Random Update

4.8.11

Met with Laura the other night to discuss caterers. We narrowed it down to one and she is going to contact them to set up and appointment for Aaron and I to meet and/or taste some of their food. Sweet. I don't remember the name off the top of my head, but once I've asked Laura about it I'll post the website so you can see the sample menu. They have quite a variety of foods, even a couple Aaron likes. If they can do mini-corndogs (classy!) even better. We are going to do our own cakes and probably bring our own plates and cut it ourselves. Apparently you have to pay people to cut your cake and they won't provide plates if you don't accept the plating fee. WTF? Clear plastic plates will just have to do. I am NOT paying someone to cut a cake. Laura has also offered to make sure the coffee bar (aka, two Keurigs) is under control. Yay!

Laura has her dress! It's a black velvet dress from the 50s. It's faboo. Ashleigh also has her dress picked out. It's from Mod Cloth and as soon as it is in stock again she's going to order it. It's red and fits to the waist then flares out. Laura's does that too. Amber and Cici, if you want to get something similar, that's the shape to shoot for. If not, that's cool too. If you ladies do know what you're going to wear please let me know. No rush, I'm just curious. There's still plenty of time.

Laura also found what she's going to wear in her hair. It's a thin black headband with peacock and black feathers with little crystals on it. She got it at the Riverside Art Market. If you're interested I can post a pic here. I know what Ash wants to wear too.

We've set the guest list to between 160 and 180 so I'm going to start accumulating decorations soon. I'm sure I'll need a lot. I know I'm going to get small black metal lanterns with red glass and with teal glass. I'd also like to have a collection of miscellaneous tall vases in red and teal. I want to have one tall element (like a vase, or candle stand, something interesting), one short element (like the lanterns), and one small floral-ish element (carnations in a cool container, or peacock feathers in a cool container). I'm hoping we can get red and teal tablecloths with maybe some black runners or some other type of fabric to go in the middle. I think there's going to be some thrift store shopping in the near future. We can always dye and spray paint stuff.

That's all for now! Feel free to drop a question or a comment.