Things I Love Right Now

I haven't posted in forever.  Life has been crazy.  Once you hit the two month mark in wedding planning it gets a little nuts.  All but 3 RSVP's down, bachelor party done, cold feet freakout vanquished....we're almost done people!  Since we're to the point where any wedding blogs I'd post would be spoilers, I don't have much to talk about.  I'm a little self-involved right now, I know.  So here are some things I love right now...

Any and all necklaces by FreshyFig

This hairdo.  I'm obsessed with messy buns right now.

Nom nom nom

These match nothing therefore they match everything

Can't wait for the honeymoon!

I want one of these.  Laura says no.

Vegas Baby!

Last weekend I participated in a rite of passage I legitimately thought I would never experience...my bachelorette party.  I never imagined myself as the girl wearing the veil walking around Vegas with a group of girls, but I'm so so glad I got to be her!  My girlfriends are the best and it ended up being one of my greatest weekends ever.  Here are some reasons why:

1)  The Paparazzi.  Thank G for the two moms in this group because otherwise we would have had zero pictures.  Vanessa went nuts with her camera from the very first minute of the trip.

2)  The Swag Bags.  Laura, the MOH, did an awesome job wrangling everybody and arranging hilarious, thoughtful, and kind of terrifying swag bags.  Add that to the bedazzled tank tops that made not one, but two of the guests cry before the trip, and we came away with some great loot.

3)  Alcohol.  I'm not going to lie...the booze was part of the reason the weekend was so fun.  There's nothing better than a group of tipsy chicks!  Especially fun, watching Vanessa try her hardest not to day drink and giving in around 2pm... valiant try Ven!

4)  Some tasty delish meals.  Well done on choosing the food MOH!

5)  Creepy/Cheaty Strangers.  Being hit on in random places, yelled at to NOT DO IT while wearing my bride sash, watching Kris ignore some dude who was trying desperately to hit on her and she had no idea, pointing out wedding bands on old married dudes...all priceless Vegas moments.

6)  Kristin announcing to the bouncer that she will NOT wait in line.  And having it work.

7)  Panties.  Leaving it at that.

8)  Drunk Texts.

9)  Beatles Love...seriously amazing show.

10)  The most important one.  These girls.  Love them!!!

Wine & Roses

Although I'm getting more and more sick of planning my wedding, (seriously I could give a crap about place cards at this point), I'm getting more and more excited about the actual day.  Mike and I visited Wine & Roses this weekend to finish up everything with our wedding lady Julie and for me to do my hair and makeup trials.  To be honest, I was not looking forward to getting my hair and makeup done.  I am really bad at telling hair people what I want and I usually end up not liking what I've agreed to do.  Mike and I didn't get into Lodi and checked into our hotel room until about 1:30am so of course we overslept and ended up racing to get out the door and make it to my 9:00am hair appointment.  Thankfully, once I got there and got checked in, the spa was incredibly relaxing.  They have you wait in a room calling the Tranquility Room and it looks like this:

Seriously gorgeous.  There is the fire going and comfy chairs to lounge in, and relaxing music playing in the speakers.  You look out the window and there are fountains going.  So pretty.

This definitely helped relieve some of my stress.  My hair lady ended up being this super cute girl and she really liked my hair idea so that helped a lot too.  This is what I asked her to base the hair on:

After playing around with it for awhile and putting on my hair piece, this is what we came up with:

I love how messy it is...it's very me!  It was a relief when that was over and it had gone so well.  I was nervous to get my  makeup done afterwards because A:  I don't generally wear very much makeup, B:  I am horrible at sitting still, C:  I'd never gotten my makeup done before, and D:  I hate having to sit in front of a mirror for that long.  Thankfully, the girl that did my makeup was really sweet and gorgeous and this is how it ended up:

I look gross in this picture, but it's not the makeup's fault!  I'm also a little freaked out about how my hair looks from the front, but we'll figure it out!

(fun fact, I didn't do either of these looks on my wedding day, I am the least decisive person ever whoops)

The meeting with the wedding lady went great and although I think we're spending way too much money, I'm really psyched to have our wedding at Wine & Roses.  Here are some pics I'm obsessed with right now of the venue.

Oh also, instead of printing and folding them ourselves like we planned, we stole 20 Lodi maps from our hotel.  We're the classiest bride and groom EVER.

Menus

Mike and I have gone back and forth about menus at the wedding reception.  We had started out saying we'd have one per table and we'd frame it in a cute frame rather than having one at each plate.  I designed something really simple and have been searching and searching for gray card stock to print it on.  Have I mentioned how hard doing your own wedding is in this damn town?!  Mike threw me for a loop the other day when he decided to announce that each guest should have a menu instead of doing the framed one per table.  I looked online and had picked out these from Wedding Paper Divas that matched our invitations.

I started playing with these today and got frustrated because they wouldn't let me cut out stuff I didn't want in there like our names.  I think if you're seated at the tables already...you know whose wedding you're at!  There also wasn't enough room for our entrées because their names are long.  I decided to make my own based on these.  What do you guys think??

I just have to order some white card stock and print them out.  Please give me your opinions if you think I need to change anything!

DIY Project for the Day

We went over to the mo-in-law's house this morning and realized that she had quite a bit of fabric left over from the table runners she made us for the wedding.  By the way, have I mentioned how handy it is having a mo-in-law who is an amazing seamstress?!  Rather than renting fancier linens or spending more on centerpieces, I bought some fabric I love at the Online Fabric Store and mo-in-law sewed them into simple fabric runners for our wedding tables.  Super handy.

Anyways, we realized we had some extra fabric so I decided to use some of it to cover the cork board we'd planned to use for our escort cards.  This created a brand new DIY project for me and rather than thinking about it and planning, I did it right when we got home.  Thankfully, I didn't destroy anything so I can show you how I did it and my finished product.

All you need is:

A cork board/bulletin board, we bought ours at Target.  You're probably supposed to use one without a frame, but that's for people who plan ahead, not me!

Some fabric, ours is by Amy Butler and it's called Optic.  I looove it.  It's the perfect colors for our wedding and it's just modern enough for us.  If anyone wants a table runner in this pattern when the wedding is over...we have 3 extra!

A stapler, scissors, and a ruler.

You place the fabric face down on a hard surface, or if you're fancy like me, the floor.  Place the bulletin board face down on top of the fabric.  Measure your fabric so there is about a 1.5" border around the bulletin board and cut off any excess fabric.  We had some ratty edges on our fabric so I made sure to use that part for this project since it's not going to show.

Pull one edge of the fabric really tight and staple it to the bulletin board.  Make sure you pull it really tight so it doesn't cause wrinkles.  Do this all the way around the board.

That's it!  If you use a plain piece of cork board without a frame, you can then put a cute frame around the board, but I'm going to leave mine the way it is.  

I found some really cute yellow quilting pins at Walmart that I'm going to use to pin the escort cards to our board.  Bonus for the mo-in-law, she gets 100 yellow quilting pins after the wedding.

**Update:  the finished product at the wedding, I decided to use funny or embarrassing pictures of each guest instead of traditional escort cards. This is seriously my favorite thing I made for the wedding and it was a huge hit.

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