The wonderful ladies over at 100 Layer Cake are ah-mazing! I read their blog daily and am stealing finding SOOOO many amazing ideas from the real weddings that they post and from of course, these wonderful ladies!

One idea I'm majorly in love with is for my bridesmaids to carry balloons instead of flowers. Um, heck yes!

(borrowed from this post on 100 Layer Cake)

I have always been a HUGE fan of balloons. It's probably the 80's child in me but I LOVE them. I even have a balloon charm on my charm bracelet, a tattoo planned that includes balloons (seriously, appointment's been made) and my favorite thing to do for birthdays is give balloons!

I have yet to tell my mom (an ex-florist) about this fabulous idea but I'm sure she'll love it. Or die of dissapoint. ha!

But as you can tell, I'm finally starting to get into this wedding planning thing. And I blame it all on 100 Layer Cake! :) ... I'm also down to a couple of venues but don't want to share too much because I think I jinx those things by talking about them. But I will definitely keep y'all posted!

And so it begins...

I love the crap out of Christmas but for once in my life, I am beyond glad it is DONE. I only feel that way because I get a lot of stress put on me by my mom and her side of the family. Even though they *act* like they aware of this fact, a lot of the time I feel that they don't realize Ronnie actually has a family too. So we had to spend time with my extended family on Christmas Eve, opened gifts on Christmas morning with my immediate family, then go to Ronnie's mom's in the afternoon, and then after that we had to go back to my Mom's cause she has her own party. Seriously? It was just too much. My family is tight knit and while I used to enjoy a lot of my time with them as a single girl, I have to move on as a (almost) married woman. Not that I completely want to get rid of them, but seriously - I'd like my own life now please! But try telling my Mom that - the queen of guilt trips.

Anywho, I know that's not the point of this blog but in saying that, I'm worried about all this wedding planning stuff with my mom. I dealt with her overbearing ways as a single girl, but I'm afraid now to completely let her in and help me with the planning. We've both dreamed of sharing that together but I just didn't think way back then, that our relationship would feel this strained at this point in my life. So yeah, lots of crazy emotions in my neck of the woods. I know I sound completely depressing but it really is stressing me out. I'm sure you may have not dealt with family like this but do you have ANY advice?

Thanks in advance to all you awesome girls! I hope your Holidays were wonderful :)