Help please!

Okay, so as everyone knows, Hollice and I are planning our wedding. We are also paying for everything. We want to make it as beautiful and cost-effective as possible. The way we are looking at it, we would rather have a nice place to live afterward and a great honeymoon than an expensive wedding. We have the rest of our lives together, the wedding is just one day. Now, don't get me wrong, it will be wonderful; we just don't want to go broke.

We are just going to have the wedding at our church. The church itself is gorgeous. I'm not going to any decorations there. Maybe just bows on the ends of the pews. The reception is going to be in the fellowship hall. We are going to grill out hamburgers and hotdogs, with chips and fruit. This is more us anyway.

My question for everyone is this: I want to decorate the fellowship hall. Maybe not elaboratly, but something nice. I am going to get table cloths for all the tables. Hollice and I are going to make CD's for little gifts. I want to put something on the tables as decorations and do a little something else for little favors. I want something different and unusual, because lets face it, Hollice and I are a little unusual ourselves. Does anyone have any ideas of what we could do? (We are also putting out little bottles of bubbles)

I want something that reflects summer, since we are getting married in August. I was thinking maybe little water guns (since it will be hot), or little candle holders and painting something cute on them. But I just don't know!! Please help anyone!! Any ideas are wonderful and would help out alot! Thank you in advance.

In other wedding news, we have started getting things together. We've gotten some of our attendents gifts. (Sorry I can't say what we are doing because our attendents may read this ;}) I got Hollice's band. The band he picked out is so nice. It's black steel with silver crosses around it. We got his finger measured about two monthes ago. The lady of course told us the wrong size. She said he wears a size 10. So, Saturday while Hollice was helping my dad build steps, I went and bought his band. He tried it on when I got home, and of course it doesn't fit. He can get it on but it's tight. We had to go back today and have them order a size 11. They said it should come back in 4 weeks. Pray for us that it will come back in time.

The biggest problem we are having is finding a place to live. We really want to buy a house, so I am going to call a realitor tomorrow. The lady I'm going to call goes to our church, so hopefully she can help us. Please pray for us to find something. If we can't buy a house, we want to rent one. We really want our own space. I know we will find just what we are supposed to have. I'm just impatient. We don't have that much longer until the wedding, and I really want to be able to move in before the wedding so everything can be set up before we leave on our honeymoon.

I never know how to end these blogs, so I'll just say thanks again in advance for any ideas you can give me about the decorations and favors. Have a wonderfully blessed week!!

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It has been an interesting week at work. I run two coumadin clinics, one at our Riverside office and the other at our Denbigh office. (Coumadin is a blood thinner. People who take it must be monitered closely.) We recently got a new software to help us moniter. Riverside started Monday, and boy was it crazy. We do finger sticks every ten minutes, and since none of our nurses got training, it took forever!! I started at Denbigh on Wednesday and it went a little more smooth. They said when we were training with it that the first 30 days was going to be horrible, but after that we would love it. I hope he's right, because right now it's crappy. The whole reason for changing the software was to make it move faster, but I think it's actually hindering us. But, I got a really great compliament from my clinical director, so it's worth it, I guess. It's nice that they put so much trust in me even though I'm one of the newest M.A's.

On another subject, Hollice and I made all of our dinner reservations for Disney World. I am sooo excited!! I really think I'm more excited about the honeymoon than I am for the actual wedding. There is still so much to do! I don't know how we are going to get all of it done in time. I'm trying in vain to loose a little weight so I can look good in my dress. I never really thought about it, as I'm happy the way I am, until a very not nice patient asked when I was due. This upset me greatly and now feel like I need to loose a whole lot of weight. Hollice says I'm crazy, but I think I need to now. Oh, well, I guess we shall see how well that goes. Anyway, thanks for listening to me ramble on.