ONE MONTH LEFT!!!!

Holy banana bread! Four more weeks until our wedding day!!!! The last couple of months completely flew by. We are definitely on track as far as wedding planning is concerned. All we really have left to do is finalize the seating chart; we are still waiting on a few RSVPs. After we finalize the seating chart, we can start making the place cards, yippie!

Lets see, oh yes our friends Sean and Brandy have a boxer named Dolly and she just had puppies! They are giving us one as a wedding present and we might be getting another one as well, we have yet to decide. Here are a few pictures they sent us.



Aren't they so cute?!

I have my final dress fitting next Friday the 7th, lets hope I still fit into my dress haha. And this past Friday I went in for my trial make-up appointment with Ava and Lauren. We had a lot of fun, and I looooved my make-up, and we are set for my appointment on the day of the wedding.

We now have to pick out our songs and get the sheet music for the piano songs we choose, other than that I really don’t know what else I have left to do…hmm…

Hotel Reservations

Hey guys,

Ramsey just informed me that if you book your hotel room through the Virginian Suites website the price for the rooms is only $76, plus tax, instead of the $109 price they gave us for our wedding block.

Please go here https://reservations.synxis.com/LBE/rez.aspx?Hotel=10082&Chain=5130 and reserve your rooms. Let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks Ramsey!

updatessss

Sorry it has been a while since the last update, we have been super busy. The week after the bridal shower we left to go to Lake Geneva/Chicago with Erik’s family. We had a wonderfully relaxing week, thank you to Aunt Sue and Uncle Kevin for their hospitality. We had so much fun it was sad to come back, but it had to be done!

As soon as we returned to Virginia I was back in the swing of wedding planning. One of the first things I did was order our wedding cake, and let me tell you this cake is going to be one to remember. The only setback with the cake is that we have to arrange for someone to pick it up the day of the wedding. We have 180 people coming to the wedding surely someone will be able to go pick up the cake right??

I do not know what time the rehearsal is going to be but the rehearsal dinner is going to be at Fort Hunt Park in Alexandria at 3pm. This park is right near the GW parkway and overlooks the Potomac River. It should be a really nice setting for a sweet summer BBQ! Depending on the church we will either be having the rehearsal before the BBQ at around noon or after, let’s say around 6. I will post all the details about the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner/BBQ when I get confirmation from the church.

I had my trial hair appointment this past Saturday and I loved it. Now to find a make-up artist who will come to the church, that is the key. I have also started some preliminary seating charts for the reception, if you have any special requests please let me know and I will do my best to accommodate them.

YAY.. only 44 more days!!!!!

Bridal Shower!

This past Saturday was my bridal shower!! My mom and Bethany’s mom did an AMAZING job. The food was wonderful and the house was so adorably decorated. Ava had to go to her soccer reefing gig that morning, so Erik and I went to home depot and picked out the rest of the lights in our house. We will install those after our AC is fixed. Which, on a side note, is getting fixed tomorrow morning!!!! After we picked Ava up we went to my mommy’s house and I drove back to our house with my other car, leaving Erik and Ava with my beamer. When they got to our house, Ava said go look at your car, and I was like why, what happened. And Erik said “nothing I just washed it for you, I couldn’t let you go to your shower with a dirty car.” He is the sweetest!

At the shower I got some pretty amazing presents and we had such a great time, just chatting it up. Here are a few pictures from the shower.

They made me wear this thing on my head haha.

oh yes, the RSVPs are due back next tuesday so send them out! Also make sure you book your hotel rooms (Sorry, I am starting to sound like a broken record haha)

Housewarming Party!

This past Saturday we had our housewarming party. It was soo much fun! Thank you to everyone for the gifts, the wine, food and most importantly the company. The weather held out nicely, and thank goodness for that because we could not have fit everyone in our non- air conditioned house, haha. AND thank you to everyone who helped get our house ready for the party, you know who you are! Here are a few pictures from the party, I put the rest of them on facebook and later this week I will post a link on here.

Our first trip to Costco

Before the Party

During the Party

This coming Saturday is my bridal shower! Bethany and her mom are throwing it, well Bethany will be in Florida but she is technically the hostess of the event. I am super excited.

We are starting to get some RSVPs back! There is one I got that does not have a name on it. All it says on the inside is will attend 2 +1 child. If someone can claim this it would be wonderful! I was not informed by a certain someone, to number the RSVPs in case this happens so we have to do a little process of elimination. Also don’t forget to make your hotel reservations! YIPPIE 74 more days (but who is counting)!

Updates galore!

Sooo many things to say! First off if this is your first time viewing our blog Welcome! We have been using this blog to keep everyone informed about the events in our lives for the past year. Only 80 days until the BIG DAY!!

This Friday my mom and I are going for my first official dress fitting and I still have not gotten my shoes! I will be frantically looking for shoes for the next 3 days. We moved into our house this weekend (finally after almost 7 months!) and we have been super busy moving, unpacking and cleaning. Our housewarming party is this Saturday and we still have tons of things to do! I will post pictures of the rooms in our house after this weekend.

I also just checked with the hotel and only 6 rooms have been booked. Please book you rooms soon so we can add more rooms to the block. The hotel is called Virginian Suites and it is literally a block away from Top of the Town (our reception venue). Please call 703-522-9600 and ask for the Hassas/Seubert wedding block, you have until July 31 then the prices go up.

We had our first strawberries from our garden, they were not sweet at all, haha, but they were fresh and pretty delicious.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from our engagement shoot. You can find the information to view the rest of them in the blog entry before this one.

INVITATIONS MAILED!

YIPPIE! I mailed most of the invitations out today. There are a few I still have to finalize mailing addresses and print the envelopes out but 95% of them are on their way! Please RSVP as soon as you can! Also when you go to write on the shiny brown paper you can use a black felt tip pen, if you don’t have one of those play around with a few pens to see what works. I hope everyone can find some sort of writing utensil that shows up on the paper, I apologize if you have difficulty.

In other news, our engagement pictures are up! Click here http://www.peredaphotography.com/pickpic/gallery/jump.php and select our album. The password is hassas (all lowercase). Let me know what you guys think! I have to see which ones I want to order. I might end up asking them to make an album of the ones we like.

Enjoy! And don’t forget to RSVP by June 30 (sooner if you can)

FINALLY DONE!

…well most of it is complete. We have a few finishing touches to make but we will do that after we move in. Our kitchen turned out even better than we had ever imagined! I won’t put pictures up here yet, we want everyone to be surprised when they come see it in person, but if you want to see a picture of it I will email them to you.

The granite was installed flawlessly on Friday! Hyojon and Jan also came over on Friday and installed the last cabinet above the fridge as well as the two panels surrounding the fridge. It was a nice birthday present for Erik. Thanks guys!

Erik had to work alllll day Saturday, which really sucked but the appliances and backsplash were installed while he was at work. On Sunday, we painted the ceiling, some door and window trim, and mowed the lawn. During the week, Ross is going to come and install an outlet for the stove and fix our faucet valve. Once he does that we can finish off the back side of the breakfast bar. Then we have to put on the handles for the cabinets.

We are planning on having our housewarming party with our friends on June 13! We are so totally excited for it!

Wedding news, we are starting the invitation assembly process. I plan on mailing the invitations out either tomorrow or Wednesday. YIPPIE!

Engagement picture montage on Facebook!

Quick little note, our photographer has posted a video montage of some of our engagement photos. It is only available on facebook so I apologize if you do not have access but hopefully most of you know someone who does have facebook. You can find the video on my personal profile. We should be able to view the pictures on the photographer’s website soon, I will update with the information when they are posted!

Enjoy!

MAJOR disappointment!

If you haven’t heard already, our granite was scheduled to be installed this past Friday. Well I took a half day at work and got there around noon. They starting bringing in the granite pieces and after about an hour and a half they brought in the longest piece. Everything was going well until I noticed they were installing a 4’’ backsplash. I texted Erik and he immediately called me and said they aren’t supposed to put in a granite backsplash (we had specifically asked not to have one). So I told the installers we didn’t want the backsplash and he told me if they didn’t put it in we would have about a half an inch gap between the wall and the edge of the granite. I knew something was wrong, so again I called Erik and he was luckily able to leave work and come take charge. We called Saeed Joon and he also came over and both he and Erik agreed that they had completely botched the cuts in the granite. Long story short, they had measured it correctly and drawn it out, but when the granite was sent to be cut they had cut it an inch too short (idiots). Saeed Joon yelled at them and told them they had to do it again and do it correctly this time. So we are going to try again this Friday (hopefully, maybe sooner).

Needless to say Erik and I were both very very disappointed. We have to push everything back another weekend. The backsplash also could not be installed because we have to wait for the granite to go in, same deal with the appliances. Ugh!

We had a very nice Memorial Day weekend. We went to three BBQs, very yummy but we ate waaay too much. We attempted to play golf yesterday but as soon as we started it starting pouring down rain and we had to get rainchecks. This worked out to our advantage because we got a free 9 holes of golf!

We didn’t get anything done on the house or with the wedding; it was a weekend of eating. I think I am going to have to bring the wedding invitations to work and fold and stuff them during my lunch all week, I am going to try and mail them out on Friday!! Oh yea and we might be getting a puppy in four months, maybe even two puppies!! Our friends own a boxer and they think she might be pregnant, (keep your fingers crossed)