Busy Bees!

Since our last post, we have gotten so much accomplished! We have applied for our Passports (a very interesting which I will tell later in this post), gotten all of the envelopes addressed by the calligrapher, ordered attendents gifts, found wedding earrings, ordered wedding bands, booked hair and make-up for bride and bridesmaids, FINALLY agreed on a first dance song (which I will admit was the very first song Aaron mentioned months and months ago) and many other things! I don't have many photos to share, but I wanted to keep everyone involved in what is going on.

In the coming weeks, I look forward to getting all of the small details worked out. We are heading to Birmingham on Friday for a cake tasting and final food decisions at the Carraway Davie House. This is a day that I have been looking forward to for a LONG time. While Aaron could care less about the flavors of the cake (he doesn't eat desserts) I LOVE cake and pretty much sweets in general. I will be sure to post some photos from the cake tasting.

Back to the Passport story. I have been pretty anal about getting all of the proper documentation for the honeymoon, so I decided to fill out my passport application and head to the local post office to submit my application. Everyone knows what an ordeal the post office can be, but after about an hour, it was FINALLY taken care of. Mind you, I went while Aaron was at work because I was too anxious to wait for one of his off days so we could go together. On his next off day, we went back to the same post office to submit his passport application. It took just as long to go thought the ordeal as when I went to submit mine. When it came time to for Aaron to pay the Passport fees, the post office employee said "It will be $110". When I went, I was charged $80!!! I wrestled with speaking up about the difference in the fees, but decided to do the HONEST thing (which was really hard considering that $30 is a huge deal when you are unemployed and planning a wedding) but I thought Aaron was being overcharged. Turns out that the SAME post office employee charged me the Under 16 rate of $80 by mistake. Being the anal person that I can be, I immediately began to question him about whether this mistake would cause my application to be denied which would mean that we could not go on our honeymoon (or Aaron would have to go solo). It took ANOTHER hour for him to come up with a solution. His solution, "Call me on Thursday and I will have an answer as to what you need to do." I thought it was nuts cause I just wanted to send them the additional $30 and be done with it. When I called him on Thursday, he STILL had no solution and could tell that he had forgotten about my situation. Anyway, long story long, I am supposted to get a call from him on Monday and I bet my first paycheck that his solution will be to go ahead and send in an additional $30, which is exactly what I proposed in the first place. I will let you know how it goes...

I wanted to leave you with a random, but cute picture that I took on the day that our beautiful invitations arrived. Looks like Jackson and Griffey are excited about the wedding too!