This Fabulous Life

Just in case you didn't think my life was fabulous enough, guess what Chris and I found at the dollar bins in Target today? A wedding section. No joke, even though when I stumbled upon it and called for Chris, he too was thinking, "Wow, what a liar. Like there'd by a wedding section in the dollar... hey, look, there's a wedding section in the dollar bins!" The stuff had definitely been picked over, but we found what might be the most awesome thing anyone's ever found in the dollar bins: disposable wedding cameras. 

Oh, yeah. We got 20 of them. They only have 12 exposures each, not the standard 24, but they were a dollar. And we were going to have to round some up anyway since our party them is photographs.

Did I mention we've come up with a theme? Yep yep, we have! We decided to go with something that we both enjoy and that people think of when they think of things we like. (That was kind of a tongue twister... I'll wait while you re-read....) And everyone knows we both love photography! We will for sure be incorporating things like photo booths, pictures we've taken, childhood pictures, frames, and hopefully our still-unsure-if-it-works new Polaroid camera. 

It's going to be a pretty rocking party.

Today we headed back down to the Coronado Community Center to pay the first half of our rental agreement, only to find out they close at 5pm on Sundays, and we'd gotten there at 5:36. So we walked around to the water side and sat on the little stone wall outside our reception room and looked out at the water while we discussed some wedding ideas. It was super nice. Let's just hope September 20 is as pretty (but hopefully warmer). 

Oh, yeah, surprise! We changed our wedding date! What happened was that we had only planned to rent half the room, since we have the whole patio to accommodate guests too... and that would have dropped the price in half. But when we signed up for the Saturday that became available, November 13th, we found out you can only rent the whole room on Saturdays. No bueno for us. We'd rather spend the money on other things. So Chris proposed the idea of a Monday wedding, we considered, drew up a guest list, figured out it if people really loved us they would still come, and changed the date on Thursday. 

Funny story. Since I was working at the main office that afternoon, Chris called and spoke to our guy Steve about switching our date. Chris texted me we were good to go. Steve called five minutes later: "So, just wanted you to know I just talked with Chris... he wants to change your date from November 13 to September 20... just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page...." Poor Steve. He must get a lot of grooms calling to to up the date two months! Chris thought it was funny later.

Besides driving to Coronado and accomplishing nothing, we also tried Prevue in Grossmont Center since they are supposedly a carrier of these dresses we really like online. I now remember why I hate Prevue. The store is stuffed full of hot pink dresses and eighteen-year-old sales girls who ignore customers but yell out conversations to each other from behind racks of pink tulle infested hangers. Horrible customer service. And then they couldn't even find the catalog we needed. And then they were closing and we just gave up. I might try them again later in the week, when there should be some adults around.

But all was not lost since we scored those wedding cameras at Target. And that was all due to my beloved roommate Jenna, whose car we happened to park right next to when we arrived at the mall, and who we went looking for in Panera to see if she was studying, and who we found out was actually in the chocolate aisle at Target (for a school presentation of course). So because of Jenna we went to Target, found the cameras, and then walked through the shoe aisle while Chris made me try on all the shoes he liked, until we found a pair I liked and bought them.

Sigh. It's so hard having a fiance who insists I have nice things. (Just kidding, this could get fun.)

And that was our slightly eventful Sunday. I'm a little over the weekend right now. Too much homework and shopping and planning for me. I need my schedule back. (Until Tuesday when I'll be craving the weekend again.)

Happy 162 days until my wedding!