Well Well Well

Spending the weekend at a hotel with 18 other couples and 2 presenting couples took a toll on our weekend. While we did learn a little about ourselves and our future (H. will say he already knew everything), it seemed as though the weekend could have been condensed into one brutal, grueling day. Also, we're still trying to decide if we should call the Engaged Encounter people to see if we really do get $120 back, or if their brochure was out of date. I would have liked the weekend more if they had given us any control over the events at all. They said they weren't giving us an itinerary/agenda for a reason, but I can't figure out what that reason was. They would talk about a subject for half an hour, give us some questions to write answers to separately for fifteen minutes, then couples would join up and discuss their answers. Sometimes the questions were had a valid point, but sometimes the questions would repeat between lectures, or ask about how we were going to blend our stepchildren, or how we would blend our different faiths. I realize that they are trying to incorporate everyone, but it felt like if we didn't write for the whole 15 minutes, they thought we were slacking off. I would like to stress that the two couples who ran the weekend seem like nice people, but the weekend could have been organized better.

Tomorrow, H. and I will be driving up to a city called Surprise that houses the Rangers during their spring training. H. is obviously super excited about this trip, as The Ticket will be there, and we can meet both Rangers and radio personalities. The high for tomorrow is 81 degrees, although I hope it stays more along the lines of today's high (71 degrees).

This weekend is definitely something to look forward to! H.'s bros are going to check in on us and see how we're doing, and I'm really excited to cook for them (this will be the first time I've cooked for the brothers, mwahahaha!). I'm sure H. has a whole slew of things to do planned for the gang, but has he let me in on it? Nah, I'll just enjoy the surprise.

In my never-ending quest for flowers that I hope are cheap as bouquets, I've come across another picture that I really love. As much as I love the (what I also agree to be) sweet pea bouquet, if the flowers are very fragile I would be worried about how I'm carrying them and whatnot. Also, I have no idea what the bridesmaids would be carrying (green? white? other colors?). I think it would be best to go with a mixed bouquet, so that I have many many options when it comes to bridesmaid bouquets as well as boutonnieres, now that I think of it. So here's a picture of my newest inspiration:

 

This would be the bouquet I have, and then we could use the same flowers in other colors (or other flowers in the same colors) for the bridesmaids, and then the groomsmen can just have whatever looks the least girliest. Another color scheme I'm thinking about is this one:

 

I love love love the peachy colors. And maybe with a bouquet like (peach, pink, green, yellow) it will be easier to figure out what the other floral arrangements are going to be like. (I know, I'm crazy thinking this much about flowers. I should probably just talk to a florist already.)

I probably won't update until after the weekend, so see you then!