July 2007 - Posts
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:24 AM
I finally ordered the flowers today-- still need to pick and order vessels but here they are: 1. Jade green dendobrium 2. white hydrangea 3. ivory mini rose spray 4. flowers for the flower girl toss-- ivory rose petals and green hydrangea sooooo....now
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amnesia
Filed under: flowers
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:21 AM
I thnk I've been sucked into photo frenzy...I ordered special hangers for the pre-wedding "getting ready" photos... Our photographer did give me a few planning tips... (which led to the obsessive hanger search) In planning the timeline, allow extra time
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amnesia
Filed under: photography
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:12 AM
We're getting close to figuring out our table layout... here is the blank diagram And here is the tentative plan-- the dark red is the espresso/smoothis bar, the green is the sushi and small plates area, the large red circle is the cake table, the small
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Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 12:23 AM
Today, I had my next fitting for the rehearsal dinner and reception dresses-- it went well and afterwards, I went on to shop for slightly different buckles for each dress. Finding what I needed, I think felt compelled to use my Victoria's Secret gift
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amnesia
Filed under: lingerie, honeymoon
Posted Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:05 AM
...I don't have pictures of the table numbers I'm working on and I haven't had time to make that much progress on program covers or OOT booklets... so in the meantime..... it was my fiance's birthday this weekend, and he wanted a chocolate rum cake, so
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amnesia
Filed under: cake, birthday
Posted Friday, July 20, 2007 12:36 AM
So I'm currently working on booklets for the OOT guests. I have the guts-- what should the covers look like? This is the first few pages (They end up 10 pages total) of the insides: I also have my ring pillow done (thanks mom!) but need to find a button
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Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:09 PM
...first, let me begin by mentioning how overwhelmed I am by the kind sentiments offered by those around me this week. It started out with a congratulations from my future mother in law. We received a celebratory money envelope and I got a cute sun hat.
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amnesia
Filed under: bridal shower
Posted Friday, July 13, 2007 1:06 AM
We have a variety of guests coming from different distances, some of which will arrive very early in the week of our wedding. To celebrate and spend as much time with our guests (and to really ritualize the event of getting married), we have set up a
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Posted Monday, July 09, 2007 12:52 AM
My family always signed a tablecloth at Thanksgiving, which was the holiday we hosted for all of the extended family. My mom would later embroider all of the names in before the next holiday. I thought I'd take that concept through and apply it to our
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Posted Sunday, July 08, 2007 2:32 AM
...well, I can't fill in any more details on the programs until we have a few items squared away, so there is no way to get a jump on that project. And the ceremony.. we have some tweaking but it's also now mostly pulled together. A few other things are
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Posted Saturday, July 07, 2007 3:43 AM
We're now off and running at putting reception ideas into place... lots of debating regarding music selections as sending a Play/Do Not Play list to the DJ was on my timeline of things to do this week. We're not that picky, but we did pick out 5 songs
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amnesia
Filed under: reception, DJ, music
Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 1:01 AM
...it's amusing to my sister that suddenly, on becoming engaged, I've dug deep down and started channeling some hidden warped crafting madness. But even though I'll confess to picking up Martha Stewart wedding magazines, I still can't bite entirely into
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amnesia
Filed under: RSVP
Posted Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:22 AM
..we've just sent out the invitations for our out of town guests and now it's now on to making the final batch of local invitations. By our count, we should only have a small number of extras from the invite batches (less than 10!) which means we've estimated
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amnesia
Filed under: ceremony, vows