busy as wedding bees!

wow. where do i start today has been insane. it was aris' day off so we took advantage. haha.first we started out by going to the linen shop in houston that had every piece of fabric you could think of! so after about an hour there of coming up will all these different arrangements we finally picked a color combination that i loved. it wasn't easy and once again we changed our flower decoration from white roses to gold chargers and a gold centerpiece of some kind that will pull everthing together. we're once again on the hunt for the perfect centerpiece. hobby lobby, michael's, pier one ( which i love, btw) and kirklands! ah. still haven't found the exact one but we've got some really great ideas. lunch at chuy's ! then after that me, mom, second mom, and the hubby went to men's warehouse to set up our account. eight groomsmen and four bridesmaids, wow. each girl will have two men walk her down the isle. =] it's going to be beautiful. im so excited to see everything pulling together nicely with no stress. i love planning and being organized. haha. my moms have really made it easy on me. so after we picked what the groomsmen and my sweetie will be wearing we picked out the outfits for the FOG and FOB ( moms really went to town on that one ) so finally after being there for two hours we went to bed bath and beyond. i had already registered online but aris wanted to actually go into the store so we could shoot the laser gun hahaha. so here we go me aris and john - his best man- let lose in this huge store to scan whatever we wanted. it was amazing! we were there forever! go online and check out our registry! i loved it.


all in all it was a great day, this wedding stuff is actually getting funnnnn!! everyone is under as much pressure to get these things accomplished and are starting to enjoy themselves. my moms even had the idea of being wedding coordinators hahah. that's crazy! this wedding is going to be AMAZING.

bridal portraits

since i didn't have the blog at the time no one really heard about my whole wedding dress shopping experince. well let me just say it was deff unique! let me just tell you exactly how it went.
i had been searching online for an idea of a dress style that i wanted. i had no knowledge on any styles of wedding dresses except for the big poof princess dress which was just not me. so me and aris' sister really started searching for something more along my style. i looked everywhere alfred angelo and even searched usedweddingdresses.com , i even had the idea that i was going to get my dress hand made custom just so i could get exactly what i wanted and just to try and find something different. then one day, i found the dress i thought i wanted no doubt in my mind. that was the dress. so i searched for shops in the greater houston area for shops that carried the dress and it was like a sign, the neighborhood i grew up in had a bridal shop that carried the dress. i made and appiointment and me and my mom and my mother in law and the lady that was personally going to hand make my dress AND my maid of honor all stomped into the bridal shop all SIX of us. let me just say total choas. it was like shop til you drop in that bridal store. we picked out about 25 different dresses for me to try on. and the ONE dress i had went there to try on turned out to be a dud. it was nothing like the picture. it wasn't shiny , the color wasn't the same, and overall i was just not satisfied with the dress. so we started looking for something else. luckily i found a dress that was stunning. it turned out to be half the price of the original one i wanted which was amazing and it looked amazing on me. so we bought it. i learned don't bring anyone with you to pick out your dress except for your maid on honor cause it was total chaos! hahahaha. good times. so now my dress is here three months later and i've gained a couple pounds and it's kinda hard to get my dress zipped so me and my baby are on a wedding diet/work out and he's losing it but mine is just shifting to different areas of my hips!

as soon as i can get my dress on to where it fits comfortably i'm on my way to take my bridal portraits with Mr. Dilauro, which i LOVE his work is beatuiful. i think his style is very classy and vintage. nothing about it traditional which everyone knows is something im not going for. i love the new modern wedding and that's what he's giving to me. the only problem is i dont know where to take pics at. i had originally gone with his suggestion to go to pmhouston.com but i found out a lot of girls go there to take pics so im on a hunt now to find somewhere origianl.
http://www.ddphoto.us/

87 more days til i become mrs. sharp <3

programming

ok so i rushing this blog, cause aris' laptop is bout to die.
after sorting thru photo after photo from our down town photo shoot me and aris still haven't decided on a single photo to put in the invitations. this is becoming a real task. neither one of us are satisfied and we only took about 500 pics. i'm fat , i'm ugly, my face looks weird!! what am i'm doing. hahaha. we're fighting for the best picture possible. i mean it is our wedding invitation after all.
so today we got online and printed all the possible formats for different invitations, response cards, programs, and thank you cards.
do we want modern, traditional, or contemporary? so many possibilies! We, or shall i say i , decided on the actual wording for our invitations. not the funnest part about planning a wedding but one more small thing out of the way. i also drew up our response cards and our wedding programs.
this thing is coming along nice, and painless.

ahhhh.. 90 more days! and i'm so excited. <3
i am mrs. sharp.

a sigh of relief

ok, so i know i havn't been keeping you guys up to date here these last couple days with the wedding planning. sorry. i've been stuck in the boondocks of new caney with my mother. no interenet access except from cell phone and well it's a pain.

ok so all the plans we had on thursday fell through. instead we went to downtown houston today to shoot some of our engagement pics. =] well it takes me a little time to warm up but for the most part we got some good shots. we went to some really beautiful places, with the help of my maid of honor shout out to rocko! it was so exhausting! we were down there for like 6 hours. we found the hotel that we will be staying at the night of our wedding before we go on our cruise. hotel zaza! it's so amazing.
me and my hunny are gonna work on the wording to our invitations tonight and try and decide on a layout and one or two pics of the hundreds we took today. my goal is to get the invitations out by the first, and get out responses back my the twentieth. that way we can get a head count and know how much food to prepare for.
OH! we're going for some food testing either on monday or tuesday!
i can't wait just small details from here.
i love not having a job, now we can start knocking this stuff out.

91 more days <3

falling through

ahhh.. the stress continues. . everyday is a new headache. haha. tomorrow is going to be a very eventful day, we're going to look at a linen shop in the montrose (i'm not letting aris go, that pretty boy!) rumor has it that it is the best shop around. they've got every color table cloth, chair cover, sash, runner , and overlay you could possibly think of. exciting stuff right?? hahaha. i know. we're also gonna go to the country club to do some taste testing on the different foods they offer. what if they're italian takes like poop? these are things we can't be risking. hehe. so tomorrow we will have our complete tables picked out and knowing me we're prolly gonna be at that place for like 6 hours until i find the perfect color combination. everything has to be perfect. things are really getting close now. one single move can determine my whole wedding , i want it to be beautiful . it's a day me and aris will share for the next fifty years, right babe? just fifty? hahaha.

we've also gotta start on picking out the music and writting up the lettering of our invitations, addressing them and sending them out! the clock is ticking! expect to be getting your invitation shortly.


94 more days <3

david's bridal.

i would have to say that david's bridal, in my opinion, is the worst bridal shop there is. first off, they allow no returns or exchanges. how gay is that. second. their bridemaids dresses not only have boring style, they're cheaply made and wwwaaayy over priced. one fifty for some cheap material that we could buy at hobby lobby.third. their choice of designers for wedding gowns stink! they're all the typical style plain wedding dresses. if your trying to be different in any way do not buy your gown from here! fourth their service is aweful! i've been to three different shops and their employess are all rude. everysingle time. without a doubt. well granted the day i went i was in a horrible mood cause not only had i quit my job, i had also lost two bridesmaids. needless to say it was horrible. haha.

so today while i was at work i got a call from mrs. d'marie [ the lady that helped me , the only valuable employee they have] and for some reason she thought i was getting my wedding dress there and asked me when i planned on putting my dress on layaway. haha. so then luckily i picked up one more bridesmaid cause aris has like a jillion dudes and i have no chick friends haha. so i can now order one more dress and it be here in time for the wedding like i mean 5 days before so we're cutting it close. heheh. just like everything.

ahhh, 95 more days <3

making progress

ah, well here is my first get go at this here blogging thing. =]
i figured i might as well keep everyone up to date with whats going on with our wedding plans.
visit our website
http://theknot.com/ourwedding/stephanieteed&arissharp
and sign our guestbook! 715 people have already viewed our wedding website and im super excited! we've sent out our save the dates and i think aris did a wonderful job on designing them! well, today makes about 96 days, and things are getting down to the wire, bridesmaids are dropping left and right and then we're picking them back up again, venues are changing with less than 90 days to go,contracts are being broken, flower arrangements are changing daily, and we just got an accent color picked out! ah. such a procrastinator i am. hehe. this thing better start coming together quick! we still need table cloths, chair covers, our white wedding chairs for outside, and our table centerpieces, which my mom is so diligently working on daily. do we want roses or do we want hydrainyas? too many decisions! plus i'm not a flower girl. personally, i hate all flowers i think they're ugly. so needless to say flowers are most deff the hardest part of this whole thing for me. i should deffinatley have my own BRIDEZILLA show! 07/16/2009 was hands down the worst day of my life. geesh. maybe i can talk about it later in the future. still too many emotions. . we're going tomorrow or maybe wednesday to look at all the linens and chair covers. . 96 more days, can't wait. .