Brenda-Mom Day

I have had such a great day. I spent it with Brenda-Mom. We went out to a surplus store to look at their copious amounts of bridal items. I was amazed that I did not hyperventilate when I went down the isles. Go me! It was a very interesting place. We really did cut up though at certain items.

We found the arrangement for bouquets. Isn't it pretty? *wink*

We also found the perfect wedding cake topper:


Too bad it was extremely tiny:

We also spent time looking at Nathan's photos from when he was a baby through high school. I needed photos of him for the slide show I won at the last bridal show I went to. Brenda has entrusted me with many copies of his baby pictures. I feel very honored that she has given the copies to me. I need to get a really nice photo album so that I can keep the larger ones safe. My mom has now seen the photos and she did have that giggle-fest like I predicted. She got a good kick out of seeing how Nathan has retained many of his facial expressions.

It was such a great day and I had so much fun with Brenda-Mom. I laughed a lot and talked so much that my throat is actually a bit sore. Hopefully we can have more days like this one in the future. I hope so!!

Too Good to be True?

Nathan and I went to visit another reception location. I have been excited about this place for over two weeks now. It is in a great location and is very accessible from the chapel that we're considering #1 for the ceremony. The other reason for the excitement was the seemingly incredible price. So, all this said, I made an appoint for today at 2pm.

Nathan and I finally got into the lobby and asked for the guy in charge. Apparently, Mondays are his days off and yet he scheduled us in for today. Since he was not there a Manager was sent for. 30 minutes later they came back and said they could not get a manager for us. So the receptionist showed us around. Not looking so good.

Despite this, the facility is super nice and for the price I'm still excited. However, with catering it would still be about the same price, but at least we would not be paying the same price PLUS catering. The space is good and simple. Large and really just right for our needs. There is even AV equipment that we can rent to use to manage our own music.

I am still skeptical about it all, but we'll have to do the math to really figure it out. Needless to say I will be sending the fellow an e-mail to see if we can get some consistency.