The Flower Girls got their dresses!

The girls have received their flower girl dresses! Look how cute they look! :)

Cake Ideas

These are a few idea's we have for the wedding cake. Nothing to crazy just simple but, elegant! We have our first tasting on Feb. 20th at "Sugar Bakers" and I get to bring three people and of course everyone wants to come to this!

A Weekend full of Wedding Adventures!

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Drew and I went downtown to check out a florist in the Canton area of Baltimore called "Crimson and Clover". Of course our directions took us the wrong way to her studio and we just took a chance and found it. The lady "Amy” was very nice and she loved my ideas! I made two print ups of what I was looking for and visioned. I told her we had a $2,000.00 budget so we will see what the proposal will say! I also told her I have expensive taste (always have) but, to help us pick maybe not as expensive flowers. Drew was a good sport and loves all the ideas and his boutonniere.

Afterwards, we headed through the city to the other side to meet with the caterer Daniel for “The Pantry”. Drew liked him right away and said he reminds him of his friend Razz. I can see that now. This tasting was off the wall! We sat at a table in his kitchen while we watched him prepare everything for us and he educated us on the food as well. We ate nine appetizers, two salads, two entrees, two sides, and two deserts! We were so full when we left! He even gave us the leftovers! Since someone else has already put down a deposit for our day he won’t be at our wedding but, will be sending over his best staff. That sucks but, he insures us they are just as good as he!

He did tell us to come back down to meet them and watch them cook so will see. All I know is our food is going to be amazing and our guests are in for a real treat! I forgot to take a picture of the one salad and it’s actually the one we’re going with and, sorry the one video is upside down... opps! ;)

4 Months Away!

Tick... Tock... Tick... Tock! Time is flying bye and the stress is building!!!! I can't believe the wedding is only four months away! Hopefully Drew and I make it to the big day! They say it's "your day" but the whole time you're planning you're trying to make sure everyone else is happy and no feelings get hurt. The hardest part of all the planning has been the "LIST"! We have always wanted a small wedding of maybe 70 people max but, with my family alone yeah right! It's tough too when you're the one paying for everything and it's a struggle to make everyone happy but, were trying! I've been on the phone all day with different vendors and it's slowly getting put together and I can't wait to see the final product of all this work! Tomorrow two of my bridesmaids are coming over to work on the invitations so they should be sent out no later than February 1st I hope!

A rough draft our invitations.

My custom made one of a kind wedding invitations!

So, I worked on our wedding invitations today. The following is a picture of the invitation design process. I think I may have bit off more than I can chew with this task but, I'm going to have fun completing it. I really hope they turn out the same way I envision them! Soon, I'm going to have the girls over so I can complete this project a bit quicker!! The flowers are going to be used on the place cards I think. I glued three different colors and sized rhinestones on about 300 little flowers! Drew made the "K" and "D' (awwww).

What do you think?

1/16/10

Today Andrea, Leah, and my Mom came over to decorate the invitations. I made them a french toast and sausage breakfast and Leah brought the coffee. I printed off about 80 invitations last night figuring that is more than enough for us. I'm really happy with the wording Drew and I chose and I managed to get the ink color pretty closet to the floral purple color that was on the invitations already. I used the font "Garamond" for the main wording and "Edwardian Script ITC" for our names. We glued tiny clear micro beads using silver glitter glue to different parts of the purple floral designs. My cats were dying to help and very curious about what we were doing. I have to say they turned out really nice and I really enjoyed the girl talk! Andrea stayed after Mom and Leah left and we made the templates for the envelope liners.

Thanks girls!

1/24/10

My sister Angie came over and I made her breakfast as well! Today we made all the envelope liners for both the invitations and response cards. We used a giant 18 x 18 "Martha Stewart" scrapbook page paper. When I bought them I realized it was a discontinued line so I bought all they had and it should be more than enough. We were able to get four sets on each template per sheet so I have plenty of leftovers to use for the programs maybe. We took turns tracing, cutting, and gluing them. Angie wasn't too happy about this task but, she did a great job. Too bad we ran out of glue so I will have to finish gluing the leftovers another day. She stayed over for about half the day and, it was really nice just hanging out with her. I don't remember the last time it was just her an I and for that long of a time period. I really appreciate her coming over and staying that long especially when she has seven kids to take care of at home.

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