Adventures In: Becoming a LEGIT Bride!

Ya'll. I'm a legit bride now!

Until last night I was a fiance, now I'm a bride too. There is a difference, at least in my head.

I fiance is a bride who isn't in the stages of planning her wedding. That's not me any longer!

Mr. BRad has been bit by the planning bug, and is ready to get things rolling.

So last night we ventured to Target at 9pm to get a wedding planning binder! Yay for organization!! 

Today I exchanged emails, and phone calls with the possible venue, and we are meeting them/touring the site on Sunday!! Brad has been emailing with the possible caterer's, we'll be setting up a tasting soon too. 

The wedding still is going to happen until 2015, but getting thing started has been so much fun. 

We actually even bought vases for our center pieces this weekend. Umm hello Michael's clearance sales!!! Vases that were normal 9.99 for 1.99 each! SCORE!!! 

I love that BRad and I have very similar visions for what we want in this wedding. I'm even more exciting that he's, so far, willing and eager to take part in the planning. I'm a lucky girl!!

Okay friends that's all for now.

Anyone reading this has the right to call me out/shake me/etc if I turn into a bridezilla!!! :)

XO 

Love

TaraPants

Adventures In: Upcoming Adventures

Ya'll I can NOT wait to for October!!

I'm babysitting/having a best friends day on the 4th with my sweet "niece". Her brother and I start calling our special fun days "Best Friends Day". AddiCakes had been included, but we've never had a one on one day. I'm very excited!!! She cracks me up when we talk on the phone. She's developing such a big personality!

They next day the bestie, her hubs, the niece and nephew and I will meet up with my love in Indy for a Children's Museum adventure. I've never been, but I'm pretty excited.

The next weekend my love and I are off to my home town for The Fall Festival. The 2nd largest street fair in the US!!! He's never been. All my Evansville people know he's in for a treat!!! I'm excited!!! Yummy food, rides, THE MOUSE GAME!!!!  Eeeks. Excited!!

We also have a possible wedding venue in mind. We are going to check out that tommorw possibly. My lovely fiancé is getting pretty into wedding planning mode. It's adorable.

I adventured to the downtown Farmer's Market today with Brad's mom, aka Momma Bear. I loved it!! Yay for new things!

Ok lovelies. Hope you are all having a happy fall!!

XO
TaraPants

Adventures In: Wedding Venue Heartbreaks!

Okay okay.

I know I said we weren't making any official wedding plans yet, but I have started informally looking around at venues.

I'm going to have to sell a kidney on the black market to pay for a wedding!!

I've found a few venues that I LOVEEEE then I get their price sheets, and I fall over dead.

One place for the room and the food alone (no chairs/no tables/no liens/no soup for you) was $10,000. Yes 10 freakin' grand!  FOR A BARN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wedding venues be straight TRIPPIN'!!!!

Please please anyone give me suggestions for venues in the Indy/Bloomington area that won't make me have a stroke when I see the price tags.

Darn me and my champagne dreams on my beer budget!! :)

Anyhoo-- happy Fall to my lovely readers!!

This is my favorite season!!

I'm super pumped to head back to Evansville for the Fall Festival!!


XO-TaraPants

Adventures In: Wedding.... Dreaming?

Yes it's true I've already started having wedding dreams.

We aren't officially planning anything yet, but I've had at least 2 dreams.

The first one is fuzzy.

In the one I had last night everything was going wrong. OH NO!

I didn't have enough time to plan things, it was my wedding day, and none of the projects were done. I didn't have time to craft all the thing I wanted to. I was asking family members for help, and they wouldn't help me. It was bad news bears.

Lets hope that this is NOT for shadowing of how things will really go down. It can't be. I'm too anal about things being on time/planning etc.

It's just funny to me I'm already having wedding dreams.

I wonder how nuts my dreams will get once we set a date, and really get this wedding planning show on the road!!

Any other brides/brides-to-be have wedding dreams? Nightmares?

XO
TaraPants

Adventures In: Nashville

So I had this massive post started about Nashville. But, honestly who is really going to read all that nonsense. 

Quick review. 

 

Trip down fun, lots of laughing, talking, singing along with the radio. Felt like it went by quick. 

We ate awesome food. 

The Dog of Nashville 

Blvd. Nashville

Monelle's (with my beloved former RA!! Thanks again Kricia) 

We saw awesome sights. 

The Strip 

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Blue Bird Cafe 

Antique Archeology (will always be special to me) 

The Ryman

Etc. 

The Butch Walker concert was amazing. As always.   Just amazing. 

Met cool people in line! 

The hotel sucked. The pool was closed. Thank goodness the neighbor hotel let us swim. Super relaxing. 

The trip home was fun. Stopped at

Sad Sam (fireworks and souvenirs) 

Lost River Caverns 

The National Corvette Museum 

That's a quick summary of our amazing trip. Even if he wouldn't have popped the question it would have been one of the best trips ever. We both needed to get away. We had fun focusing on us, relaxing, sight seeing, and officially taking or relationship to the next level. I'm so blessed!!! 

I'll share a few pics I have on my phone, the rest are on the computer. I'm slacking on posting them, but I will soon!!! 

Xo TaraPants