Yay-ness!

So, alhamdulillah (All praise to Allah)...

-We both have our reception outfits.
-I'm having a friend make a cake for us :D
- We have a venue.
- We have a date.
- We have talked to the caterer.
- We have invitation cards that will be mailed to us soon.

- My 22nd birthday is coming up, this weekend.

Last Resort

Ok, so when I last wrote we were still looking for a hall... well after researching online and calling up a bunch of places, it seems like there was nothing that was available on the dates that we needed.

So... long story short, we decided to go with our last resort which is the local mosque in our area.

Why was it a last resort? I don't know, it wasn't what I envisioned for my wedding reception (Waleemah).

I am not sure if I ever explained why we were having 2 weddings/receptions LOL. Well the reason for this was because the last time when we had had our actual wedding, we had a lot of relatives who were unable to make it :( and so now that most people are going to be off for school and I will be going to spend the summer with my husband, 'A' & I decided that this would be a good time to hold a bigger reception for all of the people who did not attend our wedding.

Also, we wanted our wedding to be a nice and intimate affair and so in the end it mostly consisted of elder people and so was mostly formal... well it was my parents' planning and so it was mostly their cousins. I get to plan this one so we're going to have a few of my and A's cousins and friends come.

Ok, anyhow, getting back on topic... we have a place booked for August 1st!!! And I'm super duper excited :D

I can't wait! Oh, and we have invitations that just got printed in Pakistan and I can't wait to see those either, I'll probably put up pics when I get them.

Well it's late, so I think I'll be sleeping now...

I'll try to post updates as they happen.

Sterling something

Haha... so I'm supposed to go and check out a hall to host my wedding reception at, on Sunday.

My uncle's wife told me about it... poor her, she's been going all around asking all of her friends about if they know any venues etc.

Another thing is, anything that we usually find is waaay over budget for us :(

So hopefully this'll be perfect, I'm just willing to book anything (including a barn, if I need to!!!), at this point.

I want to get started on invitation cards, then we have flight tickets to book, hotel reservations for hubby & I, talk to someone to cater our food and whatnot.

So, please pray that this is the 'one'. According to my aunt it's called 'Sterling something...' LOL.

But hey, that still helps and I'm super excited. I just hope it's nice and available.
So far it does seem that it is affordable :D

Alhamdulillah 3la kulli haal (Thanks to Allah upon every condition/situation).

We will make it through, insha'Allah.