Give Me Some Music! (Orsino, Act I Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)

So last night I stayed up way too late looking for music to play before my future husband and I arrive at the wedding reception. I didn't want classical piano, or even worse Kenny G because that kind of music just puts people on edge. It makes everything sound formal and high class and uptight. My friends and family are anything but that. So I decided I wanted something that almost all good Southern people like, hymns and bluegrass. Funny enough, no one seems to publish instrumental bluegrass hymns and then put those exact words as search terms on Google. Finally I found some instrumental stuff entitled Smoky Mountain Hits, as seen here:
I'm using Ruckus (free music for college students) to download all my music for my reception, so I searched for this album. Much to my delight, there was another Smoky Mountain Hits CD and Three volumes of Smoky Mountain Hymns! Now I have a little over 2 hours of music for before we arrive at the reception and for when we're eating. I'm quite excited. This is one of the few things that has gone well with my planning.

This weekend is supposed to be a big planning weekend. I go to figure out some things about my flowers tomorrow. I'm hopefully going to get some more tulle for making my flower girl baskets since everything I've seen in stores look like satin covered buckets. And I'm hoping to price Hershey Kisses for wedding favors. I can buy 25 lbs. for $120, but who needs 2500 Kisses? My dad would never have to buy candy again, that's for sure. But I want to put pretty little stickers on the bottoms.

Oh, and my shoes at Target match the dress perfectly! We actually ordered a pair to make sure since the colors look a little off in the pictures. Now I won't have to make my bridesmaids buy $50 shoes from David's Bridal. They're only $18.31 taxes and all and if you order them all at the same time and your order is over $50 then the shipping is free! So if you need shoes to go with a David's Bridal Apple dress, then these are the shoes!

The Dress

The Shoe

Things are finally starting to come together. I'm sure I'll have more to post after this weekend.

Newly Created Space

The events of the past week have nudged me into making a wedding blog. It seems like the popular thing to do among modern, web savvy young women about to get hitched. As the title of my blog, My Big Fat Southern Baptist Wedding, indicates, I am Southern and Baptist and this is going to be a huge wedding. So there are many fiascoes past and present to report upon. Maybe I can help someone out, or maybe I can just get my thoughts down and make some friends laugh. So there you have it. The introduction to the next three months of future planning and the past fourteen months of planning. I'll try to start at the beginning.