YES! Excited but so, so busy! I feel kind of bad, I stopped using tumblr bc Pinterest was sooo much faster, ha. I’ll post pics after though! Thanks for the compliments :-)
I asked my dad if he could make us a trunk that’s heavy (too heavy to walk off with!), and also locks, for any cards we may receive on our wedding day. This is what he came up with! It’s a trunk, with a real lock and key. Our names and wedding dates are engraved on a plate on the top that screws in. When you take the plate off, there’s a slot to put cards in. After the wedding, we can put the nameplate back, use it in our home for storage. It’s, indeed, a treasure chest (as in, I’ll always treasure it).
I bought some fake flowers and “put together” my centerpieces. Just food for thought.
Ha. Thanks! I’ve not updated in a long time it seems, but thank you!
Thanks, darlin’!
He hid the ring in our Christmas tree, and I found it as we were decorating :-) I pulled it off the branch, and turned around - boom, there he was on one knee with a little speech prepared.
We just moved into our new house, so of course I’ve been busy decorating. Yesterday I went to Home Goods (there’s one in Pittsburgh finally!!!) and I found some goodies for both the house and the wedding.
We’re having a pie contest - or that’s the plan. I want to have people vote for their favorite pie (giving them a list of a few flavors) in the invite, and send that back as part of their RSVP. Then we’re going to display the pies, and give them 1st, 2nd, 3rd place blue ribbons. I was trying to find cake stands to put the pies on, and it’s harder than you’d think if you don’t want to spend 50 bucks on something you’ll never use again. This was $9.99 at Home Goods. I have a bunch of colored wicker baskets that I bought at Michael’s on clearance for $4 each that I’m flipping over and using for the rest of the pies.
The crystals made it a little more wedding-ish, I thought. I’m trying to find some sparkly or metallic things so our wedding doesn’t look completely like a garbage dump, ha.
Along those lines…
This dandy little mercury glass bird matches the mercury glass candlesticks that I bought at Target a few weeks ago. Pottery Barn had some amazing ones, for maybe $20 or $30 each. The most expensive one I bought at Target was $16. I only have four candlesticks, but I’m thinking that two will go on our sweetheart table, and two on the party table. Then this little guy…not really sure yet. I might put it inside the house instead of outside in the pavilion.
This isn’t really anything special, but I thought it was a pretty picture frame, haha. I don’t want to end up having clear, cheap plastic frames at our wedding to display our photos. But I also don’t want to spend a lot of money if I’m never going to use them.
All of the decorations I’ve been buying for my wedding are also being used in my house, or vice versa. I’m trying to be thrifty this way. A lot of the photo frames we’ll use at the wedding to display our photos will also hang in our house one day.
This plan has also kept me from getting too incredibly theme-y for my wedding. I super wanted a carnival wedding, but it was getting out of hand. Now it’s more like a country charm wedding, haha.
These are my official bridesmaid dresses! From Alfred Angelo, a new dress from the 2012 collection. And, it was only $159. All of my girls said it was comfortable, too, and it looked good on four very different body types. Score!
(Source: alfredangelo.com)
This is the best inspiration for a beach wedding, ever.
(via little-white-dress)
Oh my goodness. This wedding is so perfect. It’s gorgeous!
(via theweddingtree)
