Planning for Vegas...

Well our plans didn't turn out like I thought they would...my sister is unable to go to Vegas so we won't be celebrating her 40th birthday...total bummer.  However, Don and decided to go anyways because we had been saving up and already requested the time off. 

In my last post, I mentioned that we were planning this trip a few months back and the entire trip was just for fun...but Don mentioned "hey while we are there we should just get married"  I blew it off at first because I didn't think he was serious and I wasn't sure how I felt about getting married again.  Then January rolled around and it was brought up again so I thought OK maybe Don and I should have a serious talk about this...well, the talk went well and we made it official - we were going to married in VEGAS (oh and on the same day we were married before Feb 17)!  Now those of you that know me...know getting married in Vegas is NOT my style, but I need to live a little so I decided what the heck and the planning began. 

I started looking online for chapels because I didn't want a cheesy Elvis chapel and little did I know that you really must plan to get married in Vegas if you want a good chapel and a certain time (what happened to just walking in and getting married?!).  I found a really nice chapel called Mon Bel Ami Chapel - they are going to pick us up at the hotel in a limo, drive us to the chapel and then drive us to BOA; an extremely nice restaurant located in Caesars Palace.  So I asked myself, what the heck should I wear?  I've never been married in Vegas before and all the pictures I saw on the chapel websites were fancy wedding gowns - yea...not gonna happen for me...been there done that!  My first thought was to wear a short white cocktail dress and I even found one that I ordered online, but when I tried it on...white was not my color.  So Missy, Jerry (Missy's friend and mine too) and I headed out for some shopping...we went to David's Bridal...BIG mistake because when we walked in there were loads of people...I mean LOADS (the Bridal show was in Columbus the weekend before)...we were greeted at the front and asked "how can I help you?"  I said, "just wanted to shop for a short dress because I'm getting married in Vegas."  Another BIG mistake...they proceed to tell me that there is an 1 hour 45 minute wait for the dressing room and for a wedding consultant to help me.  I said, 'No I don't need a wedding consultant just a dress over there (I pointed to the "prom" like dresses).  I thought how in the world am I going to wait an hour and 45 minutes to even get in the dressing room...but Missy came to the rescue and asked some lady if we had to wait in line to try on the "prom" dresses...which we only had to wait for 15 minutes.  So we grabbed lots of dresses and waiting...and once I got in the dressing room...I wanted to CRACK UP LAUGHING!  I hate dresses and now I know why...I look horrible in them...but I found one...its red and I love it.  Now we just need to find something for Don.

Planning this trip has been super fun and I can't wait to go...
Hotel - check
Chapel - check
Dress - check
Rings - check (love, love, love mine)
Airfare - check
Cirque Du Soleil (Mystere) - check
Spending Money - does someone want to send me a check?  He He...

and I have to say...even though my family and friends won't be there with us (and I wish you all could)...my Mom will be smiling down on me and happy that I made this choice! (Gotta go now, I'm starting to cry).