Okay, so I have to apologize for being a horrible blogger lately. I’ve just been so busy planning my July 3rd wedding…yep - July 3rd - that’s 4 days away!! I am so excited and so nervous at the same time! Since it’s been so hard for me to blog, and I knew I needed to sit down and write out all my last minute thoughts and plans for my wedding day, I thought I would turn it into a blog and kill two birds with one stone.

Well, I just had my bachelorette party last night and I think my Bridesmaids are more stressed out than I am! They think I’m being too laid back about everything. I disagree. I know all I need to get married is the Preacher (got that taken care of a few days ago… phew!), the groom, and me! Oh, and the paperwork so it’s all legal and official (I still need to get that license!)

My list of things to do:

1.)   Start looking for a wedding day hairstyle
(one of my BMs freaked out that I hadn’t even looked around yet…she said she looked for 3 days before she found the perfect one :))

2.)   Find a linen rental company (okay…so, this one I am a little nervous about…can they rent out this close to the event day? Well, there’s always Party Galaxy, right? ;))

3.)   Find shoes
(can‚t I wear flip flops? lol)

4.)   Bridal Party jewelry and mine too
(I’ll be taking care of that today before I go to evening service!)

5.)   Delegate the cleaning up and rental return jobs
(Here’s where I hit up the people that keep asking for something to do to help!)

6.)   Music
(I need to make sure my fiancé has that under control. But I might want to look into some things…like our first dance song, father/daughter song, wedding march…things like that)  

7.)   Wedding Dress
(just kidding!! I do think it’s funny that I went to a prom store 3 weeks ago, picked out a beautiful white dress and was done with it, and one of my Bridesmaid’s is having her dress custom made, lol!)

8.)   Oh yea…the Wedding license
(almost forgot ;))

Well, I hope I haven’t stressed out any other Brides that are reading this. Remember…It’s more than a day, It’s a lifetime. I’m really more excited about our future together; the wedding is just going to be a fun party to celebrate the start of it

My first post, yay! I’m super excited about this site. I’m always talking about Simplicity Gourmet to my friends and family, now I can blog about them too!! I love cooking such healthy and colorful meals so quickly! Simplcity Brides has really changed my life. A few days ago my fiance invited his friend, brother and his brother’s girlfriend over to the house for dinner without giving me even 5 minutes notice, lol. I had planned on fixing something simple and fast for dinner, like maybe a grilled cheese sandwich or something like that, but I really like entertaining, so that just wasn’t going to work with all these people. Now before I got my cooking system from Simplicity Gourmet, I probably would have been pretty frustrated that he invited people over without letting me know, mostly because I’d have to spend hours in the kitchen trying to make something nice for 5 adults instead of having fun with them! But here’s what I made:

Fried Chicken breast
fresh corn and green beans
mashed potatoes from scratch (not that box junk!)
a cole-slaw salad cut from scratch (cabbage, squash, carrots and radishes)
a German Chocolate cake for dessert

Here’s the kicker: the whole meal took 35 minutes, I made it ALL on the stovetop (even the cake!) and I didn’t use a DROP of oil (not even for the fried chicken) How healthy is that?!

So instead of being frustrated and spending hours in a hot kitchen I made a delicious healthy meal that everyone raved about, AND I was able to spend most of my time having fun with our friends playing wii in the living room. Awesome

– Lacy