50 days!

Yesterday was our Happy 51-51 Day! Why 51-51 you ask? Well because yesterday marked the 51st month that Jim and I started dating. And yesterday also just so happened to be 51 days until we get married. :o)

So now with 50 days left, all our invitations are sent, I went for my final dress fitting today. I also got a haircut in preparation for my hair trial in two weeks! Bridal shower is also in two weeks and I cannot wait! I went to New York with my sisters and sister-in-law last week and it was a blast! We had a weekend filled with shopping and general sight seeing. We hit up one H&M store a day and nearly missed our flight after being detoured from the subway. We had lunch and dessert at Serendipity, walked around Central Park, had dinner outside Rockefeller Center. We fit in a Broadway show -- Rock of Ages, which is very cool if you like the 80s rock music like we do. We even got on a big screen in Times Square! Jim's bachelor party is in 27 days (he doesn't get back until 2 weeks before the wedding). He'll be flying back to Cincy to hang out with the boys. They rented a 5,000 sq ft cabin with a 106 inch projector for a weekend filled with poker, euchre, cornhole and roasting. Should be lots of fun. My goal is to be pretty much DONE with everything by the time he gets back so that we can just work on very LAST minute stuff.

Come explore our wedding website, http://www.schwallerly.com/! Jim has put a lot of time into creating it (NERD alert!) to make it unique and a little fun. You can RSVP, sign our virtual guestbook, request a song, find out general and detail information about the day. Oh, and don't forget to send us your Mii! We plan to use it in the wedding.

Until next time!

~The SchwallerMiis

2 months to go!

Okay... so it's been one month since I last wrote so I have to apologize to those who have checked since then to see if there was anything new. Things have been quite busy around here! Our good friend (and Jim's best man), Ryan, came out to visit as a birthday surprise to Jim a few weeks ago. It was so nice to have him out for a visit (and perhaps someday permanently!). We had the opportunity to take Ryan to the Shoreline Yacht Club to show him where we're getting married. Eric was also at his boat so we took a mini tour of where all the groomsmen will be getting ready. Using Ryan's creative eye, we were also able to firm up where we were going to take pictures (across the street at the park). And we even knocked out the tuxedo rentals and my dress alteration!

Only two months to go now and all the details are quickly coming along. Letters to be hung down the aisle are painted and just need ribbon. We ordered a cupcake stand, table card holders, and our favor boxes. We picked up vases for all the centerpieces and started on items we need to rent. Florist is also booked. An old high school friend Euri started a business, Fleuretica, and she is doing us a HUGE favor by ordering our centerpiece flowers and letting us use her fridge to store them once we have it arranged. She understood that Jim and I are on a tight budget and could not afford for her to do the centerpieces. We are so grateful that she offered to store and deliver them for us! We also got a NEW photographer assigned to us (long dramatic story about that). Most importantly, our invitations are sent! Jim will update our site (http://www.schwallerly.com/) so that our guests can start RSVPing and continue to sign our virtual guestbook and send us their Miis. Fabric for the bridesmaids dresses are all bought. My sister's mother in law is sewing those. And my Chinese dress for the tea ceremony is ordered!

Bridal shower date is also set and invitations are sent. I am going to New York for my bachelorette weekend with my sisters this Thursday! It's going to be very chill. More of a mini vacation than anything. Go see a Broadway show, have a nice dinner, do a little shopping, have some frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity and we'll be all set! Jim's bachelor party isn't until towards the end of June. A little late, yes, but he will also get to celebrate his friend Josh's birthday and Father's Day.

Told you it's been a busy month! Hopefully it won't be so long until the next update.

So excited!
Maria