Another fight

So Mr. Perfect and I got in another nasty argument last night. I am trying to book our engagement pictures for this spring during cherry blossom season. So that gives us about a 3 week window. On top of that, Mr. Perfect is finishing up last semester at school (in Detroit, E is not moving here to DC where I live till after graduation in spring), and our photographer has to fly down to DC to do our shoot... I really wanted her to do the e-pics, and she agreed to fly down for us. Well Mr. Perfect's school sucks and his professor pretty much expects him to put damn class above EVERYTHING... so Mr. Perfect can't set a date for when he can fly down here for the shoot. Well I have been badgering him because I want to give our photographer a heads up and get everything booked and ready... well you can guess it started another argument because Mr. Perfect wouldn't commit to the date that looks the best for everyone. It is penciled in for the Monday right after his spring break ends, which he said would probably be the best. He doesn't have class on Monday so I figured that gives him the majority of his SPRING BREAK (key word break here) to work on whatever school projects he needs to get done. He says his professor expects the students to be working on their films during their spring break. What??? It is called a break for a reason!!! So I am trying my best to accomodate him (I have to take off work that day). But honestly how can he let his professor rule his entire life like that??? I mean it is a two-three days he would be down here. How ridiculous is this?
So I feel sooooo frustrated... and Mr. Perfect feels soooo frustrated and on top of the long distance, it just sucks. So it turns into a stupid huge argument (once again!). I understand to some degree where he is coming from... we both NEED him to graduate this spring. But at the same time, how does 2 days out of an entire semester really matter, especially since they are over his spring break?? How can a professor expect to control people's lives like this?
I don't deal well with not knowing the Whys of things, and this is one of those times, that I can't let it go, until I understand it.
So... I am frustrated as hell to say the least. Mr. Perfect is frustrated as hell... and we are getting nowhere.
The one thing good that did come out of the argument was that he understood why I feel that this engagement shoot is so important.... he knows and I know that yes in the end we don't NEED to do the shoot during cherry blossom season (but hell I am a bridezilla when it comes to this, I can admit it), but I just LOVE cherry blossoms!!! And to me it encompasses the beginning of our new life together in DC... and that is why I really want to do it then... so he understands the superficial part. But what really got to me is the fact that he understood I want this engagement shoot to represent our relationship... to celebrate our relationship and to celebrate our future together... and I REALLY needed him to understand that and tell me he did.
So I guess the argument had a silver lining. We may have not gotten anywhere with it, but at least he understands me... I just need to work on better understanding where he is coming from.
Im just sick of this stupid university keeping us apart I guess... and yes I am pouting. But his graduation (and therefore arrival in DC date) has already been delayed 5 months and this among other things involving his school and our relationship is just rearing the last straw.
I just feel like his school has been putting so many important things in this relationship and our engagement on hold, and I don't want to have to deal with it any longer. And that is really what it comes down to. 3 months to go, and I hope to God that diploma is in his hand. E-pics or not.

Free Stuff

I found this stuff from one of my favorite blogs.

http://www.vintageglamblog.com/

And they are from Martha Stewart Weddings

You can use them as escort cards, favor tags or even out of town bags.

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Linen Options

I have been working with Bill from Fabulous Events (http://www.fabulousevents.info/) for my linens who is absolutely AWESOME to work with. We havn't put a deposit down yet, but I cannot wait to get my arse back to Michigan to play around with the linens in person!! He has come up with some beautiful ideas. The picture above is my favorite so far! We won't be doing chair covers, but I love the tie around the chair! Cannot wait to see what else he comes up with!!

LOVE this

Okay... since we are having a backyard wedding I am constantly in search of ideas and pictures for this type of wedding. Check this picture out!!! I LOVE it!!! Don't know where I found it from... I really need to start documenting where I find these pictures from!! But oh it is so beautiful! I have already bought some globe lights from another former bride off of craigslist - they aren't as big as these in the pictures, but they will still look awesome!! I may have to be on the hunt for some huge lights like this!!

Save the Dates

Okay so its time to think about the Save the Dates. I know we have tons of time... but I want to start "thinking" about it, because after we get our engagement pictures back we will need to get to work. Which btw, we are penciled in for our e-pic shoot March 23rd. SO EXCITED!!! We just need to get Dionne's flight and accomodations booked... oh I am so grateful that Dionne is willing to come down here!! I just pray to God that the weather cooperates, and we have a decent day with lots and lots of cherry blossoms.

So what to do for STDs? We definitely want to incorporate one of our engagement pictures. So do we do a cherry blossom themed STD? Or do we do a Moroccan/Vintage/Casablanca themed STD? Well, if we can find someone to design this for us, we may do something like this Casablanca movie poster below... of course it would be with our picture (we would have to take one similar to this) and then have Save the Date written where Casablanca is written, our names on top and then the other information where the other stuff is written... what do you think?

Photographer Booked

Yay!! So fiance and I (hmm need to come up with good nickname for him...) just booked our photographer this past week. I am so excited!! To give you a bit of background... I had my eye on a few photographers and had pretty much been sold on Monica from Images of Style by Monica. Her eye for good photos is amazing!! And when we met with her she was a complete sweetheart! Well, to make the fiance feel a bit more involved with the wedding planning and to get a feel for another photographer I figured I would make a second appointment with Dionne with the Shooting Gallery because she comes very highly recommended on the Detroit Knot board (which I frequent a lot). So we met with her over the holidays when I was home in Detroit visiting, and we both just fell in love with her. She takes a HUGE interest in her clients and her personality totally meshed with the fiance's... and that boy cannot take a picture for the life of him, so I knew that was very important. He was totally into her, and he isn't the into wedding planning type. Typical guy!!! so I am way pumped!!! Check out Dionne's blog at http://shootinggalleryphotography.blogspot.com/
Amazing photographer!! Here are some of her pictures below... I am so in LOVE!!

Okay I am going to do this for real this time

Okay I started this blog a few months back. Added one post and forgot about it lol. So here we go again. I have been inspired by a client of mine to blog, so I will have two blogs. One for my side business and the other for all things wedding planning. Sonya is the beautiful and amazing bride-to-be who has inspired me. Check out her blog at
http://queencitybride.blogspot.com/
Love it!!!