211 days...

Less than 7 months to go until the wedding :) It seems so far, yet so close!

So I haven't updated in almost two weeks... Not that too much has happened. Only a few things:

First off,

I GOT MY DRESS! 

Well, of course I already bought my dress last month, but it's home with momma now! So I can look at it whenever I want. Of course, I don't ;) It hangs in the closet in the guest bedroom. It won't fit in our huge walk in closet with the shelf unit and all of Christopher's clothes, hehe ;)

More great news.... I got a call from Zimmer Brothers, from Brian (our "jeweler" I suppose) last Friday because they had a few rings for me to look at fitting my "dream band" description. Thankfully, he was so much better than the lady the previous week. Brian had me trying on all different types of bands... And I found one I love! It's round diamonds instead of princess cut. What we learned: Princess cut diamonds are less expensive solitaire, yet more expensive in clusters because princess cut diamonds are deeper than round diamonds. So moral of the story is round diamonds are less expensive (and shinier) in a wedding band than princess cut. So my band will be diamonds half way around, full frontal glitz :) Here are the rings together.... It was taken on my cell phone, so it's a bad quality picture, but if you look from a distance it's real pretty:

 

Next up, we did some honeymoon researching. At first we were thinking another cruise, as we had a good time last April and really liked Norwegian Cruise Lines. Problem: NCL doesn't have any cruises around our wedding date from New York, which we prefer to disembark from. I found a Royal Caribbean cruise that fit our time frame disembarking from New Jersey.... But we're hesitant to try Royal because we loved NCL's freestyle cruising. Now we are also looking at all-inclusive resorts. I ordered a brochure from Sandals out of curiosity and I'm pretty much in love. I love that alcohol is included, not an extra expense as it was on the cruise. We're loving Sandals Grande Antigua, it's been voted the most romantic resort:

And that's the suite we're thinking about. It's called the Monte Carlo Honeymoon Oceanview Suite. I like that it's called a honeymoon suite. It makes it sound even more romantic, doesn't it? And oh look, you can see the ocean in the picture from the balcony! And the bathroom has a whirlpool tub (that's basically why Chris loves it!).

In addition to ring shopping and honeymoon browsing aka the fun stuff, we also discussed some budget stuff with my mom last weekend. I think it's going to be completely do-able for about $4-5k. Which is about what we can afford, anyways. No more than that!

That about wraps up the past two weeks worth of our road to the aisle I'd say!

P.S. I'm liking this picture function! :)