a few finished projects

Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 10:00 AM

Crunch time. Spent this weekend helping my parents clean up the front and back yards and paint the bathroom. Somehow also found time to finish up a few outstanding projects...

* Bathroom baskets for guys and gals (My caterer laughed at me for doing these, but I think they're a nice touch. And they're especially useful since they'll get double-duty - we can take them back to my parents' house for the after-party.)

* Finalized shuttle schedule (fairly continuous service between wedding events all day) and wrote up tags including that info for the...

* Welcome bags for OOT guests (to be distributed by the hotel. Contents: water, snacks, Metro information, and pamphlets for a few area attractions.)

* Utensils for after-party (Since there's little formal seating at the actual reception, we'll just be providing forks... but apparently I really miss restaurant sidework, so I just had to spend an afternoon putting together these pretty little cutlery packs for the barbeque.)

Oh, and did I mention that the FREAKING DIAMOND FELL OUT OF MY ENGAGEMENT RING on Friday night? Luckily 1) the ring is still insured through Jared and 2) we were able to find the diamond (on the bathroom floor of all places). Erik's dropping it off today... fingers crossed that they can get it back to us by the 25th. (Brides, take note: No matter how hard you try to stay calm, you're probably going to lose it at some point.)