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The Tux
From Miss June:
Sharp. Dressed. Man.
I found it! The perfect tuxedo combination. Not without the help of my close friend, and bridesmaid, Felicia. She’s amazing at being a friend, and amazing at making all the choices I am too indecisive to make. She’s there to offer a logical opinion and politely tell me I am almost to at the “crazy” level. She was just kidding.
So, it’s done! It’s in the books and money is down. It’s going to be a classic look to go along with the rest of the wedding. The tux’s are black, with Mr. June’s being a light pearl vest and tie on a white shirt and The Gents will be looking handsome in black vests and ties. That’s another thing, I call them “The Gents.”
The road to this classy look was yet another over-analyzed aspect to our wedding. I went to many (every) tux shop in town, compared prices and colors, and went with TIP TOP TUX. I would highly recommend booking with a tuxedo rental store at a bridal show. We received $50 off every tux, a couple free, and some other incentives thrown in. Prices were raised from when we looked at the tux’s in the store, but at the end of the day we saved about $20-30 a tux at the bridal fair.
Take someone with you when you go to pick colors, and definitely bring a swatch of the dress colors. My dress is a shade of champagne that is not quite gold and not quite silver, and was incredibly hard to match. We found something that worked, though, and that’s what’s important at this point in wedding planning … making a decision and moving on to the next.
Next up, finding the perfect flower girl dress. : )
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Omaha vendors rock
From Miss June:
I have met and worked with countless amazing wedding professionals over the past few months and I can tell you that it’s very hard to go wrong in Omaha. Everyone is so knowledgeable and eager to be a part of my special day… it’s wonderful. It makes having a perpetual to-do list something that is still enjoyable!
I had an appointment at Platinum Wedding Rentals where I worked with the wonderful, Fran Rounsborg as she helped me create some amazing centerpieces, head tables arrangements, and the complete look and feel for our reception. She’s so good at what she does and knows exactly what kind of look I want: Statement, Classic, Bam! … and all within a set price.
I’ve found a great mix of doing floral through Platinum Wedding Rentals (in Kearney) with silk flowers for some the center pieces, ordering bulk roses (~75 roses for $50-65!!!! Amazing!) and other floral from Sam’s Club for some of the other center piece we will do ourselves, and then looking for a florist to do the whole wedding party floral designing and seeing who can come up with the best idea for the place card table “statement” piece… bam! perfect. It’s between a big floral design or something with a tree/brances with candles hanging from them with flowers. I’m not sure. We will see what the different vedors can come up with and go from there. I’m pretty excited.
I found invitations I really liked through Village Stationary. They are the simple, old-school, elegant I am looking for. Those are my favorite thus far, but I’m going to look into a few more DIY options before making a final decision.
The STDs just went out last week… I’m never hand-writing 300 addresses again by myself! I might have to grab a few bottles of my favorite wines and have all my bridesmaids over to help address them. Never again!
Fun day at Bridal University
From Miss June:
I attended the Wedding Essentials Bridal Fair at the Mid-America Center with one of my wonderful bridesmaids. Our goal was to find a backdrop for the reception, possible cake designs, check out tuxedos, invitations, and also florists.
We ended up having our hair and make-up done at a booth where the stylists were doing sample wedding hair do’s. It was so much fun getting to have someone try a style that could be “it”!
As we were leaving the bridal fair, I picked up the new issue of Wedding Essentials Magazine and take a peak at one of our engagement photos that was selected for a spot in the magazine. Our amazing photographer, Janine McClintock, submitted it and I was excited to see which one she chose. It’s on page 12 (thats us, in the center photo) of the latest edition if you’re curious! : ) It was fun seeing our photo in a magazine, that added to the excitement of the day.
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The to-do list ate my life
From Miss June:
Can someone add just one more hour to the day? Please? Please!
It’s about four and a half months out from the wedding and life has steadily become one, giant, never-ending to-do list. There will always be another appointment. There will always be something else to schedule into your week with no free-time available.
Don’t get me wrong. Wedding planning is a blast and I have been having the time of my life! However, when they say it’s like a part-time job … they’re not kidding!
I want a wedding that is going to be everything I have imagined all my life, something my friends and family will walk into and be like “wow. This is her.” Classic. Romantic … and as close as I can get to “too much” without crossing that line.
On the To-Do List:
-find a salon to do hair and make-up down at the Double Tree.
-deposit for a monogram light for our head table backdrop and possible dance floor,
-finalize tux choices and get those contact numbers out to the right people.
-decide on flower girl dresses
-select final church music, ask the church to provide an organist
-find the contact info for that AMAZING cantor from mass the other week.. wow… I have to find her! (In the least stalker-ish sounding way possible! She has an incredible voice!)
-figure out wording for invitations
-see if there’s time to do a meal-tasting for reception in order to decide what we will put on the RSVP’s for guests.
It’s a domino effect. Mostly, I just need time. Maybe this is why people hire wedding planners. Is it too late to fly in Kevin Lee, my own personal Frank, from Beverly Hills?!
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Meet Miss June
Age: 23
Occupation: associate account manager and market researcher
About the fiance: age 24, second year medical student at UNMC
Engaged: October 11th, 2011
Wedding Date: Friday June 15th, 2012
Wedding and Reception venue: St. Cecilia’s Cathedral, Omaha; The Double Tree Downtown, Omaha
Read Miss June’s full bio here.
Every week and every day on my Google calendar is booked full of to-do’s and appointments with photographers, bakers, florists, and musicians, to picking rings and finding the perfect colors in the perfect bridesmaid dresses, which surprisingly enough is a very difficult task, and then just when I think I’m done it’s time to order invitations and go through the guest list…just one more time.. just one. last. time.
So here we are, a little over three months engaged and five months to go! We’re planning a wedding for the middle of June in nine months flat. Not only is it a June wedding, it’s a June wedding in Omaha scheduled during the College World Series. With an guest list packed to the brim with out of town guests, finding a reception hall big enough with hotel accommodations that were reasonable during the CWS was only the first of many very large decisions for which no class or experience or advice could ever prepare me! That’s our life now. Wedding planning for June, recently graduated in December with a new job starting at a corporate company downtown Omaha, a fiance in his second year of medical school, and let me tell you – it’s as wonderful as it is chaotic.
I’m lucky to be marrying the man of my dreams in a handful of months, and I’m excited to take those who want to be a part of this along for the journey. Throughout all the planning and up’s and down’s, at the end of this all, we will start a wonderful marriage full of love and commitment and see where the adventure of life takes us throughout all the phases life can bring. For better or worse he’s marrying me, and for better or worse… the least I can do is make this wedding something he’ll remember and cherish the memories until we’re 73 and 74-years-old and celebrating our golden year hand-in-hand looking at the photos of the day we promised each other forever.
Photos by Janine McClintock Studios, preferred vendor
