the shoe saga

so wedding planning has not been too bad. i haven't been stressed about details, only that we may run out of time- which is silly because 90+ days is plenty of time for the little bit we have left. but i guess everyone feels that way. one of my bridesmaids gave me good advice, and now i have a "to do sticky" on each month of my calendar. that helps... A LOT. but picking and finding bridesmaids shoes is another issue!

i originally found these really cute shoes that i loved at dsw.com but of course by the time we finally got around to trying get them, half the girls' sizes were not in stock. now i have been stressing about whether the store is actually going to restock like they said (yes i called the 1-800 number frantic) or if they aren't! nobody really seems to know exactly WHEN they will restock which is really what i want to know!

so now i am on the search for other shoes. we could do the same ones in silver, rather than champagne. silver does not seem to be as popular and all the sizes are in- but i wonder if that is because it is an ugly silver???? online it really is hard to tell.  so now i have gone through and found a few more options  should the original one not work out. funny enough, they are all at dsw (only) and all the same brand. nowhere else seems to stock this brand and it is fairly frustrating!

all the shoes would be in champagne....

the original shoe, but obviously this one is not champagne.

 the same as the original, but in wedge style and also obviously not champagne.

 peep toe heel, but sling back. but i'm not crazy about sling backs...this is also a cheaper option.

 

and the drama continues....... we will see what happens. i would like to have this decided before may...

were almost to 100 days....

....103 days to be exact. i remember when we first got engaged that may 2011 seemed soooo far away...something over 500 days away. wow. i cant believe we are this close already.  i decided i would write a little bit about life since we have been engaged as we approach the 100 days til the wedding mark.

our first real outing after we got engaged was to caroline's deb ball in greensboro. it was a blast, but i was worried the entire time my ring would fall off because it was not sized yet. hello, tape.

at that point it was basically thanksgiving and then christmas. we did not spend either holiday together (that did not happen til christmas of this year, but that will come later!) we did get to spend new years together in the BVI's sailing.  Robbie was late because the christmas bomber deal messed up flights everywhere and he was stuck in Antigua for a night...then we had a week long sailing trip of sun, swimming, and lots of bloody marys and carib!

in the spring of 2010, we got into rotary club pretty well, and started making some new friends that we now see all the time! robbie grew a moustache (that we don't need to be reminded of) for a charity event for rotary, it snowed 8 inches on the beach!, and i attended my cousin's bachelorette party in april.

 then i went to my high school reunion at the end of april. 5 years out of high school. we all felt like we had just been there yesterday. it was great to see everyone - we had a good turn out! robbie went out in raleigh with some of my high school friends and me. it was great having him meet girls that he probably wouldn't have met otherwise!

then it was off to aruba before i started my new job. another tropical trip? yes please. thats what we do! went with some great friends, and for 10 days!

summer started out pretty fun, as always. it was different working this year so we only could go to shack or to the pool on weekends. we continued to hang out with our new friends we have made in the past year! we closed on our new house on may 21 (exactly 1 year before our wedding), had a blast at my cousin's wedding in june, had our awesome engagement party in july, and  august brought wedding dress shopping! we also started our tailgate parties at our new house for football games! in our house, its go tarheels and go gamecocks!

robbie turned 25 in september. i got him an awesome cake from the beach bakery. yummy!!!

it was time for another wedding after robbie's birthday- our new neighbors! before we knew it, we were at thanksgiving again and it had been a year of engagement! it was a full year of fun and around thanksgiving, the wedding planning really got started!! 

 

on a quick break from planning, robbie and i went to st. kitt's with his family (yes, another vacation). it was a short trip, but it was great to be warm before returning to a snowy north carolina for christmas together in albemarle! everyone got more than they wanted or needed, but it was great and we were very thankful for a safe drive back to the beach in the snow!

january brought my 24th birthday and a few sick days from work.  it only brought a lot of work travel for robbie, so i feel like he has barely been in town! we look forward to the rest of winter and hopefully spring sooner than later which means the wedding will be super close! we are excited to enjoy these next few months of "single life" as we work towards becoming an old married couple :)