Rotations and work aside, wedding planning is in full swing and I'm having a blast! My mom and I went to a bridal show this past weekend in Austin and it was crazy, exciting, overwhelming, fun, and wonderful. Someone should have told us not to eat lunch before we went because every caterer seemed to have a sample of their food and every SINGLE bakery had tables of tiny cupcakes or 15 sheet cakes behind the booth. It was insane. Thankfully we already have a venue, photographer and DJ so we weren't shopping around for too much and we may have found a few vendors for catering, flowers and the cake!! I left with a whole bag full of business cards along with a full belly and sugar high.
We ate dinner I gave my mom 2 groupons for a chateaubriand dinner at the Emerald Restaurant in Lakeway for Christmas and she decided to use one for us after our wedding extravaganza. I always remembered her and my dad coming home from an anniversary dinner there with foil swans of their leftovers...really cool memories! We met a great couple that was sitting next to us and we began talking about the wedding, their kids, and all kinds of stuff. The chef (who had come out to serve the chateaubriand) heard our conversations and started joking with us as well. It was a wonderful, special night already, but then as we were about to leave the chef set a bottle of mead on our table. Thinking he was trying to sell us something, I began to say we weren't interested. He stopped me and said, "It's a gift for your wedding night. Read the back. It will all make sense." I started reading and learned the origin of the word 'honeymoon!' In Ireland, basically the bride and groom would drink a glass of mead (which was made with honey) every night for a month...hence honey + moon. Here's a link to a more extensive explanation. I was seriously touched.
This weekend I also tried on wedding dresses! It was SO much fun!! Getting to play dress-up in a store full of gorgeous dresses surely has to be almost every girl's dream. It's at least mine!!! Haha. No pictures/descriptions/hints on facebook or the blog (Ben is a sneaky, sneaky man), but I think I've found THE dress. I can say, however, that it is beautiful, I look beautiful in it, and when I'm wearing it I feel beautiful. What more can you want in a dress?
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