Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in becky and justin's LiveJournal:

Friday, February 3rd, 2006
9:33 pm	ok, i have this idea for my wedding dress...see, the idea of spending hundreds of dollars on a dress that i'm going to wear one day makes me queasy...i'm too frugal!! so i had this idea of wearing like, a white skirt (maybe a peasant skirt or a big billowy skirt) and a bodice type top, almost like a corset, also in white or something close to white. i LOVE this idea because i can wear both peices later on with other clothes and it will look normal, and also i think it will look very nice. i'm a big hippy at heart, so i think this will really match my personality. now, i know that i can wear whatever i want on my wedding day, but i want input on my big idea! i want to know if it sounds silly or if it is really a decent idea. also i need to know where i can find a white bodice/corset top!! also...for my bridesmaids...a few years ago my mom bought me a vogue because she liked the cover outfit, it was big prom-dress looking skirts with a plain white tank top. i was thinking...for my bridesmaids they could wear a skirt in the color of their choice and style of their choice (as long as it is below the knees) and then a white tank top like that. i think it would look very cute, and very fun. what do you guys think?? **cross posted** (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
8:59 pm	da list ok here is the list of things i need, and things i already have: the dress pick my bridesmaids and maid of honor his tux choose the location SECURE the location guest list choosing my hairdo his ring my ring colors for my bridesmaids sending them all a swatch of the fabric with the perfect SHADE pick the date invitations dee jay (my ipod...i need a little money to send away for the stupid offers in the free ipod thing..i know it works because diane got one last month) officiate choosing the themeFLOWERS!!! choosing my flowers making bouquets food for reception location for reception (rene says theres a place where there are barbeques near where i'm getting married...but i wanna see it first) song list for reception my veil my shoes choosing a flowergirl choosing a ring bearer choosing honeymoon location buying plane tickets for honeymoon reserving hotel stays for honeymoon saving at least $500 for spending money on honeymoon saving at least $200 for car rental for honeymoon making my registry cake topper choosing what kind of cake i would like finding someone to make my cake! garter belt his shoes (probably just his work shoes but shined up) chairs for the ceremony music for the ceremony (maybe just a stereo with the bridal march being played???) my jewlery best man and groomsmen (a few people he has in mind...but nothing set yet) decorations for the ceremony and reception (i'm thinking like...periwinkle ribbons around the bridge that i'll be walking down and fake flowers all over the railings and gazebo with flower scented candles) attire for guests (either formal, semi formal, casual/formal...what!!!) plans for my "florida reception" (my mom lives in florida, i'm in washington state. she feels i should have a florida reception so other people in my family & my friends can celebrate without shelling out money for plane tickets and hotel reservations. i like the idea, i just need to PLAN the freakin thing!!) choosing colors dark pink and periwinkle? not 100% yet ok and thats all i've got for now. i will be updating this more and more. keeping it in my memories...etc (Comment on this)
7:34 pm	i'm feeling a little overwhelmed...true, my wedding is over a year away, but i just don't want this to end up like some white trash little thing that people will look back on and think "ugh...yea i went to becky's wedding but i choose not to recall it!". i want my guests to be happy, i want to look STUNNING, i want everything to be beautiful and wonderful and most of all, UNIQUE!!! i want to have the kind of wedding where people are going to think back and say to themselves "i have never been to a wedding like that before! i want mine to be just as good!". there are a few traditional things that i want to keep traditional, but i want to be so unique that people will remember it forever. i'm a really unique person!! i want my wedding to be a reflection on US, a reflection on our life together and what our life will BE together. i don't want it to be this little shindig that people will forget about in a month. i plan on doing this just once so i want it to be perfect...but i don't want to be like a bratty little bridezilla!! urg...i get frustrated when i think of all the SHIT i have to do and all the fucking MONEY i have to spend!! i'm doing the most cost effective things possible, i'm using fake flowers, opting for the cheapest (yet nice) dress i can find, i'm going to do the whole free ipod dealy and use that as my dee jay, i'm most likley going to use someone that i know to officiate so if i have to pay at all it won't be much. i doubt i'll have to pay for the location, rene lives there and didn't have to pay so she could probably pull strings for me. i'm using her veil, i'm buying my shoes at payless, so everything shouldn't be too expensive, the most costly things will be my dress...which i'm more and more tempted every day to just go to walmart and buy a nice looking dress or just get a SEMI-formal dress or something. i don't know. i went to the david's site and it's just like...shit! so many dreses, so many styles. joleen just got her vows renued, and she wore a white skirt and a tunicy green shirt. i am very tempted to just get a white "peasant" skirt and then a white top and call it done. it would be ten times cheaper, i'd be comfortable, it would be low-key which i like, people would remember it!! i just don't know. my whole deal is...i feel like such a dumbass spending hundreds of dollars on a dress that i'll wear for ONE day. and not even the whole day, i would maybe change into something comfortable later on at the reception..who knows. i'm so fucking bipolar with all of this. one second i feel like i know exactly what i want but then i am so fucking clueless that i almost feel like ELOPING in a COURTHOUSE or something...i talk tough like i could do that but i don't think i could ever just marry someone without having my family there. i'm going to make a post after this one, a listy post. like...a list of EVERYTHING that i need for this wedding. i hope this confusion goes away sometime soon! it's annoying!! (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
8:42 pm	GUEST LIST (beta) i came up with this idea while i was in the tub...i'll make my guest list here and then keep it in my memories so if i need to update i can just come on here and add, delete, etc. ok here goes! oh yea, the star * means it's a child. child means under 15. 1. my mom 2.lindsay 3. ricky* 4. cheri 5. nick 6. michelle 7. larry 8. tyler 9. shane 10. nikki 11. jaime 12. kelly 13. april 14. grandma phillips 15. aunt sandy 16. grandma richardson 18. jason k 19. karen 20. their children...i don't know their names**** 21. brittany 22. curtis 23. zachia* 24. rene 25. jason d 26. colton* 27. addison* 28. arlyene 29. allison 30. ok thats all i can think of right now. i'm sure people i work with will want to come, and as of now i have like, 30 people on my list and some of those might not even come. like aunt sandy...not sure if we really want her there. grandma richardson might not be alive...and jason (justin's cousin), his wife and kids might not come either. justin's not incredibly close to them. it's ok if they do, but also it's fine if they don't. so....if my co-workers want to come then they are welcome. i don't really want to break the 50 people mark...but if i do then thats ok. that just means we have a lot of friends, right? lol...these people will be bearing gifts, will they not? ha ha...i'm kidding. it would be LOVLEY if they all brought fantastic gifts, but if they didn't it would be just fine. i can't wait to get my dress...i have heard that it all goes downhill from there..and i want to get things rolling so i should buy my dress soon!! i want to so badly...i really like that prom dress..very chic! Current Mood: creative (Comment on this)
5:15 pm	i've been looking at wedding dresses online, i found the 2 at davids bridal and then one on the davids bridal prom dress site...it's cute but i'm not sure if it's like...ok for a wedding gown. is that ok for a wedding gown? it's $250 or $220 or something like that. expensive for a prom dress but cheap for a wedding gown. i like the detail on the bodice...it shows it on the site. they didn't have any really nice white ones, but this one is ivory which is good enough anyways. so...opinions? also i am going to tell my bridesmaids that i prefer them to buy their dress at davids bridal, but i'm not forcing them to. that way most of them will be the same shade. the "peri" at davids is really nice, and i like it. i also went through my bridal magazines and cut out pictures of things i liked. i cut out a cake that i love, very simple, just 2 tiers, kind of tropical looking wtih flowers. i cut out a bouquet that i liked the colors of, a few dresses, and a place-setting idea that i liked from a martha stewart bridal mag. the idea is to take a clementine (a miniature orange) and wrap it with parchment paper and attach a little tag that has the person's name on it. a very nice, simple idea and also homage to my home-state, florida :) i also like the idea of getting flowerseeds and giving those as favors. but i'd do it the cheap way and get them from walmart but make them pretty with bows. like take them out of the paper envelope and put it in like, some meshy fabric with a tag saying something cheesy like "plant these seeds in your garden, let them grow daily like justin and becky's love for each other" or something like that. and i want bubbles instead of rice thrown. bubbles...i like that :) i can't wait until we have a car again...i'm going to set up an appointment at david's bridal so i can try on dresses. scince my wedding date has changed...i need to re-evaluate where i want my wedding to be. indoors, obviously. but is it still appropriate to have a strappless gown? what about outdoor pictures? i think i'll just stick to indoor pictures. i need to find a pretty church here in shelton...i hope i can!! also a place to have the reception. i hope all of this isn't too pricey...and my mom never got back to me if irwin would officiate (irwin was my youth pastor while i was in high school, but he's not a youth pastor anymore so i'm not sure if he'd want to do that now). it would mean a lot to me if he married us. but if he doesn't want to...then i'm not going to force him or anything. it would just...be very special. now that the wedding is less than a year away i'm starting to stress...is having a flower themed wedding appropriate in the winter time? what theme should i have? what themes are there? do i have to have a theme? i wish there was someone i could talk to about this kind of thing... Current Mood: confused (Comment on this)
Friday, January 13th, 2006
10:04 pm	i like this dress: http://www.davidsbridal.com/bridal_gowns_detail.jsp?stid=1891&prodgroup=10 but my friend at work, brittany...she most likley is calling off her wedding. she is the same size as me, and she got a dress that i love. i might buy it from her. but i really love that dress in the link. and it's only $300! cheap-a-roo! btw i'm moving the date of my wedding to january 9th 2007. screw what my mom says...i'm having my wedding when i want!!! i can't wait to go and try on wedding dresses for myself! Current Mood: cranky (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
5:19 pm	i went to walmart today to do some grocery shopping...i picked up a CUTE blue garter belt...or whatever you call it. it's the thing you wear around your thigh and the groom tosses it at the reception. whatever it's called, i got one. what i want to do is buy everything i can buy NOW so that in a year and a half when the wedding is around the corner i won't be scrambling to get things i need. the one thing that will be a problem is my wedding dress..i don't know if i'll have that kind of money all lumped together! what i want to do is go to florida in may and plan it so i leave RIGHT when i get a paycheck, and i'll probably use a whole check on the dress..maybe my mom will help out? it could be my birthday present...that would be awesome. i'm getting rene's old veil, which is good because it has flowers on it. bonus!! lol...i am probably going to go online tonight and buy my cake topper, the adorable giraffes one. i will most likely make my own invitations, and probably this april i'll send out "save the date" pre-invites to the people i want to invite. i still want to look at locations, i have my heart set on timberlakes, where rene got married. it is on a lake, duhh...but it has this little island that is about 15 feet off shore. there is a little bridge going to the island and thats what rene walked down when she came down the aisle. there is a little gazebo where the ceremony happened. it was all very beautiful...i want my wedding there! rene is going to talk to the timberlakes people and see how much it would cost, and if it would cost less scince i know people who live there. it would be nice because i wouldn't have a real size limit...i mean, i couldn't have too many people because the island is only so big, but with most churches it costs more the more people you have. and i'll probably do my reception at a local...i don't know. i want to get a hope chest or something like that so i can keep all these things that i'm getting so far in advance together. i don't want to spend my money on stuff and then go and loose it! i hardly have any friends here...pah! oh well. it's a good way for me to keep track of the things i have gotten at least! Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
12:55 pm	i got this huge invitations book in the mail...and i'm torn between which invites i want! i know its so far away...but i'm already all over this! i like this one: http://www.invitationsbydawn.com/We_ViewEns.cfm?sItemCode=WedEns4481&sCatalogCode=WedEnsDD&iStartRow=9&lCriteria=240&strcontinue=yes&strsearch=yes&format=WedEnsDDa but i also like this one: http://www.invitationsbydawn.com/We_ViewEns.cfm?sItemCode=WedEns4873&sCatalogCode=WedEnsDD&iStartRow=1&lCriteria=3294&strcontinue=yes&strsearch=yes&format=WedEnsDDa and that last one also goes with the theme of my wedding. the first one does a little...i don't know. but i think i'm going to go with the first one because i want a invitation that i can frame and hang on my wall later on. my mother did that and i always thought it was lovley. i've also found a perfect cake topper for me...it's so pretty! ok now that i'm on the website there are two...but i still like my original decsicion on this one! here is the new one i found: http://www.invitationsbydawn.com/ProductDesign.cfm?prev=1&TempPrev=0&blnPreviewRequestSubmitted=0&recordsperpage=0&CompletedOrder=0&sBasketID=0&iSubGroupID=720&alogo=1&menu=none&morethanonepage=YES&HostDomain=0&FirstTimeThrough=1&option=ProductDesign.cfm&format=PP14290&vid=5301D96862&CFID=4956532&CFTOKEN=27306789 but here is the one i originally planned on getting: http://www.invitationsbydawn.com/ProductDesign.cfm?prev=1&TempPrev=0&blnPreviewRequestSubmitted=0&recordsperpage=0&CompletedOrder=0&sBasketID=0&iSubGroupID=720&alogo=1&menu=none&morethanonepage=YES&HostDomain=0&FirstTimeThrough=1&option=ProductDesign.cfm&format=PP24836&vid=5301D96862&CFID=4956532&CFTOKEN=27306789 justin thinks i'm crazy for looking into this stuff so far in advance...but i want to get this stuff out of the way now so that when the date approaches i won't be freaking out. like once i get some money i'm going to go to walmart and buy little things like my garter belt (i saw a really cute blue one!) and then the rings pillow. i can just stuff that crap in the spare bedroom and then once the big day comes i won't be freaking out about all these little things that i missed. i might also go to walmart and start buying up fake daisies...i might have some of the bridesmaids carry fake bouquets...if they look nice i'll make mine be a fakey too. an lj friend who recently got married made her bouquets herself and they looked great...i might do that myself. i should probably wait till spring to buy colorful fake daisies though...it's winter so theres not much in the lines of pretty bright fake flowers at walmart. i can't wait until i get my dress though...i want to try and start planning a trip to florida to go shopping for my dress. my mother wants to take me. i am going to go with her because it's the only thing she's shown any kind of enthusiasm about for the entire ordeal. i just hope i can afford a trip to florida by springtime! i would love to go sometime before or during prom season so that i might just get a prom dress for my wedding gown. i would love that because it would be cheaper and also there wouldn't be a train. i'm not too fond of trains. my perfect dress is gone though...it was my sister's prom dress. it was white...but like a transluscent white so in different light it had a blue or pink or green tint to it. it had a fitted bodice with white roses around the top. it had a full skirt but it wasn't like...too huge or anything. it would have been perfect, but it was upstairs when the house burnt down so it doesn't exist anymore. i was so heartbroken when i heard that my dress wasn't there anymore...but that means i can find one that is perfect for me now. i can't wait! Current Mood: blah (Comment on this)
Monday, November 21st, 2005
8:23 pm	hello!! this is my wedding journal. i'm so excited to be getting married...i know some couples get this sense where it's like "oh my god i'm going to be stuck with this guy forever???" but no...i love him more and more every day. it's so nice. here is a picture of the ring...it's the engagement and wedding band: i love it!! thats a huge ass 1.2 carat solitaire and the total weight is 2.4 i think. http://www.bridalonlinestore.com/store/caroline.html i love that dress but i saw one in a magazine a few days ago and i want that one more...its kind of like that but with flowers. i want the theme of my wedding to be flowers...like a fresh spring garden. i mean, it's april...what better to do than flowers!! daisies especially. i just love daisies...daisies everywhere. in my hair, on the cake, on all of the tables and chairs, on my shoes, the dress the veil, all the bouquets will be daisies of different colors...dyed daisies in rainbow colors. very colorful and bright and fun! the colors are going to be yellow, periwinkle and a dark pink. how does that sound? seriously...the point of this journal is for me to vent and also to get input. i like those three colors but i'm not sure how they'd look together. Current Mood: good (Comment on this)