casual ultimate » miss casual is bride-zilla

well were just over two months out and things are coming together. witness the groomsmens shoes that came in this week. team romance ftw! they cant front on my shoes though… some hot pink louboutins. and after buying no less than 4 dresses we finally found ‘the dress’ two weeks ago. its much more traditional bride-y than i envisioned but what can you do? its a lovely carolina herrera number. id post it because i am in love with it but the groom reads this blog so itll have to wait.

we spoke to the cake lady who is amazing. tasting cake should be our national passtime. also we hired a photographer im really excited about. check out her work here. im wondering whether the new dress will allow for the trackstanding photos in our wedding gear that we wanted….the rings are bought and the flowers are.. well flowering i guess. the invites went out today even so its official like. our calligrapher did an amazing job with the invites. you can see them here on her blog.

as we try and use advanced calculus to decide how much beer to buy for the wedding i daydream about how this will all come off. im sort of envisioning it very preppy but in a ‘jcrew meets andre 3000′ kind of way. bright and modern but definitely a bit ghetto. hopefully the future mr. casual will get my name written in his fade for the wedding but well see…

now its on to fun stuff like picking out songs for the ceremony and our first dance. i kind of want to walk out of the chapel to something like the jackson five but nothings definite.. thoughts? heres our new color board with some revisions. still a work in progress but exciting nevertheless.

ok sorry ill stop.

im pretty sure this is a post about nothing but here it is anyway. so guess what? swimming is frickin hard! i went swimming for the first time tonight in preparation for the half triathlon in july with the cnd ladies and.. yeah. at least during the running part you can stop and walk if you are tired.. if you are beat and in the middle of the lake i don’t really know what you do. float? lets hope so. i hope there are some lifeguards. also i am going to try racing at the velodrome soon. which should be terrifying. i hope there are some lifeguards there too.

in other news.. ms. ultimate was in town for the last couple of weeks and it was wonderful. we went out on the town last weekend with the viking and t-brizzle.. just like the old days. drinks. dinner. ice cream. criticizing the outfits of everyone in lincoln park. seriously though.. we saw some lady wearing black and white leopard print shorts and black suade boots with fringe on them. this prompted our new category ’signs of the coming apocalypse.’ also in this category would be the appearance of an intermix on damen in wicker park. its getting dangerous out. fer realz. also we went and saw the ’sex and the city’ movie even against our better judgment. it was good but im glad we brought small pink cans of champagne.

the wedding is coming right up. best thing? we get to go taste cake this weekend. yeah cake. i love cake so much i want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant. um… anyway. its exciting. 3 months to go before im mrs. casual.

So i realized today by reading some other girl’s bride blog that my wedding is exactly 100 days away. wild! i cant believe how much planning and money weddings take. i mean im sure this isnt a big revelation for those of you who are already hitched but good lord.. i didnt expect it. did you know there are support groups and websites for ‘post nuptial depression’ for when you realize the biggest party of your life is over? so i have that to look forward to…

did you also know the average american wedding costs 25k$?? thats completely rediculous. go feed an orphan for goodness sakes. we are doing our part to feed the slave labor that nike employs by getting custom dunks for the groomsmen.

but things are coming along. i know all you dudes reading this cant wait to see our color scheme so here it is. exciting stuff right? we are tying the knot at the town cottage on lake michigan which i know many of you have been to over the years. i wish we could just have mama town make an epic feast of spaghetti and meatballs and enchiladas. it would be fitting and yet.. i think we still will get a caterer.

outside of all this madness.. i havent been doing much. training for the half triathalon? not really. we did bike the drive last weekend which was early but fun. lots of 30 rock but no ultimate. i was the worst spring league teammate ever. but ill let ms. ulty post about beach since she back in town this week. yay!

hey blog! how’re things? i guess its been a while.. a month? well i guess i’m a bit embarrassed. but honestly i haven’t had anything to blog about except love and romance and the total absurd money pit that is wedding planning. exciting yes. affordable? doubtful. poor papa town. at least i’m the only daughter. i’ll try not to post about wedding stuff but i can’t make any promises.

in other news.. guess who won paganello? bjorn. single handedly i might add.

this just in from our casual ultimate quality control : bjorn had a team. a team called scandal. who knew? i figured he just went out there by himself and ripped beach ultimate apart. either way i believe we can now say chicago is the home of the beach ultimate champions of the world.

the entire globe. think about it.

and in even other other news.. mr. brizzle and miss casual are breaking up their happy home. mr. brizzle has bought himself some real estate. a real home for slider which he so truly deserves.

and in other other other news… our own chicago son, mr. chuckworth townington, is headed to chicago. soon even. stay tuned because im sure shennanigans will ensue and we want you there.

okay thats it. i feel so much closer to you now blog. really. this time has been special.

edit: i expect all the people / events mentioned in this post to be blogged about by their respective casual ultimate staff memebers.