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| Thanks everyone for their input regarding the flowers! In light of all the chaos that I will probably have to contend with in the weeks to come, I decided not to go the DIY route nor the internet route for my flowers.
Instead, I'm getting my flowers from a local florist here & I'm so excited with their work. They came highly recommended by my co-workers & I was surprised to get a fabulous deal (especially since I wanted the callas & orchids). Since I wasn't into having floral centerpieces (I love the romantic lighting of candles ~ so hurricane lamps and lil votive lights galor instead) so that definitely made my floral budget more feasible.
My flowers: Mango calla lillies & cymbydium orchids; arranged in a round bouquet and hand-tied
FH bout: Orchid
Maids' flowers: mango callas & red roses (i saw it in bride's magazine and it was pretty) with green berry fillers; arranged in a round bouquet & also hand-tied
GM bout: calla lillies
My parents: refused flowers because of allergies; maybe i'll get silk flowers from them
His Parents: once i find out FMIL's dress, i'll coordinate something pretty for her and matching for him.
Also booked our limo ~ an H2 Hummer for 5 hours (due to driving btw hotel --> church --> park pics --> hotel).
I still can't believe it's only 115more days!
Still have to book a hair/makeup person.
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| 130 days to go!   
With a little more than 4 months to go, we really have to get with the program & finalize details regarding flowers, hair/makeup and limos.
Flowers
- for budget's sake, I was considering ordering my flowers from online services, such as Costco.com or ProFlowers.com
- however, they have limited choices and I am not quite a excited aboutr roses and hydrangeas as a am with "exotic flowers" (ie, calla lilies, orchids), so I'll probably go for a local bridal florist and get the callas
 ... hopefully it won't be too crazy $$$!
          
Hair
- my hair is fine, straight (easily curled though) and the length is right about bra-line. I'm currently contemplating a half-up or totally down look to go with my pearl & crystal headpiece (more like head band or narrow crown) and arm-length veil (which does include a blusher but I'm probably going to leave it back and not over my face).
- I need to book a hairstylist ~ trying to figure out the logistics because we need to be all dressed by 1:30 so we can leave Jersey, take some pics and make it back to my church for the 3pm ceremony. So either we'll head to a salon early in the morning, or have someone come to the hotel.
- pictures taken from weddingchannel.com & theknot.com
            
Makeup -- not sure yet if i will get it personally done? I usually don't wear too much make up & even if I do, I like neutral tones.
Limos -- hmm ... SUVs, limos, or party buses?!? Besides us and our honor attendants, we also have 4 bridesmaids & 4 groomsmen. Plus our parents & my grandparents my need a ride. We need 2 probably since they'll go straight to the reception while we take pictures (there's 3 hrs between the end of the Mass & the beginning of cocktail hr.)
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| haha
just kidding ... well ... sort of ...
As part of their Valentine's Day special, we were one of three couples featured on NBC's Today in New York's "Romantic Marriage Proposals" segment.
Click for our TV Debut 
Since that's the local prequel to the national Today Show, it was on yesterday morning at about 6:45am. I didn't realize a lot of ppl watch it, but apparently a whole bunch of people at work (I'm at a hospital), said they saw it. lol
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| i can't believe that our wedding is in less than seven months!
our "done" list, thus far:
- church
- reception
- dress & accessories (picking it up this wk!)
- my wedding band
- DJ
- photographer
- Dress for wedding rehearsal
- Dress change for Reception (as much as I LOVE my dress, I couldn't imagine myself wearing it plus all the crinoline and my 4in heels for 12hrs) after the formalities of introduction and dances, i'll probably be changing into my second dress, which is a complete opposite of my gown but I love it none the less.
next up for January:
- invitations (narrowed down to 3 choices ... want to order by January so we can send them out by March, hopefully, but we haven't collected all our addresses yet!)
- Pre-Cana & all the church documentation
- bridesmaid dresses (leaning more toward the Bill Levkoff dresses instead of the David's Bridal dresses.. we'll be checking them out the end of January)
- narrow down our choices for honeymoons (we're looking for all inclusive packages) so we'll probably opt for:
- Aruba
- St. Lucia
- Riviera Maya
- Jamaica
i've missed blogging 
eventually i'll get around to posting Queen Mary 2 cruise pics and holiday pics...
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year everyone!
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