Ireland is set

Zach bought our tickets to Ireland today!

I am so excited! Especially since it is officially set now! We fly out Sunday May 23 at like 7 pm and we fly back Saturday June 5.

We've also already reserved 3 nights at The Westin in Dublin. Pretty excited.

Then we will rent our car ( a BMW 318i) and make our way around the coast staying at little bed & Breakfast's.
Really, I can not express how excited I am about all of this!

Progress?

Invites are on their way and should arrive by Friday!

Also I should have Silver Palate's quote soon! I am so anxious to see it and I really hope we can work with them. I am ready to get that decision made and a contract signed.

The anxiety is really starting to set in too. I know I still have 4 months and I have gotten a lot of the big things taken care of but I feel like there is still so much left! I think finishing up with invites and getting them mailed out will be a big relief. Hopefully addressing the envelopes won't be too difficult.

I think I will feel alot more comfortable when my dress has been started too. I know it is a really big undertaking for my grandma. It isn't going to be easy. I pray that my design will actually look good on me. Maybe I should have actually tried on some wedding dresses before coming up with an idea in my head. Granted I love what I have designed and I am sure it will look good. But the dress is pretty important to me. So hopefully it will be flattering and we can pull of making it!

I think the fact that the snow last weekend put wedding planning on hold has gotten me into a frenzy of feeling like I am falling behind since most of my spare time has been spent on planning.

Zach and I also need to order our plane tickets for Ireland before the price continues to creep higher. He did get his passport yesterday though so we are set on that!

My mom and I are supposed to look for her dress this weekend. Fingers crossed we find something good!

Ireland?

Zach and I finally may have come up with a compromise for our honeymoon, with the help of travelling guru David!
We are considering going to Ireland and making a road trip around the coast starting and ending in Dublin. I think it would be super fun! We would get to explore, stay in Inns, go to Pubs. Maybe Zach will even get to tour the Guinness brewery! I think it would be super pretty and everything. Only question is what are we going to do about driving on the wrong side of the road!? Do we need a special license for that?? I am pretty excited about this and think it will be awesome. Now we can start the planning. We probably will wait until monday to fly out..I am pretty sure tickets will be cheaper during the week rather than the weekend.



David also suggested a brunch with family Sunday and Zach and I can open our wedding presents then. Sounds like a good idea. David has photographed over 300 weddings so I am pretty confident he knows what works and what doesn't. Still so much planning ahead but at least we have a start now! Hopefully we can experience awesome things like this!

UPDATE: this looks like it will be a definate. His parents are going to help us out a little with the cost. We need to start saving! He is going to turn in his passport application next Tuesday (I've already got mine). I need to start researching which places we will stop at and what inn to stay at. As for driving looks like it won't be a problem we just have to adjust to the right handed steering wheel and their roads. ( Oh boy!) This is certainly going to be an adventure.