The Bridemaids Party - Basking In Gratefulness

whereabouts: in my bed, laying with Mary Arnold (one of my wonderful bridesmaids) and experiencing complete exhaustion

food craving: iced water

song suggestion: What About Your Friends by TLC & Lean On Me (i’m in a big friend mode right about now)

okay,

so this entry won’t be long to spare both your attention span and my fatigue, but i have to write briefly about this incredible evening. my bridesmaids went above and beyond to throw this spectacular wedding party for jon and me earlier tonight! (my eyes are seriously closing as i’m writing this as mary just pointed out to me!!!) i’ll elaborate further on  the party later, including pictures of course, but just like my title states…i’m simply sitting here in my bed basking in gratefulness for the people in our lives and how well they’ve loved us.

being engaged is SUCH a wonderful experience. i can’t wait to return the favor and shower my closest friends with  acts of service, gifts and time.

thank you so much mary, desiree, emily, katie, julie, bethany and christine for such a BEAUTIFUL, FUN, MEMORABLE night. you guys love on us too well. & there are million more thank yous to come!

 what have we done to receive blessings of this magnitude?

 nothing…

Praise God for the sincere joy we are privileged to experience although we’ve done nothing to deserve it….

 one more shower tomorrow to go! WOOHOO!

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Invitation “Slave”-shop

trust me when I say…we’ve been staying busy. really busy.

whereabouts: the apt

food craving: masala wok, a good crab cake, tomato basil soup, & nestle chocolate milk

song suggestion: dream a little dream of me (by either mamas and papas or ella fitzgerald)

so life is full of stuff right now. days are kind of back to back with dinners, commitments (i just now realized commitment is NOT spelled with two “t”s), work, and wedding wedding wedding stuff. one of our biggest priorities this past week has been our invitations! i designed our invitations about two weeks ago and worked with a printer (PROMENADE Printing in Richardson off of Coit and Beltline) and their graphic designer to get everything organized. I went to Fasclampitt to purchase my paper, which the tremendously nice two employees who helped me throughout the entire process also offered me a 20% discount on the more expensive paper that i was SET on getting. thanks again to them! after talking to the printers all week we finally had all the pieces i needed to glue the invitation together. i’d show you the invitation…but that’d be spoiling the fun now wouldn’t it? what’s the fun in that if my guests haven’t even received it yet!Praise GOD i had a lot of people come and help me out!!! Here are some pictures of what Christine (my bridesmaid) would call my invitation workshop or slaveshop.

WED:

christine (who is thinking “this sucks”), me, and my handsome husband to be! he didn’t help with invitations that night…but he did help in moral support and coffee consummation.

where the slaveshop began: dunn brothers!

FRIDAY:

Simo, Brett, Luis, & Vy Baby

pretending to be exhausted or at least i thought they were pretending. either way i still told them to “get over it and to evenly distribute that rubber cement…..or else”

 

now they’re pretending to be happy because i told them to smile or i’d bring out the belt.

SUNDAY:

amber, cameron (don’t be fooled, he never helped with invites but he did eat the remainder of my dinner…..without my permission), drew, katie, kaitlyn, vy baby, and jon boo boo at our church, Dallas Bible, working together like a happy family!

Other Events This Full Weekend:

SATURDAY EVENING

UTD Send Viv&Jon Off To Marriage Dinner & Game Night

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

after church of course! which my roommate katie came to church to watch and support jon teach sunday school and hear kyle preach! thanks katie! it was so incredible having a close old friend at church.

my nephew Chase’s one month birthday celebration! he was being passed most of the time so i didn’t get a pic of him so here’s the rest of the happy family and the brand spanking new parents!

and later that sunday afternoon brittanie’s first bridal shower! i absolutely loved the PA reunion and the shower was lovely. the cakes were ESPECIALLY GOOD…yum…cakeee

there’re so many pics and events that i’m missing so…please bear with me. keep in touch. if i just believe that we can get this whole wedding thing together with enough time, composure, and sanity then i know it can be done.

it can be done!

stay tuned

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i’m SUCH a slacker!

whereabouts: my comfy bed

food craving: SWEETS…but i gave them up for lent

song choice: can i suggest “Somewhere Only We Know” by Keane again? i just REALLY love that song

i am FINALLY at the point where i am asking my bridesmaids to be in my wedding! i’ve asked five out of the seven and it’s SO-OOO much fun! i thought of this cute idea that i wanted to do for each of them that i can’t share quite yet because there’re still two “unknowing” girls i have to ask but so far they all love it! i’m going to have two maids of honor, Emily Hoffman and Julie Pham, and i finally asked them this weekend. thankfully they were ecstatic! ^_^ i just wanted to give a quick update of where we’re at thus far. jon has asked two out of his seven and i kind of spoiled the good news for one eager lad but of course jon has forgiven me and hugged and kissed me with his unconditional love. he’s going to be SUCH a great husband! i can’t wait! we’re on a roll now and we ain’t stoppin’ fo’ nuttin’. yahmean? haha, that was purely for david jones.

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going well

whereabouts: the 4306 apt (aka, my apartment)

food craving: bistro b egg rolls with the special sauce - a craving that was satisfied at approximately 10:45pm earlier tonight

song suggestion: lemon tree - a very popular english song in the asian community!

i just wanted to give a quick update to inform everyone that things are just…..going really well! plans are falling into place and i feel comfortable with where jon and i are at in our wedding planning even though we’ve only slightly officially each asked 2 out of our 7 bridesmaids and groomsmen! what’s been especially fun is catching my mom up with all the wedding details. she wants to be apart of the planning but from a more distant view and i’ve really appreciated the room and understanding she’s given me to plan my wedding but still offering her input and not to mention financial help! currently jon and i are working on finding or developing our design for the wedding that we’ll ultimately be putting on the invitation, placement cards, response cards, and basically everything! once we figure out that we’ll be able to use it as a template for all our wedding paper needs. here’re a couple of designs i whipped up to get a general idea. these are two VERY ROUGH drafts including the writing! please offer your grace and forgiveness for the incorrect grammar, sloppiness, and careless design mistakes.

i’ll resize this at some point & i’ll fill y’all in with more wedding details later! i gotta go to bed and pray to get to church on time! viv

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