Accomplished

Today Tony and I made it down to cincinnati. The plan was to visit Ikea to get votive holders, and then to swing over to Kentucky to get all of our liquor for the reception. It is suppose to be cheaper there for some reason? So we made it down to Ikea around noon. Boy do I love that place! It was so hard not to buy everything there! Had to keep telling myself wedding stuff only! We will come back and buy the crap out of this place after the wedding! Or when we finally buy our own place! Ikea is basically a huge warehouse with makeshift rooms upstairs put together with all of their stuff. You write down everything you want and then you go to the lower level. The lower level is just piles of anything you could ever want for your home! It's AAAmazing! So we found what we needed eventually after an hour and a half! Instead of buying actual votive holders we just bought 2 different types of drinking glasses. One type was $3.99/6 glasses, and the other was $1.99/6 glasses. We ended up with about 135 glasses for under $90.00! Which I don't think is too bad! So we felt good about getting that taken care of!

After that we headed down across the border. We ended up in Kentucky at a store called The Party Source. If Ikea is a homeowners dream, then this place is a drunks dream. We ended up buying all of the liquor for the reception. Which ended up being around $230 worth of alcohol! But that should be all we need, other then just a couple of kegs of beer. And you my friends better drink up, I don't want anything going to waste! So those were some big to-do's we got done! Also I ordered bubbles offline for our "send off" from the church.

We have also started buying our bridal party gifts. Which is a difficult task. Everyone is different and you want to get something everyone likes. It's hard when you have a bigger bridal party. What you get never seems like enough to show the people you love that you are thankful for them! On that same note we have also started getting parents gifts too.

So we got a lot done this weekend, and we had fun spending time together doing it. Which is what an engagement is about. It's hard when you are so wrapped up in just making it to the wedding date. You forget to enjoy the whole "engagement process" Well we have been enjoying the engagement process for 11 months now, and I am ready for the big day!

Hugs and Kisses :) Jen