Make your own wedding book!

Have you ever heard of the website blurb.com??

If you haven't - you really should go check it out. You can make your own books!

Think about it....

guest book - may be using your engagement pics OR pics of both of you growing up!!

Maybe even a guestbook that actually has pics of your guests in it! Wouldn't they love it?!

I actually already have my guestbook - so I think I will use this to make gifts for our bridal party and family of pics from the wedding day!

sounds expensive, right? WRONG..we are talking 35- 50 dollars!

I'm so excited:)

They have tons of books to look at on the sight to find your inspiration - there is a whole section of just "weddings".

Seriously...go now!

www.blurb.com

Custom invitations!!

Hey everyone!!

I know the posts are a little sporadiac but life is pretty crazy and I have never been very good at multi-tasking!!

I wanted to share a "little jewel" I found. From Etsy - of course:)

I can't believe I was able to get custom invitations and also be able to stay with in my budget - insane I tell ya!

Amy from the etsy shop "capturedmomentsbyamy" not only made my drawing come to life - but she made it dance.

This is the front of the invite- All I did was outline a couple of peacocks kissing and she made it happen. Trust me when I say it was only an outline!

What I love is that she also utilizes the back of the invite - so you are getting more bang for your buck

This is the rsvp postcard. a postcard is a budget brides best friend when it comes to RSVP's. It eliminates buying an envelope and the stamps are cheaper. win-win

How cool is the grayscale on the back of the invite??!!

It may be a little cheesy - but wouldn't it make you feel better getting an rsvp card that says

"no- and it is breaking my heart" then

"regretfully declines".

Well -it does me!

Guess how much this invitation suite was??

c'mon guess!

ONE DOLLAR and THIRTY THREE CENTS!!

Sigh....so happy!!!!

Do you love your invites??

Cam

Your girls picking their own Bridesmaid Dresses!

I'm baaaccckkk!!!

Sorry for being MIA for a couple weeks, but I'm back to stay.

WOW - planning a wedding in 4 months has definately been some work!

Not bad but busy:)

Lets get on today's post - Bridesmaid dresses!

Did you know that way, way back the bridesmaids wore the same color as the bride in hopes to confuse evil spirits that might want to harm the bride. That's what the veil was for too!
Interesting, huh?!
More and more designers creating white bridesmaid dresses.

I think that cohesive, clean look is downright gorgeous like this....


pictures:April Foster Events
However, I love color too much to go that route!

I knew right away that I wanted my bridesmaids to have a say in what they were wearing and I knew that I did not want them all the same.

I didn't know if I would just give them a color family to stay in and they can pick what they want.



OR
pick a specific color and fabric and then they pick the style

pictures from the knot
pics from the perfect pallete

OR dresses with simliliar details...

picture from the knot

I decided to pick out 10 different style dresses made with same fabric and was the same color.

I am having 6 bridesmaids stand up with me.

I was trying to make sure there would be something for everyone.

I have one bridesmaid that is in her 50's ( soon to be sister-in-law)

I have one that will have had a baby 8 weeks before the wedding and

2 bridesmaids that are currently trying to get pregnant.... so, yes, varying styles were important!

It was very easy! I selected a designer and then picked from the collection,

These dresses are from the After Six collection. These pics are from dessy.com

All these dresses come in the teal color just 2 of the dresses didn't have pics of it in that color. Also any of the dresses that have black, the black is going to be the teal color too.

What are you doing for bridesmaids dresses??

Cam

Invitation mishaps! uh oh......

Just a little reminder to proofread and have other people proofread to0!!
I received this in the mail yesterday...




















I'm hoping you can read it but just in case you can't it says:

Saurday April Third Thousand and Two

and then it says where its at. However, it may say where its at but there is no time on there!
I'm going to RSVP and say I'll be there somewhere between 12 and 4pm.

Have a great weekend!!!!

Processional song ???? What to do?

If there is one thing I was always sure of when I thought of my wedding is that I did not want to have traditional ceremony music.


I also knew that I did not want to get married in a church, so I knew I did not have to play by their rules.


Thank goodness I have fallen in love with a man that seems to think the same as I about all this.


We want music that represents us - that means something to us.


I wanted to put videos on here - but somehow I have misplaced that knowledge. I will do links for now - just so I can get a post up - its been awhile. Maybe later it will come to me.


Here are some songs we are leaning towards ( strictly just our for our processional songs - other parts of ceremony and reception will come later!)


Here, There, Everywhere - By the Beatles
In My Life - The Beatles
The Luckiest - Ben Folds
Running on faith - Eric Clapton


I made sure they were all acoustic covers - because that is what we are going to have at our wedding. All though - I have to say my friend Sean is a lot better than these guys, but I am biased.


I think we would shorten up the song "the luckiest".


what are you all doing for your music?

Or any suggestions?

Great Ideas for Bridal Party Gifts

Happy belated Valentines Day everyone!!!

I'm just going to get to the point I came across a couple of ideas for gifts for your attendants that I think are pretty damn cool!

First up would be a fantastic gift for the guys and even for the girls , for that matter!!

I was at a restaurant last night and they had these prints all over their walls and then they sold a bunch up front.

it was love at first sight!

you really have to seen them in person to get the detail he put it into them. Ahhhmazing!

Here is a little taste..

Home of the University of Michigan. The Wolverines!!

Here's a little background about the artist...

His name is Brian McKelvey and he is from Michigan!!! Woo-hoo

He has a website called http://www.pubsof.com/

He lived on Mackinaw Island for awhile and that is when he started doing these types of landscapes and I guess it grew from there.

His Alma Mater is Michigan State University - which just so happens to be one of mine too! ( Masters Degree)

So, of course he did his thing with the bar life of MSU!!

I partied it up as a single girl for most my 20's in East Lansing. He is spot - on!

Then when I saw Mt. Pleasant - the home of Central Michigan University.

It brought a tear to my eye. All the memories - I swear came flooding back!

This is where I received my bachelors degree!!

Then of course there is CMU's rivals Western Michigan University....

Kalamazoo!

Both my brother and Fiancee' graduated from there!

You have to see these is person! He has taken all the great hang out spots and made it look like they are all on one street....but it looks so right!

And he is finishing a series of the 'Big Ten'....trust my your guys know what I mean! There are plenty of places he has depicted in the Midwest...

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Next up - for the Ladies...I guess you could do the Gents, but I don't think they you would get quite the same reaction!

Of course, she is has a shop on Etsy. It is called brooklit.

I feel she has a brilliant talent and creates something that is definite one of a kind!

If you send her a pic of your best girlfriend on her wedding day in all her glory - she will give you something back that I am sure your BFF will treasure for the rest of her life.

She will do a fashion illustration of your friend in her wedding gown!!!!

Here are a couple of examples:

Gorgeous right?????

I am definitely doing both of these things! They are just too perfect!

Have you found anything - YOU think is perfect for the bridal party????

See you soon!!!

( By the way - is anyone else - having a terrible time with formatting - or is it just me? Post takes 5 minutes and trying to format it takes an hour.....ahhhhhhh....( that's me screaming)

Cam

Save the Date - Photo Booth Style

Ok Ladies.....

Let me tell you after spontaneously switching our wedding from September to June just last week I have been in wedding planning madness!!!


However - I did want to share something with you all!

We have rented an actual photo booth for our wedding so we wanted to tie in the STD ( By the way - I laugh every time I see that abbreviation... I digress....)

Yesterday...did you hear me YESTERDAY...Mike met me at the mall in the Food Court to be exact so we could use their photo booth! Total Class - all the way!

BTW--- smallest photo booth I have ever laid eyes on or sat in. The two of us barely fit!!

We took a total of 4 strips since it was all he had time for, I picked my faves and of course ETSY to the rescue!

I used the Alchemy feature - if you remember from this post.

And Ta- Da - 2 hours later I have my finished product.

How's about that for service?!

Now for the big reveal...




















TRUST ME...they are sooo much more vivid in person! I took it with my phone camera. The ones that she sent me so I could copy are itty - bitty

She even made them so I could fit 3 on a page to cut down on copies.









and by SHE - I mean deidamiah.etsy.com.


Amazing - I tell you. Sent 4 strips to her - she did her magic in less then 2 hours and charged me 6.99. Hello?????

She is my new "go -to" girl!!

Oh and the last pic on the strip has little scribbly hearts above my head and then written across the bottom is

"Come shake your tailfeather"

See you later..back into the world of wedding planning madness!!