I'm such a slacker...

I've been slacking in all areas recently....I haven't been able to really put 100% into anything, just kinda coasting at work, just doing what I have to do for school, not keeping up with my wedding projects like I mean to, and most certainly not keeping up with this wedding blog!  Alas, I have failed miserably at this multitasking, but such is life.  As I am once again slacking from schoolwork and avoiding studying for my exam later today, I figured it would be a good time for an update!

Shoes:  I am 99% sure I've found my wedding day shoes, and of course in true Candice style I have 2 pairs to wear:

And yes, these are the awesome bling shoes from a previous post!  For some reason, my camera turns these shoes a funny color but one pair is a true purple and the other is ivory.  SO in love with these and very excited to wear them for the wedding!  At this point, I don't even care if they match, they'll just have to work or I'm going with flip flops. 

Rehearsal night:

I've been looking into cute things for the kids for the rehearsal and ended up finding some awesome etsy dress for Katelyn:

The ribbon is purple, but for some reason my camera doesn't like to show purple very well... When I ordered this, I thought there would be a strip of purple along the bottom too, but its still cute I think~ I hope its not too busy of a print...And then (yes I am this much of a dork!) I got these adorable ties coming for the boys:

Yep thats the same print.  One for Connor, Nico, Zack, and Sean.  How adorable will they be? =) I don't know if I can get everyone to actually wear them, but oh well, at least they'll have it for another time...  And I found this dress for super cheap on a wedding board, so I thought I would get it for me for the rehearsal, but its a little big:

I'm much shorter, so it comes way too long on me, but I'm debating having it altered...I got the name/number of a little old lady who does alterations here in town for Super cheap, so I may look into that.  Worth a shot, I just love this dress for some reason (and at $30 I loved it even more!)  And of course, I will wear one of the many purple shoes I have purchased in my wedding shoe search.  I feel like it is really early to be worrying about the rehearsal, but I have a sinking feeling this is all going to creep up on me and I have WAY too much to do before them!!  Do you feel its too early, or should I be thinking of all these details?

Project updates:

We had a crazy busy friday get together with a ton of folding going on (thanks ladies!) and Dave and his crafty...I mean Manly self...helped me cut and put together the card box.  Building, not crafting.  =)  I don't have any ribbon or anything attached, but here is the box so far:

And the P is a work in progress, it needs more paint!  And my glue gun didn't hold the boxes together, so I ended up using duct tape on the inside and its working so far!  =)  I figured its on the inside of the box so no one will see that!  Thanks Dave~ its perfect!

Sean's projects:

Sean has been helping with some various projects as well...mainly cutting the squares to be folded.  Also helping me put labels on the back of our picture sharing cards :

These are cards I got free from vistaprint, on the front have directions for people to upload their digital pics from the wedding to a shutterfly account so all pics that people take are in one community and everyone can see/get prints/whatever from shutterfly.  He did a good job putting the labels on right? =)  As for the tissue packs for the church, that was a struggle...

Me: "Here is a length of (black ribbon), can you cut pieces this size for me?"

Sean: (while watching TV and cutting ribbon) "what do you mean they're too short- its the same as this (purple) piece you gave me..." 

Me: (holding 2 pieces, 1 about 3-4 inches shorter than the other)

Sean (throwing away pieces that won't work cause they are too short)

Yep- Sean 1 (labels on cards), DIY projects 3 (pinwheels, ribbon cutting, paper folding)

Table numbers:

My mom picked up these pretty glass frames at bergners on clearance (from $20 down to like $2.99 and then she had extra coupon too!) to use for table numbers:

 

I hope I can make it work with the Italian table numbers, but if not, I guess it'll just be the numbers themselves.  I thought it would be cool to put black paper in the framed area and have the number cut out of the middle so it shows up in white...But I will have to get handy with an exacto knife for this idea to work, so if anyone can help with this~ please do!  The frames are actually 3 or 4 different sizes and patterns but are all black and white glass, so they should look nice. 

I guess thats about it for now...At least there are a few things checked off the list:

Elvis: in the house, no worries

Card box: built, just need to decorate!

Invites:  Envelopes almost all addressed, and around 115 done, only about 30 to go and the bands to wrap around all of them

Tissue packs: almost done, just need more labels for the front

Pinwheels: done but need to work on what they will be placed in (thanks Jennie for those containers, I'm going to spray paint them someday and then try to find that floral foam or something!)

Kids activity books: printed and wordsearch fixed, just need to put together!

Crinoline: dyed and ready to be tried on with my dress!!

"i do" letters for cake table- have 1 coat of paint, need at least 1 or 2 more!

Origami flower balls- we are trucking through them!  And thanks to Heather taking a bunch home, we'll knock these out in no time =)  Thanks for all the help with those everyone~ I never would have finished them on my own!!

So plans for the next friday/weekend crafting night:  fold/glue more flowers =); finish decorating card box; bellybands for invites.  Anyone interested?