Centerpieces!!!

The other day I was thinking about how much we had gotten done on the wedding (a dress, a photographer, a cake maker, a church & Celebrant, a reception venue & menu, my jewelry, his ring, flower ideas...) whew.. it felt like everything was finally coming together until I realized something... I had said no flowers as table centerpieces (which I still agree with, I do not want mini bouquets as centerpieces), but I hadn't figured out what to do!!!

So, on Saturday, Ryan had a LOT of school stuff to do, so I spent the day running around to craft stores to get inspiration for centerpieces (and came up with a beautiful plan!!!)

White Board Frame

Ok, so i did this a LONG time ago (like last August), but I just found the pictures & am catching up on my blogging I neglected so here you go.

For Easter last year, my parents bought me a GIANT white board! I love it! I use white board for EVERYTHING (future teacher) and this just made me super happy!

Cakes - Yummy, Yummy!

On Thursday, we had our first meeting with our cake maker :) I'm  really excited about both of our cakes & our baker! (We haven't gotten to taste test just yet, but that's coming tomorrow!!!)

First, our baker, she is super nice! Everyone thinks so! When I signed at our reception site, I mentioned I was considering going with this baker to see the event coordinator opinion & she was so excited! She said that Jaclyn was absolutely fabulous & who she gets all of her cakes from when she has events! This is exactly the type of recommendation I take to heart & I was so glad to know I would be getting to work with her! Part of the reason I picked this company was that it is a small, family owned bakery where the mom works out of her home, professional grade kitchen! There's something in me that loves supporting small businesses and I know she is going to work to make my cake dreams a reality!

Summer Gift Bag

So... This post was totally written a year ago and I forgot to post it, whoops! (It's kinda funny because I mention that this was for our President, which is now me, hehe, ok maybe I'm the only one who finds this funny), but you should get to read it anyway so here you go!

I'm on the board for my sorority. This summer, we drew names and each had another board member to show love for during the summer! I knew I had to do something cute for my girl (I pulled our President to do stuff for!) so I came up with an adorable summer gift bag!

Flowers

Ok so this is not set in stone yet, but I have some ideas of what I want for flowers so I want to show you all!

First off, if you hadn't noticed yet, (which, unless you actually know me, you probably haven't) my style is what I call off-beat traditional.  I do love tradition, but have to twist it a little to make it my own. A great example of this: my wedding ring! Now, when I first got engaged, I posted a picture of just my engagement band, but you'd have to see the whole thing (engagement & wedding band) to understand so here it is:

Scrapbook Whiteboard

Ok so here is a SUPER EASY 10 minute craft that I keep seeing on pinterest and finally got around to doing myself!!!

Dress Shopping

Note: I originally wrote this back in February, but spaced on posting it so if you notice some anachronisms, that's why (such as not having a date when I obviously already blogged about having one)

I feel like I'm doing things out of order, I have a dress (my parents are picking it up tonight), but still no date! (waiting on our priest to come back from a family problem for that). So you know, since I have done something so exciting, I'm going to blog about it! So, my dress shopping adventure will be in the form of "rules"for dress shopping (I say "rules" because I didn't follow a lot of them, so I guess they are more like guidelines ;)