monologues on planning a $5,000 wedding for 500 guests
For a while now I have been brainstorming ways to decorate our reception and honor the fun we’ve had with friends and family using poladroids.
We will definitely be using them as place cards and I’m contemplating hanging hundreds of them as photo garlands all along the fence lines.
Here’s some we already converted…
Do you think the photo garland idea will look cute?
If you are a guest please start emailing me your fun pictures to get included 
Sorry I’ve been so quiet folks :-/
There has honestly been snail-like developments with the wedding. Just been stressing about school work. Can’t believe how behind I am and there’s only 5 more weeks to catch up O_O *blink*blink*
Here’s a sample of what’s been keeping me busy…
Curious?
So let’s see… oh my centerpieces have come in I’ll post pics once things settle on this whole obnoxious school front.
Oh and we have an engagement pic photographer. So those will be taken next month 
Can’t wait!!!
And the best new yet… MOH Lani is coming down! She will be visiting 3 months before the wedding in Feb and she will make the journey w/ her brother Michael. It’s going to be his first big trip w/out the parental units and it will e so crazy to have the tres amigos together down here…
Please forgive the scrubiness... we can be granola like the best of them
*insert bugs bunny accent* well that’s all folks!
So a couple weeks ago I spotted these beauties on one of the wedding blogs… I really wish I remembered which one :-/
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Aren’t they so lovely? But they are like $145 in US money :-/
But I am totally loving the black lace tights trend. I want these for e-pics or the reception or something!
So I’ve been scouring for more reasonably priced pairs and I found these…
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They are a DKNY pair found on Bare Necessities for only $20. What do you all think?
Should I snatch these up or hold off and see if there is something else :-/
I have a problem.
I am an Ostrich.
Yes you heard me correctly. An Ostrich.
Whenever something is going to happen that I know will stress me out or has stressed me out I get this dreadful sense of impending doom. This is not to say that I feel doomed towards marriage it’s more a pit of the stomach feeling that all my marvelous plans for the wedding are going to be botched b/c I will not have time to complete them.
We only have 7 months people. 7 MONTHS!!!!
I’m freaking out now. No lie! This is freak out mode now :-/
So here’s where the ostrich me takes over. And I throw my head into the sand and say it’s not happening, I have more time. I’m not thinking about anything that has to do with this b/c then it can’t happen and I can’t stress. Therefore why I’ve been so “quiet” this week.
Juvenile? Yes. It’s very reminiscent of the “I can’t see you, you can’t see me” mantra of elementary playgrounds.
But this is not something new. I did this when we moved back to TX. I seriously refused to even acknowledge the move by packing until 2 weeks before we had to leave. It took my mom cancelling my entire social/secular life to get me to face the reality.
I’m currently doing this with my college classes by ignoring the fact that I actually have to submit work with in deadlines. :-/
I know it’s bad. I know I need to get over this. But at least I’m admitting it people!
On my home desk I have this coaster Luke picked up for me at Club DaDa in Deep Ellum.
I got that warm fuzzy freshly baked cookies feeling when I opened the mail and found this. Isn’t he so sweet?
And what I like best about this illustration is the other side…
There can be a view on the other side of the sand hole!
So here’s to me getting over these issues by maybe not stopping the sand-head plunging but rising above the view and still moving forward in face of the freak-out worthy direction. If that makes any sense
So last night my amazing makeup artist Ana did a trial run of my wedding make-up…
Didn’t she nail it? I am so happy! It is absolutely perfect and exactly what I wanted!
And here I am w/ the lovely Ana herself…
Although this all raised a question: Is there such a thing as too dark of eyeshadow for a formal event?
I personally think special occasions are one of those few times you can really go extreme w/ color or smokiness.
What do you all think?
… so if you have been following along, you will recall that I tweeted about finding the BM shoes
Well it’s about time I share…
On the way up to Dallas a few weeks ago, mom decided to stop at the DSW in Georgetown. I happily obliged b/c I was on a quest to find my wedding shoes. I had very specific stipulations for the perfect yellow shoe.
Well long story short I struck out, but I found this amazingly cute pair of 2″ high yellow sandals that was in a variety of sizes and under $18. So after making a frantic series of phone calls, we walked out with three pairs of these lovelies…
Did you notice what I said? We walked out with only 3 pairs… and I have 4 BMs. So we needed to find one more pair in the right size.
And so the new quest began…
Well I will thoroughly admit I did not share in this quest b/c I went to the fair the next day. But mom and dad lovingly sacrificed their saturday and hunted down the last pair at like 9 different DSW’s in the greater Metroplex.
Dad says he turned his “gay” on at the third store and he was actually the one to find them. And mom is so happy that he didn’t complain even once about the shopping day
Here’s another angle…
Aren’t they such pretties?
But I was still in search of my shoes. I wanted something yellow, peep roundish toe, and I really wanted a stiletto but I knew that would be practical w/ the grassy outdoor venue :-/
Oh and I wanted something I could wear nylons w/ because as the following pictures will reveal, my feet and legs are scarred to pieces from bug bites.
So today by a miraculous act of a blown transformer from the 45 mph winds on campus, my morning class was cancelled and I got to go shopping! First I went to Marshalls in search of more curtains for table toppers but struck out.
So then I decided to stroll next door to the SHoe Carnival. I had never been in one and figured, “What the heck?”
I paced up and down the aisles and then at the back of the store in the clearance rack, I spotted this…
I was smitten! And the best part of them…
That heel stole me *swoon*
Ok so the real best part was that they were marked down to $18.99. Steal! So I eagerly pranced (ok maybe not pranced) to the register. And guess what, b/c of an amazing customer appreciation sale today, the range up to $14.04 with tax!
I’m so happy I found my perfect shoes!!! And I can wear those awesome toe-less nylons that hide the scars but show of a lovely pedi. What do you think if I stick w/ my signature black toes? It really kinda my thing
Well now the only question is, should I get some schnazzy shoe clips to dress them up?
What do ya’ll think? Shoe clip or sans shoe clip?
I’m going to be pretty busy starting tonight with the chandelier but I wanted to show you all my new business card design I hope to get printed this week
I really really LOVE how my logo came out So whatcha think?
So I just wanted to let you all know that we figured out exactly how we are going to light our recycled chandeliers.
Originally I was planning on stringing a bunch of throwies together but when we started contemplating selling a couple of them after the wedding, we thought we needed a more permanent lighting fixture. So after much consultation w/ my electrician father and a brief tutorial from him, we have our lighting kit.
hint, hint…
we’re using a modified version of these…
I will be putting together the a few of these chandeliers this weekend so stay tune for a diy tutorial.
Anyone else have a fun diy project in the works?
Looks like you guys had all day to enter and boy did we get some last minute entrants Sweetness! So counting all the comments and twitter posts we had 30 entries… First we will be drawing the winner of the $25 gift certificate to Sugarhouse Ink and the winner is…
Congratulations to Nicole-Lynn! I’m sure your save the dates are going to turn out beautiful!
And the winner of the free digital design from the Sugarhouse Ink Etsy Shop is…
Judith! She wrote, “My daughter’s getting married so I’d like the Custom Photo Thank You Card for her to use after the wedding.” Congratulations to you and your daughter!
I will be in contact with you both shortly and will forward your info to Sarah at Sugarhouse Ink.
Thank you to everyone who entered and please stay tune for future giveaway! And as always if you are a vendor who would like to offer some fun goodies in a giveaway just drop me an email.
