dressing.

So the bridesmaid dresses finally came in!! I was a little worried about them. In my mind I pictured a very dark shimmery pewter. I got a dress in "vintage silver" which sounds exactly right!! and the LITTLE TINY rectangle of fabric looked just perfect, too.

I picked them up yesterday. I guess they are ok. They aren't very dark. And the shoes I had all the girls get are BRIGHT PINK. They look awesome alone but after seeing them with the dress...meh... I just think one of the two should've been darker. I was hoping the dresses would look very J. Kennedy. But this particular color in the huge size they sent Madison... it was just dowdy looking. So. Cross your fingers for after they get altered... Sigh...

HOWEVER. The men are going to look super dashing. Hot pink ties. Oh yes. The funny thing is, I didn't pick pink. In the start of this, I wanted the colors to be the silver-ish with pink AND green (now everything is pewter and pink). Tommy and I were trying to figure out how to afternoonize/casualize the tuxes for the guys. He called up one night and here's how our conversation went...

T: So I thought of a good way to make the tuxes less formal
M: Oh good! What were you thinking??
T: We could have a colored vest instead of the black
M: Oh... so like... Silver?
T: Um I was thinking more of a color color... What color would look good with what we have?
M: Well, since everything's pink and green... I guess we could do green? That's more of the manly color...
T: Oo that will be a lot of green...
M: So I guess... the pink would be the other option?
T: Yes, yes I think pink would be good.

See?! The guys should not blame me. But the good thing is.... Tommy looks really good in pink.

learning. and one small fail.

This past weekend, we made the trek to the booming metropolis of Yazoo City, Mississippi. Tommy's parents have a very good friend lose his mom. So the whole family, including moi, the fiancé, went over to support him. But for me, it was the first time seeing where half of Tommy's family comes from.

The oldest Middletons in the family live in a house that was built in the 1890s. HOW SWEET. T's granddaddy took us on the grand tour, pointing out renovations that his mother had done to the house. I loved it. The BEST part was the 'upstairs'... which, if Grandmother asks, I have NOT seen! It is basically their attic that has been finished, but still has maybe a hundred years worth of keepsakes. We saw yearbooks from 1953, gorgeous fo-real rocking horses, AND there was this green suit of furniture... antique green furniture!! So amazing.

But it was crazy to see where Tommy and his family grew up and to see where stories I've heard actually took place. : mushy feelings :

ALSO.

I wanted to lose some weight the summer before my senior year of college. One of the lil strategies I used was to be generous. I.e. oh, you take the last cookie. no, let susie have the big slice of cake. Etc. So, after a week of vacation, I decided to get back into that Wedding Day Diet on the plane ride back. Served with the flight's meal was a KitKat bar. Being good, I gave it to the person sitting next to me. That night, driving with my sister to Memphis, I ate half a box of Thin Mints.

78 days. Revisit.

This is my second attempt to bring you a great intro to our new blog!

Tommy and I are getting married May 22nd in Huntsville, Al. We will scoot off to St. Lucia where we will spend 3 days in an open bungalow in the mountains overlooking the water. Here, we hope to avoid attacks by bugs...bats...natives?... and where we will pretend to be the outdoorsy type. The last 3 days will be spent recuperating from our pseudo-adventure in a good ol' resort by the sea. When we return to Huntsville, we'll jump in a moving van and head to Gainesville, FL! Here, Tommy has a job waiting at Shands HealthCare...which I recently learned has SEVEN hospitals (thank you google.) and is a premier health system etc etc. So that sounds good! I will be eagerly searching for a job at an elementary school, to actually use my Elem Edu degree, or anywhere else that will take me.

Hopefully, our long-distance friends and family will enjoy reading about our shenanigans and mishaps of newlywedded bliss... after we have survived the pre-wedding festivities...

78 days.

Welcome to our first blog!

I just accidentally deleted everything I wrote. Off to a GREAT start. I'm going to look for some shoes and will return to tell you about what this AMAZING blog will be about.

Love, Mallory