YES! Lexi (my kid sister)'s talented boyfriend, Q, has agreed to DJ our wedding! I am so excited--maybe I can coerce him into spinning some original stuff, hehe. So now that I have found a Viet DJ who would understand my need for hip hop, dance, techno, and VIET music during the party, I can go back to focusing on the dress!

Well, on my own time. Together, we are focusing on the DECOR. This is probably the 2nd biggest chunk out of our budget aside from food as we are transforming the venue. It probably would have been easier to get an empty space to do everything I wanted, but I love my venue.

Saving all the money for this wedding is getting harder since we're spending more on redoing the house. I would ALMOST call it penny pinching, but we're not. We've just been doing a good job of bugeting. I guess that's what happens when the wedding planners (us) are this OCD.

I may have started a slight obsession with Demetrios, Maggie Sottero, and Sottero & Midgley...

The photographer has been booked! We met with Mitch from Mitch Ranger Weddings yesterday at his fantastic GR loft. When I say fantastic, emphasis on the FAN TAST IC. I didn't think I could find a local photographer whose style meshes so PERFECTLY with mine, but I did! Thanks to Miss Jen Torma whose recommendation led me to his door.

Although, he was sporting a Herman Miller (my evil competitor, lol) Noguchi coffee table, but that was okay because he made up for it with the great canvas art and white Artecnica Until Dawn curtains draping across his city view windows. The fact that he had these furnishings of designers I've fawned over and recognize through my own interior design apreciation practically had me shouting "sign me up!" You HAVE to respect anyone who has a mutual appreciation for fine modern aesthetics.

So far I've noticed that I am more inclined to have a vendor understand what I want and need when the vendor is younger. Our coordinator at the reception venue knew what Tapas were--not the woman at the Lansing Center across the street or the CATERERS we started talking to--aren't caterers supposed to know about FOOD?! The photographers whose works mirrored what I wanted were all younger.

ANYWAY, I sent out my first bridal party newsletter this week and everyone received them yesterday (April Fools' Day). I had fun making it and I can't wait to get started on the next issues since we will be getting into the more fun details soon.

More to come!