August Update!

Less than 2 months to go! The updates are going to start coming fast and furious as the big day draws closer.

Here's what James and I have accomplished in the past month.

• INVITES - We finally got our wedding invitations designed and ordered. This is something I wish we hadn't waited so long to do, but I think it will be fine. Most of our friends already know about the wedding anyway. :) And since James and I are a no frills kinda couple, we ordered our invites online at Vistaprint. We uploaded the caricature our friend Gino drew for us, wrote some text on the inside of the card, and boom, that was it! The drawing is already super amazing. Why complicate things by adding high end card stock or fancy lettering? Now for the next step. Actually mailing the invites to people...
• WEBSITE - We got this idea from some friends of ours (thanks Jesse and Kelley!). The website The Knot has free wedding website templates you can use. And they look great! All the pertinent info on our wedding like directions and registry info is now in one place. It allowed us to keep our wedding invites clean and simple. Rather than cramming the invitations full of information, we've referred the guests to our website. It's so simple! I love it! We don't want to share the web address publicly just yet though. The main image on the site is the awesome caricature that is also on the invites. I'd like to make sure people are surprised when they open the invites. :)
• HONEYMOON - After talking to a couple different travel companies, we settled on our perfect Irish itinerary! We designed a custom route that will take us to Dublin, Galway, Killarney, Cork, and back to Dublin. The itinerary's got a great mix of city and countryside. Also, it's very flexible, allowing us to make excursions if and when we want to! I'll write more on the specifics of our honeymoon itinerary in a future blog. But if you're interested, we're working with the Massachusetts based company Tenon Tours. They've been very good to us so far. Definitely check them out if you're wanting to travel to the U.K.!

So the to-do list keeps getting shorter! Next on our list is to finalize our vows and sample some wedding cake! Also, my wedding dress should be arriving at Bonny Bridal any day now! I'll need to go get fit and pick out some finishing touches like shoes and jewelry.

To be continued!

**Louisa**