So We're Getting Married...

In September 2007 Mariano Soler asked me to marry him and I said yes. We were in his car at a park in a small, country town in Missouri where he lived at the time. He ended up quitting his job and moving in with me and my roommates and I started planning a wedding. We were in hardship financially and the wedding was postponed until we could start saving for it again.
In the mean time I left school and got a job, Mario got 2, and we decided that we needed to move and get some help to make ends meet. We left Missouri and moved to Florida, where he had lived before, and where I had never been. Then we had a baby. While it would seem now that saving to get married is a lot farther off, we decided we didn't want to put it off any longer, no matter how small and frugal the wedding will be.
July 18, 2009 is the date set. I have told many friends and family but I still have many more to tell. I have been saying that my intentions are to get invitations out to all the long-distance/out-of-town invitees by the end of January. There are many additional things to plan out, however. My sister is my maid-of-honor, and she is helping me to plan out the wedding. We've picked some details and I have several ideas. Keeping costs down will be a challenge, however, as it is very difficult for us to save any money at all, and then even harder to keep it for longer than a month.
Some details I can share that we have worked out so far: We are having a wedding on the beach, in the late afternoon in the middle of the summer. We will have custom-label water bottles and personalized paper fans as ceremony favors and survival tools during the bitter and wilting heat. Our colors are a medium blue and lighter blue: "Horizon" and "Cornflower" as found in the David's Bridal color palette for their bridesmaid dresses and separates. The ceremony and reception will all be on public/city property. I want to make the invitations, favor boxes and place cards myself.
What we don't know is who is going to officiate our wedding, what style of ceremony we will have (he's catholic, i have a COG7 background, but we've both been going to a charismatic non-denominational church; and i think we both don't want anything overtly religious or sermon-like, although we do want to pay homage to God). In addition, many other details have yet to be planned out, such as how will Alex fit into the wedding, and who can we designate to watch him when the people we trust most to do so will all be busy participating in the wedding? I also will need to designate set up and clean up crews for both the ceremony and the reception. Again, the people who would normally be most willing to help with that kind of thing will be part of the wedding party, or honored guests of us, the bride and groom, such as our parents. *sigh* What is a bride to do? I can only hope that our aunts, uncles and cousins will come and will be especially willing to help and work together, even with people they'll be meeting for the first time (E.G., his aunt and my cousin, or my uncle and his nephew).
My brain can't take much more. One really helpful tool that my sister showed me is Google Documents. She's in Oklahoma and I'm in Florida, so we won't exactly be getting together often to plan the wedding together. We have to use phone and the internet. With Google Documents, we can share the same document online and change it and view it in real time, all while keeping a record of our planning discoveries. I may share our findings so far with you in another post. I did find a couple of wonderful sites that make me burst with creativity:
Capture the Moment Projects Blog
The author of this blog works for a company called Paper Trey Ink and she makes the most wonderful and exquisite gifts with stamps and paper!
Aloha Island Weddings
This is a website by a company in Hawaii that hosts weddings, but the decorations are perfect whether you're contintental or island-side!