Needed Update!

Well, wedding plans are coming along rather smoothly. Largely because of my Wonderful Mom and Aunt Linda!! They are crazy ladies and run me around from store to store, but i love them for it. A couple of weeks ago one of my bridesmaids (April) met up with my in SLC to go bridesmaids dress shopping and i'm supper excited for the dress we found.

I'd like to see you find a dress that fits a yellow and white daisy themed wedding!! lol.. but we had a great day. We also went out to camp williams and checked out the venue, we also practiced getting married, because hey i'm new at this!

My awesome cousin Jeniffer designed my save the dates, so we will be finishing those and getting them in the mail soon(ish) :D

In other news, we leave for cheer nationals two from tomorrow!! Crazy.. this semester has just flown by. But i'm excited to spend a week on a beach, and i'm super excited to compete, because hey Weber Cheer is AWESOME!

P.S

Gavin and I have been dating for 3 years and 3 months, and tomorrow is our 1yr engagement anniversary..lol

DJ!!

So, my family and I went to the bridal fair yesterday at the Salt Palace. It was a great day, (cake tasting was AMAZING) I wasn't planning on booking anything or making any final decisions without talking to Gavin though. ( he is in Vegas working so he could not come with me to the fair) Then I came across the Laughing Gravy DJ service booth i feel in love with this girl Vanessa whom was explaining to me their services. She was so bubbling and full of life and personality. She gave me the run down and I moved on to the next booth. But I kept thinking about her, so I had to go back because I needed her to DJ my wedding. The Laughing Gravy services are awesome, but Vanessa more than anything else sold me on it. So I paid the deposit and requested her for my wedding and its now set. She even said she would wear a cheer uniform to my wedding if i wanted her to. I doubt i'll have her do that, but its great that she would. I'm really excited to have her emcee our special day, i can't imagine anyone else now that i have met her. Sounds like I should just marry her while i'm at it. Lol.. but seriously I am very happy with my choice and Gavin was way cool that i went ahead and did that, so YAY!!

Also, my friend Justin from work offered to do a stand up comedy set for 5-10min at the wedding :D that will also be a lot of fun :D... Things are really starting to come together for our wedding and i couldn't be happier about it....

I probably need to start gathering peoples addresses for invitations soon, any suggestions for a fast effective way to gather this, without leaving anyone out? Also, any song requests or song you really don't want to hear at the wedding?

Bubble Archway

My experience at Fantasy Bridal was amazing. They provided me with everything i needed, and Haley was an awesome consultant! I tried on about 10 dresses but always came back to the one!! Of course it was the only one I tried on that was over my budget, but at least it wasn't much over and its everything I wanted in a dress! So, needless to say I am very excited and happy with my choice. My family that came were awesome and helpful, thanks everyone who came. For those that couldn't make it I still love ya, but you'll just have to wait to see the dress with everyone else on our wedding day :D

So, now that the dress is taken care of I need to move on to the planning another part of the wedding. I need to start looking for Gavin's ring, but I'm not really sure what I'm looking for. I would like something original, but there just doesn't seem to be that many men styles, and out of those very few styles that i like. any suggestion on where to go?

Next, my cousin Stacey sent me a link to these bubble archways, and I must say they are pretty awesome....



That's all for today :D I hope everyone has a great thanksgiving weekend with their families. Travel Safely! Love ya and remember to Smile :D

Dress Shopping

So tomorrow I am going to my 1st dress appointment!! I am very excited, and am hoping to find what i am looking for. Since i do want my dress choice to be a surprise, i might post pics of the dresses i try on but i will not reveal which dress i choose. :D I am still pretty sure that i am going to pick a short dress, but i am going to try on some full length styles to help make sure the short dress is really for me....
So for this post my question is how do you feel about short v. long dresses? Do you think i can pull a short dress off?
No matter what though this one is my final choice :D Yay! I'm super excited :D

Cakes???

Well, i Know i want daisy's as our flowers and Yellow and White as our colors.. I'm having a hard time picking out a style for our cake... here are 3 ideas, Please, give me some feed back :D

#1 I honestly can't decided if i HATE or LOVE this......

#2... Is it to yellow?

#3 is it to much???

Tell me what you guys think of these... or let me know if you can find something out there i'm missing :D

Engaged!

So I said the next post i made would be the story of Gavin proposing to me.. Well here it is..

It all started when we went shopping in September of 2009, and we found the ring :D which i love! Gavin put in on layaway that way i wouldn't know when he had paid if off and i wouldn't know when he was going to propose. I told him i didn't want to have any idea since i already had picked out the ring i felt i already knew too much. Time went by and i felt like it should be coming soon and i started getting impatient. Valentines day came around and I knew he wouldn't propose to me then because thats not very original and he knew i wanted surprise. but when we got to his house he had the room all decorated cute, candles, roses, candy and stuffed animals. :D i ran and jumped on the bed in the middle of it and found a card. he wasn't in the room so i thought i would open in anyways. Well, it was so cute, it went on about how he couldn't picture his life with out me ect... and at the bottom it said "so i have just one question for you?" --->(arrow pointing to something) luckly i was alone because i began searching for what i thought was going to be the ring, crazy me jumping to conclusions... but infact the arrow was for me to turn the page in the card as it read " will you be my valentine?"... I felt like a kid on christimas who just got to open all of his presents and then have them all taken away.. Gavin laughed at me and told me i should have known better, but i still didn't find his joke very funny...

After this my impatience got a lot worse, and i missed alot of weird signs that would have told me it was coming but i choice to ignore them because well i'm me.. I remember being at work, it was a monday March 22 2010, and telling MJ i think he is going to propose soon. MJ told me i needed to be patient and stop worrying about it. Of course i didn't and it was on my mind all night. I went over to gavins after work just like normal. we just started talking, he was getting ready to move at the time. He told me he found one of his old sketch books while packing and wanted to know if i would like to look at it. (Gavin is an amazing drawer/artist in case you didn't know) Of course i said yes, as soon as i opened it i knew what is was. the first page said "Our Story" :D it preceded page by page of stories and pictures he had drawn on how we met, started dating, and memories of our life together so far. i kinda didn't read much into it at the time, i was to excited. I finally made it to the last page that asked "Mandy will you marry me?" and i looked up and there he was on his knee :D so cute, it's makes me cry thinking about it again :D

O i said yes by the way! But thats how it happened, just one random night me in my stinky pie clothes and all ... I love him tons

Wedding!!

Well with the help of my friend Sterling, i have finally figured out what to blog about.. Our Wedding, from the engagement to all the planning :D I'll post ideas and details and hopefully i'll get some feedback to create more great ideas to make our wedding the most AMAZING day in Gavin and my life :D Yay!!

so far planned we have
August 13th 2011 (wedding day)
Camp Williams (location)
Gavin McKenna (Groom)
Mandy DeVaney (Bride)
Yellow & Whit e (Wedding Colors)
Daisys (Flowers)
Custom Reebox (wedding shoes)
and I want a short dress...
LOTS OF FUN!!

Hopefully i can figure out how to add pics into my blog and then i'll be abe to share the ideas in my head :D .... Well i'll sure to be posting again soon, and i'll share our engagement story!!
Bye!