10 Days!

The Countdown Begins!

12 days to go until our special day! We're nearly done with the wedding plans and are really looking forward to having an evening where we don't have to do any wedding stuff! Hurray! We're also looking forward to getting to see our family and friends at the reception! Today we are taking care of the last bits of stuff we have to do for our wedding video. We had a hard time sorting through all these awesome love songs but hopefully we got it down to the ones that will be perfect for us (sorry Billy Idol's "White Wedding" did not make the cut).
Brandon and I did get to have a little sneak preview of each other in our wedding attire as last week we took some pictures with each other at the Mt. Timpanogos Temple and the American Fork Amphitheater. Our photographer suggested it, just because the day of the wedding is a one shot deal, and what with it snowing a few weeks ago, who knows what the weather could be like, so we decided it would be wise to do some in advance.
They say that it's bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding, but who believes in that stuff anyway? We had our videographer and photographer there to capture our reactions and it was a very special experience. Because normally you don't get those pictures, so it was pretty cool. They had Brandon turn his back to me and then I came out and stood behind him, just outside the Temple. Then with the cameras going, he turned around and we saw each other. Brandon looked great in his tuxedo and I guess I looked good in my dress because Brandon got a little teary. Awww! Isn't he sweet? I just love him! We will get some of those pictures on here as soon as I get them from the photographer!

Wedding Invitation

Anne and I spent the better part of the evening working on our wedding invitation. Anne has a wonderful ability to see color, spacing and art! I wish I could say the same for my PhotoShop skills! We hope you like it.

From Brandon & Anne

From Brandon & Anne

Engagement Pictures!

We got our announcement pictures taken a little over a week ago and these are some of our favorites! We took most of these at Vivian Park, up Provo Canyon. The leaves are changing and aside from it being a little windy, it was a beautiful day! Then we also went to the Shops at Riverwoods and took some pictures there. We experimented with some traditional shots and more contemporary ones. The contemporary ones were sort of hard to do, because we had to have more serious faces, I didn't include a lot of those here. After an hour and a half of photographing, we did get a little tired of smiling and fake laughing! But we had a good time. Our photographer Kate Jeppson, was really nice to work with.
So now Brandon and I are trying to put together our announcement invitations. So if we haven't gotten your address yet, please get it to us!

Flower Girl Dresses!

Brandon and I found these cute dresses for our nieces to wear for our wedding! The one with the bigger dots will be for our 6 younger nieces ages 4 months to 5 years old and the other one will be for the other 5 girls that are 6 to 11 years old. Brandon had this idea of polka dot dresses and he even found the one for the younger girls on-line at Dillards, and ordered them, but there was a mix-up and a problem with the dresses being out-of-stock at Dillards, so we had to find the dresses on another website. We're still waiting on the second dress to get here, but it should be arriving this week!
I decided that I like on-line shopping. It has really saved us from having to run around more than we already have and things have also been much less expensive on-line than they have been in stores. So that's good too!