projects revealed

Morning blog! So the countdown is on... We have less than a month until the wedding and a ton of stuff to do it seems! It'll get done. Somehow. Eventually. I hope.

I want to share some of my projects with you today! I briefly touched upon them last time. But I've decided to cave in and post some pictures. Here's a group photo:

L to R: Card basket; Snuggle blanket; "Our History in the Making" Timeline; Wish Jar
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The timeline is one of my favorite projects. I think we will display it on the same table as our wish jar. It's a great way for our guests to get to know a little more about us. I don't even know when I stumbled upon the idea, but I instantly fell in love with it and had to have it. Luckily, we remember most of the major dates in our relationship. Except for the day we met. Minor detail, right? Ha. Here is "Our History in the Making" Timeline:

 

In lieu of a traditional guest book, we opted for a Wish Jar. We bought the jar at Michael's for about $10 (Thank goodness for 40% off coupons!). We added paper shred to add some color and fill it a little bit. I tied a ribbon around it and ta-da: A Wish Jar is born. We have two different shades of pink cardstock that Chris is going to cut into little squares for people to sign and place in the jar. Here she is:

The sign reads: Sign your name or leave your wishes for the new MR. and MRS.

I'm happy with all our projects so far. I still have our table numbers to complete, but I'll save that for another post. On another note, my bridal shower is today and my bachelorette party is tonight! I can't wait to see what my best friends have been planning all this time!

'Til next time! 

projects galore!

So we're down to THIRTY-THREE DAYS (Yikes!) and I haven't blogged in a month. Guess I've been busy. First off, as promised, here are some photos of the invitations:

 I call this one "Invitation Station Collage." 

The invitation got a photoshoot with the Bermuda bus, too!

 The RSVP card and envelope.

We've gotten a little over half of the responses back with only one decline. The deadline is fast approaching so hopefully we'll be getting a lot of mail this week :)

A few Tuesday's ago Chris and I had a super productive day. We got our marriage license from the Gardiner Town Hall. It was such an easy process. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it was a breeze. We also picked up these guys:

Our wedding bands from Zimmer Brothers. Ah, I'm in love.

I lovelovelove them! We cheated and wore them for the rest of the day while we ran multiple wedding errands. I can't wait to wear them for the rest of our lives! Eek. Other wedding errands included: Guest book/wish jar supplies, card basket, table numbers, and salt and pepper shakers (which were $1 per set, sweet!).

I've been working on lots of projects lately. Most of the supplies mentioned above are included in the projects (with the exception of the salt and pepper shakers). Before the aforementioned trip, Chris and I also went to the Christmas Tree Shops a few weeks back to look at buckets for plants to decorate the ceremony and reception areas. We ended up leaving with three planters, almost a dozen blankets and $18 worth of pink paper plates and napkins. You're probably wondering, why blankets? Well, I got the idea from this wedding blog. I told Chris this idea and he was on board with it. So we bought blankets and I made tags:

We bought less than a dozen so hopefully not everyone wants to snuggle. We thought it was a good idea since it's kind of an early wedding and it might be a little chilly.

Hopefully I don't go another month without blogging. It's hard to catch up on everything we've been up to. Plus, if I go another month it'll be a few days before our wedding! Aaaah! (That's a good aaaah!). This weekend is my bridal shower and bachelorette party. I'm super excited to see what my girls have been planning! :)

invitation station...

IS CLOSED! At least that's what I told Chris last night when I finished our invitations.

Chris says it took so long because I took so many pictures of everything... Which is true, but I wanted to document all my hard work. That's okay, right? Well, our save the date got in on some pictures too:

My grandmother gave me this Bermuda bus from her last trip to Bermuda, and we just happen to being going to Bermuda for our honeymoon, so I thought it was appropriate! I'm not going to share any more pictures just yet, just in case someone's reading this... I don't want to ruin the surprise :)

 

I'm sure I'm excited I'm finally done with the invitations and Chris just thinks I'm silly. 

Also, in non-related wedding news, while I was in "photoshoot mode" I made Chris take a picture of me with another one of my accomplishments....

My diploma from SUNY New Paltz :) It came in the mail a few weeks ago and we framed it. Haven't found a place for it yet, so it just hangs out in the computer room for now.

That's all. Hopefully I'll post pictures of the invitations in a week or so after I'm sure everyone has received them!

updates! updates! updates!

We've changed the ceremony and reception site once again! Chris and I have been slightly worried about the secluded field for several reasons: the ground, getting guests there, electricity source, distance away from parking, etc... So he came up with a new idea. We will have the ceremony and reception in the backyard, but the tent will block the house so it is not in the photos, etc. It solves a lot of problems and I think it will work just fine! 

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Shoes. As you know, my shoe search has been quite a task. I finally ordered two pairs of shoes a couple of weeks ago: Jessica Simpson Hill Wedges and Rocketdog Memories DB. I got the Jessica Simpson ones in the mail and I'm still waiting on the second pair. I like them but I'm not head over heels in love with them, which I feel you should be with your wedding shoes. I'm also seriously considering wearing my cowboy boots. Yee-haw!

Cake. We had an appointment at the Pastry Garden scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, but then it snowed and they closed so we rescheduled it for Thursday afternoon. I love cake tasting and if I wasn't on a diet I would make it my profession! We ordered three samples to taste: vanilla cake with fresh berries and buttercream frosting, chocolate cake with raspberry mousse and chocolate buttercream frosting and marble cake with chocolate ganache and buttercream frosting. They were delicious. Then we ordered a sample cake of a combination of the layers on our wedding cake. I picked that up on Saturday and we had it for dessert with Chris's parents Saturday night. That cake was vanilla and chocolate cake with strawberry mousse and chocolate ganache. It was delicious, but we all agreed that the ganache was a bit too overpowering. So we keep gravitating more and more towards a strawberry shortcake. It is going to look like my inspiration cake:

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It will be frosted on the outside with buttercream frosting. The bottom layer will be chocolate cake with strawberry mousse and the top two tiers will be vanilla cake with strawberry mousse. And it will have piles of strawberries on top of each pillared layer, as in the picture. The cake will be decorated with dots:

This is our sample cake. We want it to be smooth on the side of the cake though, they have ridges on our sample cake. It's so cute though, isn't it? Also, we will get a 6" cake of our wedding cake on our first year anniversary. I love that!

 Christopher and I practicing for our big day! 

Photography. As I previously mentioned, Chris and I met with the photographer from D&G Studio and it went okay, not fantastic but okay. We also met with another photographer this past week and she was amazing. I guess I can say we met with our photographer :) She was very nice, friendly, bubbly and conversation was easy. We were there for an hour and it didn't even feel like it. Her name is Vivian from Vivian Photography. Also with the photography, we rented her bridal suite for me and the girls to get ready in the day of. It's super cool and I'm so excited. I'm glad we made the decision to hire a professional photographer and that we found her. Here's a picture of "Space" (aka the getting ready bridal suite):

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Stationery. I still haven't finished the invitations and RSVPs yet. My printer keeps running out of ink and it is annoying me. I spent $35 in one week replacing the cyan and yellow ink cartridges and now the black ink decides to run out. *Sighs* I'm not sure if my February 20th goal will be met. We shall see. 

Rentals. Chris's to-do list for the past week has been to research tent and johnny on the spot rentals. I know he's made some progress, but I'd like to get those booked ASAP. 

Well, that's enough wedding updates for now!