Wedding Hiatus

Sooo, as you may have noticed my posts are few and far between lately.  Well...I'm getting married on SUNDAY! So they will continue this way until the crazy has subsided.  I promise I will be back.

xo

Congratulations, from the Queen!

Mr. Dan's grandparents have been married for 60 years.  That's 6-0.  60.  And they are as much in love today as they were then they got married.  They make me smile at the thought of being with Mr. Dan for that long...

So Nanny and Poppa's family had a big to-do this weekend to celebrate their anniversary.  They rented out the community centre and had an open house.  Complete with wedding decor, arches, diamonds (because your 60th is your diamond anniversary), ceremony arch, photographer and a wedding cake!!  Poppa even wore the shoes he got married in.

The fam jam!

They're in love!

Congratulations...FROM THE QUEEN!!

Posting from my sick bed

There will be no posts this week, my lovelies.  I am far to sick.

I was pretty sure this was 2011....

But maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe we're back in the 50's where women lived in their kitchen and raised their kids, where people of a different ethnicity stayed in "their sections", where gays weren't gay...I didn't think I time traveled that easily but I MUST have done it because otherwise I just don't get it...

Two close friends of mine (a same sex couple) are planning their wedding.  Their Grandmother/FGMIL recently went to a shop in Maine to order their invitations for them.  The invitations were designed and made by her and they just needed them printed.  

(Sidebar: The guys are in NB, on the border, so g-ma getting something in Maine and bringing it over on the weekend saves a lot of cash!  Smart men!!)

Anyhoar, she discussed the invitations with the person at the store and was told she'd have a quote in a week.  The next week she hadn't heard so they contacted the store.  They were told that due to "Ethical policy" they wouldn't be doing their invitations.  They had been rejected based on content. Basically they were told "no thanks, you're gay".  Now, normally I wouldn't post this company's name but I feel people deserve to know who they're dealing with; the company was Wilton Printed Products out of Wilton, Maine.

I'm absolutely disgusted that it's 2011 and there is a "company policy" that would prohibit someone from printing wedding invitations for a same-sex couple!  It makes me both angry and sad at the same time.  I'm pissed that someone wouldn't want to help these two wonderful young men with their wedding and I'm sad that there are still people that don't support love.  What has happened to love in this world?! These gentlemen deserve a beautiful wedding and they deserve to be happy.  Why is there STILL a company out there that will not serve them?!  I don't understand how people can hate love so much.  I just don't understand...

Wow...when did that happen?

So apparently I'm getting married in 33 days.  When did that happen?  I always said I wouldn't panic...there's no point to it.  But I feel like I should be doing something.  I just feel like I have everything under control...and it's too easy.  My suspicions are aroused....  Hmm...

Anyhoar, now that we're so close I've got some things that need to be taken care of.  For example: My cake.  That really needed to get done.  So Mr. Dan and I headed down to the Gingerbread Haus Bakery and ordered our cake.  It won't be EXACTLY like this but:

Picture this with red piping for the ribbon and yellow daisies!

Next I headed down to the tailors and brought my dress in.  You may remember it:

Now, picture me about 20lbs lighter, no sash and with a sweetheart neckline.
Got it?  Good, because I'm lost.

After dropping the dress and getting asked (before I broached the same subject) "Can we pleeeeeeeease do a sweetheart neckline on you?! It would look so fabulous!!" I headed to my DIY pile to see what needed to be done:

Invites and RSVPs made and mailed - CHECK!

Bouquet ideas ready to make with FMIL - CHECK!

Candy buffet ready...minus labels and candy - CHECK!

Girls gifts bought...CHECK but they read this blog and I'm not giving it away =P

Really...everything is done or nearing completion.  I feel good.  I feel calm.  And now, all I need to do is get murried!  33 more days!

Friday Follows:

It's that time of the week again - time for Friday Follows!! (Someone cue the music!!)

This week I'd like to send you over to my friend Carrie at Plastic Free Bacon.  Now, Carrie has this amazingly funny sense of humour, and you can see it from her posts, but that's not why she's blogging.  Her and her husband are currently embarking on a journey to live as plastic free as possible.  She blogs about it; the hard parts, the funny parts, why...and just generally amusing plastic free (or not) stories.  I love reading about her adventures in the land of no plastic...I hope you will too!

Windowshop Wednesday

It's that time again ....WINDOW SHOP WEDNESDAY!!

I'm linked up with Katie at The Katie Chronicles and we're doing...ZAPPOS! wo0t!

Let's get started:

I need wedding shoes.  I want bright yellow or bright red to match everything else sooo....

Kenneth Cole! Love!!

Fitzwell...SUPER cute!

I've been eyeing these Sofft shoes for a while now...

Obv. these aren't for the wedding but they're SUPER CUTE slippers!

AND since I'm a purse hoar...

This Hobo bag is killer!

WICKED Fossil purse