wedding plans

yesterday was quite interesting. brian had told me that we had a 12 noon appointment at a local bakery. didnt tell me why. i kind of figured it was about our wedding cake, but i didnt know we were going to be tasting cakes. well  we all agreed on one cake that we want. we brought the extra samples home, instead of having them toss the cake, we gave the samples to my dad, (his birthday is coming up, ill be making him a cake) and when he got home from work, we gave him the samples and he jokingly said "you guys dont have to go through so much trouble just for my birthday cake" we knew he was joking. it was a great surprise and madison was loving the champagne cake. and weve decided to go the fake cake route (styrofoam cakes with real sheet cakes to serve everyone, one cake on the fake cakes will be real and that will be mine and brians cake cutting ceremony cake) we have to do whipped cream frosting because there are going to be diabetics there and i dont want to raise their sugar high and make them sick, so whipped cream it is. and we cant have any chocolate because his best friend is allergic. we found that out the hard way when for his birthday i got him a chocolate cake, not knowing he was allergic and he ended up not feeling well. so no more chocolate for him. since my dad couldnt be there for the tasting, he has his own opinion on the flavor of cake, it will still be champagne, but with raspberry filling. we also have figured out how we want our wedding, where its going to be held, food, reception, and things like that. its going to be at one of my aunts houses in her backyard (she lives in the country) her sister (and my dads) will be marrying us since shes a reverand, we are also doing a potluck dinner, bbq style, pretty much summer foods, like summer salads, macaroni, potato, coleslaw, ect. chicken, burgers, hot dogs, things like that. i already have my dress, im borrowing it from one of my friends, its beautiful, ive tried it on, but i need to have it altered a little bit for it to fit my wide back. its strapless. we are NOT having a DJ, we will be bringing my stereo, for music, people can bring  cds if they want. my dad and my uncle (his only brother) will be holding shotguns. i highly doubt they will be loaded only because of the amount of children going to be there and i dont want any of them to pick the guns up. oh, and many people will think its tacky to have potluck and BYOB, but its what WE  can afford, and not only that it saves us some money. we are only supplying two bottles of champagne, that ONLY the wedding party will drink (less the kids) and everyone else can have sparkling apple juice (for toasting) well i did say i wanted it to be redneck, and this is as redneck as i can get since im not allowed to go totally redneck and get married in jeans and a t shirt, i was threatened if i didnt get married in a wedding gown, my clothes would be stripped off of me and burned, and that is a threat that will be carried through, if i dont get married in a dress, so tadah, instead of paying for a dress, im borrowing one. lol, thats about 400 dollars or so that i didnt have to spend, and its funny because i have about 5 dresses that were offered to me, and this one is the only one that fits the closest without having to cost too much to alter. the girl im borrowing it from said she will help pay the dry cleaning cost, which is good.