Shopping! And not just for wedding stuff!

This has been sort of a week of purchases for me so far. For starters, thanks to Nic, who recommended these on my guest post over at Heidikins, I got my wedding shoes. And they are perfect and amazing and I can't believe I overlooked them myself. Behold:


Can you believe their wondrous, amazing perfection? No? Me neither. Even more amazing is that they are exactly the right height for my dress. Is there a better sign that they were meant to be? Yeah, I didn't think so either.

The second is my veil! I tried on a veil at the bridal salon when I picked up my dress, and it was perfect, but it wasn't available in any color except stark white, which doesn't go with my dress. So I came home, did some hunting on a few of my favorite wedding blogs, and found a site that allows you to custom design your own veil--and for cheaper than the original veil that I had tried on in the store. After a couple of emails back and forth with the owner of the company and a lot of time spent poring over photo galleries, I ordered what I think (hope!) is my ideal veil. It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm very excited to see it. It should look something like this, but without the beading, and also not pink:


And the THIRD thing, which I am actually a tad nervous about, is a Nintendo Wii! Torsten and I have wanted one for ages, but I was annoyed at how Nintendo purposely limits supply, and didn't feel like hunting for one, and didn't want to spend more than the suggested retail price to buy one, so I didn't do anything about it. Then yesterday Snickollet posted about how she had bought one online at Best Buy at the normal, uninflated recommended retail price, so I clicked over there immediately while frantically IMing Torsten and snapped one up.

At least, I THINK I snapped it up. It allowed me to add it to my cart, and enter my billing and shipping info, and complete the purchase. It sent me a confirmation email saying that the order was processing and the item should ship out this week. But while I was checking out, Torsten refreshed the page and it said that the Wii was sold out. So it's possible that I sneaked through at the very end and we will get a Wii, but it's also possible that sometime soon I will get an email saying oh, actually we were sold out when you placed that order, our bad, your loss.

So far, though, no such email has arrived. I am waiting impatiently for my order status to update on their website so I can find out one way or the other, but so far, nothing doing. I'm only hoping that no news is good news.

But you know what is so cute? Okay, maybe I'm the only one who thinks it's cute, but I'm going to share anyway. When I asked Torsten if he was sure he wanted to spend the money for the Wii, he said, "Only if you'll play it with me. Will you play Mario Kart with me?" And yeah, I know that he was talking about a video game console, but it was just so SWEET and TOUCHING.

Is it bad that I'm touched by my fiancé wanting to play video games with me? Welcome to the Technology Era, apparently. But it was CUTE. IT WAS.