Wedding plans

So I figured it was about time that I made another update on what's happening in my life, right now.

I'm still trying to get the details of the wedding sorted out. But I've made some major steps towards that this week.

Last week we finally booked someone to perform the ceremony, we called up a few judges, one was answerphone, everytime I called. When I finally got through the receptionist was abrupt with me and said that he "sometimes" did weddings. One had stopped doing weddings due to poor health. But the first judge I'd actually called had a really friendly and helpful receptionist and was very good about taking our details and made it seem like the judge was happy to perform wedding ceremonies (at a very good price, too).

Just yesterday Mark's Mom picked me up to go to the place where we're getting our flowers. They were really helpful and discussed the pros and cons of different options, but I pretty much had an idea of what I wanted for the flowers in my head, I just needed help with getting them just right. I think they're going to look lovely. :) Having MArk's Mom there was really good, too, because while I knew what colour and type of flower I wanted, I know NOTHING about flowers.

This Saturday we're going to go looking for Bridesmaid dresses with winsomesquirrel, Mark's other sister and hopefully my flowergirl and her parent/s. I just need to call his sister and my flowergirl's mom and see if they can make it. We'll be taking a camera with us, too, so that my sister back home can see what dresses we're looking at and have her say in what they wear. The colour will be a deep red, though.

So the things I still need to sort out are:

• Invitations
  
• Book photographer
  
• Flowers
  
• Bridal accessories - eg. shoes, veil, etc.
  
• Get dress altered to fit - length
  
• Bridesmaide dresses and accessories
  
• Tux for Mark
  
• Tux for the Groomsmen
  
• Tux for the Father of the Bride
  
• Favours for guests
  
• Book Honeymoon
  
• Prepare paperwork for Adjustment of Status, Employment Authorisation and Advance Parole
  

I think that's everything. Oh, I also need your address jodimelville, I'm going to get yours from Mark and Brooke, diyeana, so that you can be sent invites for the bridal shower. It's going to be on March 7th, if you can make it. :)

Also this week, I got in touch with my old employers with the private client sector to ask them to transfer my money from my UK account, since I finally got my debit card sorted here. So I've filled out the paperwork for that, I went to my bank yesterday to get a bank statement and to have the certify a copy of my passport. So I need to fax that to London and then send the originals to the Florida office.

So it's been a busy week for me.

And that's not even mentioning the early Birthday present Brooke got me. Mark and Brooke both have City of Heroes accounts, so she brought me the game so that we can all play at the same time, which is really cool. We also went and got City of Villains, too. So that I can have my own account on that, too. As you can see from winsomesquirrel's last post, we're having fun with that.

In other news, sadly Mark's bird, Hoggle, did not get his piece of orange this morning (I'm trying to get him to step up for me without biting me, by bribing him with orange since he loves it so much), despite my offering it to him several times.