The Branford House & Essex Steam Train

Well, with just two and a half months until the big day, we have been wedding planning FIENDS lately!! We've been picking out tuxes, designing invitations, getting second dress fittings and about a million other things in the past week. I thought about bringing the video camera along to the second fitting to give you guys a sneak peak of the dress, but I decided to wait until the final fitting on October 2nd when it's not all pinned and stitched. So stay tuned for that!

A couple weeks ago, Traci was asked by Grace Ormonde to go out to The Branford House (where our wedding will be)to set up some really cool table shots for the magazine. Well, she then did the MOST generous thing ever and offered to set up a mock up of *our* tables so that we could see what it will all look like when it's set up in the Branford House this October. It was absolutely gorgeous! It turned out SO great, in fact, that they decided to shoot it for the magazine too. So our table may show up in the next issue of Grace Ormonde...how cool is that?!?!

Here's the crew putting the final touches on the table right before the shoot (how beautiful are the carved walls at the branford house, btw?):

And a close up of the details. Our flowers will be mostly blue and we'll have some mason jar luminaries, but other than that this is what our tables will look like!! I absolutely love it!! Thank you so much Traci!! You ROCK!!

In our quest to get everything done before things start to really go crazy for us in September, we spent two full days putting together some fun things for the welcome bags, which we will have lining the overhead luggage racks when people arrive on board the steam train for the rehearsal dinner. The train will then take us up to Deep River Landing where we'll board the Becky Thatcher Steam Boat. I can't wait!!

And finally, this is the super cool car we got to drive us around town. It's a 1950 Chrysler Limousine that was once owned by the Witch Hazel family. Luckily it has a super-huge backseat to fit me AND my ginormous dress...and a little room left over for Jus too! :P