Life has been a little busy lately. I started a new contract attorney project a couple weeks ago, and so most of my wedding projects have been on hold. I have had time today to work on making some fabric flowers - here is a picture of what I have done so far:
I like the way they are turning out, but it's definitely taking more time than I expected. I will definitely be recruiting friends and family to help me make them, don't worry - I'll bribe you by providing wine and snacks!
I've had a few requests for overall wedding planning updates. So, here goes...
We have sent out save the dates, I think they turned out really cute. Here is the picture we included on them. The chalkboard in the photo will actually be used at the wedding as well. My wonderful friend Tracy had seen this idea at another wedding recently and shared it with me - they had guests use chalkboards to leave messages for the bride and groom. There was a camera available so each person could have a picture taken of them with their message for the couple, and that was used as their guest book. I loved the idea, and so we ordered a couple of chalkboards in our wedding colors on Etsy for our chalkboard/photo wedding guest book. I can't wait to see it in action at the wedding!
Let's see what other plans can I update on?
We found a photographer! We are using Mark Sobahni as our wedding photographer, his stuff is amazing, you should definitely check out his website and blog. His work is photo-journalistic in style, which we appreciate because it is more candid and captures moments, more than poses.
We are currently working on cake ideas. I am planning to use crepe paper flowers in various shades of blue on the different tiers of the wedding cake. I really want a pretty simplistic cake that has a homemade icing look to it. Still lots of ideas in the works for the grooms cake and we will probably keep the finalized idea a secret, so that you will all be amazed and awed by it at the reception. :)
Music for the ceremony was fairly easy, we decided on two violins to play at the church, the acoustics are amazing and I really think it will sound great! I think we're also almost decided on all of the music choices for the ceremony, but still need to talk to the musicians and make sure they can play all the pieces that we want played.
We are going to San Antonio in a few weeks for my 10 year college reunion (still amazed that it's been 10 years), and while we're there we are going to meet with the florist to pick out flowers! Right now I'm leaning towards all white flowers with blue ribbon wrapped around the bouquets. I am supposed to print or cut out pictures of things that I like, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm not really very picky about flowers, I really like them all, so it should be fun.
We still haven't had time to go to San Antonio to do cake tastings and reception food tastings. We need to go during the week, which makes it tough. Hopefully we will be able to make time during the holidays when Charles has time off from school.
I'm using the fabric flowers above scattered in the center of the table with tealight candles and table numbers as our centerpieces. I have an idea for another DIY project, but I'm worried I'm going a little DIY crazy. I went to the new Anthropologie wedding store, BHLDN (we are oh so lucky that the first one in the country opened right here in Houston!) and fell in love with these glitter table numbers. Aren't they awesome!? Unfortunately they are quite pricey and only come in packages 0-9 and so I would need three of them to get all of my numbers. So, I think I'm going to use cardboard, glue, and glitter and make them myself.
The two vendors I have left are the DJ and the transportation from the wedding to the reception. I am quite worried about selecting a DJ. We want to have great music and have a list of songs we don't want played and so we want to make sure we don't pick a a generic cheesy wedding DJ, and so, we just keep putting it off. My major wedding task this week is to get someone booked! The transportation I'm not as worried about. We're either going to hire a small bus or trolley to take the wedding party to the ceremony and from the ceremony to the reception after, it shouldn't be too hard to find someone, it's just a matter of making the phone calls.
Ok, this turned into a marathon post. If you want more details on something specific or have any suggestions, leave me a comment or email me!
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