Jamie and Mengmeng

Well, wedding plans have been mostly put on hold for the last few months (other than getting the cakes and the invitations, we haven’t done anything, yikes!) because Mengmeng and I were looking at houses.  We finally found our dream house, and we bought it last week!  So you know what time it is… picture time!

We’re going to paint a few of the rooms (dining, bath, guest bed), so not all the room colors will be staying the same, but these pictures should still give you a pretty good idea of what it’s like. 

Well, we went with The Cake Guys after all.  So we have both cakes ordered!  Mine is white with little red blossoms on it, 4 tiers (one will be fake, though), and his is going to be Serenity themed.  Yay!

Meanwhile, we’ve ordered the invitations. There are a few things on them left to finalize (for instance, they print your return address on the back of the envelopes, but we want to close on the house before we give them the go ahead), but the hard work’s done.  Well, until we get them and have to fix them all and mail them, lol!

The wedding venue will be the historic YWCA building and the date will be January 16th, 2010.  Mark your calendars!  \o/

And here, as promised, are the pictures of the upstairs room where the reception will be held if we choose the YWCA as our venue.  All the tables and chairs you see in the pictures are provided with the facility rental, but we have to provide our own table linens and other decorations.

We visted the YWCA and really liked it.  We have our date saved for a week (for free!) while we think it over, but come next Sunday we will have to make our official decision.  So exciting!  (And also scary!)

Grant (the boyfriend of Angela; she’s one of my bridesmaids) took some pictures for the blog while we were there.  Here are some of the highlights.

Next up, the upstairs room where we’d have the reception! 

Like the title says, the last batch (for now).  These are from the photo shoot we did on the one-year anniversary of our first date.  Yay! 

Even more pictures… fun! 

Just updating the gallery with more pictures of us.

We’re going to visit the YWCA on Sunday, so that should be fun.  I’ll see if they let me take pictures for the blog.

Also, we have an appointment in early January with a baker to see if we like their stuff enough to have them do the cakes.  Check it out!

http://thecakeguys.com/

Mengmeng found their site.  I told him that he just liked them because of this cake, lol.  ;-P

Still, I liked what they had to say on their FAQ, they have some lovely pictures, and it never hurts to look, right?

Well, we’ve started the painstaking (but exciting!) process of looking into venues.  Our first stop?  The historic YWCA building in downtown Fort Worth.

Some pictures…

We’re going to check it out (possibly) next weekend, which should be fun. We’re still figuring out our wedding budget, so I don’t know if we can afford it or not, but it’s sort of my dream place. A friend had their reception there before, and it was lovely.

Cross your fingers for us!