Moving on......

So the first house isn't going to work out. The builder wasn't really willing to budge at all on the price so we had to give up on that one. We went out looking again with Josh today after work. There were a few possibilities, but I'm starting to feel like its more of a chore than a fun thing, looking at houses.

On a positive note, I think I found THE dress last night! I went shopping with Val, Mom, and Danielle at Belle Saison again. I'm really glad Danielle went since she didn't get to go last time and b/c she picked THE one! Can't really say much about it, but I will have to email everyone pics! Today at work, I pulled the camera out 3 different times to look at the dress again and was still excited about it every time, which I think confirms that this is the one.

Next few big things we need to do: honeymoon, cake, and ceremony music. We also are going to order the Save the Dates soon but I think we're going to wait until Shannon sends us the rest of the pics, so that we can ensure that we pick our most favorite. : )

Ok, past few posts have been boring and haven't had pics or anything, so I will include this funny clip!

Scary stuff....

So, we put down our first offer on a house tonight. We both LOVE the house (one in previous post), but are being very realistic in limiting ourselves to what we can really afford. While we would love for things to work out with this one, we have already accepted the fact that the builder is not going to budge much on the price. Josh, our realtor, will be calling us tomorrow with the builder's final offer. There is still a lot out there though, and I know that Ryan and I will find the perfect house that is everything we are looking for.

While the house stuff is very exciting and fun, I must remind myself that there is still more wedding planning to do. Most of the timelines are saying I need to have my dress ordered by the 6 month mark, which is about 3 weeks away. I think mom and Val are going to go shopping with me tomorrow and hopefully we make some progress!

Ok, that's all for now.

Possible Save the Date

I think we've decided on a pic, but now we have to find a template that it goes with. So far, I think this is our best option, what do you think? It also says "Save the Date" in white font at the bottom of the picture, but I covered that with our own pic. :)

Engagement pics

Shannon posted our engagement pics to her blog! I like the first one and the one with the yellow wall the best I think. The sun one is neat too:

You like?
We do.... still looking though

Weekend activities

We spent Saturday morning taking our engagement pictures with our photographer, Shannon. We'll probably get them back in a few weeks, but you can keep an eye on her blog in case she posts one or two sooner than that. We did some down by the Four Seasons, around a few DT streets, and some on campus as well.


After that, we had a marathon of looking at homes with our realtor. We looked at places for about 6.5 hours. Found a few possibilities, but nothing amazing. The next day, we hit a few builders and found one in the Buttercup Creek neighborhood that we really liked. It's not our perfect location, but not bad either.

We still have a good deal of looking around to do until we make any final decisions, but it's so exciting to be looking forward to moving into one of these places!


We still have a few big to do's for the wedding - this week we're looking to narrow down on hotels and rehearsal dinner locations.