Happy Birthday to Jessica King!! The beautiful momma and bridesmaid!!
Today, I made some important floral decisions. My florist (friend of the family and biology extraordinaire), Grace Schmitt has some awesome ideas and really knows her stuff. The flowers are going to be beautiful, fun, classy, and very Katie Stipe-ish. Dave said, “cool.” He doesn’t really care about the flowers much.
Good news readers!! As we speak Dave is in the other room receiving invitations as they are printed. It really is an exciting feat given that we have spent the last couple of nights fighting with an overexcited printer and aligning the things correctly; but finally – VICTORY! 70 gleaming invitations are stacked next to me and the stack keeps growing. It really is very exciting.
Dave and I are finishing the guest list and tonight, my maid of honor Sarah is coming over to begin addressing envelopes! WOO!
Dave bought me a Swiffer today. To those of you who are thinking back to that climactic “Father of the Bride” moment when Annie came storming in to her parents cataloging her gifts, and proclaims that she isn’t getting married anymore (to Steve Martin’s delight) because her fiance bought her a blender – put this out of your mind. It was nothing like that. I had been saying that I wanted one for a while so that mopping the kitchen wouldn’t be such a big to-do everything couple of days. He also bought me the swiffer wet clothes. Morale of the story – the house smells amazing and the floors are shiny. 
This makes Katie happy!
Now for the rest of the house – it looks like Bridezilla Kong went tramping through and left in her wake a mess of wedding hoopla. There are gifts and napkins and jewelry and contracts and menus and magazines and pictures and lists and post-it notes and registries all over the place. The dining room table has been converted to an invitation only zone. (No food or drink allowed) and 80% of David’s bedroom is just…stuff. Bubbles and gifts.
It’s a nuthouse.
It’s the best.
Well, I had better get back to work. After Swiffering every hard surface in the house I thought I would take a minute and write to you all. I hope you are enjoying your weekend!
Ciao!