Opposites attract

He's a lot rock n' roll and I'm country. I'm Catholic and he's Jewish. I heart the Red Sox and he's suffering from ABTRS syndrome (anyone but the Red Sox). He's always hot and I'm always shivering. Actually, he doesn't mind visiting Boston but he LOVES leaving!

Still we do have a lot in common. We met at college, both majoring in some form of communications and we both work in media. Pizza, sports and random adventures always make us happy. And we created the most gorgeous, precious little man in the world. Oh, and we're crazy about each other. Ever hear the song"I'm Only Me When I'm With You" by Taylor Swift? I'm pushing for that to be our first dance song. The two lines really stick out to me: Well you drive me crazy half the time;
the other half I'm only trying to let you know that what I feel is true.
And I'm only me when I'm with you. Short, sweet, simple and honest. I know I drive the poor man up the wall, but its mutual sometimes. Isn't that the way of love? You grow and change together, but accept each other flaws and all?

Say Cheese!

I can totally picture me and the Baby Cheese posing like this!

Its so much fun finding poses that I can't wait to try at our wedding.

I love this. Don't know why, but I do. I hope we can recreate this at our wedding!

Colors

I've been thinking more about getting my projects started which means I definitely have to settle on a color palette. Or a theme? Anyway, I'd really wanted to get married at my favorite winery back in MA but since Mr. Cheese wanted to get married close to where we live in VA my wedding winery dream ended.

I know I could have found a great winery in VA, but what was the point if it wasn't going to be at the winery I truly adore?

I love wine. I adore vineyards (my dream job is to work PR at a winery). So . . . why not use wine/grapes/vines as my starting point.

Golds, greens and creams are all summery, and grapes are deliciously summery! Mmm!

Inspirational thoughts.

Ok, so I've bought my wedding dress. Well, ordered it at least. And its great, I love it but it wasn' the dress I thought I'd end up with. This was the dress I'd wanted: But my body had other ideas. See, I forgot that by having long legs and a short-ish torso, this gorgeous confection of a gown wouldn't actually look good on me. So Vineyard designers from Priscilla of Boston, I love your work, but it just didn't love me back.

Its ok, I'm happy with my wedding dress. If I wasn't positive Mr.Cheese would look at this and see my dress, I'd probably post pictures. But since he's way more technically superior to me - and since he'd look - I'm saving a surprise for our wedding day.

My ideal wedding band? Simply amazing craftsmanship. I'd love a band of diamonds, but since my engagement ring looks almost identical to the ring in the picture, a solid band would look good too. I love jewelry!

Besides, half the fun of all this planning is finding out what's out there!

Baby Cheese Got Married!

So my little man is a ladies man. Monday morning he and his preschool sweetheart got married on the playground. They honeymooned "at the store." Mr. Cheese and I are very happy for the couple, but I've got to admit that I'm surprised I only found about it yesterday. "Mama, you didn't ask me if I got married," said Baby Cheese when asked about his new bride. "But its ok, she's only my pretend wife. I might marry someone else next week."

Ohhhh, from the mouths of little ones!

Panic (a kind of confession)

I'm thankful for the life I lead. I have an amazing family, a great job with wonderful coworkers and a roof over my head at night. Sometimes I can't listen to the radio or watch the news because all the negative press on the economy makes me feel ill. The wedding is on track, our planning continues, but I'm really concerned that we shouldn't be spending money on a wedding when there's so much uncertainty in our economy.

A little backstory: my fiancé, let me just call him Mr. Cheese from now on (its a family joke), and I are parents to a gorgeous little five year old boy. He's in preschool and loves every minute of it. As I've mentioned before, Mr. Cheese works in media. Unfortunately because of a very recent, very high profile merger his company was part of, he has absolutely no job security. He's confident he'll have a job until October 31st . . . but after that we have no clue. Not knowing his job status is incredibly stressful for both of us and we're shielding Baby Cheese from any and all knowledge of the situation. Why scare him with information about a situation we really can't explain?

So, we're hoping and praying that everything works out for the best for our family. Unfortunately thousands of other families across the country are in similar situations and its a scary scenario to be facing. Fortunately my job is secure. Fortunately Baby Cheese's schooling is secure. We're together, happy and well loved. I'm trying to focus on the positive, but every now and then the panic sort of takes over.

Make the cut

Some people are not making the invitation list. Its inevitable that coworkers, acquaintances and in some cases friends will not be invited to our wedding. Extended family members are welcome additions but their kids aren't necessarily welcome.

Fiancé and I went to the same college and knew a lot of the same people. There's maybe one girl I'd want to have at our wedding while he has a lot of people on his list. Basically we thought that we'd look at a master list of people and weed people out based on whether or not we think they'll be in our lives in 5 years.

This is really hard because it makes you look at friendships/relationships and take a long look at their strengths and weaknesses. And its made me second guess myself. Its that knowing if I can weed some people out, can they cut me out as easily? Yes, some people can and will. We'll hurt some feelings, and I'm sorry for that. But I really get those 'hard choices' other brides have mentioned to me-and I get how the cuts still have to be made even if others aren't happy about it.