Something Blue!

I posted earlier about trying to decide about my garter. I decided to go with the all ivory garter because I didn't really have to use blue.

Well, here is what I'm using as my something blue: a custom wedding dress label that will be sewn into my dress. I'm really excited about this. My mom ordered it for me as a surprise from The Gartermaker. She gave them a picture of our monogram and they were able to copy it exactly. They did a great job!!

Our monogram:

Dress label:

Bridal Portraits and Aisle Runner

I had my Bridal Portraits today, I think everything went really well!! We took them at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke. It was a little overcast this afternoon, but I think it worked to our advantage since there weren't that many people around. I was really nervous about walking around on the stone and dirt pathways, but we didn't have any problems and thankfully my dress didn't get dirty!!

Before my portraits, I had the fabulous Elizabeth Tolley do my hair and makeup. She was so nice and really is as good as everyone says! I was a little concerned that the eyes would be too dark, but I got used to it and I think it looked amazing! Plus, she put fake eyelashes on so they would pop in the pictures. This was a lot of fun but took a few minutes to get used to, lol! I'm not used to wearing so much makeup, but you really have to wear a lot for it to look good in pictures. I wore my hair half-up, half-down and I think it looked really good with my veil. I think we might put a little less hair up next time, so I have some more volume, but it was beautiful!! I'll see if I can post a head-shot sometime soon, when we get the pictures back.

When we got back from the portraits, I got an email from the girl on Etsy who's doing our aisle runner. She's finished painting our monogram on the runner and is going to ship it to us this week. I am SOOO excited about this. I think it looks AMAZING! She did an excellent job and has been so fast! I just picked out the paint color last weekend, lol! I can tell she really took her time and worked really hard on it, I can't wait to see it in person. I love this and I know that it will be a great touch of personalization for our ceremony. I'm hoping our guests will be wowed that we have put so much thought into all of the details. Click Here to visit her Etsy store... she makes some beautiful hand painted, custom runners. Here are some of the pictures that she sent me:

Favors!

Today I contacted the company that we'll most likely be using for our wedding favors. (Truffle Trolley)I am thrilled to report that they have been excellent to work with so far! I asked if they would be able to accommodate our monogram, since usually they only do single letter black/white text. He quickly responded that they could do it and that they would look fabulous! He even printed out a test tag immediately after I sent him our monogram file.

We haven't figured out which flavors yet, but that'll be coming up soon!! :) YUMMMM! I can't wait to try all of the different combinations. It's going to be so hard to choose!

So, we're getting the formal double truffles (2 truffles per box). We'll get silver boxes with pink ribbon tied around them with our tag. The best part is, they will ship them to us the week before the wedding and they will already be packaged, tagged and tied! It's going to be great not to have to spend more time tying bows on little boxes!!

Project Updates!

Time is flying by! I can't believe there are only 4 months and 12 days until the wedding, eeek! This weekend I finished a couple projects and I've been getting ready to start others. I found really cute labels at AC Moore to put on the soap for the OOT bags. I love these!!

Then, I found wooden letters of our initials to put inside the wreaths. I hung these with silver ribbon. What do you think?? Letters or no letters? The doors at the church are dark brown, so I think the white will show up nicely (they're kind of hard to see

hanging on our white doors). As of right now I think they're cute and I like the personalization, but the letters are easy to take out if we want to.

I also started a mock up of our ceremony programs. Although we haven't actually written the ceremony yet, I wanted to get an idea of what kind of supplies I'll need. Since we didn't do DIY invites, I kind of took the design I had for the invites and turned them into programs. More on this project later. But, I do like the idea of including a map to the reception in the program (if you have enough room). Our reception location's address isn't on most GPS or google maps, so I wanted to make it easier for our guests to find their way. So, we'll probably put the map and directions on the back page, facing the cardstock cover, like in this example.

Monogram Update

Here's the latest version of our wedding monogram. I think this might be *the one!*

... Now to think about all of the fun DIY ways I can use this!

Monogram ideas

Monograms! Eeek, I L.O.V.E monograms! Another thing I L.O.V.E, Flemish Script! haha, is it dorky to love a font? Well, I've found that a lot of companies use this font for monograming things, which is amazing! So, I am starting to conceptualize what we're going to do as our theme/monogram that is seen in all of the details. Look at the M on our napkins in the post below. I will probably tweak it some for various items, like maybe include our names and date. BUT, I love a classic, elegant last name monogram. :)

Some monogram ideas:

Its all in the details! :)

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a while... wedding planning has been on the back burner for the last little while. Well, I'm BACK! So, we got our napkins that I ordered from theknot.com shop this week! They are super cute and I think that my pink/silver color scheme is going to work out perfectly!!! We got beverage napkins that say "Eat, Drink and be Married" and our names and others that have a monogram "M" on them! Matching matches (hehe) will be coming in soon!