Escort Cards and 5 Weeks To Go!

So with wedding day fast approaching, only 35 days, yes that's 5 weeks away, I have a few DIY things to finish up. First off I listed my house for rent yesterday, and last night, just about 6 hours after signing the management agreement, the property manager called to say someone was interested in renting it. No word yet on whether they are going to take it or not, but I was shocked someone was interested so soon! I have 4 weeks to pack everything up. I need to get on that. Now on to the fun wedding stuff!

My projects for this weekend included dropping off my ring to be redipped so it is nice and shiny for the big day. I ran into a little snag at Helzberg because apparently Tony did not buy the extended care plan on the ring, but the sales guy was so nice and bent some rules and was able to sell me the plan, so now my ering and band can have unlimited replating. Yay! The other big project was to print the vellum covers for the programs. My BFF Jessica got married last weekend in a beautiful ceremony and awesome reception and so she gifted me her extra vellum, so no need to go the store and buy some. All programs now have covers and everything has been printed, now to hole punch them and tie them all together and they will be done!

The other big project was escort cards. With our final count in, and our seating chart done, I could now work on printing the little cards with names and table numbers. At first I was going to print a border around each card to indicate meal choice since we are having a plated dinner, but then the idea came to me to punch a hole in the top of the little tented card and to tie a different ribbon in our colors to indicate meal choice. I tried the think 1/8" ribbon from Michael's, but I was not liking how it came out, so after a short trip back to my favorite craft store, I now had the 1/4" thick ribbon with the scalloped edge. I love the way they turned out. Pink ribbon for beef, green ribbon for chicken, my favorite ribbon from my invitations, white with green flowers, for vegetarian, and this adorable white with pink flowers for kids meals (the 4 kids attending are all little girls, so I thought they'd love it!).

Pink ribbon for Prime Rib

Green Ribbon for the Goat cheese & Spinach stuffed chicken (YUM!! Obviously my choice!)
My favorite ribbon (from my DIY invites) for the Mushroom & Spinach stuffed Crepes

And the adorable pink flower ribbon for our little girls getting kids' meals!

Table numbers and Programs!

So today marks exactly 7 weeks until the wedding! OMG! How did the time fly? Meaning I only have 6 weekends to finish everything I need to do and pack up the house in the meantime to be ready to move when we come back from our Honeymoon. So this weekend my DIY projects include programs and table numbers. I got our priest to sign off on our programs on Thursday and I had designed the table numbers a while back using our cherry blossom theme/graphic, but never printed them. So today, after finguring out how to do double sided printing on my printer and going through almost an entire cartridge of ink, we now have 50 programs printed and all table numbers. I then cut and glued the table numbers. Here's the finished product:
I didn't know what to do with the programs, I had about 25 sheets of 12 x 12 green sparkly card stock left from the invitations (the scraps I used for the table numbers above), but I would need 25 more sheets and still have to cut and then do our monogram on the ivory cardstock on top for a layered look. It seemed like it was going to cost more and take up more time. I haven't really used any vellum in all this wedding stuff except for our unity candle. The idea then came to me to just print our monogram on a sheet of vellum and use that as the program cover. I did a test with the last sheet of vellum I had and I love it! I am going to go to Michael's tomorrow and return the 25 sheets of cardstock and exchange for a package of vellum paper so I can finish printing and then start assembling...after I buy more ink that is...

Lots more...It's been a while

I have not updated this thing in forever! So sorry! My apologizes! Between our trip to Vermont, Jessica's (my MOH) shower and then my own shower things have been crazy! So Let's see...Vermont trip was awesome! We picked our cake baker, tasted our delicious menu at the Hilton, got epics done along with a lovely day trip to Boston, I had my hair trial, and we finalized the ceremony with the priest. Other wedding checks include finished alterations and picked up my dress, got a pair of pink flats, possibly for the reception, my girls all got their dresses, I finally picked my jewelry for the day of, had my make up trial and bought a ton of MAC makeup, mailed out invitations, got back most responses, and am now working on programs! Whew! I am tired just thinking about it all. But anyway on to some fun pictures!
To the right is my DIY cardbox. We bought the hat boxes from Jo Ann Fabrics and then cut the slit in the top and cut out most of the bottom of the top one and then I replaced the ribbon with this prettier ribbon and covered the rough edges of the slit with the ribbon and tied some cute bows and glued them on there too. I love how it came out!
Above are my earring that I bought for the day of, I am so in love with them! They are the perfect mix of sparkle and pearl, just what I was looking for and I think they are going to look great with my dress and my grandmother's pearl necklace.

Below is my hair trial, I am not thrilled with it. I think it needs more, especially in the front...

Below are the adorable hankies I got for my mom, dad, aunt, and Tony's mom as gifts. They came out so great! I got them from etsy seller REMNANTSBYEVA, she was wonderful!
My mom's says: Mommy,
Today I marry my honey,
But I will always be your bunny.
So wipe away the tears that flow,
I want to see your wonderful glow!
Love, Nen
July 4, 2009




My aunts says:
Aunt Tara,
To dry your tears as you have always dried mine. Love, Yvie July 4, 2009