The new me!

I know, I know, its been a month since I've posted - but I've been just a little preoccupied- I hope you'll all forgive me!

Well, I am now officially a Button! And in case you haven't already considered it, yes I have been told almost daily that I am indeed "cute as a Button". Luckily I lived for years being teased for my last name so I think I can handle it.

For those of you who missed it... my wedding day was PERFECT. For those of you who were there thank you so much for all your love and support! It truly was the best day of my life. None of my worst fears happened - my DRESS made it through the day in one piece with no stains, rips or tears; it didn't rain; my cake was AMAZING; the food was DELICIOUS (I did get to eat some cause they sent us with a care package); the reception was BEAUTIFUL; and we have some WONDERFUL pictures and video that captured the whole day! (you can view pictures from the temple at www.fotosbyflint.com - click on online viewing and choose Abbey and Adam. Warning - there are over 400 of them (and that doesn't include the reception) but they have been narrowed done from over 1400!) Hopefully I'll be able to post pictures from the reception soon. And of course the best part of the day was getting SEALED to my dear sweet, now husband, ADAM.

We are still planning for our reception in Boise this weekend. It's going to be great to have more of our family and friends join in celebrating with us- including many of you.... Plus, I'm not gonna lie, I can't wait to put on my dress again! One of my favorite things from my reception in Mesa was all the little girls who seriously thought I was a princess. That rocked! Watch out all you Disney princesses, your job is in jeopardy!

New Title

The other day I realized that I needed to change the title of my blog. Now I realize that it’s still a couple weeks away before the wedding and so it’s not officially "Our Life", but everyone else seems to be calling our blog "Adam & Abbey" on their blogs so I figured what the heck! It’s just a technicality right? Besides, Adam has already become a big part of my blog entries so it might as well be dedicated to us and not just me. I don't know if I am quite ready to give him edit rights yet though - that could be scary. Plus he already gets mad at me for posting about him so I would be afraid he would erase all the wonderful things I say about him. (He thinks I am ruining his reputation). In fact he made me promise I wouldn't post pictures or too much detail about what he did for me for Valentine’s Day (yeah, he threatened to not give me my 'gift'). So I’ll just say it was a great day and Adam did a good job being creative!

Maybe someday I'll let him contribute more........

FIRST FLOWERS!!

So for weeks I've been teasing Adam about the fact that we're getting married and he's never given me flowers -at first he claimed that it was because I had said I didn't like flowers. Well, I DEFINATELY do not remember saying that! Well with Valentine’s Day approaching, I started telling him things like don't buy me Roses on Valentine’s Day because they are so expensive. My aunt, who has worked in a floral shop even gave him advice. So imagine my surprise when Adam came to pick me up on Friday - a week before Valentine’s Day - with a beautiful bouquet of yellow roses!!! I was so excited I almost started to cry - accompanying the flowers he gave me the sweetest love letter too and that really made me almost cry and I had to squeeze his hand real hard to keep the tears from flowing ( I mean I didn't want to ruin my mascara!). What a lucky girl am I!

Du du du looking at my back door

So I live in Boise right? Well for those of you reading this who aren't in Boise, let me just tell you that I grew up in the Treasure Valley and I've spent the last 4 years in Boise, but never never do I remember seeing this much snow here!!! Now I also spent 4 years in Logan so I know what winter is all about (I mean how many people get a snow day at college? Yeah, it happened), but this is just not normal for Boise. And if it does snow in Boise it doesn't stick around. Not this year, I don't even remember the last time I didn't see snow somewhere on the ground! This picture is what I woke up this morning, just like the many others with new snow in the last month or so. Crazy.

Planning a Wedding...

So many of you reading this blog have experienced planning a wedding so nothing I say will be new. But I thought it would be fun to document some of my journey with a top 10 list of things to remember when planning a wedding:

#10: If you can find someone you trust to plan everything - let them! Adam's mom is taking care of just about everything in Arizona. She calls me when she has questions and then takes care of it. Its been WONDERFUL! Its so nice not to have to stress out about planning two events.

#9: Find free (cheap) things. After asking a few people, I found out that our Stake has chocolate fountains and anyone can use them. SWEET! Do you know how expensive those things are to rent?

#8: Take a classic and make it uniquely yours. I had been struggling with what to serve at the open house in Boise. Well I decided to do chocolate fountains but I didn't want to do the same thing that everyone does so we are having a chocolate fountain, caramel fountain and peanut butter fountain. Yeah, who knew? Turns out you can run just about anything thru a fountain!

#7: Use your family and friends as your #1 resource. My aunt is the wedding coordinator in her church and she just happens to have a beverage fountain. Another aunt has a "lemon" (one of those like you see at the fair) and she's going to do homeade lemonade for us. An old roommate does graphic design and offered to help us with the invitations. Another roommate does flowers and will help arrange them in Boise. Let people know what you are planning and you'll be surprised at what you find - it makes those details so much more special too.

#6: Go to a Bridal Show. I didn't know what to expect and was afraid it would be a waste of time. However it was a GREAT resource. I go to try lots of cakes all in one spot and many of the vendors gave the attendants coupons. While the only thing I ended up using from show was my "cupcake lady". It was worth it. I never would have found her otherwise and she's great. Very very good prices and she'll make as many flavors as I want.


#5: Be flexible. Pick a few things that are the most important to you and focus your time, money and effort on just those things. Not everything will be "perfect" but if the important things are you can be more flexible with everything else? What was my number #1? My dress. I got really really really lucky and the dress I had saw on the internet and loved was in the store and in my size. Here is what it looks like:OK - thats not me in it and this picture is ivory... but you get the idea. It was the lace around the bottom that made me fall in love!

#4 - Carry a small notebook in your purse and write down EVERYTHING. Colors, reception ideas, internet sites, stores to check out, list of people to invite (with space for addresses as you get them), prices for decorations, food etc. Its great to have everything in one place and have it always handy.

#3 - If your fiance has an opinion on something listen. Adam always says "whatever you want is fine" and "I just want you to have everything the way you want". So on the RARE occasion he actually has an opinion I try to listen. When we were trying to pick our reception site in Boise I had said we should do it at the church building where we go to church and where we met.... Well Adam kept saying "are you sure?" Finally I gave in and looked at the church building closer to his house. We went with his suggestion-I think we made the right choice.

#2 - Continue to have a life. Don't let the wedding consume you. Talk about things other than the wedding with your friends. Stay interested in their lives too.

#1 - HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If anyone has any other advice feel free to comment!