they have arrived.

when we went to pick our bridesmaids dresses we had waited a little too long. this is what my very first blog was about. i thought three and a half months was plenty of time but apparently not. . the single dress that i could stand from david's bridal wouldn't be in until the 8th of october if we bought it full price THAT day.. just two weeks before the wedding date which didn't give us much room for mistake. but i decided to go ahead and get it anyway. which was a mistake because when i took the rest of my bridesmaids to try there's on it turned out david's bridal was supposed to have pulled that particular style off the floor that day because the dresses were labeled two sizes too small. so when girls were ordering their dresses and they came in they didn't fit. so we took the chance and ordered them anyway. geesh i know a lot of risks im taking with these stinkin things. haha. well it all turned out ok in the end because i got a call and an e-mail yesterday saying the dresses had arrived. so me and rock went and picked them up this afternoon and it was nerve rackingk because i thought the sizes would be all screwed up but when we went to rock's house to try them on it zipped up with ease and she looked amazing in them. the only problem is that now i look at the dress it looks like crap.
hahah. . im so indecisive. =]

56 more days. <3

is this illegal? haha

. . we had originally planned to go with flowers for the centerpieces on all our tables but personally i dont care too much for flowers. my mom is amazing with creating grand flower centerpieces but they were spendy . they were running about fifty dollars a table and at 13 tables well that can turn into a pretty penny. . so we completely scratched the idea of flower centerpieces and decided to go with a big gold centerpiece of some kind we went to hobby lobby to look for something like a candle holder or a bowl or something that would look good on a huge table.. we found some pretty good stuff but they were like $80 and that was out of the question . so we've been holding out on centerpieces and just waiting to see if we could come across anything that was more of what we were looking for and in our price range. well my mom is a persistant thing and the flower decorator at michael's does side work for weddings where she makes "grand" centerpieces that we can rent for twenty bucks a piece! that was like music to my ears because i've seen her work and it's phenominal! she's amazing i have full faith that what she makes us will tie everything together and make it look amazing so we have an appointment with her sunday to take a look at some of her stuff to see what she can come up with!

59 more days to our wedding <3

dropped em in the blue bucket!

yesterday me and and my hubby to be dropped our wedding invitations in the mail by 5. so you should see them today for most people because most of you live locally. . we're already getting text messages from friends saying you like them ./. thanks guys. . we spent a lot of time on them and it took fffooorrreeevvveeerrr to perfect them. i love them. we tried to make something really different. let me know on facebook if you like them! once you get our own personal phone number (281-912-0515) call and leave a message letting us know : your name , how many in your total party , and if you'll be attending the reception and the ceremony..

60 days til im mrs. sharp <3


hope to see you there . . :)

kicks

today , i bought my wedding shoes right in the middle of tax free weekend.
instead of going the traditional wedding shoe with the pretty diamonds and the ankle straps i decided to mix it up a little.

i'll be rocking my vans :)
i went to the vans store and saw the perfect shoe.
im suuuupppppppeeeerrrr excited.

63 days to our wedding. <3

OMEGA

finalllly! 3 hours later and we're finished! the invitations are completed. i came into fed ex at 7 o'clock to meet with the lady that was going to help us design, edit, and print our invitations! we've done something totally different. it doesn't look anything like a traditional invitation. they're amazing. i'm so excited.
the best part was the price! :)
now never again will you hear me say the words "invitations" again!!
yesssss


65 more days !

hot off the press! extra extra!

ok. so just an update on the invitations, i know i know. we're working on them. they have to be perfect. chandra - aris' co-worker- is helping us perfect them and coming up with some really great ideas. she's a photoshop pro and can do anything. hopefully by tomorrow night we will be running them off the printers at fed ex hot fresh crisp invitations ready to be dropped off in the mail by the weekend for sure . be on the lookout for them. =]

and btw, you will be getting one of these in your invitation but we have registered at
bed bath and beyond, macy's , and target

so far i think macy's has the most stuff i like so that would be my first suggestion for you guys!
love you all very much!

count down.

69 more days! =]

this is taking forever!

it's now going into the third week of august and we still dont have our invitations printed up or sent out . we don't even have our guest list finalized. wow. we're quickly running out of time. we still have yet to pick out our music or find centerpieces for the thirteen tables. i've been searching for backgrounds that we can use for our invitations and trying to create a monogram for the front of it. aris is going to try to hurry and make a sample of the invitation tonight and tomorrow we're coming up to his job to sit with one of his co-workers and try to figure something out.i guess we're just going to print about seventy five or eight of them and once we figure out exactly who is coming we'll have them ready to mail out. i'm ready for this part of the wedding planning to be over with so we can get onto the fun stuff. the day is quickly approching .

70 days until it becomes official.
<3

trying to decide

so of course i'm not gonna put the good ones are here cause they've gotta be a suprise but here are a few shots we took that i just really like.

ok, so it's been two weeks since i started this "nanny" bit and it's taking a toll on me. i'm there for approx twelve hours a day and it's a drag but hey i'm making good money, i take naps, i work out, i drive her car, i have a key to the house and we get to go fun places everyday like to the movies. :) so on tuesday my best friend/maid of honor came to visit me and aris and we went and took pictures at this little white church in kingwood that i had originally wanted to get married at but it wasn't big enough. we got some really great shots! we did some studying online of engagement pics like popular positions, angles and stuff like that so when we went we weren't clueless on what we wanted. espicially since so many of our friends are either gettting married or are married the hunt for ideas wasn't that hard. in a previous post i mentioned that we had already got the wording picked out and now we just needed to put everything together. aris works at fed ex so we're getting all this stuff free! what a blessing! saving our families a big chunk of dinero. lol. we're still stuck on what pic we want to actually use tho we've taken so many and there are so many good ones we dont know which to choose!

long time i do!

sooo, it's been a while since i updated everyone with the wedding details. ;)
time to talk about where we're gonna live. there are some apartments on the corner street aris lives on now that are government assisted so obvioulsy money wise that would be our best bet. well the waiting list for that place is like a year long because of everyone wanting to get in there. well we put our names on the waiting list for a two bedroom and one sunday night at church the preacher said that if you wanted anything now was the time to ask so i did. i was stressing out about where we were gonna live so i asked God to please make a way for us. well he delivered like i knew he would and a lot faster than i thought he would! the apartment lady (her name is vicky but i prefer this ) called the next day saying she moved us up to the top since we were going to be getting married (me and my hunny leave a great impression) and that a lady was going to be moving out in about a week! so we waited as long as we could wait and she finally got all the stuff taken care of like cleanign the place, our applications, background checks, and so on. We went in yesterday to sign the lease. We will have to pay rent even though we won't be living there til november, but it's still amazing! im so excited! Right now we're too busy with work and wedding plans that the apartment is the last thing on our minds. well it's nice to know that we'll have somewhere to live when we get back from jamaica i just don't know when we're going to have time to move all our stuff in!

ok so the honeymoon, is completely PAID for! yet another heavy weight lifted off my shoulders! august first they deducted the remaining amount due from my good ole chase checking account. now we just need spending money which im sure we'll get plenty of!
our schedule:


sun Oct 25 Galveston 4:00 p.m.
mon Oct 26 At Sea
tues Oct 27 At Sea
wed Oct 28 Montiego Bay Jamaica 9am - 6pm
thrs Oct 29 Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands 7am - 4pm
fri Oct 30 Cozumel Mexico 10am - 6pm
sat Oct 31 At Sea
Sun Nov 1 Galveston 8:00 a.m.



today makes 80 more days and i am THRILLED!
mrs. sharp <3