Bridesmaid dresses, coin bearer, and church update

Went shopping with 3 of my 4 bridemaids (Rachel, Michelle, & Ellen... my 4th is a grad student in Chicago, Sarah) a little over a week ago. Figured we might as well go while they've got brown dresses on the rack versus waiting 'til spring when it would be all pastel stuff. We hit a couple of stores... Ann Taylor, Macy's Bridal Salon, Tommy Hilfiger, and Nordstrom. Initially, I had envisioned strapless, brown, tea length dresses... My sister and cousin didn't want strapless and preferred halter. So, we focused on the cocktail/tea length dresses at first with a few long gowns thrown in. We searched and searched... then ended at Nordstrom's, where we found THEIR dress. Long and strapless... go figure we'd go with something that we weren't originally thinking ;-) Don't get me wrong, it's a gorgeous dress and definitely could be rewearable, even shortened as the dress does come in a shorter style. All I know is that it will complement my dress well and we stuck to the chocolate brown color :-)

This weekend, I FINALLY asked my coin bearer to be in the wedding. He had just woken up from a nap, but was coherent enough to say yes! My ring bearer also re-emphasized that he would be carrying our rings as we watched a cousin exchange rings at the altar ;-) Kids, gotta love them.

Chris heard from the CCM Chapel lady this morning and W&M Athletic department won't give an affirmative answer yet regarding the Fall 2007 schedule. There's still a tentative game the night before our wedding date, which is all and good since that means we could still get married at CCM that Saturday. The CCM lady still recommended moving our wedding date and Chris politely told her that was not an option. So, looks like we'll have to wait until early December to find out. Our tentative guest list is well over 200 and with Wren's max capacity at 120... it will make things challenging. Keep your fingers crossed and say a prayer for us!