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Well, the wedding planning is picking up steam now that I’m done with work and school. We’ve decided on our menu for the reception, and are meeting with the decorator next week. I can’t wait to really come up with some great ideas to make the reception awesome! We are really lucky that the Country Abbey is such a one-stop shop!

We are so excited about throwing a great party for our guests, even though there is no way we can possibly invite everyone that we want to invite. I think that the invitation process is the hardest part of wedding planning, especially because our venue has a strict quota on the number of people we can have. This has really forced us to invite a much smaller number of people than we wanted to, which makes me really sad.

I am learning a lot about event planning through this process, and am really glad that I’m getting the experience. The good news is that no matter what, at the end of the day, Mark and I will be married!

Ok, so I know it’s been a while since we’ve posted on here, but man, what a busy month October was! Between school, life and wedding planning, there hasn’t been a whole lot of time for blogging!

As Mark mentioned in a previous post, we decided to check out another venue besides the chapel at DBU. Well, we did, and it was a perfect fit! We are getting married at The Country Abbey, a wedding chapel in Justin, Texas. As much as we liked DBU and all it had to offer, we found out that the Abbey was a better fit for us. For one thing, it was smaller–since we don’t plan on inviting enough people to fill even a qaurter of DBU’s beautiful but massive chapel, we felt like the proportions would be all wrong. At the Abbey, we can have a smaller number of guests, but still fill the place. Another reason we switched was the type of ceremony we wanted. The chapel at DBU is so magnificent that it demands a ceremony full of elegance and formality. Mark and I prefer to have a more casual event. I would feel like there was a major juxtaposition of styles if we had stuck with DBU. All in all, I would have loved for it to work, but I am definitely happier with our new place.

Speaking of our wedding, we have decided to make it really fun and personal. One of the ways we want to do this is with cupcakes instead of a traditional wedding cake. Although I’m a huge fan of the way traditional cakes look and taste, cupcakes are definitely more my style. Besides, no one ever said cupcakes can’t be beautiful! There are more fun touches that I’m really excited about, but if I tell you all of them, you won’t be very surprised when the wedding actually arrives! Let me just say that we’re drawing a lot out of our interests and personalities…and that it’s going to be awesome!

Well, we are currently looking into changing our wedding location. While I liked the idea of getting married here at DBU at first, I think that with my budget and the style of wedding we want, we need to to find somewhere else. I’ve got my eye on a place, and we’re touring it Saturday, so we’ll see how that goes.

I’ve been super busy with school work, so wedding planning has had to take a back seat. So far, though, I think that that isn’t a bad thing. I mean, we’ve got a year or so until the wedding, so I have plenty of time for ironing out the details.