay at the house (affordable for them), so could my sisters if they wanted to. it'd be a big house. But then i think, we have to rent tables & chairs for 75 people (our running list is now at 93, but i'm not expecting everyone to come). I think it could really add up to being the same as a hotel.

and I'm back at Square 1!

I absolutely love this picture, i actually got the information from the photographer, heather ahrens photography. and found out where it was, but no further details? Here's the photo:

That's exactly the kind of feel i want for our wedding. *sighs* I did email her back to see if she could put me in contact with the couple, provided the couple says yes. Normally I'm the kind of person that hesitates, but this is something that I have a clear picture in my mind of what i want, and If i can get it, why not?!

I know I want it to be somewhere in Florida because I want this to feel like a retreat and a big ol' party all rolled in one! who doesn't want that?! Oh and I'm gonna use Projectwedding.com for my planning. that is an awesome website to date!