Whooo-Hoo Visas All Around!

Hey Everyone,

Exciting news!!

As most of you already know from my Facebook, Joe's visa has been approved! It was such a shock to get the letter I hardly realized what it was when I first saw it. But I was so happy when I opened it that I had to tell everyone ( and wake up Joe at 5 in the morning his time to let him know!). I just thought I would let everyone know what this news means. We still have some time to wait but this significantly shortens the about of time.

Basically, the packet of information that I sent to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has been approved by them. Now this normally takes 5 months to process, but ours got approved in an amazingly short 3 months, not that I'm complaining ;). Now the next step in the process is that the packet gets sent to the Department of State National Visa Center for further "processing." My understanding of that process is that they basically change our application number. The letter says this should take 4-6 weeks.

Once we have this number Joe has to go to London and get a medical exam, and they will contact him to set up an interview date. Hopefully, we will be able to get an interview date that isn't months away! Fingers crossed! Once he has completed, and hopefully passed, his interview then he is free to come over to the U.S.!



Thank you everyone for all your support and, as always, thanks for reading!

xoxo

Dwindling Down My Color Choices

Just thought I would update you on the colors I have been leaning towards. I still haven't picked an exact date yet, but I know that I want the wedding to be in October 2013! So, yay for that! And with that choice comes the ever important decision on which fall colors to use. I do love the traditional fall color palette, except that I am not too keen on using a ton of orange. I am leaning further away from Halloween season colors and more towards November/Thanksgiving/Holiday sort of colors. Below are a few palettes that I could see myself using. I am really drawn to the golds and cranberry colors as well as to the browns, greens, and ivory mixtures. Still haven't totally committed, but at least I'm getting there! All of theses pictures and color palettes come from an amazing website called theperfectpalette.com if you are interested at looking for other colors this is a great place to start.

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Above, is a sort of brown, copper, gold palette that I really like.

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This is a little more orange-y than I like, but it makes me think I could go for a more shiny copper color in place up straight up orange.

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I think this one is probably one of my favorites. I am especially in love with the bouquet! It is basically the exact thing I have been looking for. I would probably add a little more of the cranberry color and a little less of the yellow but I love how warm and cozy these colors feel.

Here is the bouquet close up:

Ah I just love it!

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This one I would lay off a little on the cranberry color but I love the gold/cranberry mix with the softer brown and white. 

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Last but not least is this purple-y color palette. I have been wrestling with the thought of purple and I like this combination with the blog and the darker purple. I can't decide if it's really a color that I want but the picture makes it look beautiful.

So, those are some of the colors I have been looking at. Hope you enjoyed reading it! Any comments you have would be great!

xoxo