It's Official...I'm a Mrs.!!!

I'm Married!!!

To the man of my DREAMS

We were married at The Los Angeles Temple

It was beautiful

&

now I get to spend Eternity with this Handsome man

right here

It really was the best day of my life

Married life has been so much fun 

We have be able to spend lots of time together because

I got a new JOB!!!

No more Sunday-Thursday, 12pm-9pm shifts with an hour commute each way. 

 I started about 2 days after my honeymoon :) 

It really is an amazing story the way it happened but I'll leave that for another post.

So all this happened the week of my wedding.

Talk about STRESS!!!

Oh and to add some more stress to my wedding countdown.

 My poor mother was in a car accident about 2 weeks before my wedding. 

She was taken to the hospital. She almost broke her wrist and they didn't find out until after the wedding that she had torn some ligaments in her arm and that's why it wasn't healing. 

So my Matron of Honor/Big sister/ My rock

was starting to have contraction the week of my wedding. 

She was such a trooper and thankfully Izzy decided to wait until after the wedding to make her Debut.

Isn't she a cutie?!?!?!

I promise i'll upload better pictures when I get them off our camera.

We also had another baby join our family.

My Sister-in-Law, Lilian, had a cute baby boy.

Check him out...

He came almost 1 month early which is why he looks so tiny.

JR's phone rang super early Sunday morning. Lilian called to let us know her water broke.

Her husband works nights so we rushed over to help out by watching little E & big J so that they could head to the hospital.

She was in the hospital for a few days since they were trying to keep the baby inside for as long as possible. 

They weren't sure if he was done cooking yet.

JR & I had Little E with us until they came home with baby. 

He was so good with us. We were happy and were able to get a feel of what it would be like if we had kids. It was fun and E is such a good boy.

It was really nice to be able to watch him for those few days.

It sure is different having a 2 year old around day and night.

Thanks for being such a good nephew.

We Love you E.

I almost forgot ....

Just in case anyone was wondering where we went on our honeymoon.

Drum Roll Please...

HAWAII!!!

I know, I know.

You all already knew.

We can all thank Facebook and my diPhone for the status update/ play by play of my life.

It was AMAZING!!!

I'll write a separate post about our Honeymoon and add pictures too but for now

enjoy these pictures.

As you can tell my life has been a little hectic and busy.

That's why I haven't been blogging.

Please forgive me.

I've had several friends ask me to please start blogging again.

This post for you!

You know who you are ;) 

I promise I'll be good from now on

I really have missed blogging.

I finally got the ball rolling :)

The past 3 days have been filled with wedding planning. I feel like the ball is finally rolling. I stopped being lazy and started to work on things. I figured out my colors and they are SET! No going back :) 

 what do you think?

So I love the Dark Blue and I really want to use silver/grey accents with it.

I love the way the green pops with the flowers.  

Example...

So what do you think?

We are still looking for a photographer so if you know of any in the LA area that are maybe familiar with LDS weddings and not expensive I would super appreciate it.

Oh

We still need invitations too. So if you know of any cool website with great prices that would be AMAZING!!

We have a budget that we have to stick. Sometimes I wish we didn't but we do.If only we were Royal ;)

I'm excited to get to take engagement pictures. I have this idea and vision in my head that I HAVE to do. I've been trying to decide on what to wear. I"d love to wear a cute dress in one and possibly something a little more casual in another. I also REALLY want to take a picture on the Pasadena bridge. 

It's so pretty and Pasadena really is home to both of us! We met in this beautiful city and it truly has been a huge part of our relationship!

How about this for our exit?!?

SPARKLERS!!!

 I love sparklers and I want them soo bad. 

 So much going on inside my head and I'm so excited to start making everything final.

Hopefully soon we will have a date to finally announce.

I have a feeling it will be REALLY, REALLY soon ;)

One more thing...

I picked up my dress. It's been sitting in my room for about 2 weeks. 

Isn't that CRAZY! 

Next step buy accessories like a pretty belt to wear with it and possibly a veil. 

It's really happening!

Last week I received an e-mail from Macy's inviting us join them for a wedding registry event for tonight. It started at 6:30pm and when we arrived they handed JR a scan gun & I grabbed some paperwork. We entered a couple contest's while we were there. It was a really niceevent. They had some very tasty  hors d'oeuvres and sparkling cider for us. We scanned and sipped the night away. 

       

It was so much fun to be able to walk around the store and see all of the cool stuff they had. One of my favorite parts of registering was being able to choose things with JR. Things that WE will be using in OUR home :) It's nice to be able to see what we like and what we don't like and then make a decision together. We only added a few things to our registry for now and we plan on doing more online and then going back to Macy's when it's not as busy. While we were leaving they gave us a tote bag with presents!!! Our first wedding gift!

A few pictures of us opening our presents

Excited about our gift's

$25 restaurants.com card, silicone hot pad & tote bag.

Spatula and mini whisk.

 Our gift bag with our goodies

While we were scanning and looking at all the kitchen stuff I was telling JR about how I really wanted this bakeware set. We were looking for the price but couldn't find it so I went to the price check station and found out it was on super sale..... 24.99!!

So we decided to buy it since they only had one more left. Our first purchase for our home :) It's starting to feel real. With every step I get more and more excited. It's really happening!! 
I'm getting married :)

The Dress

Warning... This is a very LONG post.

     I went to try on wedding dresses yesterday with my father and sister. We went to just take a look. I had the idea of having my wedding dress made. My roommate had her dress made and it came out BEAUTIFUL! It fit her body perfectly. She was very happy with the way it came out and the price was great too.

    So my dress shopping experience wasn't the way I always thought it would  be. Maybe I've been watching to much Say Yes to the Dress or something. I had an appointment  for 11am in Northridge. I showed up just a little bit before just in case I needed to fill anything out and to browse the store a bit. The store didn't open until 11am so I stood outside the store with 3 other brides. 1 of the brides didn't have an appointment and the other bride did.  They opened the store around 11:05am. The bride that didn't have an appointment walked inside the store before me and she told the lady in the front that she did not have an appointment and that she wanted to try some dresses on. The lady had her fill out paper work and then told me to do the same. She didn't ask me if I had an appointment or anything. The other bride who had an appointment had been taken into the back already and now the girl without an appointment was being taken into the back while I just sat in the front. I'm getting annoyed. Another lady approached me and asked me what I needed. I told her that I finished filling out the paperwork and that I had an appt at 11:00am. She hands me a magazine and tells me to choose dresses that I like. I explain to her that I already have  pictures and style numbers for the dresses I liked. I pulled them from their website. She looks at a sheet of paper and tells me that my appointment today is with Barbra. The store called me the day before to confirm my appointment and left a message telling me I had an appointment with Barbra. The lady then gets on the phone and I over hear her saying that she is the manager. When she got off the phone she complains to me about whoever she was on the phone her. I ask her if the first lady who was up here happened to be Barbra because if it is she is helping someone else (the non appointment Bride) try on dresses. I pointed out who I was talking about and she confirms that yes, that is Barbra. So basically Barbra is helping a walk in with dresses not the Bride who scheduled an appointment with her over a week ago. I'm getting even more annoyed.  The manager is now trying to figure out what to do. She sends another worker to check on Barbra and see what she is doing. She explains that Barbra is helping a bride find a dress. They go back in forth for a minute and I'm annoyed now so I jump in and explain that I'm supposed to have an appointment at 11am with Barbra. The worker finally leaves and comes back and starts walking me to the back. I try to ask her whats going on and she seems like she is now getting upset with me for asking questions. She is also trying to hurry me up, which I didn't like.

    She tells me to put on a corset and walks away. I wasn't sure if I'm supposed to get undressed at this point or just put on this corset. I had to ask her if I should take my pants off ? I had no clue what was going on. I didn't know if she was going to walk around the store with me or what! She finally comes back with a few dresses that I had showed her. I'm also trying to explain to her that I need sleeves. That I'm a LDS bride. She just doesn't get it. I explain that I need to be covered up and she tells me that they can't do that. I explained that I would get alterations somewhere else if needed but that if she has anything with straps or sleeves that I would like to try it on. She seemed like she was getting annoyed with me and made me feel like I was being too demanding, I tried to explain again that the reason is because I need to be modest and it would be easier to build sleeves on a dress that already has straps of some sort. She brings me strapless dresses and I try some on. They were beautiful! They really were but I knew that it's not the way the dress was going to look like in the end. I had to try to imagine how it would look like after I get it fixed. Some of them would be  hard to fix and others would just look like a completely different dress.After a few No's I was in the dressing room with her and she seemed to be annoyed with why I said No to the dresses. She then made a comment about how I'm not going to find a dress here because they are all going to be like the other dresses. I was offended by it because the tone and look on her face almost made me feel like she was telling me that I'm wasting her time. I asked her if she would please bring me the two dresses that I had pictures of that had sleeves. She seemed like she didn't really want to bring them. Almost like it was a waste of time but I insisted. She explained that one of the dresses was only for plus size brides so she wouldn't be able to bring that one but that she will get the other one.

  When I put the dress I requested on, I loved it :)  So now I'm torn between two dresses. I tried them both on and she started being nicer when I gave her credit for finding the dresses even though I'm the one who found it and insisted she bring it. I felt that I needed to make her feel good so that I could get the help I wanted. I just wanted it to be a good experience especially since my father was here for it. I asked for the pricing on the two dresses and it was about a $1000 difference. I noticed that the less expensive dress (#2) would also need the least amount of alterations and I would be able to wear it inside the temple. The 1st dress would need to have more alterations and that it would also ultimately change the complete  look of the dress. It was more of a dramatic dress. I was scared that in 10 years I would look back and say " WHAT WAS I THINKING!!!". Almost like the puffy sleeve dresses I've seen. So with the decision made I asked her again on the price and she explain that because of the sale that was extended for today only it was $50 off. Keep in mind that I had received an e-mail that morning that said it was extended for another week. She tells me that this dress might be discontinued and that she would double check. She comes back saying that it's not being discontinued and that it was actually $100 off of the sale tag but that the sales ends today!! She made sure I knew that they received an e-mail that morning saying that the sale was going to end that day.

 Before I made my final decision I had a few more questions. It took a while for me to get the chance to ask her since she started helping 2 other brides. So she is now dressing a total of 3 different brides.I'm confused about the appointment situation. I don't understand how I get time taken away from my consultation for other people who didn't even make appointments. I made an appointment over a week ago. All I wanted was one hour with a dress consultant. She finally makes her way over and I get to ask her my questions. What if I change my mind? How long do I have to cancel the order and what fee's would I have to pay? She said that I can cancel at any time. The dress comes in 2 different colors and I was torn between the two. She said that I could order it in one color and if I decided I want the other color instead that I could just order the other and return the one that came. She explained that I would have no fee's and that if I just decided that I want another dress that it would be no problem! I told her that I wanted the dress. I was really excited and made my way to the front to get rung up by the manager. She starts ringing me up and I sign and then she hands me the receipt after the transaction is over and says okay this is a final sale. I look at her and ask her why? I explained that I had asked the consultant about this and she said that I could change my mind and exchange it if needed. She looks at me like I'm crazy and asked me if I was having doubts about the dress. I explained that yes I was. I was torn between two dresses and that I wasn't sure which color to choose. She told me thats not possible and then proceeded to tell me that the consultant was wrong and that basically there is nothing she could do about it. I told her that if that were the case she should have informed me before the transaction was finished  that this was a final sale. She then told me that this dress is final sale because it's being discontinued. I told her that the consultant told me it wasn't being discontinued. I'm starting to get upset because no one in the store know what they are doing or talking about!!!  She finally says that it's okay. That if I needed to she would exchange the dress in case I change my mind later. I had her write it on the receipt.

    When I got into the car I decided to call the bridal store in Monrovia. I wanted to double check on the price and the sale. I felt like I they were trying to trick me and that they had been lying to me. While on the phone they explained me that the price was correct but that the sale would not be over for another week. That they were also e-mailed  in the morning with the extension.  I was so upset with them. They had been lying to me so they could make a sale. I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. If I were to walk back into that store I would have gone off. In the end I was happy with the dress. I felt good about it after I got home and show my roommate. Don't get me wrong though. I will be e-mailing Davids Bridal and letting them know how awful my experience was at the location. While on the phone with the Monrovia store I noticed the difference in costumer service. They were so nice and helpful on the phone.

    Now I wish I could put up some pictures but I'm afraid Jorge might take a look and see it. I will post some of a two dresses I ended up not getting.

I did like this dress a lot but I felt I liked it more as a fun dress rather then my actual Wedding dress.

 This dress was really busy up top. I also didn't like the way my body looked.  

In the end I'm happy and excited for my wedding dress. I'm so happy I found it and I can't wait!!