The Wedding!!!

The wedding was amazing, it was such a perfect day, everything went great. I am so happy to be Dan's wife. We got back this weekend from our honeymoon and all the friends and family pictures are starting to come in so I am able to share! Here are a couple of pictures I have on my computer at work, there are a lot more to share once I get home. It was such a beautiful day and the green and pink was so pretty for spring. I cant wait to see all the pictures! I will share the details next post.

Bachalorette Party!

The Bachelorette Party my friend Carrie planned for me was wonderful!! We went to a resort in Port Canaveral, Florida and then went to a nice restaurant that was also an awesome dance club outsuide, who knew. It was relaxing, fun and an all around wonderful time!

Carrie and I arrived first to relax by the pool and lazy river, having yummy drinks and a nice lunch. I started with the Dirty Monkey drink and Carrie had the Liquid Sunshine, I then got a Liquid Sunshine! Carrie had the Mahi tacos with fries and I had a yummy blacked chicken wrap with onion rings that I shared with Amy.




Great minds think a like, Carrie and I both made favors and crowns for the girls.

Carrie's adorable Hangover kit.



And the favors I made to thank the girls for coming and throwing it for me!


Later Amy, Lia, Andrea, and Tara joined us and after a little more relaxing, going down the lazy river and then the water slide we moved to the huge suite for games, three homemade fresh fruit martinis from Amy that were awesome, Strawberry basil, Honeydew, and Mandarin orange, so yummy, snacks (spinach dip from Carrie is the best!!) and a giant cake Tara made, its not appropriate for this blog, but was hilarious, delicious, and huge! We had a sculpting contest with Playdough, a nice poem that Amy had written, she is the poem queen, and then a nice poem that Carrie put together, giving me underwear for the rest of my life events!






After the games we all got ready to go out for dinner, we had a very nice dinner at Millikens Reef and the girls were on a mission after to get me drunk since I wasnt yet. Sylvia joined us for dessert and we all decided to stay at Millikens for the great dancing and bars on the dock outside.


We had such a great crazy time, I love to dance and everyone was so wonderful celebrating with us. The amount of shots the girls had me do was crazy, but very very fun!! Thanks to all my wonderful fun girls for coming out and planning this for me! It was a wonderful time!!

Place/Escort cards

I had seen these two escort card pictures on two different blogs and wanted to do something similar for my escort/place cards and holders.


I found these brads online and thought they were perfect with the paper I decided to make the cards out of. I got them on Ebay for half the price since I couldnt find them in a local store. You cant tell but they are super cute with bright pink cherries on a bunch of them.


I found these gifts tags at the Dollar Tree and decided to use them as templates to cut just regular card stock that I printed the guests names on.



I had originally picked a Basic Grey paper, but then wanted to go a little lighter since the favor tags and menus were going to be light, so found this adorable Heidi Grace paper. It was just a coincedence that, the menus, favor labels, and place cards, all had birds on them.


Finish Product... I think they turned out cute!


For the holder I got two memory boards from Micheals when they were on sale for $9, I saw cheaper ones other places, Ross and Marshalls for around $6, but they never had two the same size, so these were fine.


I couldn't find a fabric the exact color I wanted so I went ahead and used the wrapping paper I am using for the cardbox.


Choosing the ribbons and in the order took the longest, but it was fun.


I found two holders/stands at Tuesday Morning for only $6.99 each, I decided later to spray paint them pink.


Here is the final product, escort/place cards and holders. I ended up adding more ribbon than in the picture above.

Favors

I went to a wedding in New York City 5 years ago and received a very cute candle tin and when it came time to decide on our favors I remembered this favor and tried to duplicate it, adding personalized matches and making the candles myself.



I had a ton of beige candles leftover from another event, so I looked up how to melt down the wax to reuse them.







I had to get creative with keeping the wicks up, having a ton of chopsticks help!



I got the candle tins and wicks, 4 for $1.90 with a coupon at Michaels, it took us forevery to get all of them because they were always sold out.




We got these cheeselicous perfect match matches to go with the candles.



And here is the complete look after using the boxes I got 100 for $23 from Uline, ribbon from Michaels and making our own labels

Programs

I found those two programs I really liked on Etsy and tried to combine them into one to go inside the holders I already made, and I think they turned out really nice.


I found these two square punches at Joann Fabrics for only $5.97 each, to make these square labels. I got green cardstock at Michaels for a 50 pack of 5 different colors it was only $2.50, without even using a coupon.


I just got regular 110lb cardstock at Office Depot and cut them down and folded them.


Added the labels and ribbon.


Then just printed the inside on regular paper and glued it in.


I think the final product turned out nice and looks good inside the holder for them and the bubbles.

Catch up!

I have been so busy I am so behind on all the stuff I have been doing for the wedding! I will most likely write 4 or 5 posts just today on what I have been doing the last month for the wedding! Everything is done and with just three days a away we are super excited!!