Day 2: Oh they say when you marry in June...

...You're a bride all your life.

My all time favorite musical song comes from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and it's absolutely perfect for my theme in life right now.



This is just a small clip of it...if you want a full version of the song go here. 

I love love love this movie. I watched it as a little girl and it was always one of my favorites. I certainly hope to be a bride all my life, and remind Jer why he married me each day. I love that man so much! He has the most adorable baby pictures, he always looks so happy and I love it.

Today after taking the final for Book of Mormon, Mom and I headed down to Springville to take all the rest of my closet to the apartment, and then picked up my wedding dress...so its officially back!!!

On our way home we stopped by the Riverwoods mall and good news, Vicki's is having their Half Annual Yearly Sale. I took advantage of that and got one last piece of lingerie. I love lingerie!! Lingerie is just this new found experience that is so fun, that I've never been able to take part of, so I think that's why I'm so excited about it. Kind of like a child at Christmas, but better.

Then I did more thank you notes while Jared was out partying all night long at his second bachelor party.

Only two days left and life is good!!! Things are starting to wrap up. We're just dealing with last minute crisis's at this point, and surprisingly there are a lot of them...anyways wedding planning is almost completely done and finished. THANK GOODNESS! People seriously wonder why brides turn into bridezillas and its not hard to figure out once you consider how many people and their opinions you have to coordinate with. Even the event planners we deal with are opinionated and want things the way they're used to. But its almost done and I am VERY grateful!

Only 36 hours until I'm officially married!

Day 4: Bachelorette party

As it was the last Saturday before my wedding mother and I were frantically doing last minute errands, dropping off, picking up, exchanging, etc. Lots of fun! Then I got ready for my BACHELORETTE party!! My bridesmaids Em, Awi, and then sweet Marianne took me to the Cheesecake Factory, which surprisingly enough NONE of us had EVER been there before!!! We had a 50-75 minute wait so we went and explored the new Sephora in Fashion Place mall. Its so big, and so pretty! Love it!

We had an absolute blast and teased the waiter quite a bit. He was rather friendly towards Marianne, too bad he looked kinda shy...

Awi, and Emma

Marianne, and I

Absolutely DIVINE cheesecake. Flavors were left to right, Chocolate coconut, Dulce de leche Caramel, Raspberry lemon, Strawberry original

And then we watched Bride Wars, my favorite wedding-ish movie ever! Ah now I need to work out...

Day 5: lingerie

If you are a boy, you may not want to read this post. You have been warned...

So, today I gained a new favorite word that I'm sure will be a favorite for quite some time! Lingerie! (not that I didn't know the word before, its just been a top ten word in my vocabulary today.) I had my last and final shower today at Iggy's with friends, and family that are married. There wasn't a lot of people that came but that's OK, it was a lot of fun to just have an intimate group! I got some cute new lingerie outfits and a couple other items that will give me and Jer's wedding night some spice, which is for certain lots of fun! (I didn't take pictures, sorry)

Then afterwards Sherrie, cousin May, Aunt Pat, and I went to Kohl's for some various things where I saw some great lingerie, so I thought oh, I'll just come back later with my mom to look at the lingerie. Well not only did I come back with my mom later, but also another time with Sherrie, and another time with my bridesmaids Em, and Awi to look at lingerie each time. Can we say I love Kohl's today? And of course, the prices are so great in comparison to Vicki's! And they have some of the cutest patterns, colors, and frills. I just love cute underware, especially lingerie! If you haven't been, you should go check out Kohl's.

I was contemplating about how much less bashful I am about lingerie as I was looking with my mother, now that I'm only FIVE DAYS AWAY from being a married woman! The first time I seriously looked at lingerie, contemplating buying it was right after Jer and I had gotten engaged. I was so embarrassed looking at it, and made a point of showing my engagement ring to signify that I was now allowed in that section. I didn't want to try it on, and I didn't want to look at it after I bought it. Oh, I laugh at how timid I was. Maybe you just keep getting more bold about lingerie with your husband over time? I dunno. I certainly know I'm more excited about it now.

p.s. I love lingerie. The end.

p.p.s. For those of you that wanted the Dr. Pepper Chocolate Cake recipe, here it is.