Wedding Band - Problem Solved

So despite my orignal band being gone the day after I found it, I found another one for a better price from Zales and ordered it that day. I am so excited!

Wedding Bands

So Saturday (on our 2 year dating anniversary), I convinced Matt to look at wedding bands at the jewelry store in a local Kroger. We had stopped there because we needed to go to the bank, and there was one of those in this Kroger as well. I was literally bouncing I was so excited we finally took a little bit of time to look at and try on wedding bands.

Matt is the "easy one". He just wants a 5mm-6mm yellow gold band. That should be easy to find online cheap enough for us. :)

Me however - I am the difficult one. Both of our birthdays are in September and so is our engagement anniversary. So we want sapphires in my wedding band. I tried on one there that I fell in love with, but it alone was more than we budgeted for both of our wedding bands. Luckily, I found one online for half the price and almost the same exact thing. See below:


Online - Half the price





Store - More than our budget



Only problem is, that the next day, it was sold out. In all sizes. On all of the website I found it on. They don't know if/when they'll come back. UGH!

Father/Daughter Dance Song

My mom found this song and I am so happy because it's beautiful, perfect, and orignal. I've actually never heard it before in any setting. It is Natalie Grant (a Christian artist) and the song is called I'll Always Be Your Baby. I am in love with it for my dad and I to dance to.

Here are the lyrics:

You were my first love, always there for me
You taught me how to walk and how to dream
God gave me your eyes
But it was you who taught me how to see
Now I can stand on my own
But I know that you'll never let go

I'll always be your baby
No matter how the years fly by
The way you love me made me
Who I am in this world
I'm a woman now, not a little girl
Wherever this life takes me
I'll always be your baby

You are my hero and that will never change
You still can dry my tears with just a smile
The one I've leaned on
From my first steps to walking down the aisle
Now there's another man in my life
But I know by the look in your eyes

I'll always be your baby
No matter how the years fly by
The way you love me made me
Who I am in this world
I'm a woman now, Not a little girl
Wherever this life takes me
I'll always be your baby

Your faith, your love
And all that you believe
Have come to be the strongest part of me
And I will always be your baby

Booked Wedding Night Hotel Room

Matt was most likely on a high from booking the honeymoon stuff on Saturday that he just couldn't wait to do the wedding night hotel room. I don't blame him at all because I'm pretty excited about it too. I've been eating up all of the information on the website for The Cincinnatian and I'm especially excited about this possibility:

"To arrange for silk rose petals to be placed in a guest room please contact our concierge, natural rose petals are not permitted."

Wouldn't that just be super romantic? I think so, we'll see if Matt picks up on that.

Since we used Hotwire for this booking too, we don't know what kind of room we'll have, but they're all nice so we're happy! Apparently when you do hotel rooms alone, they don't let you know what kind of room. Odd, but in this case it doesn't really matter.

I also thought I'd include some pictures of the resort for our Honeymoon from the previous post in this one. Eye candy, if you will.

Booked Our Honeymoon!

So today was the first day that June 10-17 was avaiable for booking on hotwire so Matt and I booked our flight to Orlando, FL, hotel, and rental car for our honeymoon!

We'll be flying direct on Delta from Cincinnati to Orlando at what Matt calls "Jess time" AKA not early morning. Our flight there leaves around 11am and the flight back leaves around 4pm. I'm pretty excited about that.

Our hotel is the Lake Eve Resort in Orlando only a few miles away from DisneyWorld with a free shuttle there and back. The suite is two bedrooms (because the one bedroom is $5 more a night - how silly) and has a full kitchen and a living room.

The rental car is an economy sized car, like a Chevy Aveo but we could easily wind up with a car just like mine (Hyundai Accent).

The only thing big left to take care of now will be getting the tickets for DisneyWorld, but we can get those way later. We are so excited!

Ordered my Shoes!

I posted about this a while back because I really thought that God was calling me to help others through my wedding via Toms shoes. I did change my mind from the canvas to the glitters and I am so excited to be getting them in 3-4 days! My only concern was that the glitter would run off - I know I'm going to be teased for this anyway because my father/brother are custodians and therefore hate glitter. I have read, however, that the glitter on Toms shoes don't run off so I really hope they're right.

Wedding Party

So we've known who our bridesmaids and groomsmen are for a while now but I never thought of posting them until reading another blog. :)

We plan on having a flower girl and ring bearer, but we haven't asked them yet.

I already had this made up for the last siggy on the knot boards, so I'll just use it here too! From top left to right, then bottom left to right:
Amanda - One of my best friends from bible study in college. She's getting married in July and I'm in her wedding too!
Amy - Friends since high school.
Raven - Maid of Honor - Best friend from high school.
Maria - Maid of Honor - Cousin!
Beth - Matt's sister (soon to be a mom! :))
Ashley - Another friend from college!

Groomsmen!

Nick - Best Man - Matt's
best friend since high school.














Randy - My cousin





Claus - Matt's Brother-in-law







Pat -  Best man - Matt's brother



Kyle - Matt's friend

Lyle - My brother