Our Last Dateiversary

Since I recently got a job, our plans to go away for our 7^th and last dateiversary/ my birthday had to be rescheduled. So we changed out hotel reservations, and headed to Atlantic City for an early celebration. We had a few wonderful and relaxing days. The first day we spent some money in the Harrah’s casino where we stayed and then headed over to Caesars and Bally’s. Mr. ATC actually lost his phone in Bally’s, which sucked, but he is pretty much over it since his phone was broken anyway. We went back, but it was already gone and the lost and found was closed for the night. When we went back the next morning lost and found didn’t have it. 

A Long Distance Dress

Dear Mr. ATC, if by any chance you took an interest in reading my blog, I hope you can tell by the title of this post that it is not for you. So please stop reading now, unless you want to read details about my dress. Okay? Thanks. Love, Miss DNA.

In the 200's

Finally less than 300 days til the wedding! I can't believe how quickly time is going. I remember looking at the countdown when there were exactly 395 days to the wedding, and now there is 298! where did all those days go?

For the most part, we have been on track with what the typical wedding timeline has said. Our next task is going to be finding a florist. Having our wedding a few hours from where we live definitely makes this difficult. Add in that Mr. ATC never has the same days off and I'm starting a new job working the midnight shift and our planning just got a whole lot more difficult. I feel as overwhelmed as I did in the beginning when I first looked at a wedding timeline and tried to keep everything straight in my head. : /

Engagement Session (no pics yet)

So as I mentioned in my last post, last Saturday we headed up north a few hours to meet with our photographer for our engagement shoot. I would like to say our photographer is amazing. He went to the agreed upon place early since neither of us had been there before, and scoped out some places to shoot. We went to the Catoctin Moutain Park and hiked on a really long and difficult trail to get to the waterfalls. But I’m hoping the shots we got along the trail made it worth it. Then we ended up by the lake at sunset. Again, our photographer is awesome and put up with us for well over 2 hours!

Amidst the Wedding Planning

As I mentioned in this post, my busy week not only involved stealing rings, starting traditions, continuing traditions, finding a DJ, and registering, but I also ran around town to 2 different interviews in 2 days! The first was the major one, the really important one, the second with the same company (they felt bad and had to give me the job). The second interview was a part time job I applied for just to have some income. It has almost been 6 months since I graduated from college. Granted, only 3 of those months I actually spent job hunting, the others were spent traveling. But that grace period for my loans was about to end, and there is this small party Mr. ATC and I are trying to plan and save for, for next summer too. Needless to say, we were both really stressed since we only had one income. Well as my luck would have it, I accepted the part time job the same day as my interview (wednesday) and got the job offer for the other job on friday!

Such a perfect way to start the weekend! And had us both really happy for our engagement shoot that we had the next day!

So while I am really thankful to have found a job in this economy, I am kinda sad that I won't be able to plan our wedding full time as I have been since we got engaged.

Was anyone else able to plan their wedding full time? The whole time, or maybe just for a few months?

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P.s Shout out to our friends Danielle and Richard who are getting married today! I hope you both have a fantastic day! <3

Sip and Scan

A few weeks ago, I received an email from the knot informing me of a sip and scan event at Macy's for wedding registries. I got really excited because I knew we had to do this and how cool that they would provide refreshments and food!?

Well last Wednesday we headed to the mall and I am so glad we ate dinner first! They had 2(!) different passed hors d'oeuvres and some weird drink that I didn't even try. I was a little disappointed, but it didn't matter, we were there to register for everything we could think of. They provided us with a list, but this bride cam prepared with her own. Yeah, I got lots of comments on that, but I like to be prepared and organized! I know what we need better than the generic list they give out.

Duff's Cake Tattoos

Seriously!? How cool is this!?

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