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Early this morning, I am picking up two of my bridesmaids and then we are headed down to Newport. We have 10 hotels to go to to drop off out-of-town bags. Then, we can veg out, have some lunch, relax and wait to be picked up by the car service to go to the rehearsal at 3:00. The rehearsal dinner follows that at 4:30 and then the rehearsal party at 6:30pm. Then I will go home and try and get some sleep before the big day.I am having a hard time conveying exactly how I feel right now. I am not excited, I am not nervous, I am not scared. I am just very tired and slightly overwhelmed.
There is a serious ‘carrot’ dangling in front of me, just out of reach though, and I catch myself saying moment to moment: ‘in the end, when it is all over, I will be Mrs. Corn’.
And that is what I will be the next time I write. We won’t be back from the honeymoon until late September, but I will try very hard to post a teaser picture before then.
I have done a pretty good job of having everything organized, but I knew that there were things that would have to wait to the last second…like figuring out the logistics of getting people’s stuff out of the bridal suite, etc. I just didn’t expect it to put me over the edge so quickly.With two days to go, it really is a battle to remind myself that the wedding is really about Mr. Corn and I getting married, and if a few people are annoyed or talk smack about some detail that isn’t to their liking, I just need to let it go.
What put me over the edge yesterday, was a combination of 1) getting a new table layout from the rental company (after I had painstakingly made my table envelopes) 2) realizing that there was a vendor that I COMPLETELY forgot about (I am picking up a full sized mirror from a rental company since the condo where I am getting ready doesn’t have one) and 3) finding out that moments after I had printed our out-of-towner wedding newsletters (something I will have to post about after the big day) the time changed for the shuttle information that is included in said newsletters.
Last weekend we did finally get the programs done. The funny thing is that it was before we got the final guest count back and, of course, I have been working on them for months. So in the end we have 140 programs and only 106 guests! I told my day-of coordinator to make sure the reenacters, who are acting as ushers, pass a program to everyone!
Ok, so I realize that this has the potential for being the most boring post ever, but I felt it was important to share how I organized our tables so that our Day of Event Coordinator could figure out who was supposed to sit where.If you recall, we have two different favors that we are giving out, and they are to go on the place setting at the table as part of the table decor. This added another element that I needed to manage since I won’t be there setting up, so the following is how I ended up organizing it.
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Last weekend when my mom was here I had a final make-up trial with Mary Dee Housely, my makeup artist. The main reason for going to visit her was to have a facial, an indulgence I have never experienced before. But I had also mentioned that I was hoping to make my eyes look bigger, so she suggested that she would do the eye makeup again for no charge since I wasn’t satisfied the first time (just one of the many, many reasons why I truly love working with Mary).
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Mr. Corn and I headed to Newport yesterday morning to get our license at the town hall. If neither the bride nor groom are from Rhode Island, you have to go to the city hall in the town where the wedding will be held in order to get the license.
As it has been noted MANY times on the bee, it is next-to impossible to find a decent Mother of the Bride dress out there these days. The options seem to be:
- Boring beige (albeit with sparkles) MOB dress ordered from a bridal store. To be honest, this dress comes in a rainbow of colors, but it is still prohibitively expensive which is worse when you realize it will only get one wearing.
Mama Corn is here this weekend helping me with the last of the things that need to get done. Yesterday morning was my final dress fitting. My Boston bridesmaid came along to record exactly how to string up the back and do the bustle so that there is more than one person who knows how to do it. The dress is now pressed and hanging from the ceiling on our third floor. Turns out I am so tall, the dress doesn’t fit in the bag without bunching up at the bottom 
so it is out of the bag and we have sealed off the room. Mr. Corn is on strict orders to stay away from the third floor.
Yesterday afternoon my mom made all 60 votives for the reception tables while I finished making the centerpieces. (We wrapped the sea grass in paper so that it wouldn’t spread out and get tangled en-route to Newport).
This morning I had an appointment with my longtime friend and stylist, Raul, here in Orlando. Although he won’t be able to come to the wedding to do my hair, it was so great to see him and get to catch up and to get a final trim before the big day. You can read more of the story here if you are interested…it is rather lengthy which is why I refrained from posting it on the Bee.
Next up, flying back to Boston tomorrow and meeting up with my mom to tie ribbons on the rest of the programs, finishing making all of the centerpieces and votives, and a my final dress fitting on Saturday.
As you know, I am in Orlando until Thursday for work. Basically, I am sitting at a desk in a freezing lobby of a hotel by Sea World in case one of the 666 FT Audit Campus hires that my firm just hired has an HR question. Thankfully, we haven’t had that many fires to put out.
This has provided me with LOTS of time to sit and contemplate how my wedding is only 18 days away!!
18 DAYS!! YAYYYYYYYY!!!
Some people thought I was nuts to go to Orlando with only two weeks left before the big day, but actually it really pushed me into high gear to make sure everything was all set before I left.
Yes, there are things that need to wait until the last minute…seating arrangements, getting our license, having our final vendor meetings and my final dress fitting. But other than that, we could get married tomorrow if we needed to.
Sorry for the length of this, but I couldn’t bear to leave anything out…oh…and I wrote this on Saturday morning on the plane to Orlando, but am only posting it now because I just got to an internet connection.
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I am on my way to Orlando for the week and I would like to personally thank Jet Blue for not only allowing me the pleasure of seeing the ancient video of Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now” (anyone know why she points out the B-A-G of the Baggage sign in an airport in that video please feel free to let the rest of us in on the secret) via VH1 Classics this morning, but for giving me access to Engaged and Underage, where a teenage lesbian couple fought their way to the altar much to the chagrin of their parents. Isn’t satellite TV grand?
Can I just tell you how amazing it is to me to order a pair of shoes online at 10 minutes to 4:00pm on a Thursday and have them in my hand at 10:00am on Friday morning??!!
The search for my wedding shoes was long and arduous. I am 5’11″ tall and Mr. Corn is 6’ and maybe a 1/2 inch tall. My feet feel much better in a heel than in flats because my arch tends to not support itself in a flat and then my knees hurt. So I knew I wanted a heel, but I didn’t want to tower over Mr. Corn and I didn’t want to sink into the grass either (cancelling out all those super cute kitten heel shoes).
FINALLY, after a very long search, I found the perfect shoe at DSW Shoe Warehouse for $32 here in Boston. I’ll have to take a picture of them but for now, they look similar to the ones below, except they have a 2.5″ heel, are champagne in color and have rhinestones on the front strap.
I lived in Florida for five years right out of college. Down there, if even the slightest disturbance in the air shoots itself off the African coast, they track it incessantly.
22 days to go and I figured I would take out the rings, you know, to make sure they still fit. Yeah, that’s it.
Mr. Corn’s is a white gold band with a basketweave design in the middle.
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Mrs. Corn, Newport, RI Age and Occupation in '07: 31, HR for public accounting firm Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Consultant for public accounting firm Engagement Date: October 7, 2006 Wedding Date: September, 2007 Blogging Since: June 1, 2007 Venue: North Lawn of Fort Adams State Park About Me: I am a lazy scrapbooker who loves the instant gratification of making cards and I am very easily distracted by all things shiny. In honor of my childhood nights spent hibachi BBQing on the beach with my family, we are hosting a traditional New England Clambake for our reception.
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