The guy and I have been so productive today, and its only the afternoon. We went to the gym, made a nice breakfast, and have done so much wedding organizing! I just ordered a dress to try (ahhhh!), and ordered a bunch of paper for our save the dates.
Temporary tattoos for weddings? Awesome? I am going with yes. (this one found here)
As most people know, the girl and I are in the midst of some major wedding planning efforts! It’s been pretty fun so far and the girl has taken the lead on lending her creativity to designing our save the dates and wedding invitations. So to spark some creativity, we went down to the Paper Source the other week here in Austin. It’s a pretty cool store and it seemed like they had a paper for any occasion!
The two below are ones I found as I was flipping through a huge binder of wedding invitation samples that caught my eye and I kind of liked because I respect a good font and color combo.
Have you ever played with mural.ly? It is designed for online visual collaborations. I used it once a few months ago, and when I was trying to imagine wedding colors, it came to my mind again. The guy can’t imagine colors quite as easily as I can, so I wanted to make something visual that he could play around with.
I started by taking screenshots of individual color swatches. I used the cute heart swatches from here. I added them into a mural.ly board, and then started mixing and matching! It made it super easy to move colors around and try different combinations, compare the “feel” of each palette, and it was much easier for the guy to see what I was talking about.
I don’t know if the people at mural.ly envisioned the tool being used for wedding planning, but I could definitely see myself narrowing down my wedding pinterest board into one mood board to share with the guy for inspiration!
I am lucky that I babysit two of the cutest kids in the world. I have known them since they were born, so it has been a treat to watch them grow into tiny 4-year-old and 2-year-old people.
Little Miss Zoe was a no-brainer here, since she loves pink and girly things, which is perfect for a flower girl. She already thinks she gets to be a princess in the wedding.
But Noah was a bit of a thinker. There are no good ring-bearer things, since weddings are a little girly anyway, and two-year-old boys like cars and throwing things. So I came up with a little dump truck, and went with the “carry” theme. Get it???
Picking wedding colors seems very final. Once you pick them, you are committed, and you spend the rest of your life together.
I was at my sewing desk, and found these bits of color and pattern inspiration. I found out that my work will be closed on Monday (yeah 3-day weekend), so I am going to buckle down and do some hard core color picking.
I am a big dessert/baked treat fan (obvi). So I am looking forward to making a lot of treats for our wedding dessert table. My beautiful sister got me these amazing letterpress cookie cutters, and I tested them out the other day.
I was a little sad when I realized that I only have green and yellow food coloring. My wedding will not be Packers themed.
I think they turned out really fun! I love that each of the letters are different, so they look crazy cool when you group them together. Next time, I am going to try making them a bit thinner (even though I like a fat sugar cookie), and flood them with bright colored icing. A couple more tries, and I think these cookies have some definite potential.
Ta da! My first wedding book (but not my last…). The New-Fashioned Wedding. And for reals, the book is amazing. So beautiful.
I definitely can’t afford to pull off the weddings actually shown in the book, but it goes through the inspiration and ideas behind the details that make up the wedding. Their style of fun, crafty, and thoughtful weddings gets my creative juices flowing.
I have been a little stressed out about the wedding lately. This book reminded me of the art, beauty, and originality that go into a wedding. Each one is special and perfect because two people are in love.
I have been engaged to this handsome guy for 6 weeks.
And even though wedding planning decisions are kind of hard, the best part is that no matter what, no matter when, no matter how, he is gonna be my husband, and I am gonna be his wife. And it will be the best day there ever ever was.
My mom, sister, and I made these for a little crafting experiment. I like the idea of a little fabric or paper banner for the wedding, so we tried out a couple tutorials we found to see what we could make. We used this tutorial for the little tissue tassels, and this tutorial for the big pom pom. I have seen some more tutorials since for the tissue tassels that might be a little better, and I have pinned them here.
I really enjoy the making and creating of things (obviously), so I am looking forward to more wedding projects to see what I like best!
My ring is slightly too big. But duh, I want to wear it right now. My crafty solution: I wrapped some embroidery floss round and round until it didn’t fall off my finger. Perfect.
guy and his girl 