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Blog #9: Finishing Save the Dates

2009-12-06T21:34:00Z

Very proud of my hard work, everything by hand! Now I know what to expect for the Invitations and I'm going to be a lot easier on myself and order a kit from Cards and Pockets... not sure what "handmade" signature I want on them... (stamps, calligraphy, ink work) stamping and embossing all my STD's was A LOT of work so yeah.... still up in the air on that :)

Just gotta buy postage and get these babies goin!!!! I think I'm gonna buy those funky king and queen of hearts stamps

have a great week everyone and check out my weebly bio: Http://grassgreenwedding.weebly.com

Blog #8: First Fitting

2009-11-07T21:01:00Z

after watching all those episodes of say yes to the dress I finally got to go back and pick up my dress!!! my mom took pics and I plan to post in my bio I think... It's perfect, although it will need alterations which I'm nervous about. It is also a little more cream than I remember it which is strange, but oh well! can't wait to go shoes and veil shopping.....

Blog # 7: TheKnot Boards Rant (Go DIY Brides)

2009-10-26T21:14:00Z

OK, I've been lurking and posting for a couple months and I've noticed a few patterns:

P&E is popular and entertaining, but I think the posters are just bored and rude. They even get upset when there are too many wedding related posts, and tend to shut them down with their rudeness... bravo ladies, all hail P&E, you gals know everything about everything and have a "pick a person and say whatever your internet perception of them is" thread every freakin' week to boost your confidence and rip people to shreds.... oh brother.

a person's advice is purely based on their families, comfort levels, and mostly their budgets. For instance, high budget brides FREAK out if they hear you are doing anything yourself and tell you you are being rude to recruit family, because *gasp* they would never ask family to do something they are paying someone to do! They tend to be rude about their advice when they don't know my family or me or how crafty and loving we all are.

They also tend to freak out on how much "stress" it will be before a wedding to DIY.

My thoughts are in the pioneer days, heck probably 50 years ago, everything was family-made and planned. Also, not every bride has the budget of the knot standard. Somethings have just been made or exagerated by the wedding industry....

I like my local board, really nice girls, but they are not very DIY...

So I'd like to personally thank the DIY board for being the only board that routes for me, believes in me, and has had things work out for their past weddings and told me so! It is so possible to DIY your own details and I'm going to prove everyone wrong! I can't wait to show you all the final project!

Just had to rant!

Blog #6: DIY Save the Dates taking over my apartment and brain

2009-09-27T18:57:00Z

Head deep in envelopes and finally realizing my DIY save the date and invitation idea is not really cheap and in fact over budget because I am going crazy with stamps and fancy papers and art supplies I just want. *blushing*.

Anyway, I've been Ms. Calculator at Paper Source, Joann's, and Paper Zone, doing the math of envelopes, backing, cards, etc. for every size. I've been toying with envelope liners and splurged and got them in an awesome green and white stripe paper for the save the dates, which are quite small and I can fit 18 liners on one sheet of paper source decorative paper...

Anyway, I think what is freaking me out is how many invitations I'm sending out. I know we are sending like 20 courtesy ones to people too old/distant to travel, I know we have to invite some managers that won't come, and God knows I know about the stupid 2/3 rule that every wedding vendor tells me *GAG*, but I have this aching feeling out of 271 people (about 125 invites), 250 will come, hungry and ready to drink. We have big, close families and friends that have known us for years, I do NOT want to plan on anyone not coming. And yet, everyone keeps telling me "not that many will come" "the 2/3rds rule..." yadda yadda

yeah, whatever. I'll keep with my instincts and keep freaking out that my "intimate" wedding turned into a 271 person city soiree...

like I said, it's just seeing all the envelopes bought in a bag, in packs of ten. You start to open 1-3 packs and then the reality sinks in!

-K

Bio

2009-08-27T02:23:00Z

I'm very very excited to start paper products (I am an artist). My mom and I were brainstorming and came up with a great table name idea: Oregon trees/plants. I would have the escort card have a leaf and the table number be the tree or just a bigger leaf (with numbers as well, I'm not expecting any arborists, plus I'm having 20 tables!). Even though this is going to double my work I really want to do this idea because it matches my theme perfectly...

invitations are coming along great, ironically though I havn't even started save-the-dates because I'm waiting on our engagement photoshoot (in the next month).... I'm not too stressed since that is going to be so small and simple....

everybody check out my bio and comment

-K

help?

2009-08-26T01:01:00Z

okay here are some of my attempts for pictures....

here is a link to my ceremony site

[url]http://tinyurl.com/meyqpr[/url]

this is an attempt of a picture of my invitation stamp:

[img]http://tinyurl.com/m5fvke[/img]

anybody that knows how to get the blog pic adder to work give me a holler!

-K

Blog #5: hello knotties!

2009-08-23T03:42:00Z

Featured blog, woo-hoo! I feel like I won the lottery. I can't get photos into my blog can anyone help me?

I don't think this will work so I'll just tell you guys to go check out my album, I uploaded pics of my dress and ceremony site.....

Also I am getting more involved on the boards, August 2010 knotties are a great group and much more active than my local board, big shout out to them!

Kelly

Blog #4: Excited To Plan

2009-08-20T15:15:00Z

I'm happy to report that we booked an outdoor ceremony spot 30 minutes from Portland and I couldn't be happier!

It's called Horning's Hideout, and it's beautiful private property with a lake and a creek pretty much just for weddings. There will be two more weddings there on my day, but I purposely chose the most private spot + I don't really care since I'm not having my reception there!

SSOOOOO relieved !

I feel like I can really start planning now, and I'm so excited!

I showed all my plans to my bridesmaid cousins (they are out of town) and they approved, including the dresses for them I've picked out! It feels good to have others like what you like :)

Next on list: Officiant meetings, addresses/Save-the-dates, and booking our honeymoon and relative hotels :)

weeeee!

-Kelly