Tuxes and cake and Pooh! Oh, my!
Wow, have we been busy...
(Dude, we're all busy...what have you been up to?)
All right...all right...let me tell you...
If it's not helping to paint Alex's nephew's room or working in the garden, it's been fixing up our bikes or working on the wedding. We figure we've been doing about 5-10+ hours of wedding stuff a week and we've both expressed the sentiment that "Boy, it'll be nice when it's over!" Not that working on the wedding is bad, but we'd love to have that kind of time back.
Picture this: It's about 1PM on a Sunday, and we're driving to Best Buy, 'cause I need a new drive for my computer. We get the drive, and notice Men's Warehouse is right next door. They were my initial choice for tuxedos, so Alex and I went in, talked with the people there and looked over styles. Afterwards, we said "Hey, we should check out a couple of other places while we're at it..." So Sunday turned into Tuxedoday. We ran to Savvi Formalwear out in Crestwood and talked a lot with the people there, tried jackets and vests on dummies (yes, including me! LOL) and spent about two hours there asking questions. We were pretty happy there, but thought we'd check out After Hours Formalwear in the same mall. We weren't really thrilled there, so we decided on Savvi. By that time it was about 530PM or so, so most of Sunday was gone. BTW, the tux shown is pretty close to the one I'm getting, although the vest and tie will be in our wedding color of Celedon Green.
Ah, yes...then there's cake. Let me tell you how jazzed I am for cake. The last few weeks at work, we've had a few lunches for co-workers (leaving, anniversaries, etc.) Whenever I'm asked if I'm going to be there, the first words out of my mouth are "will there be cake?" (Really, I would go to them regardless, but still...cake is good.)
We went to McArthur's bakery to talk to the Wedding Coordinator about cake for our wedding. We got to look through multiple styles and got to try several cake flavours and fillings (mmmm...raspberry. mmmm...white
buttercream mousse.) While the cake was pretty tasty and the fillings were really good...I hate to say we've become jaded on cake.
We have gotten hooked on this show on Food Network called Ace of Cakes, and looking at all the wedding cakes that Duff makes versus what McAruthur's makes...well...
Don't get me wrong...McArthur's makes very beautiful wedding cakes...but they all look like...well...like wedding cakes. Hopefully, McArthur's (or someone else) can make us a cake that will look non-traditional and still be amazingly tasty. (And no, we can't get a cake from Charm City...the cake and transportation fee would cost more than the reception!)
(BTW, Left pic is from McArthur's and the right one is from Ace of Cakes. And yes, that is Wrigley Field!)
We also went shopping at Target. For us, shopping at Target can get insane...we go in for one thing and walk out with $200.00 of stuff...not including the one thing we came for.
We both want kids. I think Alex would make a spectacular mom. When we were at Target we walked past the baby asile and saw the cutest Classic Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal. Well, we ended up getting it...even though Alex isn't even pregnant...oh, and the Eyore doll too...and a couple other pooh things for
babies...As our friend Mary would say, "We've got some pooh in our shopping cart." :)
We figure we want our kid(s) to have Classic (read: not the Disney) Pooh...(See previous post "Itty Bitty Binky Pooh") and we will have kids after we're married...and if we need to, we can always give them as baby shower gifts. Also, we've gone to Target a couple of times before and not gotten something and it wasn't there later. But I must say, the Pooh stuff is cool and I would love to have our child have it...and it's kinda cool we've gotten it already... :)
Anyway, that's just a little of what's going on with us, recently...
(Dude, we're all busy...what have you been up to?)
All right...all right...let me tell you...
If it's not helping to paint Alex's nephew's room or working in the garden, it's been fixing up our bikes or working on the wedding. We figure we've been doing about 5-10+ hours of wedding stuff a week and we've both expressed the sentiment that "Boy, it'll be nice when it's over!" Not that working on the wedding is bad, but we'd love to have that kind of time back.
Picture this: It's about 1PM on a Sunday, and we're driving to Best Buy, 'cause I need a new drive for my computer. We get the drive, and notice Men's Warehouse is right next door. They were my initial choice for tuxedos, so Alex and I went in, talked with the people there and looked over styles. Afterwards, we said "Hey, we should check out a couple of other places while we're at it..." So Sunday turned into Tuxedoday. We ran to Savvi Formalwear out in Crestwood and talked a lot with the people there, tried jackets and vests on dummies (yes, including me! LOL) and spent about two hours there asking questions. We were pretty happy there, but thought we'd check out After Hours Formalwear in the same mall. We weren't really thrilled there, so we decided on Savvi. By that time it was about 530PM or so, so most of Sunday was gone. BTW, the tux shown is pretty close to the one I'm getting, although the vest and tie will be in our wedding color of Celedon Green.
Ah, yes...then there's cake. Let me tell you how jazzed I am for cake. The last few weeks at work, we've had a few lunches for co-workers (leaving, anniversaries, etc.) Whenever I'm asked if I'm going to be there, the first words out of my mouth are "will there be cake?" (Really, I would go to them regardless, but still...cake is good.)We went to McArthur's bakery to talk to the Wedding Coordinator about cake for our wedding. We got to look through multiple styles and got to try several cake flavours and fillings (mmmm...raspberry. mmmm...white
buttercream mousse.) While the cake was pretty tasty and the fillings were really good...I hate to say we've become jaded on cake.We have gotten hooked on this show on Food Network called Ace of Cakes, and looking at all the wedding cakes that Duff makes versus what McAruthur's makes...well...
Don't get me wrong...McArthur's makes very beautiful wedding cakes...but they all look like...well...like wedding cakes. Hopefully, McArthur's (or someone else) can make us a cake that will look non-traditional and still be amazingly tasty. (And no, we can't get a cake from Charm City...the cake and transportation fee would cost more than the reception!)
(BTW, Left pic is from McArthur's and the right one is from Ace of Cakes. And yes, that is Wrigley Field!)
We also went shopping at Target. For us, shopping at Target can get insane...we go in for one thing and walk out with $200.00 of stuff...not including the one thing we came for.We both want kids. I think Alex would make a spectacular mom. When we were at Target we walked past the baby asile and saw the cutest Classic Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal. Well, we ended up getting it...even though Alex isn't even pregnant...oh, and the Eyore doll too...and a couple other pooh things for
babies...As our friend Mary would say, "We've got some pooh in our shopping cart." :)We figure we want our kid(s) to have Classic (read: not the Disney) Pooh...(See previous post "Itty Bitty Binky Pooh") and we will have kids after we're married...and if we need to, we can always give them as baby shower gifts. Also, we've gone to Target a couple of times before and not gotten something and it wasn't there later. But I must say, the Pooh stuff is cool and I would love to have our child have it...and it's kinda cool we've gotten it already... :)
Anyway, that's just a little of what's going on with us, recently...
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