Centerpieces: Fabulousness!!

What did I find on my porch on Saturday? My feathers!! Woot! I was so unbelievably happy when I open the package and there they were in all their splendor.

I immediately came in and started re-working my centerpiece. There actually wasn't that much re-working to do, as I was already set on the way the roses are arranged. It was just about figuring out how and where I wanted to add the feathers to the arrangement.

I toyed with it for only about 15 minutes before I came up with this:



Don't you love it because I absolutely love it!!!

Keep in mind that at the actual reception, there will also be vase filler and floralytes inside the vases, red and clear crystals scattered around the vase and four clear votive holders with red votives.

I can not wait to see the whole set up. It's going to be elegant, beautiful and just perfect. :-)

Invitation Overdrive!!

It's April!! My how the time flys. April means it's time for me to get my invitations out. At least that's what it says on the timeline that I created for myself almost a year ago anyway.

On Thurday, which was the first day of April, I was feeling the pressure and I quickly got into invitation assembly mode. I finished glueing the pieces of the actual invitations together at work and was pleasantly surprised when I got them all glued together.

Later when I got home, I put everything in neat piles on the table to get ready for the final assembly. I have envelopments, which I love, and I had to glue the belly card over the belly bands. This was the finaly step before they we're ready to be put in to their cute envelopes.



I then right away started to put the dry ones into envelopes and attached their address labels. Yep, I used address labels which was appropriate seeing as though my envelopes are black. Finally, I started to run out of steam around 11pm and went off to bed, feeling good that half of the invites were in their envelopes awaiting postage. By the way, I ordered personalized stamps from www.zazzle.com and was impatiently awaiting their arrival.













Moving ahead to Friday April 2nd and I get a package at work and guess what it is!! My stamps!! They were so much more than I expected. I love them a whole lot. I highly recommend that you get your stamps from Zazzle. I ordered the large ones and omg they are just beautiful. This photo really doesn't do them justice.



Back to Friday......so after work, I finished getting the rest of the invites into their envelopes and their seals on them and affixed the postage to all of them.



Mission complete!!!

Now, it's Saturday April 3rd, and in a little bit I'll be heading out to the post office with them.

I'm squealing with excitement on the inside!!

TTFN

Centerpieces: Finely Feathered!!

As you know, I have been looking for longer feathers for my centerpieces. About 3 days ago, I found them on my second best wedding planning friend, ebay. I was so excited!!



Aren't they fabulous!?! These are grade A, 21 inch, black ostrich feathers. Swoon!

These things are expensive. I know because I explored every other option before finding these. I got 60 for $45 and that included shipping. On other sites the cost for that many of this quality and length was $120-$140 and did not include shipping.

I love a deal or should I say a steal!!

I can't wait for them to arrive so I can add them to my centerpieces!!

Be on the look out for pictures.

That's My Chair

I've been noticing this new trend with brides wanting to add some sort of personalization to the bride and groom's chairs at the reception. Those of you who really know me as far as wedding planning goes, know that I really love personalization so I'm excited with this idea.

I originally was going to order personalized chair sashes from www.wedowed.com but really didn't want to spend the $40+ dollars for two chair sashes to only be used for four and a half hours. I also couldn't get past the what are we going to do with them after the wedding question.

I found a solution to that one day while shopping at a TJ Maxx store. They had a whole section of Martha Stewart and Gartner Studios wedding supplies like invite kits and favor boxes and such. I decided to take a look even though I already had my invites and favor containers and then what did I find? Cute lil black and white chair marker kits that came two in a pack for $1.99!! A perfect solution to my bride and groom chair personalization problem. You can already guess that I bought them. I love finding the things that I want for a great price!!



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