Mary Kay

So I recieved another Bridal pampering thingy from a Mary Kay consultant, and decided to take her up on her offer - only cause she gave me a $13 gift card. It was just me and her, still don't have any close enough friends to invite to something like this here in town... but anyways, it was great and we had a blast. I really really really would like to get the little compact of make-up for th wedding and just have all the eye shadow colors, blush, mascara & lipstick in one place, but it cost $66!

Then towards the end of the session, she tells me that the $13 gift card she game me.. I can not use, I have to give it to a friend! Bummer on my part, cause it is only good for her buisness, its non-changable to another consultant...

i hate fine print!

Rose Petals

So I found this great deal on rose petals from this store called http://www.efavormart.com/ for $12 I got 1000 dark blue rose petals. This was a terrific deal, the cheapest I found online. We are going to use them for the flower girl's basket and on all the centerpiece. They shipped really quickly and I'm glad because I will have plenty time to buy more if I feel like it!

Now the debate is whether to have an aisle runner or not? There is a neat pattern with the two hearts..but I'm not sure if I want to spent money on a runner...

Save the Dates

So the save the dates are in and now it is time to assemble and get them mailed!!! They are supose to be dark blue, but right now they look purple - no biggie. Once we put the dark blue card stock behind it the color will look darker.

They have two hearts (waterpaint style) and then our information on it. I am placing them on magnets then get to mount them on Cardstock, and address all the letters (so looking forward to that part..not).

So excited because I'm really starting to see things come together!

P.S. - found a great deal on rose petals, so I ordered them ...way too far in advance.
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found my garter for under my dress - just got to put a bid in on eBay for it...

Centerpieces

So a while ago, my mom was at the Christmas Tree Store in New England and called me to tell me she had found the centerpieces for the wedding - @ $3 each!! Heres a picture:

Now I need to explain that it is the redish box towards the left with the actual candle holder in the middle. We are taking off the flowers and will be decorating with dark blue ribbon! I'm really. please that my centerpieces were only $3 - it really does help when you are having a budget wedding!

Photographer

We book the photographer! He is one of the best in the area, and I'm really excited! Check out his pictures: http://www.sunderphoto.com/!

He is really nice and so if his wife. We havn't picked out our package yet, but we have till the end of September to decide. Its a nice package because he and his wife will do the wedding together, so he will go to wherever Chris is getting ready while she is over where I am getting ready. This way we can have an acurate depiction of what was going on before I walk down the aisle to be with the man of my dreams for the rest of my life!
I'm really excited now that wedding plans are falling more into place! more to come...

Flowers

So my thoughts about having Stephanotis as my main flowers is out the door. Me know absolutely nothing about flowers found out real quickly that an all stephanotis bouquet would cost me $600! And that the type bridal bouquet cost between $100-200 bucks! That is so much more than I can afford

So after talking with one florist, I think I can do all the bouquets, boutineires (sp?), & coursages for about $200 - hopefully even less. But now instead of Stephanotis, we go with Daisies - hopefully a dark orange or dark red. We will see, I have a alot more florist to talk to! It will take awhile!

Apologies!

So I am so terribly sorry for not writing, my computer had crashed. But I'm back now, and I will be posting frequently and back-posting with the developments of the wedding!