I work with two girls who recently got married and since I spend 40 hours a week with them, they are my resource for all things wedding related.

But when I heard the outlandish prices they spent on flowers, I was a bit ashamed to admit that their budgets were triple, even quadruple the amount of mine.

Flowers have always seemed like a frivolous expense. Depending on what you get and where you buy from you can expect to drop a ton of cash. And for what? Flowers that brown, wilt and die in 3 days? Which is why I went to Zehrs.

Yes, Zehrs. As in the grocery store.

I was able purchase my bouquet, all my boutonnieres, flower girl bouquets, coursages, boutonnieres and cake accents for a whopping total of $281. But what I love most is that all the flowers are from Leamington, and will be cut, shipped and arranged the day of the wedding. I love being able to support the local economy.

No pictures – sorry! All I can say is that it’s a mish-mash of Asiatic and Calla lilies, and white orchids.

While this blog is geared more towards wedding plans, I do keep a personal one at the following address:

http://jasminelily.wordpress.com

Feel free to peruse the material on that end…if you wish!

Sorry for the lack of posts! I am beginning to freak out a little (just a little) because I can’t get over the sensation that I am missing something…or that I NEED to be freaking out about our upcoming wedding. For the most part I am relaxed, calm, collected  – completely sure that things will go as planned. I have confirmed everything I really need to at this point…but I just can’t but feel…like I’m missing something!?!

I just sent an email to Adriana at Allegra and gave her the go-ahead to send our invitations to print. On Saturday I will be meeting up with the florist to figure out exactly what I need and get arrangements ordered. I also need to meet up with the lady who will be decorating the church and stuff…

Nick managed to put the $500 deposit down on our honeymoon package and he notified me yesterday that he received the confirmation in the mail about it. The entire payment is due in May, but we’re planning on dropping into Valente and making small deposits towards the amount every few weeks or so and hopefully have it paid off by then. We both have been pretty good at paying off everything entirely up until this point – we’re trying really hard to keep charges off the credit card, and so far, so good!

Today was a pretty busy day for Nick and I. We both work full time throughout the week so we’ve been having to do the majority of our planning on Saturdays – not an easy task!

This morning we met with Lisa at Valente travel to book our honeymoon accommodations. As I previously mentioned, my Uncle Pan and Aunt Julie graciously gave us their timeshare in Kauai to use for a week. After discussing options, Nick and I decided to stay for an extra week in Hawaii and visit a couple more cities.

Lisa was great – she found us decently priced flights and we booked the entire honeymoon. Nick will put the $500 deposit down on Monday. As it stands we will be flying out of the Detroit the day after our wedding, arriving in Kauai and staying for 7 days. We’re then booked to fly to Maui where we’ll spend 4 nights at the Lahaina Resort. After that we’ll be flying off to Oahu and staying at the Ohana Beachcomber for the last 3 nights. We’ve got our rental car all set for Kauai and Maui. The total package came out to approximately $3300 – almost $2000 less than we had budgeted out. Super excited!

After that we met up with Pastor Dan for a little meet and greet. Overall he was pretty friendly and committed to doing our wedding on July 3rd. He will be meeting with us again at the end of May/early June to go over specifics about the ceremony and such.

We then head over the States to pick up our flower girl dresses at David’s Bridal, did some shopping and head back. It was a pretty exhausting day, but I’m happy with everything we accomplished.

This week I will be meeting with Pena at La Zingara to confirm our menu choices, maybe make a few changes, check out their sound system and hopefully have enough information to get our menus set to print.

We are definitely on our way!