Wedding Gift for me!

As you already know Ian got his wedding present a few months ago when he pushed it out of me that I was going to buy him that amazing leather bag.

Since then he had been asking me what I wanted. I knew that I wanted something that I could have for the rest of our marriage and that I could use now as well as later on. I had a few ideas but none of them made me terribly excited so I kind of put a pin in the problem and figured I'd sort it out later.

Fast forward to the fantastic pre-wedding trip that Ian and I took. While wondering through one of the more expensive hotels we passed a Jimmy Choo store. I looked in longingly and Ian told me to go look around while he did something with his camera. So I walked in and immediately my mouth filled with saliva, it was a challenge not to drool. I love shoes. After wondering for a couple minutes Ian found me and told me to try something on and I refused sticking to the #1 rule of shopping: DON'T TRY IT ON IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT!

I told him this and he wouldn't relent - oh just try something on - oh just do it. Finally I was starting to get a bit annoyed and he said - what about this as a wedding present? I looked at him stupidly and said, "wha?" He repeated himself and I looked at him even more stupidly and said, "are you serious?" He told me he was and I got this giddy feeling in my stomach.

Immediately I started picking shoes to try on and I can honestly say it was almost as much fun as trying on wedding dresses (ALMOST). Ian was SO patient, he followed me around to at least 8 different stores where he watched as I tried on shoe after shoe after shoe. He even gave honest opinions when I asked for them and genuinely seemed interested. Best guy ever, right?!

Some of the stores I got to play in: Barney's Las Vegas, Jimmy Choo, Christian Louboutin, Manolo Blahnik, Versace, Louis Vuitton

After 2 straight days of trying on the most fabulous shoes I have ever seen I had it narrowed down to two and decided that I needed to sleep on it before making my final decision. Both of them were at the Manolo Blahnik store in the Wynn so Ian and I headed straight there on the morning we were due to fly out. They didn't open until 10am so we had a quick bite to eat and then high tailed it to the store. There were two other women in the shop, one was a very spoiled and I'm guessing hung over girl who was in jammies and slippers and the other looked to be in her thirties, somewhat spoiled and far more polite. The hung over girl in her slippers was trying to return a pair of shoes and the other woman like me was debating a purchase. We ended up waiting there for at least 1/2 and hour while the ever so patient sales man dealt with the stupid spoiled girl. Finally another sales person arrived and was able to assist me and I made my final decision. Ian brought out the trusty MasterCard while I gazed at my new shoes. I floated the rest of the way home that day.

Anyway here are the shoes that I bought:

Manolo Blahnik "Sedaraby" D'Orsay Pumps

Right after I bought my shoes - I was somewhat giddy

look how pretty!

Pretty, from another angle

Look at them sparkle!!

I wore them for the engagement shoot and made sure the photographer captured them - here are a couple shots that featured how amazing they are:

I also wore them for my convocation at UVic - my mom said I had the best shoes there that day. I agreed with her.
And before you ask - no they are not the shoes that I am going to be wearing on the wedding day. But I do have plans to wear them to the rehearsal.

18 days!!!

New Theme

With less then three weeks to go I thought it would be fun to change up the look of my blog!

The Count Down Is On

20 days to go.

That's really all - I'm getting somewhat nutty at this point. Just ask Ian.

Our Pre-Wedding Vacation

A few months ago Ian decided that we desperately needed a vacation and he really wanted to celebrate that I managed to finish my degree. So he put forward the idea of me (or us) going to Vegas for a few days. At first the idea was that I should go with a girlfriend or two to save on costs but within a few hours he had decided that he wanted to go. So that was that. We couldn't really afford the trip (up coming wedding and all) but we thought - what the heck? Who needs money anyway?

A few emails with his work travel agent later we were booked and excited.

We left on Friday May 6 after Ian got off work and flew through Seattle to arrive in Las Vegas around 11pm. We were tired - very tired but so excited to be there. Neither of us had ever ventured to Sin City before and we were so astounded at the size of everything there. Well at least I was.

We arrived at our hotel (The Luxor) and checked in without too much issue. The room we decided was ok - nothing to write home about. We would soon figure out that this was not a big deal because the total number hours spent in our room was very small.

The next morning I got up early, excited to be there and headed down to the pool for some sun and trashy magazines (my not-so-secret guilty pleasure). After an hour the sun got way to hot for pool sitting and I wanted to explore so I found Ian and off we went to explore the strip. I could go into detail but I don't really remember how everything went and I'm sure you aren't interested in a play-by-play. So instead here are a few highlights:

Fremont Street on Day 1

The strip on day 2

Ian's post gelato sillyness (a rare moment indeed)

Waiting for O to start (Aww) - ps: this was UNBELIEVABLE! Just sayin

Me and my new best friend

Treat for Ian

Treat for Jen

Ian in the Venetian

Fantastic dinner at the Bellagio hotel on the last evening :(

Our last meal in Vegas

more to come about this :)

24 days to go!

My guest book arrived!

If you haven't already discovered the genius that is Groupon, I suggest you do so. Here is why:

I was trying to decide what I wanted in the way of a guest book when the perfect solution arrived in my email inbox one morning. Mixbook had a groupon for $50.00 photo book for $20.00 - SOLD!

I immediately bought it and started on the book knowing that Ian would be behind me (any way to save $ these days he's very happy with). It didn't take long for me to piece together my dream guest book, I sent it off to my parents and Ian for editing (ie - making sure I didn't spell anything wrong) and within 48 hours it was ordered.

A few weeks later a package arrived and I was so excited I could barely contain myself - yes I was that excited about a guest book. Make fun if you must.

Honestly I don't think I could be more happy with it -it's personal and fun and fits me and Ian perfectly. You'll have to wait for the wedding day to see it (sorry) but at least that wedding day isn't too far away now.

32 days to go!