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Archive for May, 2010

Finals are coming to a close, luckily I had none today, but I have my last one tomorrow which I should be studying for.  Not much time for wedding crafts the last week or so.  Good news is the cave has drained and they are finally able to get in and see what all happened.  They are having to replace the ugly wooden bathroom stalls so that is a good thing!  Chandelier is fine, just muddy so hopefully they can get that all shined up again, if not they’ll buy a new one.  What a relief, now I can get back to buying those invites…first I gotta find my debit card….that might be a good thing

Still working on my tissue paper pomanders, those will take me forever!

Hopefully I’ll be back this week to show some progress!

We recently had a crazy 100 year flood this past weekend.  We were not hit as hard as Nashville was, but we did get hit.  Our venue is a cave, it’s a young cave and the river still flows through it.  If it rains a normal amount the cave floods to the point they can’t give tours.  I don’t believe many weddings get canceled, but it is a possibility, the rain can get up to the dance floor and flood the space.  Well with this flood, we got a ton more rain that usual, obviously, but the cave flooded majorly…..majorly.

This is the space, random picture I took one day while I was down there:

That is the water you see in the bottom left corner.  That can get much high as you can see the dance floor which can get flooded.  Well, this time it flooded completely, as in the water is above the metal shelter and quite a ways up the trail.

They aren’t sure how long it will take for all the water to drain out of the valley, I went on Tuesday and it was only 1 foot down from Sunday when the flooding stopped.  It is 20 feet deep in many place….at one foot a day that would 20 days before they can even really get down there to see what has happened and what all needs to be repaired.

Luckily I have 5 months to go and hopefully every thing will be mostly fine and repairs will be quick and make it much better than it would!

Here’s our lovely venue as it should look

I can’t wait til it’s here and I get to marry the love of my life.  Hopefully we won’t have to relocate it!

We had originally planned on having just 2 attendants each.  I had an attendant to drop out so as to not hurt feelings we moved one of Fi’s female attendants to my side and had her husband stand in.  Fi is close to both of his attendant’s husbands, but closer to them so their husbands were going to be ushers.  We thought he would take it better being a stand in than another girl would have been for me, girls are so stinkin sensitive!  Having one husband, fi really wanted the other but never would straight out tell me.  I had a girl I wanted to add but didn’t want to think she was replacing the girl who dropped out because she really wasn’t.  I decided to just do it and fi got to add his second guy, so now we both have 3 attendants and I guess that is ok!

We went 3 days after I asked and bought a dress, we move fast around here

After about 20 dresses that all looked pretty darn good on her we decided on this one

So now we’re all outfitted, we just have to get the men into tuxes, but they aren’t doing that for several more months.

and I thought I was a slacker in the last post….now I really am!

I have been having a really hard time staying motivated to lose weight.  I’m really convinced it was the birth control medicine I was on.  I had no motivation to do anything at all.  I craved junk food all the time, never wanted to go to the gym…it was horrible!  I’ve changed the medication and now I’m kind of back on track…as much as you can be for dieting for over and year and going to the gym and not losing much and what you did lose you gained back during that stupid birth control snafu.

We’ve been doing well the last few days, but this week is my birthday and we’ve been celebrating and not to mention that it’s flooding outside, I just don’t wanna do anything today!

For my birthday my mom got me a new laptop!  I was really tired of duct taping my screen up so I could use it…really annoying.  I got a Toshiba, it’s 16″ it’s awesome!  I love Windows 7!  Now I just have to get microsoft office downloaded so I can finish working on my lab reports, I have 2 practical/written lab finals next week, boo

As far as the wedding is concerned…I’m a little nervous.  We have a beautiful venue at Lost Rive Cave.  It has been raining since Friday night and the end is not in sight.  The cave is completely flooded, not that unusual, the way the cave is made it if rains just a few inches it is impossible to get into the cave without getting really wet, but we’re not talking just about inside the actual cave…

The venue is located on a dance floor that is outside of the mouth of the cave, there is a dance floor and a beautiful chandelier that decorates the ceiling, both are under water.  I don’t know if it’s ever been flooded this bad, but it makes me nervous.  Our wedding is 5 months and a few days and if the chandelier is ruined I’ll be really upset, that really gives the venue its beauty!  I’m thinking the worst and what if they have to cancel all weddings this year?  What would I do?  I have no idea!

I’m not worrying about it too much yet, and I hope I don’t have to worry about it later, but I feel bad for any brides who are supposed to get married any time soon, hopefully they get everything cleaned up very quickly!

I will be changing this to a wedding/weight loss blog, but primarily wedding.  I will update you on what I’ve done and will be doing!  Stay tuned, I’ll get better at this, i promise!