Wedding date is getting closer

Last Monday was two months before the wedding, and I still am looking for more inspiration. Here are some cool inspiration from great weddings:

Kelly has offered to design some for the wedding!

If anyone has a pretty sheet or sheets, I would really like to place a backdrop for photos.

Table inspirations. I love the messy coordination.

At some point I'm going to have to stop looking at wedding porn, and just sit down with Andrew and decide what we are taking or leaving.



Photos from Once Wed

So many things to do!

It has been a long time since Ive written...it has been a busy month. I have not only traveled, but turned in a crazy amount of papers, fund raising in school, and so on. Nevertheless, I now have time to start focusing on the wedding again. Here is part of my to-do list:

- Get invites mailed-thus getting RSVPs
- Add information about hotels on our website
- Start making my wedding dress (mother in law to be will be helping!! Yay!)
- Buy-find more mason jars
- Buy-find table cloths
- Make practice centerpieces (still deciding on which one I want-twigs or flowers)
- Find more plates (we have around 40 so far...about 20 more to go!)
- Make napkins with all my fabric
- Decide on ceremony spot decoration: twig circle and flowers, paper cranes, or pom poms
- Wedding ring for Andrew (I am blessed to get his grandmothers ring, a beautiful, vintage, gold ring)
- Find shoes! (fun!)
- Practice recipes for cupcakes (so far I have decided on lemon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting)

For silverware we have settled for plastic. Hopefully I will be able to wash them and reuse them in school or for next parties. We will also have some paper napkins for cupcake holding.

More things to do:
- Ask friends to lend us blankets (seating for the ceremony and laying in the sun)
- Choose games to take
- Bubbles and pinata!
- Start stocking up on wine and beer
- Ask for lemon contributions (so many lemon trees!)
- Make head piece
- decide on whether we will have a photobooth (how can we make it work???)
- Start sorting through pictures for our picture display
- Music playlist
- Most important of all!!!! DECIDE ON OUR CEREMONY AND WRITE OUR VOWS!!!

Although the list is long, it feels good to write it down. Now we can start checking stuff off. (Dont you love to-do lists???)

Pom poms Vs. Cranes

This is what we want our wedding to be! It looks like a fun, warm, happy day. Nobody looks stressed, and everything just kinda fits together.

And check out the decor... so beautiful, and so simple! I'm totally rethinking the pom poms...or maybe do both.

Photos from Once Wed, Nancy and Ethan's wedding

Flowers vs. twigs

As much as I would like to have flowers at the wedding, it's not so great to cut flowers to have them die in a few days. Plus, it would be hard to have things ready in advance, and I would have to scamper around to buy affordable flowers the day before. Instead, I was thinking of combining flowers in jars, grass grown in pots, and these awesome twig arrangements. The flowers glued on are miniature versions of the pom poms which I will also have hanging from trees.



To see more of this awesome reception and the making process, go to Crytal's Fiesta on the Prarie

flea market finds

An interesting bottle



Pretty wine glasses



Awesome made into a plate

Table arrangements

Inspired by the beautiful wedding arrangements on A backyard wedding, I have started collecting jars and bottles for the table arrangements. We will be putting summer wildflowers in them.
Check all of these out at Once Wed.

Happy times pom poms

I just made these, inspired by Martha Stewart weddings. I made them with some old birthday paper, anthropologie wrapping, and other tissue I found around the house. We plan to put these hanging from trees. They are a better alternative to paper lanterns (cheaper), and easy to recycle. I will try to post them on Craigslist, maybe the could be reused?...