Saying yes to the dress?

I never imagined shopping for a wedding dress would be such an exciting experience. I think most little girls grow up having an idea of what their "dream dress" looks like, I was no such little girl. I really didn't even give it much thought, even AFTER I was engaged. I think it was Heather who one days say "yes! Now we get to go find you a dress!!". Oh ya, I guess I'll need one of those won't I?! It just somehow wasn't in the front of my mind. I was busy getting hold of my favorite photographer(shout out to Erin Hughes!) and deciding if we'd go with a DJ or live band.
But finally wedding dress shopping was upon me! So I made an appointment at Mon Amie in Costa Mesa. I wanted to have a special small family experience my first time trying on a wedding gown. So I took Mom, Mimi and Whitney to the Bridal salon for a memorable experience. I tried on what felt likes hundred dresses, but as soon as I tried on the first dress, I looked over at everyone and there was not a dry eye in the house. It was a really special moment.
After slipping into thousands and thousands of dollars worth of amazing fabrics there was one dress that stood out and everyone said it was "very Bryn" which I guess is important :) i really really felt great in this dress, it felt very me. Simple and comfortable. But it was scary for me to think that I had found "the dress" on my first trip. So i decided a trip to another bridal salon was in order...so on to store number two! But this time it was a trip for everyone to enjoy! I was able to have my bridesmaids(minus Courtney) as well as my wonderful future mother in law Sandy there to see what we could find! We headed to downtown Fullerton to The Dresser for round two. We had a similar theme in dresses this time around, with everyone choosing very similar styles and fabrics. Then mom comes out of left field with a style of dress I hadn't tried yet. And it was AMAZING. It had a very different feel, style, fabric, everything from the "very Bryn" dress we found at Mon Amie.
Having had two amazing experiences trying on wedding gowns I am completely, absolutely 100% stuck. Baffled. Confused. I don't know what to think, or which style dress will depict the feeling I am looking for for my Big Day.
Wish me luck, as I have to get this decision made SOON so I can get it in time for the wedding!

Trip to Tinga!

So after deciding that we would be having the wedding in Mom and Dad's backyard, calling my hairdresser and booking her, we had a few more major vendors to book. I knew the next would be right up Scott's alley, but mine...ehh, not so much....Booking the CATERING!! As you all know I am the self proclaimed "World's Pickiest Eater", and Scott will eat just about anything. So with that in mind I think we all knew right off the bat we wouldn't be serving, as George Banks described it best in Father of the Bride, "the chipper chicken", or really any "normal" wedding food for that matter. So off to the heart of LA we went to find some good, flavorful, MEXICAN FOOD!! Yup, that's right, Mexican food. Our favorite, and after having delicious Mexican food at a friends wedding I always had in the back of my mind that it would be perfect for us!

So we piled everyone in the car(because we don't do anything the easy way), Chris driving, Whit navigating, Rylee and Brady in the middle row, and me, Scott and Mom squished in the 3rd row. We were hungry and delirious and thankfully the kids slept most of the way, but about 1 hour and 45 minutes into the drive, Rylee pipes up from the second row "okay, we're FINALLY lost!!!" (we weren't but it was the longest trip ever!)It and it was at that moment we all spotted the Hollywood Sign and knew we had to be really close! 

After a lovely 2 hour drive into LA we finally found our destination down La Brea blvd and Our destination finally came into sight; a bright yellow restaurant called Tinga. We met with the caterer, who mom had worked with before and he was amazing!

He sat at our table and began ordering food left and right from his iPhone! He looked at me and asked what I wanted to try first, I looked at Scott and said "ask him!". So we got tacos of 3-4 different varieties and he made me a delicious goat cheese and black bean quesadilla.

The food was never ending and the fruity drinks were to die for.

By the end of our hour "meeting" there was not and inch of free space on our table. We sampled just about everything in the entire restaurant with Rylee giving her thumbs up and thumbs down. I kept expecting to hear from Scott and Chris to see what their take on the food was, but every time I looked their directions they were both too busy eating one thing or another. So needless to say the entire crazy 2 hour trip was a raging success and the caterer has been booked! So get ready for some tasty Mexican food and no dry chicken and veggies!!!

Welcome!! ...The Proposal

Welcome to my new Wedding Blog!  This has been such an exciting few weeks since Scott and I got engaged.  I will try my best to keep the blog updated with all the new info as the wedding planning gets into full swing!  But we can't start the Story of Us from there can we? Don't we need to start at the part of the story that GOT us to the wedding planning?! So here it is, here's how "The Proposal" went down, literally(there was a tackle involved, but I'll get to that part in a minute).    

It was a random Tuesday night, I had just come home from taking a Pilates class and got  snuggled up on the couch with Tucker.  Scott was trying really hard to persuade me to come into the office, and I was trying really hard to get him to come snuggle on the couch; good thing I gave in.  Scott sat me down at the computer, and he sat kneeled on the floor next to me(new house has minimal furniture! Gift registry anyone?!)and began playing a picture slide show, complete with cute music and pictures of the two of us over the past almost 7 years.  Now, I'm sure your all thinking that red flags went up at that moment, but Scott has made many slide shows like this over the years, so it wasn't completely out of the ordinary.  There were so many amazing, terrible, hilarious, precious and down right perfect pictures, we sat and laughed and reminisced and commented on the pictures.  I was so distracted I didn't even imagine what the last slide would be, then right there in front was a picture of the most amazingly beautiful ring I had every seen, and the words "Will you marry me?"  The next few moments are a COMPLETE blur, but what I do remember goes something like this.   I threw my arms around Scott before he could say anything or even get the actual ring out of his pocket, he pushed me back to say a few precious words and get the ring on my finger, and then I tackled him straight to the floor.  

So there ya have it! After dating on and off for "the last 20 or so years" as we like to joke, which is sort of technically true, we are officially ENGAGED! Woo Hoo!

Also check out our Wedding Website:  www.mywedding.com/scottandbrynsbigday