
Thursday, May 19, 2011
The final centerpieces, boutonnieres and brides bouquet


Monday, May 9, 2011
The start of my bouquet...
a couple finished projects



Monday, May 2, 2011
A Royal Wedding
wedding websites
I started here-
My sister-in-law's page-
I just found this one! Wish I found it earlier.
Bamboo canopy
Sean used cement to hold the bamboo in the pots because we may use this canopy inside or outside. Also, it's can break down a bit to be portable too.
The bamboo canopy was from here! We just changed the directions around a bit and made it our own. Love it. Her blog is a "must see." I check it daily, DIYbride.com
tree table assignments


Ring bearer and flower girl accessories

or maybe ask my mom to tool paint flowers on it. Or another idea I was thinking would be to tie ribbon inside the tip and have it hang down like water is coming out.
Wood burning decor

The tree quote I found online, and the song "I Wanna Grow Old With You" Sean sang to me when he proposed!
I wood burned hearts with our initials K + S on the front side, and 5-13-11 on the back. I was originally going to do these for favors, but after decided they would be cute as part of the table setting.

Thursday, April 28, 2011
Paper flower bouquets!
We had such great success, my family and I, we are now making more flowers of our centerpieces! Such a great money saver.

Some great flower bouquet ideas. This one even uses newspaper! Love it!
What amazing paper flowers this company makes! Wish I could afford them, but They have some beautiful work. Check them out!
Like round bouquets? Check out this blog above. They used a stirafome ball and made paper flowers. Then attached the flowers to stick and stuck the pins into the ball! Perfect idea!
Learn how to make a paper iris flower origami style! Love this idea, might use it for my bouquet :-)
Ribbons

http://www.designmom.com/2011/04/ribbon-party-decorations/
We have been getting ribbons in the mail from friends and family. So many beautiful colors and sizes.... Sean and Leslie cut the ribbons yesterday and sewed loops in the top of them so we can have them drape at the back of the canopy! The canopy will be made out of bamboo from Sean's parents yard.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Bridesmaid dresses




1. Cost
2. Multiple styles to fit everyones body type
Since I've done dance costumes all my life, I know what it's like having to wear something that doesn't really fit right, isn't flattering on your figure, or is just uncomfortable material. When shopping for my dance costumes for the kids I teach, I remember these factors and try to find costumes that they will hopefully be comfortable in. I had the same ideas when shopping for my bridesmaid dress. You want them to look "In Sync," but what about feeling comfortable and confident? I hope that with this multi-way dress from Victoria's Secret that I found, my bridesmaids can feel this way. At $73 bucks a dress, I thought that it was a pretty smokin' deal.
I'm obsessed with cowboy boots. They are comfy, and just soooo dang cute! When my sister-in-laws "to be" mentioned... bridesmaids in different cowboy boots, how could I say no!!! Half of my bridesmaids already have brown boots, the other half always wanted a pair. It's such a great idea. <3
When shopping for a venue...
Make sure you like both the indoor and outdoor option for a wedding in Seattle. You never know when it's gonna rain here, or snow. It just snowed yesterday, April 6th. Crazy weather in the Seattle area.
Also, besides first off finding a venue that your size wedding will fit, you also need to find a place that allows for you to have some freedom is decorations and expressing your "feel" of your wedding.
Lighting in the venue, and the amount you are allowed to have inside/outside is one of the most important factors for a wedding. I didn't know this until recently... but you need lots of candles. Even if they are flameless, that's ok you can still get the ambiance and it really helps soften pictures as well.
Find out all extra charges before hand. We found out at our venue if we use the chairs outside, we have to pay $1 per every chair they set up. That's fine because my family is very helpful, but it woulda been nice for them to clarify this matter before. Then they changed the amount of the venue on us from $2,800 to $3,500 for using our own catering. Lastly, they changed our 1 hour rehearsal price from $100 to $150. I love The Manor, it's so beautiful. But I'm upset with the owners and management for changing prices on us.
What it comes down to is you still have to make it work. And, in the end I get to marry the love of my life.
Mason Jars
He also added wiring to hang 22 jars if we need to at the edge of the chairs at the ceremony. We will also use these jars at the reception.
I wrapped 21 mason jars with moss and tied them with raffia. My sister-in-law Jenny and aunt Leslie helped me. Buying table runners of moss was the easiest way, we just cut the table runners to wrap around the jars.



I also really like the idea of putting old pictures in mason jars of family. I want to put a picture of Tanya Guseva in a mason jar. She is a friend of mine who passed away two years ago from a horrible car accident. Wish she could be there for our special day.
The invitations
Momental Designs makes some beautiful tree invitations that are all individual pieces are art. They even paint on some of the flowers after they design your tree invites and put whatever you would like next to your tree. If you can afford $9.75 per each invitation set (envelopes, invite, RSVP), then by all means, they are beautiful. But with a tighter budget, we decided to make our own tree invites.
I got packs of 50 ivory invites with envelopes and RSVP cards for 3 bucks each. We bought 5 boxes because since we were printing them ourselves, might as well have room for mistakes and such. So $15 later, we had our invites. Jen Kelly is sooo wonderful, she designed our tree invites and we printed them at her work for a small cost. The stamps were the most expensive part. In all, I probably spent $150 for 250 invites with the stamps and everything! At momental designs i would have only gotten 14 complete invites for that price... crazy!
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