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The last time I wore this plaid shirt I dressed it up. How it was previously worn was how I styled it for my birthday party in Omaha! I wanted to show how it could be worn more laid-back, also. I'm planning on wearing this shirt with white jeans once it gets a little nicer too! One shirt, multiple looks? Win!
This weekend, Tyler and I are headed back to Omaha. We have a family dinner tonight to celebrate his grandma's birthday once we arrive in town. Saturday, we have a going away part for one of my friends, Erica. I have actually known Erica since I was 5 (she lived down the block from me) and then we ended up going to college together and joining the same sorority! She is moving to South Korea for a year to teach English. She has always said she wanted to teach abroad, and now she is fulfilling her dream! I'm so proud of her, yet incredibly sad I won't be able to see her for a whole year. Fingers crossed she's back in time for the wedding!
Hope you all have a great weekend! <3
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New York Fashion Week, retail stores, and Pinterest are all telling us to move towards Spring fashion but Mother Nature is telling us differently! In fact, Kansas City hasn't been above freezing since sometime in late January! (I want to say since January 20th, but I'm not 100% positive.) When Tyler and I went shopping this past weekend, every store had Spring and Summer items out for sale. These are on my current wishlist but I just couldn't bring myself to try them on because I would have had to take off my puffy coat, Hunters, and boot socks.
While all the stores have their Spring and Summer items out for sale, now is the best time to stock up on Winter items for next year. I scored my Burberry earmuffs for less than $50 when I bought them a couple years back. Multiple department stores have then on sale right now, but they are all sold out online. I love these and would recommend calling your local stores to see what they have in stock. I really don't need a new jacket, but if I were in the market for one I would snag this Northface jacket for less than $150!
I definitely took advantage of the Winter sales in early January, so I don't need anything right now. I'm holding out for a warm(er) weekend so I can go shopping without feeling ridiculous trying on sandals! Spring fever is hitting me hard, but I'm trying hard to accept that I have at least another month left of freezing temperatures!
(Also, yes the title is a Christmas song..but I'm sorry it's negative degrees outside and gosh dang it, it's cold!!)
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Back in January, Tyler and I decided on a wedding venue and wedding date! We are going to be married April 11, 2015 in Omaha, NE. In case you missed our proposal story, you can read that here.
We got engaged on October 31, 2013. When we got engaged we pretty much had two options:
1.Start planning immediately and have less than 10 months to plan the wedding
2. Have a longer engagement and have almost a year and a half to plan the wedding
Since we are getting married in Omaha, where we are both from, but currently live in Kansas City, we decided to have a long engagement. Every wedding decision we need to make will require a trip home and we wanted to be able to spread that out. We decided we have our whole lives to be married, but only a year and half to be engaged! We wanted to enjoy this stage of life, too!
Our original choice for our wedding date was April 4, 2015. Our four year anniversary will be on April 3, so we thought it would be fun for our rehearsal dinner to fall on our anniversary and have the wedding the next day. Well, Easter is super early next year and falls on April 5th! So, we moved the wedding to the next week.
When looking at wedding venues, we pretty much had one requirement: it needed to be close to a hotel. We will have a lot of out of town guests and we wanted it to be easy for them to get to and from the reception from their hotel. The venue needed to either be within walking distance to a hotel, or near a hotel that would provide shuttle service to our guests. We have been to multiple weddings where we have to figure out a ride home and when you're in an unfamiliar city it is not always easy! Cabs are easy to get the night of the wedding, but trying to get a cab to pick up your car at 9 AM the next morning so you can check out of the hotel is no easy feat :).
Below are pictures of our top three choices for our wedding venue! (As you can tell from the pictures we toured in December. I'm a little behind in writing this post!)
Scoular Ballroom
Pros: New building so very few weddings have taken place here, modern look (+ fire place in center!), easy parking for guests, close to interstate for out of town guests
Cons: A sporting event will be taking place at the time of our wedding, in-house caterer we have never heard of, hotel being built next door but nothing currently there
We immediately narrowed our list down to Ralston and Scoular simply because of the size of the Paxton. This space is beautiful and if you have a guest list smaller than ours, I would highly recommend it! If our guest list were about 50 people smaller it would have been in the running longer.
Choosing our wedding venue was actually pretty difficult for us. I think we struggled with it because so much is decided based off of your venue: where your guests stay, the food you can serve, the drinks you can serve, how many people you invite, etc. I talked to some of my married friends and they all said choosing the venue was their hardest decision, so at least we're fairly normal :).After reading this list of pros and cons, I think the right decision for us was obvious. Maybe I should have written this out right after we toured and the right place for us would have stood out, ha!
We ended up booking with the Scoular Ballroom and I could not be more excited! (Tyler told me a few weeks ago that he was so "pumped for the wedding at Scoular", too!) The space is beautiful, the wedding coordinator is extremely helpful and easy to talk to, and the options for everything are endless! (Yes, that requires more work on our part... but that's why we have a year and a half to plan ;)).
We have since figured out our food and alcohol. I will do an updated post about those when we get to do our tasting! Our next step will be choosing our photographer!
Thank you to Tyler for putting up with my indecisiveness, Tyler's parents for their help and patience in our search for finding the venue, and my mother for listening to countless phone calls of me weighing the options, helping drop off deposits, and attending events for me that I can't because I live in KC <3.
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We got engaged on October 31, 2013. When we got engaged we pretty much had two options:
1.Start planning immediately and have less than 10 months to plan the wedding
2. Have a longer engagement and have almost a year and a half to plan the wedding
Since we are getting married in Omaha, where we are both from, but currently live in Kansas City, we decided to have a long engagement. Every wedding decision we need to make will require a trip home and we wanted to be able to spread that out. We decided we have our whole lives to be married, but only a year and half to be engaged! We wanted to enjoy this stage of life, too!
Our original choice for our wedding date was April 4, 2015. Our four year anniversary will be on April 3, so we thought it would be fun for our rehearsal dinner to fall on our anniversary and have the wedding the next day. Well, Easter is super early next year and falls on April 5th! So, we moved the wedding to the next week.
When looking at wedding venues, we pretty much had one requirement: it needed to be close to a hotel. We will have a lot of out of town guests and we wanted it to be easy for them to get to and from the reception from their hotel. The venue needed to either be within walking distance to a hotel, or near a hotel that would provide shuttle service to our guests. We have been to multiple weddings where we have to figure out a ride home and when you're in an unfamiliar city it is not always easy! Cabs are easy to get the night of the wedding, but trying to get a cab to pick up your car at 9 AM the next morning so you can check out of the hotel is no easy feat :).
Below are pictures of our top three choices for our wedding venue! (As you can tell from the pictures we toured in December. I'm a little behind in writing this post!)
Scoular Ballroom
Pros: Beautiful space, located in downtown Omaha, choice of caterer from about a list of seven, free parking for guests
Cons: Tablecloths, napkins, china, etc. are not included so it requires a lot more planning on our part
Paxton Ballroom
Pros: Separate space for cocktail hour and reception, private parking garage for guests, very pretty architecture, in the heart of down town
Cons: Small stage for DJ, small dance floor, and small room in general; they said in our tour that our anticipated guest list was room capacity
Ralston Arena
Pros: New building so very few weddings have taken place here, modern look (+ fire place in center!), easy parking for guests, close to interstate for out of town guests
Cons: A sporting event will be taking place at the time of our wedding, in-house caterer we have never heard of, hotel being built next door but nothing currently there
We immediately narrowed our list down to Ralston and Scoular simply because of the size of the Paxton. This space is beautiful and if you have a guest list smaller than ours, I would highly recommend it! If our guest list were about 50 people smaller it would have been in the running longer.
Choosing our wedding venue was actually pretty difficult for us. I think we struggled with it because so much is decided based off of your venue: where your guests stay, the food you can serve, the drinks you can serve, how many people you invite, etc. I talked to some of my married friends and they all said choosing the venue was their hardest decision, so at least we're fairly normal :).After reading this list of pros and cons, I think the right decision for us was obvious. Maybe I should have written this out right after we toured and the right place for us would have stood out, ha!
We have since figured out our food and alcohol. I will do an updated post about those when we get to do our tasting! Our next step will be choosing our photographer!
Thank you to Tyler for putting up with my indecisiveness, Tyler's parents for their help and patience in our search for finding the venue, and my mother for listening to countless phone calls of me weighing the options, helping drop off deposits, and attending events for me that I can't because I live in KC <3.
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Back in January, Tyler and I decided on a wedding venue and wedding date! We are going to be married April 11, 2015 in Omaha, NE. In case...
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On Saturday, Tyler and I took a day trip down to Overland Park, KS to go shopping. (We renamed it to snow-verland park due to the winter-y conditions of the day!) Unfortunately, the whole shopping day was a major fail. I only walked away with some work out clothes and new Bath and Body Works' candles. (Pretty sure Tyler left only with new socks, ha.) It seemed like everyone in the city was at the mall, which definitely made browsing the racks hard. Many stores had lines for the fitting rooms... something neither of us had the patience for!
I had a very specific wish list and did not find a single item on it at any store in the entire mall! I don't think my wish list was too crazy, either: a pink gingham shirt, a navy skirt, and a pink skirt. Seems pretty simple, right? So if you are out shopping and find any of these items somewhere please let me know in the comments! I'm still on the look out for each of them!
Hope you all had a good weekend :).
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