Next steps

I feel like I need to clear something up. Neither J's family nor my family are presuring us to have a Catholic wedding. It's important to me to have a Catholic wedding, and he agreed to it. We have been joking about making it a super traditional all-sung Latin lass that we estimated would be about 4 hrs long. That's just a joke. In reality we will meet with the priest and go from there. There's a little impish part of me that wants a full Mass just to make my sisters have to sit thru one. I realize that's not really a good reason, but it makes me giggle because I too can be a pain. (And frankly, it would be nice for them to do this ONE thing for me.)

We have discussed other things wedding related between ourselves and I will let you all know that it won't be a super traditional wedding or reception. We are planning something very much in line with our personalities and neither of us really gives a hoot about most wedding traditions. He suggested calling my co-matrons of honor my "ladies of power" and that is TOTALLY how they will be referred to from here on out.

We had a preliminary meeting with the church on Friday where they took down our info so they can (I guess) track down our records. They also gave us a run down on what to expect and I think they'll be good to work with. The priest is father maul, and the star wars geeks in us are loving it. 

Pretty garden area for pictures.

They have a school and this cracked both of us up.

After the meeting we had lunch at flying fish and we won an extra shrimp in our fried pickles!!! Hehe

I love their salmon salad. The prices are a bit $$ but they also don't skimp!

He cooked for me this weekend and also decided to perfect a couple of drinks. He made us PB&J old fashioneds and caramel apple cider with boozy whipped cream. They were both delicious but I ended the night with a splitting headache. I Googled and it turns out both the Screwball whiskey and the caramel smirnoff vodka are made with corn. I guess I don't eat enough chips and salsa to develop headaches like that but if something is made 100% with it, I'm screwed. This makes sense because I ended up with a headache after the engagement party as well, and D was making us old fashioneds. So, lesson learned. Your gal is sticking to tequila. The quesadillas he made were AWESOME!!! 

But look how pretty!!! 

So it was a chill weekend full of food, drink, cuddles, watching TV, and planning wedding stuffs. My ladies of power accepted the positions, which is great and we are shooting for our wedding in about 6 months. I know the timeline is a bit crunched, but I think we can do it. The last big things on my list are photographer and hair/makeup people. 😁 We are keeping it very small, mostly family. My friend A offered to be the driver for some of my family who aren't great at city driving. My man says Arlington isn't city driving and I call shenanigans on it. All DFW is city driving and you can't convince me otherwise.

So we are moving forward with planning, I just realized I need to make our 6 month timeline. Turns out Google is our best friend. Did you know we are supposed to buy each other's rings?? And he's allergic to some metals so we need to see what he can and can't tolerate. Tho let's be honest, mostly we'll wear the silicone rings that are so popular... my sharkie sometimes catches things 🤣.