Thoughts on the voting:

So, the voting on the dress and tux is over and we’re thrilled with the results! How much fun was that??! What a non-traditional and unique way of choosing some of the most special parts of our day. The dress is so beautiful! Really you have to see it in person! I am so very excited for the 16^th of July when I slip that dress on and get ready to walk down that isle! Thank you so much to Lisa and Grace for the gorgeous wedding dress!
Also, I can’t wait to see Tyler in his tux! But really we all know it’s more about the dress. LOL Thank you so much to Lafferty’s for accommodating Tyler’s proportions for his tuxedo. We know he’ll look devastatingly handsome in it. :) Well at least I think he will.
The voting for my bouquet also started today! WOW! Live, Love & Laugh has really outdone themselves. These arrangements are among the most beautiful I have seen. I had the pleasure of seeing the bouquets right after they had been photographed for the site and they smell just as wonderful as they look! So let the bouquet voting commence.... :)

Amazing day! First thing this morning we went to Sears’ Portrait Studio and picked up our engagement photos! They turned out wonderfully, just like we knew they would! Thank you so much to Stephanie from Sears’ Portrait Studio for taking such beautiful photos of us, we are so happy with them and have already started passing them out to friends and family.

Next we were on our way to meet with Jennifer from Sears’ to start our gift registry! She was so great with us and somehow we managed to spend a little over two hours just in the dinnerware and kitchenware section! *wipes her brow* Who knew there was so many things that we absolutely HAD TO HAVE! Haha

To top off our day at the Quinte Mall we went to Lafferty’s to fit Tyler for his tux, dragging in tow, one of my bridesmaids, Theresa and Tyler’s bestman, Jordan. Ty tried on a few suits to get the right fit…. Finally deciding that he needed a 44 LONG! The crew at Lafferty’s was very accomodating however and said it wasn’t a problem at all tailoring a few extra inches of material for my overly tall fiancee. I can’t wait until July so I can see him in his tux!! Tall, dark and very handsome!! Happy voting folks!! J

Wow! We are so grateful to have won this - we’re still in a state of shock!

With a prize such as this, one really thinks to themselves "what are the odds we’ll win" when filling out a ballot, yet here we are in the middle of telling everyone the progress, and showing them potential wedding plans for them to vote on. We’ve been very busy working out many plans already, and it’s almost as if we’re both waiting to wake up from this wonderful dream! We’ve pinched eachother many times to test, but we sure are awake and it really is happening!

As some of you may have heard, we had the awesome opportunity of meeting some of the crew from behind the scenes of Mix 97 and Rock 107. We were greeted by many staff from Quinte Broadcasting as well as Quinte Mall, and even Greg Sheridan of Sans Souci. They welcomed us with an amazing bouquet of flowers, a digital camera for documenting the journey, a goodie bag from The Body Shop, and our 6-month Goodlife Fitness memberships. As if that wasn’t enough, we had amazing vocalist Sean Jones serenade us with a beautiful love song, live!

After we had shared our morning with Quinte Broadcasting we went to Sears’ Portrait Studio and met with Stephanie where we were able to have engagement photos done! They turned out absolutely perfect! Stephanie worked with us to find amazing poses, and her experience has us anxiously awaiting those prints!

I’ve had an opportunity to start my Goodlife membership and it’s been great so far. It just so happens that one of my bridesmaids also has a membership there and it’s been a lot of fun having "girls nights" at the gym! Tyler hasn’t had the chance to pop in yet as we’ve been busy moving and he’s been the one doing all of the hard stuff. He’s good like that.