I NEED BOWLS!!

So, regardless of not ever being able to add to our dishes-i went ahead and started collecting the place settings that i fell in love with. I have been able to find place settings for 8 in the Dinner plates and salad plates and 5 bowls between 3 TJ Maxx stores in Maine. I am still on the hunt for 3 more or else i am going to take the other 5 back and just get black bowls to go with the settings. But if any of you happen to be good at locating things that are hard to find I am looking for 3 bowls by Roscher in the 'spring blossom' collection. I put up a picture of the dinner plates and then the bowls are deep and round. So far, i am only locating them through TJ Maxx...I'm real bummed out. I have a feeling i wont be adding the bowls to the collection :-( ohhh wellll.... at least i got the plates i love,right? :-)

Today i also met with our photographer Patricia. I absolutely love her! She's young and has a great eye for amazing picture opportunities. I took her around the island and she found a few places around the area that she wants to do some shots on the wedding day. she has some great ideas and got me really excited!

I can't believe we are already into June! time is flying by so fast...

Update On a Motel

Hey everyone!
It's been a while since i have posted...but there hasn't been anything really big or new to share till now.
Just a little update on motel info;
I went to the Cook's Island View Motel today and stoped in to talk to them. They told me when anyone calls to make sure they say they will be attending the Johnson Smith wedding on September 19th. You will get a discount of 10$ so it will bring it down to 90$/ per night. She did remind me that they are filling up quickly.

Registry Complete

Well, we have finally finished the registry. Since we will be traveling it really isn't that much seeing as we can't bring THAT much with us and I'm not willing to sacrifice that many pairs of shoes for kitchen appliances-sorry Jerrod.

We put it together on myregistry.com. When you go onto the site click on the welcome page tab. Once on that page click on view registry at the top. it will show you everything we have asked for-just like a regular registry. The only difference is, is that they are things from tons of different stores! It makes it easy for us to find exactly what we wanted and not be confined to one specific store. This is the part i love...if you find something you want to buy, you click buy next to it. You are not confined to buy the object from that store! If you think you can buy it cheaper, or you want to get it from a local store you can! When you click the buy button it will come up with options such as 'I purchased this item from the website' 'I purchased this item from a different store' or 'I bought this item already from in a store-not online'. Anyways, it's VERY easy and real convenient and very self explanatory. :-)
The website it :
http://www.myregistry.com/public/Erin-Johnson-Jerrod-Smith

Some other things we could use are gift cards. The local stores where we will be living are:
*Target
*Wal Mart
*TJ Maxx
*Bed Bath & Beyond

center piece success

Well, me and my mom went out today hoping to come across just what i want for center pieces...we went around all of Brunswick and Bath and finally found something that i think will come out wonderful. I'm really excited and we have some great ideas as to what to do with them :-) It's so much easier to plan this wedding now that I'm doing it a way that i love!
I found some dishes that i LOVE into TJ Maxx today... so i went online to check them out and maybe put them on the registry but come to find out they are a discontinued style so it's real hard to find them...I'm so bummed because i fell in love with them!
On that note, the registry is almost complete and hopefully will have it posted by next week. It's kind of a relief for me to have that done.

new everything!

Well...after some long and hard thinking we have decided to change the wedding a bit. Today i returned all of the center pieces i had originally purchased as well as table runners, card box, invitations and a few other things. I have decided to go in a whole new direction. Colors are staying the same and the groom is staying the same, so that's what is important! Needless to say i am HAPPY. In fact i am ecstatic with my decision to change things. I am finding it easier to make decisions and plan when it is something that i really truly love :-)

My dress came in while i was in Arizona so i also went to Lewiston to have my first fitting. It was the first time i tried everything on together. I have to be careful about what i say because Jerrod has been trying to get out of me details of the dress...so far iv been good and he only knows it's white...haha :-)