Oh, what a day!!!

We finally sent out our invitations! I was happy to say "goodbye" when I was shoving them through the mail box at the post office. I've already received some feedback from one of my bridesmaids about how much she loved them! I'm excited to see how early we'll be getting some responses back!

Today, I received a call from the bridal company. Our bridesmaids dresses are in!! YAHOO!!! I'll be going down to pick them up this saturday.

Also, when I got home, I had an invitation for my bachelorette party from my Maid of Honor. It is going to be amazing!!! My maid of honor even said that she had some other surprises planned!

I broke down and actually purchased some hair extensions. Eeek... it cost about $90. I had the original plan to just make them myself, but one of the girls at Sally's showed me their "best hair". Which, of course, was the most expensive. I was just thinking, I want my hair to look amazing at my wedding so might as well spend the extra money. Plus! It's not like I won't use them ever again. I have them in my hair right now, which they need to be cut to match my hair. I love having long hair again!!

It's all Coming together!!!

Matt and I got a ton of wedding stuff done in just a few days. We went back home to my parents' place to "research" a/k/a eat at different restaurants for our rehearsal dinner. We discussed a couple of places, and I think we may have found a winner. We're just waiting for contact back from the manager so we can (hopefully) reserve the night for the rehearsal dinner! Yay! I'm excited to get something started for this!

Also, Matt booked our honeymoon! We're going to [drum roll, please]... Punta Cana, Dominican Republic! I'm so excited! I've heard nothing but great things about the D.R. A girl I work with said that it was the best vacation she ever went on! I think we're staying 7 days, so such a nice, long, relaxing time that I feel like I will totally deserve after dealing with all of these plans, and projects! I can't wait for blue water, and hot sand!

Yesterday, we went to Mens Warehouse Tux, and ordered tuxes. Matt is getting one that's a little nicer than the other guys, but they are both notch lapel tuxes. Matt is going to wear white, the best man and man of honor will wear turquoise vests and euroties, the groomsman and the usher will wear the chartreuse color, and our dad's will be in ivory. It seems like it's all starting to come together!

Then, while we were already at the mall, I thought I'd show Matt an idea that I had for the boys' gifts. They were personalized beer mugs. He really liked it, and decided to get them right then and there! They are glass, but spray painted with a gun metal finish. We won't be able to pick them up until about 2 today, but I will put up pictures when we get them.

Stick a fork in me I'm [almost] done!

I decided that I was really going to start hammering out these invites. I purchased all the stamps I needed for the rsvp post cards. I have to wait until we get the actual mailing envelope so I know how heavy the invites will be before I can purchase the final stamps, but I came home and stuffed all the pocketfolds, put the stamps on the rsvps, and wrote names on the inner envelopes! Almost done, and it's starting to sort of kick in that we're actually doing this!! 2 months and some change and we'll be there! WOW!!

And, I am almost done with pomander #2. It didn't (well at least didn't seem to) take as long as the first one. I tried to do it step by step, as in stack, fold, and gather the tissue paper to however many I thought I needed. Then I cut the "petal outline", fluffed and put in the styrofoam ball. Also, I tried to spread them out a little more than the first one.

Do It Yourself... a little too much... and hair and make up call

I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew. I love craft projects, and putting things together, but taking on two really big DIY projects has got me going CrAzY!

My number one project is our invitations. Other than our pocketfold and rsvp postcard, I have printed, cut, and assembled everything myself. I gave an invite to one of our bridesmaids, and she just loved them! She kept telling me how professional they look! I think that she will want to use something like mine for her wedding next year because she told me I'd have to show her how I made them. My parents were really stunned by the look of them as well. I felt like my mom was really proud because she isn't too involved with the planning, and to actually see a project that I've been working on, she seemed to juts be amazed at my "creativity".




I'm really happy with the way they have come out! It hasn't necessarily been too time consuming, just boring mainly with the cutting. I've got 40 more to go, which I plan on completing today on my wonderful day off. :o)

Another project I have taken on, which has oddly been the biggest one yet, is our tissue paper pomanders. I worked and worked on one... ONE... yesterday for approx. 4 hours, and I got half way done! Maybe I'll make the flowers bigger so they take up more space, therefore not using as much time. It's a good thing I have 3 months to complete these!!!


Listed are the two websites where I found inspiration, and directions for these two amazing projects!
- Road to the Aisle blog. She has been amazing for DIY projects! I highly recommend using this blog as a guide to all of your projects!
- This is a knottie (a/k/a a person from theknot.com). I don't know who she is, but these directions were posted on a board that I follow on the knot.

I, also, blogged about my hair and make up trial that was coming up. I love the make up! We will be adding false eyelashes to really make my eyes pop. But my hair was a total disaster! It was nothing like what I had asked her to give me, and the sad part is I ended up spending about $65 on something that ended up falling out in about 1 hr. I will have to go back to try to work something else out as far as my hair goes.



Oh, and p.s. My dad and I were going over my taxes and he ended up making a small mistake! I don't owe the IRS money, I am actually getting money back! YAY!! Which, all the money will more than likely go to wedding things... haha...

Some little checky-poo's

Well, we did it... Matt and I FINALLY got pre-cana out of the way for our church. We went last saturday for 8 hours. It was long... and a tad boring, but at the same time it was pretty interesting. A small thing that happened was that this guy I used to date was there with his fiancee. It was interesting and a smidge awkward... Especially when he and Matt were talking. Oh, and he sat next to us the entire time.

In other news, I FINALLY ordered the majority of our invitation stuff! I ordered the pocketfolds today, the cardstock, and the rsvp postcards. I think I finally found the color I want for our invites, and Mo has been amazing with all of her help. I don't know where I'd be without her! I hope I can get everything soon so I can start printing and assembling.

Tomorrow, I have an appointment for a hair and make-up trial. I'm really excited, but a little nervous because I'm sick so I'm afraid I'm going to look horrible even after my make-up is done. Hopefully I'll feel better by tomorrow. I will update with pictures as soon as I get my trial done! I'm pretty excited!

So mad!

I am SO mad! My dad called me today to let me know that he did my taxes and said I owed the IRS $873!! I was expecting to get around that much back! I'm so upset, and so mad. I made a small deal with my parents that I would pay for all the paper things, and I was relying on my tax returns to be able to get all of our invitation stuff printed and everything! Now, I don't know what I'm going to do! I'm so mad...

Invite mock up

Yesterday, I had the epiphany that our wedding is only 4 months away. It really started to freak me out! I realized that I need to get all of our invitation stuff done by this month in order to send out our invites at the beginning of April. EEK! I have nothing done! I haven't even purchased anything! Last night I decided to make a mock up of what I want our invites to look like with the sample pocketfold I received from Renaissance Writings.I love the outcome, but I wish it was closer to my color instead of black. I'm also trying out a different color for the invitations that what I had originally planned (it would have just been too expensive to do that much color). I still haven't found exactly it.
The directions/map card is driving me crazy because I can't get it to work, and I'm the worst at wording directions. I'm happy that I was at least able to make a mock up so I know what it'll somewhat look like. At least I have a little while longer to make up my mind!

Oh, and p.s. it won't be a save the date card, it will be a R.S.V.P. postcard (cheaper postage)!