She and He Fridays: A Wedding Planners Wedding

My name’s Kendra Scott, I’m the Wedding’s Division Manager at Firefly Occasions and as of December 19th, I now have my own wedding to plan! Every Friday I write a feature article where I document my personal wedding planning journey each step of the way.

Lately I have been really grateful for the amount of time I allowed myself to plan the wedding. One of the really nice things about having a longer engagement is really having the time to plan the wedding in small chunks and be stress free. I got engaged the same weekend as Carrie Underwood and always envisioned a 7 month engagement. I thought, you get engaged because you want to get married, so why would you ever want a long engagement? Well, since I set my sights on a wedding in the winter, we had no option but to have at least a 13 month engagement. I have to say, it’s been really REALLY nice. Since I work in this industry, booking my major vendors was quick and easy and for the most part done within the first month. Obviously a huge benefit for me is that I’ve seen a lot of these vendors in action and knew who’s style I liked and who best suited myself and Brett. Saving myself the time and energy that most brides put into researching vendors has allowed me to have a lot of time to spend on the fun things such as selecting a wedding gown, bridesmaid dresses, flowers, linens etc. I mentioned in a previous post that we had selected the bridesmaid dress options, I only actually ended up placing the order yesterday. Since I was ordering the dresses for my bridesmaids, I needed to wait to receive all measurements required to place the order. These are the types of things that you need to take into consideration when planning out your time lines. A bridesmaid dress can take four months to arrive but you need to remember that your bridesmaids have busy lives as well.

Account for extra time wherever possible, especially when things are being shipped from the USA. You never know how long something could take to clear customs and believe me we have experienced the best of it when it comes to customs delays. Not only has a longer engagement allowed me a comfortable amount of time to plan the wedding but it’s really nice to be engaged, people always want to hear about your wedding plans. I suppose this leads back into our other project at hand, the hot bride project. If you’re trying to get in shape for your upcoming wedding, you definitely want to leave yourself a healthy amount of time to do it properly! Jessi and I are still working very hard towards our goal and have three months left. We took our measurements again today. It’s hard to notice a huge difference when you measure each week but so far I’d say we’re making progress. I think just taking a break to exercise in the middle of the day helps you focus more on your other tasks at hand as well. So, our arms seem to have gotten slightly bigger….we’ll just ignore that for now haha we’re only a week in. Here are the results so far.

Kendra:
Upper Arm: Start: 10″ Now: 10.5″
Bust: Start: 35.5″ Now: 34″
Waist: Start: 28.5″ Now: 28.25″
Hips: Start: 39″ Now: 39″
Thigh: Start: 22″ Now: 21.5″
Total lost: 1.5″

Jessie:
Upper Arm: Start: 9″ Now: 10″
Bust: Start: 37″ Now: 35″
Waist: Start” 26″ Now: 26″
Hips: Start: 34.5″ Now: 34.5″
Thigh: Start: 20.5″ Now: 20″
Total Lost: 1.5″

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