Six Weeks to Go!

Wow, it's really getting close! Time is flying!

A few highlights to catch you up:

* I picked the dress up on Tuesday. I had tried last Sunday, but the store was closed for Mother's Day. Seriously? My mom would like almost nothing better than to shop on Mother's Day! It fits through the middle, but it certainly needs hemmed and I need to get the straps added as well. I get fitted on May 31. Yay!

* We've pretty much decided on all the songs for the ceremony. Just waiting to make sure everything gets "approved" by the church. I don't think we'll have a problem because we didn't really pick secular music or anything.

* We still need to work on the readings and the music for the reception. Soon. Really.

* Tomorrow I get my makeup trial. That should be fun. I want to go for a mostly normal look with a few extra touches. I don't want to be unrecognizable or cakey in the photos.

* The rest of the weekend there are just small details here and there. We need to take a few gifts back to the store (we really loved them but got duplicates and one of the shipped items was cracked!). And just keeping track of guests, etc. We're up to almost 80 attending. I won't get updates the next few days because my parents are getting the reply cards and they're out of town - at a wedding of course! This is the first of the 3 weddings my sister is in this year. It's in Kansas. Congrats Jana and Jaime!

Funny (condensed version of a) story about my sister and her friend Jana and the parts they've played in each other's marriages. Sarah met her husband, Dan, through Jana: Dan and Jana went to high school together and Sarah met him when she went to visit her college friend Jana in Kansas City for a New Years party right after they graduated from college. The next month, Jana and Sarah became roommates when they both got jobs in Chicago. Sometime later, Sarah introduced Jana to one of her colleagues, Jaime ... and the rest is history. Also interesting: Sarah and Dan got married on May 21; Jana and Jaime: May 19!

So happy early anniversary, Sarah and Dan! May you have many more years of happiness together!