100 day countdown!

Today marks the 100 day countdown until our wedding day!

For the past two days I have been working on my sugar cubes. I think that they will be really cute at the dinner being served with the coffee and tea. I made about 300, which should be plenty for the estimated 70 people at the dinner. I actually thought they would be harder to make, but they turned out to be super easy and really cheap. I made teal, pink, and purple, all sort of pastel. I think that they came out pretty well!

And... in more good news.... We have completely booked everything for our honeymoon! We are officially going to the Big Island of Hawaii for 8 days. We have the plane tickets, the car, and the condo. I'm so excited! Yes, it is true that I had always wanted to go to Fiji or Australia for my honeymoon, but lets face it, things are expensive so Hawaii is what it is! I have been to Oahu before and I really like it. The weather is always nice, there is hiking, swimming, waterfalls, scuba diving, national parks, and basically a great variety of things to do. Plus, its not a place where you have to fear for your life if you step foot outside of the hotel grounds....if you know what I mean. We love to travel, so this will be great for us. I just hate the people who are like "Oh, your going to Hawaii? That is so boring, why don't you go someplace more exciting? Everyone goes to Hawaii." I just want to strangle their necks! Things are expensive people! And I like Hawaii! So what is wrong with that?? I'm happy and Joseph is happy so that is all that matters. My family is excited for us too, so that makes me feel better. Here is the place that we are staying:

http://www.shellhospitality.com/hotels/holua_resort/reservations.html The colors are a little crazy, but tripadvisor rates it #1 out of 25 in the area. Its perfect because it is cheaper than a hotel, has a nice king size bed, plus a full kitchen so we can cook breakfast and save a little money, plus its private. Its like a timeshare condo that lets you pay per night. We spent a lot of time looking at vrbo.com, but this just turned out to be better and at least you know what you are getting. We even got a discount rate for not having the maids clean everyday (but they still will take out the trash and give us new towels), I don't need someone cleaning everyday. Its going to be a lot of fun. We rented the economy car, but maybe someone will upgrade us to the convertible as a gift, I wouldn't complain....

Wedding Registry and Table Numbers!

Today Joseph and I were able to go out the the mall and do our wedding registry! We went to Macy's first, had a good time with the scanner :) We put a lot of things on the list that we may not get, but it doesn't hurt to have them on there anyway. At Macy's we got our everyday dishes, our fine china, pots and pans, bedding, and towels. After Macy's, we were contemplating another place to use for our registry. At first I thought we would use Pottery Barn, but after a quick walk through their store, we decided that there was nothing really special we wanted from them. As we were driving, we came across Crate & Barrel. I had never been in there before, so we decided to go inside. I was surprised! They had a lot of nice things and we decided to use them for our second registry. I had never thought that I would register at Crate & Barrel, so it is nice to have a surprise every now and again. We got our silverware, glasses, trays, dessert dishes, and some other things at C&B. Both places gave us nice gifts. Joseph says that we should just register at several places and get their free gifts but not use them for our realregistry. Such a nice, but selfish, idea. I couldn't take their free things... nice thought though.

Later, we went down to Georgetown to Paper Source so I could get the supplies that I needed to make the table numbers. I got the table tents, the colored post cards to print on, glue dots, and both types of ribbon. Everything came out to about $30 and it only took an hour to put everything together! I like it, now I just have to store it for a few months. :)