My Adorable Fans!!

Paddle fans that is. To reiterate from my post "Keeping the Water Cold", we're having a mid-june wedding and it was important for us to have different ways of keeping our guest comfortable. So I decided to kill two birds with one stones, making my wedding programs hand-held fans that the guest cold use to keep themselves cool.




How did I make them? I have a template that I used for the body. The sticks are jumbo craft sticks from Walmart and are painted with Krylon spray paint. The bows are hand tied and all the rhinestones are hotfix rhinestones. The paper was affixed to the stick with 3M spray adhesive. This was a tedious process but so worth it, at least I think.

What are you doing for programs?

Keeping The Water Cold

When my hubby to be and I decided that we wanted an outdoor wedding, we knew that we wanted to have personalized bottles of water. We wanted to find ways to keep our guests cool short of renting a tent which was impossible given the awkwardness of our ceremony venue.

Anyway, back to the water. We wanted a fun and cute way of keeping our personalized water bottles cold without having to put them in ugly coolers. I just wasn't comfortable with the thought of igloos at a formal ceremony.

While shopping at Target one day, we just happened to wander into their seasonal aisle and, guess what we found?





Aren't they awesome!?! I got one white one and one red one and of course two stands. I think I'll add a black bow on each end of them. These cute beverage tubs are available at Target and come in a variety of different colors on the website. They have select colors available in the store. I believe they were $14.99 each and the stands that you put them on were $9.99 each.

I adore them. They are perfect. I hope this post helps another bride out.

TTFN

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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Centerpieces: The Restart

In my other centerpiece post I touched on not liking my flowers and starting my centerpieces all over and in my "love in roses" post, you saw the roses I purchased which just in case I didn't make it clear then, I LOVE!!

Upon putting the centerpiece together, not even half way thru assembling the roses, I already knew that I was going to love it. Not only do the roses look better than the other ones but they give my cents a more elegant look and I love that.

Don't mind the crooked pictures. Apparently, I need to learn to hold the camera straight.




Now the only thing I'm thinking of changing is the feathers. I'm thinking of getting longer more full ones. What do you think?