I wanted to start out and let everyone know who else is in the wedding
PART ONE
Cue Intros:
I will have two maids of honor as I have two lovely sisters who both are equally important to me and I need them both up there with me on my wedding day!
Here is a pic I snatched off facebook of them both:
Niki on the left, Sara on the right! Niki lives and works in Chicago for a title company (sorry Niki, I’m not exactly sure WHAT it is you do there…Sales I think!), recently got a sweet apartment I haven’t gotten to see yet! And Sara recently graduated from law school and passed the IL bar, lives in Chicago as well with her boyfriend Josh (who will hopefully be an usher for us in the wedding!).
As for the rest of the bridal party, (the girls at least), we have Sean’s sister Caurie, recent grad of NIU who teaches at a private school here in Rockford. Here’s Caurie (also stolen off facebook- I sense a theme here!):
I met Jennie in nursing school- one of a select few good things that came out of that place (besides Sean of course!) =) Also lives and works in Rockford, recently bought a house (yay jennie) and got a puppy and works crazy hours as a hospice nurse. I owe this girl big time as I almost didn’t want to even go dress shopping but Jennie was excited enough for the both of us and I found my dress! (More on the dress later!)
And Heather I met the first night I went out with Sean. She was dating one of his best friends at the time (and now is married to him!) and has been a great example of how awesome married life can be! =) As Heather is not on facebook- I had to crop a picture, so I hope you can see it:
Heather also lives and works in Machesney Park/Rockford with her hubby Dave (one of Sean’s best men) and two beautiful HUGE dogs =)
Ok- so that’s it for intros of the ladies- intros of Sean’s boys will be saved for the next installment…
Now that you all know each other, kind of, I’m going to try to update everyone on what’s going on with the wedding planning and what not.
PART TWO:
I’m going to try to post some pics of my inspirations for my wedding planning. I have a huge book and multiple folders and post its full of random clips and notes I’ve jotted down, so it will be hard to get the full effect just from what I have online. But I’ll try to give you a general idea of where everything is headed so you are all in the loop! Since my dress is ivory instead of white, my “black and white” theme has changed to black and ivory…but I kind of have an assortment of things thrown in, so we’ve figured it is a traditional theme (like the black and white) but with a few quirks, as it wouldn’t be our wedding if it fit completely inside of “the box”. However, I like the damask details that seem to be fairly traditional, and they don’t really come in black and ivory, so hopefully the lighting will be dim and it won’t be noticeable! To start, here is an example picture of the cake design:
I’m hoping she can make the frosting more of an off white! We are doing the cake a little different too- we will have cakes on each table as the centerpiece (all on a cake stand) and then the cake table will actually only have a smaller 2 tiered version for us to cut. This way, all we have to worry about for centerpieces is some sort of décor around the cake stand (I’m thinking some flower petals and maybe some damask votives.
Let me know what you think and if you have any ideas-I seem to keep making adjustments to everything already! I need to make up my mind I think…
To stick with that theme- here is a picture example of the card box I am making- except mine will be purple ribbon and I plan on having a big “P” I’ll paint and put on the top. I found the boxes at Hobby Lobby on sale for less than $4 each in that pattern exactly, got the ribbon for 1.50 and an mdf “p” on sale for $1. Probably the best bargain I’ve gotten for the wedding!
I love it- I just hope I can put it together without ruining it!
This next project Heather is helping me with (Thank you!!) as I was going to buy them but she figured out how to do them herself- (and Heather I promise I will get you those questions ASAP!)
These are fortune tellers (or cootie catchers I have learned is another name) that will be printed on ivory and purple I’m thinking and will be used as place cards- they will have our names, the date, the guests name and their table number. Inside will be questions about me and Sean with the answers under the flap. This was one of the first things I found in my planning and I still love the idea (see- one of those quirky things!) Anyways- here is a pic of the idea:
Other things we are doing for the reception:
Photo Booth!
I’m so excited about this- this guy named George runs this company and he gave me a pretty good deal (which helps because I just had to have this!) He will print 2 strips of 4 pics- one goes to the guest and the other in a scrapbook for us, which doubles as our guest book as he will have markers an pens for people to sign and put their picture in the book. I’ve been thinking about buying a life size elvis cutout to keep by the photo booth as I still want a picture of me with elvis for my wedding…What do you guys think? I can’t decide if Sean will appreciate that or not…But I found one of Elvis in a tux and its only like $35- totally appropriate if he’s dressed in a tux right?
Also going with the photobooth- I’m looking at getting purple tickets (like a ticket roll) and putting them with a sign on each table to let people know about the booth- I hope I can get everyone in it!
OH- heres one you guys will like to know about- I’m doing something a little different for bouquets as well (another quirk)- they are made out of buttons- they will be a mix of ivory and purple with black ribbon wrapped around the handle. The lady making them for me even did a matching pomander ball for Katelyn (flower girl) and is putting matching buttons on an ivory pillow for ring bearer. Boutonnieres and corsages will all match and be different sizes (grooms and dads bigger than ushers and what not)- here is a few example pics:
I got a sample bouquet in the mail last week and I’m completely in love with it! If you can’t really tell from the pics, the seller has a bunch of pictures on flickr and her id is rbkcreations (I found her on etsy- where I seem to have found most of my ideas!)
I hope you guys like them as much as I do, and if not- I don’t want to hear it as I already get it from mom!
Why is it that I have so much to let you guys know, but I feel like I have SO much left to do still?
Moving on to Attire:
I think everyone is on board with colors and styles right? Long Black dress- that’s my only requirement. I want everyone to be comfortable and happy with it, so please pick whatever you like and from whatever store (doesn’t have to be davids- that’s just what is available here!) I think we’ve already emailed some pics around, but here are a few I saved:
They will all look fabulous with my dress, which I will not be posting pics of as the boys will also be open to this blog!
Any help with veil ideas would be great- I didn’t even really want one, but I feel like I should at least for the church! I still need to find shoes too if anyone sees anything around- let me know! I thought about maybe getting purple shoes (you can’t see them really anyways) and I thought it would be fun- I don’t really want ivory shoes that I’ll never wear again…
Part Three:
This is where I really need help! I have had the hardest time finding invitations that I love that are in my price range…so I had the bright idea of making my own invitations. Mind you- I will need over 125 of them. So I came up with something I liked and then couldn’t find the paper, so I came up with about 4 or 5 other things I like, and now I can’t decide! I’m going to post some pics of examples, but really mine is different as I’m doing the pocketfold but without the flap that folds over, if that makes sense. Here are some pics I found that are close:
I’ve got one style that has 5x7 on each side and just folds in half- one 5x7 is invite, and other is pocket side with RSVP and Reception card in it. The second style is 4x9 on each side (without that flap on the left) and set up similar to the other size. My outer (pocketfold) is black and then I have a purple mat under the ivory invitation. The cards in the pocket are ivory as well. Hard to decide without seeing but what do you guys think? When folded, I have tried either ribbon with a monogram seal or a paper band with a monogram seal (wrapped around one half only- not really wrapped around to hold closed or anything). Any feedback would be AWESOME- I’m super stressed about this right now and at this point I refuse to buy them- I have almost everything I need to make them at less than $200 and I’m really trying to do this without spending more than I have too! I think my tastes are too expensive for my budget…These pocketfold invites are around $5 each to buy them already made- no way am I going to pay that for paper!
I can’t figure out how to get them to spin and stay attached, so they may not actually spin…but they still look pretty! These were super cheap too- the wood dowels to hold them were 0.21 and that will be cut to make 3 stems. And the paper is 6x6 so I got 4 out of each 12x12 scrapbook paper (which was on sale 4/$1 at Michaels!) So besides the time to make them, they aren’t any more expensive than bubbles =)
I also wanted to make tissue holder (sappy like “tears of joy” packets out of paper but didn’t like the tutorials I found online, so I kinda made my own out of my scraps from cutting paper to make everything else! Here is a sample pic that I looked at for shape:
Mine are patterned so I’m not sure if they will have a label or anything, but they are fairly self explanatory, right?
The last (hopefully) project I am doing is the programs. I found this really pretty ivory cardstock and ordered a whole bunch of it – for the covers of the program, and I guess I will do plain ivory paper for the info inside as I think with the mass we will need more than 1 sheet. I’m totally lost as what to do for the programs- I like the tall look (kinda like the 4x9 invite) but if I make them square and do 6x6 size, I can get 2 out of each sheet of cardstock…Here are some example pics:
Any thoughts? As we don’t have anything finalized for the ceremony yet, I’m not too worried about these (yet!). They are lower on my do to list at this point anyways.
Wow this was much more lengthy than I thought…Sorry if I bored everyone- I just wanted to try to keep everyone updated and make sure everyone is in the loop and has all the info. One more thing I’m going to throw out there is if anyone has any connections for linens/chair covers- I am in need of some serious string pulling here!
And last but certainly not least, I want to thank each and every one of you for being there for me and for being a part of this experience! It wouldn’t be the same without you all with me! =)
As Nico would say:
Peace out yo-
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