Well, if you haven’t noticed, the blog totally crashed for a while…and the design was lost.  Benn has been working non-stop on the new blog design.  I can’t wait for him to finish it up, I think it looks much better than the previous one, as much as I loved it.  What happened was he tried to update the blog and sometimes if you don’t do all of the recommended updates in order when it tells you to update…it fails.  That’s probably my bad.  But, the good thing is the new one is almost done!  We will be doing our RSVPs online, so he’s gotta get that working too.  Just wanted to let you know that I haven’t given up on the blog, we’re just working on the new one and it will be up ASAP!!

Hope you’re all doing well!

Mindy

So Benn and I met with Giti from Confection on Tuesday to talk about our cake and taste their flavors!  We chose four flavors; vanilla, chocolate mint, peach bellini, and honey maple carrot.  We didn’t get to try the peach bellini because the peaches aren’t very good right now.  In place of the peach, she brought us honey lavender cake to try.  They were all very good!  The cake was of a thicker consistency, but it was still moist.  The chocolate cake was also thick and moist!  I think Benn and I would disagree as to the order of our favorite flavors, but in general, we liked the vanilla, chocolate mint, and carrot cake.  The honey lavender was really sweet.  The cake had lavender in it and it definitely had a flowery taste.

We talked about the kind of cake we want…which was hard because we hadn’t really decided what we liked.  I showed pictures of the cakes I had looked at and liked, but we had to narrow it down to our top three together.  We decided we liked ribbon on the bottom of each layer with a cascade of flowers.  Giti priced it out for us, and including delivery and set up, it would be $700.

We want to taste cake at Boonzaaijer’s because their prices might be a little better.

Overall, we were very happy with Confection, and Giti was very friendly, and I think she could bake us a delicious wedding cake!

About the bridesmaid dresses and my dress…instead of driving out to Quincy a few more times, I just picked up the dresses and we’re going to have them altered in Kalamazoo along with my dress.

Thanks for reading!

Mindy

Well, it’s Wednesday and Benn and I got back to Grand Rapids yesterday after spending the weekend in Mattawan, and we’ll be back there Monday again! I’ll explain, don’t worry. But first, yesterday Benn, Mom, Dave and I went to The Fountains to check it out again and get some questions answered.  When I walked in I noticed that they used to have three windows on one wall that are no longer there.  Jennifer, from The Fountains, said people kept saying that they would have liked it darker in the building, so they decided to take out the windows and just put up a wall where they used to be.  I’m happy about that because we’re thinking about putting some Eiffel Tower vases in front of the windows, and I was worried about spacing, since the ledge continued on a wall with no windows.  Anyway, I’m not worried about that anymore.  Jennifer gave us a lot of ideas about what to do with those Eiffel Tower vases.  Benn really liked one of her ideas, which was spray painted sticks in vases with lights.  That could look very cool!  I brought a centerpiece vase and candles we’d been experimenting with to see what it looked like with a mirror.  I don’t think the small candles will be able to sit on the mirror; it looks too claustrophobic.  It was definitely nice to go in again to get a better idea of things.  We were able to get more information as to what would happen if it rains.  If it does rain, I know it will still be beautiful!

So, next Monday, Katie, Mom and I are going back to Quincy to Patty’s Bridal so that Katie can get fitted for her dress.  Patty’s allowing me to bring in my wedding dress to see if they can alter it to fit me.  I’m hoping they can!  They mentioned that not all dresses can be altered…so I’m kind of nervous.  I’m pretty sure we’ll be spending more on the alterations than the dress itself!  I spent $207 on the dress!  I don’t remember if I mentioned this before, but I found the dress at Bridal Creations, which used to be in Kalamazoo, but then it moved down the road to Paw Paw.  I bought every prom and formal dress from that shop (except for one) and I of course went to the dances with Benn, so it felt right going there for my wedding dress!  Unfortunately for the shop, but fortunately for me, they were going out of business and had a 75% off everything sale.  The dress was the second one I put on and it was my favorite!  The other dresses were pretty, but I definitely fell in love with this one and it was cheap!  So, hopefully they’ll be able to alter it!

Then Tuesday, we have a cake tasting scheduled with Giti from My Confection.  I have a Kalamazoo Bride magazine and one of their cakes is featured on the front of the magazine! (The first cake is the cake featured on the cover of the issue I have.)  They were originally based in Richland, but they’re moving to Kalamazoo!  Benn and I have to pick four flavors we want to taste, and man do their flavors look delicious! (Just scroll down if you click on the link.)  I’m so excited!

I’ll let you know how all of that goes!

Oh, I went to the chiropractor today and Dr. Gillis went over the last scan of my back, and my back looks soooo much straighter!  I’m really happy with the results.  We’re at the maintenance stage, so now I’m only going in once every two weeks, but I can go in of course if it gets screwed up.  Last Friday it was so bad I could hardly open a door.  Benn and I were helping my friend move, and it was fine in the morning, but by about 2pm I could hardly move my neck.  Even if I wanted to get my neck fixed, I couldn’t have because the office is only open until noon.  Once Benn and I got back home to the apartment I just laid down and cried.  Not fun.  I used a heating pad the rest of the night once we got to Mattawan.  It helped quite a bit, but I could’ve used an adjustment and a massage and a hot tub…and about a half hour on a roller.  I’m feeling much better after my adjustment today.  He recommended ice…it’s still pretty tight today, but it’s way better than Friday.

Hopefully today Benn and I can work on Save-the-Dates today!

Thanks for reading!

Mindy