bye bye

we are off. and i am a mrs.

i will for sure post pictures when we return but the day was perfection!

girls

some of the ladies i love.

lasts

so my days are now filled with lasts.....the last time i see the little italian ladies at the dress store, the last time i have a wedding shower, the last time i go to the dressmakers to see my bridesmaids dresses, the last of all the running around, the last of this and that. never have lasts been so sweet though. it is sad, i am sure, for our parents. but these lasts mean i get some firsts. so even though it is sad to not be able to try my dress on in front of big mirrors with pins sticking here and there, i am really excited!!!

p.s. i am not talking about the weather yet as it seems to be too good to be true. so shhhhh. it is still touch and go.

p.p.s. pinch me!

SEE YA!

wrapping things up....

....literally and metaphorically. the bridal party gifts are wrapped and i am tying up loose ends for the case dawg and i. this time next week i will be so excited i will be moving around like a crazy person i am sure. i will be waking up, with my new mum to be, getting ready to meet my exisiting mum and besties for a day at the spa....thank goodness (as if i have had it so rough over the past 2 weeks being on summer vacation. but it will help calm the anxiousness). I was up for, mmmmmm, about 3 hours lastnight losing my mind about not being able to breath in my dress and getting too hot and the garden closing in on me mid-vow. so i was wide eyed lying in bed going through all the possible disasters. however, until that very moment i was not nervous. although i am not a fan of public speaking....especially public speaking regarding your inner most heartfelts about the one you love....i am not scared. i have never been so sure of anything. never been so happy or shocked or overflowing with delight. those close to me know i can waver, but not at this. through all the planning and frustration i have truly enjoyed being engaged to casey. making everyone happy is impossible but at least i can honestly say i tried. so i continue to finish thank- yous, run around with my mum, organize the car for the boys, clean our house for guests and do laundry for packing. i am just trying to enjoy my last few moments of being a fiance, allowing myself to wrap my head around the fact i will be a wife in less than 10 days. case and i have been so lucky over the past year or so. our friends and family have been a great support and have allowed us to bask in the attention. so to those who read my little diary, thanks so much for loving us!


xo


m......and c;)

this month we get married.

holy @%$&

we are both really excited right now. our emails back and forth to eachother are hilarious. i just finished writing my vows.... wow. i told case and he is concerned at the tear factor so everyone beware.

anyways, it is the very month in which we are taking the plunge, tying the knot, exchanging the vows... you get it. when we got engaged 9 months ago, in london, we were staying at a typical budget london hotel. it was pretty much disasterous. we arrived after a late flight from amsterdam (which would have been earlier if we hadn't missed our original one) and we walk into our room which was flooded....and the only reason i new that, since the electricty was not working due to the flood, was the smell of wet dog. regardless, we were moved to the 4th floor, but o ya the elevator was broken and have you seen the stairwells in England?? they are the width of me so carrying luggage up there is wicked. anywhoo, get to our room and its doable minus the rock hard bumpy bed and the permantly open window (we were in london in the fall so imagine). of course i am now cranksters. the next day i go to the front desk to rage. i am telling the guy at the front desk off "....i didn't pay for rocks in my bed ......we have to eat in the basement...i have a gym membership at home so no need to make me carry my luggage up 4 flights..." so he is all full of crap excuses and then disappears under his desk for like a full minute, which is long when someone disappears under a hotel desk in front of your eyes. so he pops up with a bottle of wine. i, of course, am speechless at how obsurd this was. so making a long story short we got a bottle of wine out of it and we drank it last night, July 1. Cause this month we get married!!