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!!!

Arguments

It seems 90% of our relationship is arguing. I mean we never used to argue like this before we got engaged. Its just so frustrating. I know its because of the distance... it is just driving both of us nuts. I just wish there was a word we could say to just stop an argument... cuz they are so stupid. I mean for instance... I am coming home this weekend and will be in Friday evening until Monday morning. Well I really want to get together with my bridesmaids so we can just talk and just spend some time together.... I really want Emmanuel to be there too, but I don't know if he wants to be... so I told him like hey when should I schedule this for... what do you want to do this weekend. Well he gets all upset, like well whenever we go out, you are always so tired when you get home... and that we have been planning on going out to the movies for the past 3 times we have seen eachother and plans always fall through... aka im tired or he doesn't have money, or he can't get his ass in gear so we can get out of the house prior to 11 at night. I mean I know he hates schedules, and I am huge on them, but I hate the fact that he takes his time doing everything. I mean can't we find a compromise!!! I don't know... its just so frustrating. and I think 95% of are arguments involve schedules... and its all because we can't spend every day together, we have such limited time together... that I want to schedule things, so we can maximize our time together, but he just wants to be together. I wish we could find a way to compromise so we don't have to argue about this stupid stuff as much. I honestly just wish (this is selfish) that he would quit school and go to school down here... i know it would mean more money to spend, and more time not having his degree... and I know it would mean less chance of getting custody of his daughter... and that is what this all comes down to. I just guess we have to be tough and get through this time... because if there is one thing I want more then anything it is for my future husband to see and have a relationship with his daughter... and this stupid woman (the baby mama) just keeps her away from him for no reason except to play games with him and in turn hurt his daughter. Ugh, this relationship is so complicated.

And the worst part about this is that I am questioning our relationship because of these arguments. I mean I love him, I want to spend the rest of my life with him, I want to be the mother of his future children... I want to grow old with him... but these stupid petty arguments, and his communication problems scare me. I know if we were having these arguments in person they would be much easier, and we wouldn't have as many... but it scares me. I am just so sick of being apart. I just need to concentrate on the time we do have together, and what I love about him... its just hard sometimes.