the course of a lifetime

I need to be more clear...

The bachelorette party will be in Great Falls on the 12th, the wedding at Flathead Lake on the 14th, and the reception in Great Falls on the 15th. We should all be sufficiently exhausted by the end of the weekend.

posted by Amanda and Bernie @ 3:26 AM 0 comments

We spent the weekend in Missoula for my birthday. I managed to only get drunk on Friday night and then be semi-hung over on Saturday. We mostly just relaxed, ate, and shopped. Amy and I went dress shopping in Hamilton of all places, and I actually found a dress! I felt silly in every dress until I put this one on:

http://www.alfredangelo.com/index.cfm/fuseAction/COLLECTIONS.productDetail/fromAdvancedSearch/0/productID/cd360f5e-646a-4d54-ae8c-36eaedd52a9d/categoryID/32e5a88c-cbf1-498f-afcf-dbfca138c5d3
That address will be really long, but it shoud work.

It screamed "Amanda" all the way. So I ordered it in ivory and it will be in during the next three months. I have to say that it's a load off of my mind...only to be replaced by many other plans needing to be made. Bernie and I went out downtown on Friday and we ate at Finn and Porter on Saturday night. We wen out again with Amy and my cousin Denise that night. I told Denise the only joke I know at the moment:

"Did you hear that Ellen Degeneres died?"

"NO!?"
"Yeah, she was found face down in Rikki Lake."

Denise and I laughed so hard and for so long, I couldn't breathe for a couple of minutes. I thought the joke was moderately funny, but she was drunk enough to think it was the funniest thing ever.

New wedding date news: The reception will still be on July 15th, but the wedding is going to be on the 14th somewhere on Flathead lake. Whenever I imagined myself getting married, it was always on the lake...not in a hotel. When we send out the invitations, everyone will be invited, but I imagine not as many people will show. If any of you ladies want to come for the bachelorette party, we are probobly going to have it on Wednesday the 12th to avoid getting married while hung over. Hopefully this change won't ruin anyone's plans to atttend.

posted by Amanda and Bernie @ 2:49 AM 5 comments

I tried on wedding dresses last weekend with Melanie and another friend of mine, Melinda. We spent well about 3 hours in 2 different shopt and came away with nothing. People seem to love the frilly, six foot train dresses, but they are just not for me. I never imagined myself in a princess dress...I played in the mud my whole childhood and a fairy-tale wedding was never part of my imagination. I just looked silly in most of them. There were a couple with certain things I liked about them, but my mom took all the excitement out of that. She did not want to watch me try on a thousand dresses I hated, but rather wanted to come when I found a few I liked. She came near the end and told me that she did not like any of them because they were strapless. Apparently Miss Manners (yes, the newspaper columnist) doesn't like sleeveless without long white gloves. I don't know if any of you have seen a bridal magazine lately, but I see lots of sleeveless dresses and no long white gloves anywhere! Mom won't be helping out with that anymore. Bernie and I are going to Missoula for my birthday and I already have two appointments to try them on there. Amy should have much better taste than my Miss Manners-obsessed mother.

In other wedding-related news: save the date for July 15th. In fact, you better save the whole weekend because it is going to be a huge party. We are probobly going to have the ceremony at Ryan Dam and the reception is already planned at the Heritage Inn. I think we are going to have a sit-down served dinner with three entree choices and a couple of kegs. No open bar though...people can pay to get themselves drunk. No escuses for drunk driving either due to the fact we will be in a hotel. There will be a block of rooms reserved for anyone who wants to make life simple and crash there. I'm also thinking a quartet at the ceremony, and of course some sort of DJ at the reception. There really is a ton of decisions to make, and at this point, I have way too much time to think about options and change my mind six thousand times.

We're all moved into our new house, and I am actually impressed with my ability to keep it clean. I'm acutally on a cleaning schedule (I think this might have something to do with living with Kristen). Anyone who saw my room at my dad's house can attest to the pigsty in which I used to live.

Bernie is going to North Dakota tomorrow for 5 days to go pheasant hunting. He's taking Hailey to teach her how to be a good hunting dog. She should be pretty good at it if the ease with which she has trained to this point continues. She still has a lot of puppy in her, but she sits, stays, lays down, rolls over, holds treats on her nose until told to take them, and the jumping is much less. She will even sit and not eat her food until one of us tells her too. All in all, she's a really good dog, but we've been strict and very consistent with her. She still has not set foot inside the house and has never tasted anything but dog food.

posted by Amanda and Bernie @ 12:57 AM 4 comments