So for the 2nd time in our wedding planning, we think we've found a reception place! It's in downtown Fort Worth (basically) and it's called The Marquis on Magnolia. It's beautiful, I'm pretty sure. I haven't gone and looked at it yet, but my sister has attended a wedding and reception there and she said it's gorgeous. I think it just might be for us! So, the big task at hand now is finding a church around this area. The problem in Fort Worth is that all of the churches are made to fit thousands of people. Our wedding will only have about 200 guests (which I thought was a lot) and I don't want it to look swallowed in comparison to the church. I fell in love with the Leonard Memorial Chapel at the First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth only to be stepped on when the super sweet wedding coordinator said it only seats 140. I could cut 60 people for this..... On second thought, as beautiful as this church is, I don't think it's worth cutting 60 people that we love from our guest list.
We're trying to not just give in to Robert Carr Chapel on TCU's campus. It's gorgeous, but everything about TCU just seems........... overpriced to me. I guess, in the end, it's a fall back. As for now, the task at hand is finding a church in Fort Worth near this place that is gorgeous and isn't threatening to the size of our wedding. Wish me luck!!
Photo by George Dean
Friday, February 26, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
A Blue Wedding
So, I should be studying for my first Women's Health exam that is on Wednesday or writing my capstone literature review/outline/notes that are due next Monday. However, I am far too excited.
My roommate Grace and I sat down and determined that we were going to plan the colors for my wedding (It's Seth's wedding, too. I just didn't know how to make it grammatically correct with his name included.). Boy did we deliver. Originally, the intent was to use champagne (like a year ago). Well, I saw a wedding with champagne bridesmaid dresses and decided that they were too close in color to the white of the wedding dress. Next, I decided to play off of Seth's officer uniform that he is going to be wearing and use royal blue and spice it up with orange/peach roses. This would be gorgeous, but it's still not me. The problem that I keep running into is red carpet. I don't know why, but red carpet grows rampant in churches. It's like weeds in a garden. Therefore, I had to find a fix to being able to settle with the red carpet before it settles with me.
The fix was simple once we thought it through clearly. It actually came when we found a picture of a very, very plain and classic reception hall. White linens on the table with white china and white napkins. Perfectly simple. We realized there was an obvious flame when 5 minutes had passed and I was still staring. I guess this brought me back to my original plans for a wedding: classically simple. We then realized that there was no real need for orange roses to be in the wedding. When we stripped the fetal wedding of it's orange roses, we were left with royal blue and white. Or, as I like to refer to it, royal blue and pearl. Perfectly simple. The flowers will be either carnations or gardenias, something white and cheap. The bridesmaid dresses: royal blue. The table linens: white. The napkins: white linen. The china (if I can find it cheap): white. The centerpiece: a blue glass vase with the cheap white flowers. There are a lot of blue/white details that go into it. I'm absolutely in love with it. I could not imagine a better fit for our wedding. Blue has never been my favorite color. It has, however, fallen in my top 3 for a while. Seth's uniform will be blue and so the blue wedding will keep my strange color rules from suffocating me alive. The flowers can be easily done by me and my bridal party. Nothing fancy, only simple.
I didn't realize how much easier it would be to breathe when this detail was decided. Well, Seth is boxing at Navy right now, so I guess it's not officially decided. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't care about the colors. I have the style of bridesmaid dresses that I have in mind. Hopefully all of my lovely ladies will look stunning in them and it can all work out. I'm not really particular about that detail, so I'm sure it will be easy.
The next big task to tackle is location, location, location. The beautiful detail about this problem is that Texas is definitely not short of churches and we will search until we find the one that is right for us. If anyone comes up with something in the Fort Worth area, let me know!!
My roommate Grace and I sat down and determined that we were going to plan the colors for my wedding (It's Seth's wedding, too. I just didn't know how to make it grammatically correct with his name included.). Boy did we deliver. Originally, the intent was to use champagne (like a year ago). Well, I saw a wedding with champagne bridesmaid dresses and decided that they were too close in color to the white of the wedding dress. Next, I decided to play off of Seth's officer uniform that he is going to be wearing and use royal blue and spice it up with orange/peach roses. This would be gorgeous, but it's still not me. The problem that I keep running into is red carpet. I don't know why, but red carpet grows rampant in churches. It's like weeds in a garden. Therefore, I had to find a fix to being able to settle with the red carpet before it settles with me.
The fix was simple once we thought it through clearly. It actually came when we found a picture of a very, very plain and classic reception hall. White linens on the table with white china and white napkins. Perfectly simple. We realized there was an obvious flame when 5 minutes had passed and I was still staring. I guess this brought me back to my original plans for a wedding: classically simple. We then realized that there was no real need for orange roses to be in the wedding. When we stripped the fetal wedding of it's orange roses, we were left with royal blue and white. Or, as I like to refer to it, royal blue and pearl. Perfectly simple. The flowers will be either carnations or gardenias, something white and cheap. The bridesmaid dresses: royal blue. The table linens: white. The napkins: white linen. The china (if I can find it cheap): white. The centerpiece: a blue glass vase with the cheap white flowers. There are a lot of blue/white details that go into it. I'm absolutely in love with it. I could not imagine a better fit for our wedding. Blue has never been my favorite color. It has, however, fallen in my top 3 for a while. Seth's uniform will be blue and so the blue wedding will keep my strange color rules from suffocating me alive. The flowers can be easily done by me and my bridal party. Nothing fancy, only simple.
I didn't realize how much easier it would be to breathe when this detail was decided. Well, Seth is boxing at Navy right now, so I guess it's not officially decided. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't care about the colors. I have the style of bridesmaid dresses that I have in mind. Hopefully all of my lovely ladies will look stunning in them and it can all work out. I'm not really particular about that detail, so I'm sure it will be easy.
The next big task to tackle is location, location, location. The beautiful detail about this problem is that Texas is definitely not short of churches and we will search until we find the one that is right for us. If anyone comes up with something in the Fort Worth area, let me know!!
Friday, February 12, 2010
February and Texas Snow
The past couple of days have been very busy! We had our first test of the second semester of nursing school and I'm very happy with how that went, I had my first day back at taking care of patients, and we built a snowman! It has made me realize just how blessed I am to be where I am and to have the people in my life that I do.
This snow has absolutely surprised me. Record snow fall for Texas-- 12.5 inches at DFW airport. WOW... I just really hope this doesn't delay Seth's flight coming in at 11 o'clock tonight. My mom reminded me to pray for God's will, as it could be unsafe for him to fly in. She's so much smarter than I am!
Sunday, Valentine's Day, will mark the one-year anniversary of Granny passing away. It really doesn't seem like she's been gone for a year. I still tear up thinking about her and just got to where I could talk about her and smile. Granny meant so very much to me. She was my best friend and taught me more than I will ever know. It's amazing to think of how much one person can influence your life. We miss her so much and I'm sure that I always will.
Sunday will also be the very first Valentine's Day Seth and I get to spend together. That's so weird to think about. We're getting married next year (it feels so great to say that), have been together for almost 3 years, and yet have never spent a Valentine's Day together. Hopefully, it will be a great day!!! Above is our very first picture together from Summer 2005.
Well, the homework never seems to cease so I guess the blogging must, for now. I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's weekend! Be careful and share the love!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Nursing School and Being Methodist
Studying for tests never seems to be as fun as I hope it is going to be. I've finally convinced myself to start studying before the day before a test, though. So I guess I can say that I've made improvements. Seth can't seem to understand why I have to study so much for tests. I'm glad I can finally tell him it's to guarantee that no one dies on my watch. Saying that seems so Grey's Anatomy. Scarily enough, that's what it has actually come to. I now can make that much of a difference on someone's life. If the right situation presents itself (or the wrong one, perhaps), me knowing these things could save someone's life or allow it to end. SCARY!! I hope that I'm not put in that situation for a very long time. However, I'll review my CPR information before my clinical on Thursday just to be on the safe side.
Nursing school is tough. People ask me all the time if it's really hard. I don't know how to answer that question, usually. I can't compare it to any other major at this level, so I don't know what to tell them. Usually, I include that entire explanation and take up a good portion of that person's day just to make sure they don't think that I think that my major is tougher than theirs. I don't think it is. I know it's hard for me. But that doesn't mean that it's any less hard than all of the other majors. I always finish it up by telling them that I absolutely love it and that's all that matters. I think I'm a bit of a martyr when it comes to how much we have to do for school. My biggest pet peeve about myself currently is how much I complain. I think that getting a blog is detrimental to my trying to fix this situation. Hopefully this will serve as a bit of a journal for me to work my thoughts out and to come up on the other side with a new perspective on the situation. One that says "stop complaining and do something about it." I wonder how much it would hurt to get that tattooed on the back of my hand.
Seth is coming this weekend! I can't wait! I'm starting to actually be ok with West Point. We now get to see each other every month, which is simply amazing! I'm excited because this will be the last break that we have together before I get to start bothering him about wedding details all the time. I told him today that he has to choose things when I give him options; even if his decision serves the sheer purpose of making me realize that I actually want the other option. I'm ok with that being the case seeing as I know that his decision will center around what he thinks I actually want him to choose. I wish he had more of a vision for our wedding, but I guess I can't complain that he cares more about being married to me than he cares about the actual act of marrying me.
I emailed the church that we think might be for us. It's St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Cleburne, TX. Neither of us are actually Methodist, but we both think that's what we are at heart. I believe that it's a good place for us to get married seeing as I found my faith in a Baptist church, was baptized in a Church of Christ, and currently attend Catholic Mass with my roommate every now and then. Seth has been baptized in 3 or 4 different denominations, to date. One of these baptisms actually was into a Methodist church, so I guess I speak for myself when I say that we're not Methodist.
Anyways, Cleburne is also building a new Conference Center that will be done sometime this Spring. Hopefully this option will work out and our venue will be solidified and we won't have to worry anymore. In a perfect world, this would be the case. I guess all we can do is wait and see what happens and pray that our Methodist-Church of Christ-Baptist-Presbyterian forces work out for us!
Nursing school is tough. People ask me all the time if it's really hard. I don't know how to answer that question, usually. I can't compare it to any other major at this level, so I don't know what to tell them. Usually, I include that entire explanation and take up a good portion of that person's day just to make sure they don't think that I think that my major is tougher than theirs. I don't think it is. I know it's hard for me. But that doesn't mean that it's any less hard than all of the other majors. I always finish it up by telling them that I absolutely love it and that's all that matters. I think I'm a bit of a martyr when it comes to how much we have to do for school. My biggest pet peeve about myself currently is how much I complain. I think that getting a blog is detrimental to my trying to fix this situation. Hopefully this will serve as a bit of a journal for me to work my thoughts out and to come up on the other side with a new perspective on the situation. One that says "stop complaining and do something about it." I wonder how much it would hurt to get that tattooed on the back of my hand.
Seth is coming this weekend! I can't wait! I'm starting to actually be ok with West Point. We now get to see each other every month, which is simply amazing! I'm excited because this will be the last break that we have together before I get to start bothering him about wedding details all the time. I told him today that he has to choose things when I give him options; even if his decision serves the sheer purpose of making me realize that I actually want the other option. I'm ok with that being the case seeing as I know that his decision will center around what he thinks I actually want him to choose. I wish he had more of a vision for our wedding, but I guess I can't complain that he cares more about being married to me than he cares about the actual act of marrying me.
I emailed the church that we think might be for us. It's St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Cleburne, TX. Neither of us are actually Methodist, but we both think that's what we are at heart. I believe that it's a good place for us to get married seeing as I found my faith in a Baptist church, was baptized in a Church of Christ, and currently attend Catholic Mass with my roommate every now and then. Seth has been baptized in 3 or 4 different denominations, to date. One of these baptisms actually was into a Methodist church, so I guess I speak for myself when I say that we're not Methodist.
Anyways, Cleburne is also building a new Conference Center that will be done sometime this Spring. Hopefully this option will work out and our venue will be solidified and we won't have to worry anymore. In a perfect world, this would be the case. I guess all we can do is wait and see what happens and pray that our Methodist-Church of Christ-Baptist-Presbyterian forces work out for us!
Friday, February 5, 2010
Starting a blog..
I'm not sure yet if starting a blog is the best idea for me. Several of my friends have suggested that I use it to track the progress of wedding planning and I'm sure I'll update once we start that. We have already booked our photographer because I fell in love. His name is George Dean and he's amazing! His name is a link to his website, which I think is pretty cool! I need to find a wedding coordinator; but I don't know if I should wait until we get closer in order to make sure they don't convince me to use them in the planning process. I would love suggestions, but would hate to pay a wedding planner for 1,000 hours!
I'm in the beginning of my Junior 2 semester of nursing school. This semester I have Women's Health (delivering babies) and Adult I (all things medical-surgical). I also have three online classes which just might be the death of me. I'm terrible at making myself do things, but I'm working on that. I think that getting a blog might be the wrong direction, but maybe I'm wrong. If anything, it'll make me feel better to say things on here and know that if someone gets sick of listening to me, they don't have to follow my blog!
I have my first Adult I test on Wednesday and I'm supposed to start studying for it but I have a Groups (online class) article to find and discussion board post to post and clinical paperwork to finish up for Adult I and then I can start studying! Goodness, college is hard. I also just got back from my Leadership Institute Leadership Committee meeting in Denton. We have teamed up with some other organizations for Project Tomorrow. The company that we are supporting is TOMS, which is a shoe company that gives a pair of shoes away to kids in need all over the world for every shoe they sell. We are planning our event for this semester, which is on April 6th. It's going to be a sock hop on the Denton campus and it should be VERY cool. My friend Ashlee and I went and talked to La Di Dah, as shoe company in Denton who sells TOMS and they are going to be on hand to sell shoes during the day. Pretty cool! So although today has been somewhat productive, it hasn't been productive in the way that I planned!
I should really go start my Groups work because I'm really not looking forward to it and won't do it unless I make myself! I think this first blog was pretty successful! Hopefully I'll blog often and, if anything, use it as a therapeutic opportunity!
I'm in the beginning of my Junior 2 semester of nursing school. This semester I have Women's Health (delivering babies) and Adult I (all things medical-surgical). I also have three online classes which just might be the death of me. I'm terrible at making myself do things, but I'm working on that. I think that getting a blog might be the wrong direction, but maybe I'm wrong. If anything, it'll make me feel better to say things on here and know that if someone gets sick of listening to me, they don't have to follow my blog!
I have my first Adult I test on Wednesday and I'm supposed to start studying for it but I have a Groups (online class) article to find and discussion board post to post and clinical paperwork to finish up for Adult I and then I can start studying! Goodness, college is hard. I also just got back from my Leadership Institute Leadership Committee meeting in Denton. We have teamed up with some other organizations for Project Tomorrow. The company that we are supporting is TOMS, which is a shoe company that gives a pair of shoes away to kids in need all over the world for every shoe they sell. We are planning our event for this semester, which is on April 6th. It's going to be a sock hop on the Denton campus and it should be VERY cool. My friend Ashlee and I went and talked to La Di Dah, as shoe company in Denton who sells TOMS and they are going to be on hand to sell shoes during the day. Pretty cool! So although today has been somewhat productive, it hasn't been productive in the way that I planned!
I should really go start my Groups work because I'm really not looking forward to it and won't do it unless I make myself! I think this first blog was pretty successful! Hopefully I'll blog often and, if anything, use it as a therapeutic opportunity!
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