Wedding Wednesday: Hotel Bags & More!

Wow, I just realized as I was typing the title of this post that this will probably be one of the last Wedding Wednesday posts until after our wedding. We are getting married this Saturday!!!

I've been busy with little projects like our hotel bags for our guests. We had a bunch of invitations left over and I couldn't bring myself to throw them away so I made them into tags and attatched them to the bags. Super easy project.

Here's the completed bag:

We stuffed our bags with chips, pretzels, Gertrude Hawk chocolate bars, water bottles, and a welcome letter.

After taking inventory of all of our items that need to be packed away in the car and brought to the venue, I realized just how pink our wedding will be. I'm pretty fortunate that my fiancee let me go crazy with the pink girlyness. There's not a whole lot left to do except sit back and wait for Thursday to get here. Our rehearsal and dinner is on Thursday. Friday will bring a day of pampering and relaxation. My girls and I are getting our nails done, going tanning (one last time), going to see the movie Bridesmaids, and going out for dinner.

1 Week Away from the Wedding!

I've been terrible at blogging lately but I've been so consumed with wedding projects, beauty regimens, and working. I never really understood why people hired wedding planners until now. The last couple of weeks before the wedding are insane! I feel like an accountant after tallying the final guest counts, entree counts, formulating seating charts, maintaining budgets, etc. Those computer courses in college really paid off because this wedding has made me the queen of spreadsheets! As much as I say I wish I hired a wedding planner, I think I made the right choice not hiring one. I'm such a Type A and I don't know if theres anyone I could trust enough with such an important task. I would probably hire one and end up doing all of the work or at least double checking all of their work-- I'm crazy, I know.

The reality of it all is finally setting in and I can't believe we are just one week away from being husband and wife!

I'm going to try my best to get a few wedding-realted project posts up here before the wedding. So, stay tuned...

It's Finally Here!

My Bachelorette Weekend, that is. The wedding is just 21 days away though!!! I can't believe how fast time is flying us by now.

Well, I'm off to Atlantic City for the weekend for Bachelorette/Bachelor Party madness! My fiance and I have been together for 7 and a half years now and we have lived together for about 7 of those years (we didn't waste any time, right?), we have a lot of mutual friends, and it's not like the old days where it's our "last night out," so we decided to have a conjoined party weekend with everyone.

*follow up post and pictures to follow*

Wedding Bow Bouquet!

Out with the old bow hat and in with the new bow bouquet! I saw this concept on a wedding site a while back and I thought it was a cute, more practical idea. Instead of wearing the silly bow hat at the shower for a couple of awkward pictures you can use a bow bouquet for practice at your rehearsal.

All you need is a paper plate, a piece of cardboard, some ribbon, and some bows.

1. Cut the rim of the paper plate off and cut a slit in the middle to attatch the handle

2. Roll up a piece of hardboard to make the handle and wrap it with ribbon, secure with hot glue or duct tape.

3. poke the handle through the plate and tie a knot at the top of the handle that is poking through so it can't fall off of the plate.

4. Figure out the placement of your bows and hot glue or tape them on the plate. You can also make a bow on the back of the plate to hide where the handle meets the plate but thats optional.

Pretty easy, right?

Shoe Haul, oh and a dress too!

Charlotte Russe

Qupid -Nydia-




Charlotte Russe

Charlotte Russe

Just when I thought I had all of my outfits planned out for my shower and rehearsal dinner, I went to Charlotte Russe and it changed everything. I got this white dress to wear with the first pair of black heels pictured above. I'll be wearing this to the rehearsal dinner. I actually borrowed the purple bubble dress that I wore to my shower from my cousin. That dress was also from Charlotte Russe. Sometimes shopping in other people's closets (who are the same size as you) is more helpful than an actual store.