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"Lindsey's not married yet. Tody needs to come and get Lindsey married."
This was so eloquently stated by my sweet little 3 year old niece, Emily, this past weekend. She loves that Tody of hers.

I have been more productive in the past three weeks than I have been in the past four months! It is a very good feeling, and just maybe this whole "wedding" thing will really happen.

I got to spend some wonderful time with two of my best friends, one who flew in from Atlanta much to my surprise. They also happen to be two of my bridesmaids, who so graciously modeled dresses for me and I finally picked them and got them ordered. We also ordered 2 out of 3 flower girl dresses. WHEW! My sister who lives in Odessa told me that if I didn't pick them soon she was going to wear brown scrubs to my wedding. I almost gave in.

And after much weeping and gnashing of teeth (or not quite so much of either), I finally made a decision on my invitations. I had even started working with a gentleman who owns a letterpress company in Michigan and we had designed my invitations... and then I just buckled down and decided to do them myself. You see, if I had it my way, I would make just about every component of this wedding (well, even more than I am now... which is a lot). I would make my own cake, my own centerpieces, etc. But, with limited time and many obligations, I know better than to take all of that on. However, I bit the bullet and decided to print/make my own invitations. All 200 of them. I will let you know in about 2 weeks whether this is a good idea or not. I'm going with "not" right now.

Wedding-hair-run-through? Check. One awesome and satisfactory check.
Contract on Cody's house? Awesome check #2.
Wedding dress alteration (appointment)? Check.
Cake? Um, no check. Still.
Flowers? Friday check!

We are also finally registered! Thankfully, since Cody is in the middle of selling his house down in Nederland/Beaumont, Texas and can't come here right now, my dear friend and BM Gina played his role for the day. We had a blast!! Cody told me he trusted me 100% to pick whatever I wanted for our new house and he would love it. And I love that he let me do that! We are registered at Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Pottery Barn. So, if you're like me and secretly love to look at people's registries and see what they've picked... then by all means, mine is available for your browsing. Just look under either of our names. And, you know, if you feel compelled to buy us the espresso machine, we wouldn't mind at all.

Now off to cut and burn ribbons...