From Engagement until 10/2

Wow it's been about 6 weeks since I got engaged, August 17th, two days after my birthday to be precise. How time flies. On our website I shared the story of how it all happened, but even though I knew the proposal was coming it still caught me by surprise. As soon as I got back and shared the ring pictures with everyone and wanted to get right to trying on dresses to figure out my silhouette before going in for surgery. I was going to be getting a sessamoidectomy on my left foot which had been bothering me for well over a year. Almost as long as Brian and I have been together.
We selected our venues: Church of the Ascensions and Bay District Volunteer Firehouse.
We took our engagement pictures on September 14th at National Harbor...thanks to Garrett James of Capital Media.
Designed our monogram  and order a stamp to put or monogram in various places where possible.
Designed and ordered the save the dates.
Completed collecting the addresses of my A-Listers and plan to mail things out tomorrow.
Chose my caterer today, 10/2...Quality Street Kitchen and I'm excited with the way she tailored the menu to what we envisioned. Now I can start with the rest of the planning.

As for my dress, I did a fitting of my muslin on 9/28 and we decided to wait until February to start because I want to drop a few more inches and don't want to have to alter the dress later. In the meantime, I've got plenty of other projects.
I'm in the process of collecting wine bottles from everyone I know for the centerpieces.