I bought my shoes! I got a Coloriffics Andie Sandal in ivory. It’s super traditional, nothing exciting here, but I have a narrow heal and needed a strappy sandal with a small heel so I don’t trip over myself. It fits all these requirements and matches my dress perfectly so I’m happy!

I also purchased all the materials for my centerpieces; my test one turned out great so I committed and found 5 X 5 X 5 glass cube vases at Flower Factory for about $3.80 or so apiece ( I got a quantity discount too), plus I got a big thing of green foam that Brian will cut for me. The quality of the vases is not like Jo-Ann’s, but I saved a ton of money since I had to by 20 of them! I also went to three Jo-Ann stores to round up all the roses since they were on sale. I also bought all my hydrangea from afloral.com and they came a little packed too tight so I’ll have to spend some time spreading them out. So I just need to round up a few of my girls to put them all together beforehand and come Friday, June 19 we’ll be putting them all together with limes!

Test one:

Linens will be yellow, with ivory table clothes. Food is still TBD, but we have a caterer. We don’t have a DJ yet, that’s next on the list. We do have a first dance song though! We will be dancing to Johnny Cash’s version of Rose of my Heart. I almost despaired of finding a song we both could dance too because we have a different tastes. We like a lot of the same things, but we LOVE a lot of different things. Anyway, I’m ambivalent about Johnny Cash, but I love the lyrics of the song so it’s perfect!

So recently I’ve been searching for a veil. Since I bought my dress off the rack, I don’t really have an opportunity to try on veils with the dress itself. Soo… I think I’m going to David’s Bridal just to try some on without the dress and I’ll probably buy it online since it’ll be cheaper. I’ll just have to hope it looks good with the dress… I’m thinking it’ll be elbow length with a satin trim around the edges with a cascade cut (so it has some waves to it).

For table numbers, I want to do something like this, except with top opening sketch books which will be cheaper. If I can find ones that don’t have a wire spiral at the top…

Cake is going to look like this, except that it will only be two tiers and the color will be salmon. We’ll do sheet cakes for the rest. I have one quote, I need to check out another place, although I really liked the place we went to. I am okay with the price, it is, however, above our budget and we’re already over our budget by quite an amount so I need to think about it.

I purchased the favors, which I won’t share here. They’re useful, traditional, and I’m okay with them. I was going to do either these or food, and these won out for cost reasons. We can’t have everything we want 🙂

Flowers: I am meeting with a lady that did my cousins wedding on Monday evening who works out of her home. I have some ideas of what I want; I’m thinking fresh hydrangea with roses (like the centerpieces). Maybe some lily grass? Mine would be bigger and their girls would be smaller. Nothing too fancy there! Bouts would be a rose with lily grass or something similar. Brian would have a salmon rose and the groomsmen would have ivory. Flower inspiration board:

We also did hotel blocks; We also registered for tuxes at American Commodore. The tuxes will be under $100 which is REALLY good. They’ll have ivory shirts and vests with coral ties (close but not the same exact shade as the girls’ dresses). Brian will be in all ivory. The fathers will be in black shirts and vests with a tie that matches whatever the mother’s wear. Screw them matching with coral ties, I’d rather they matched the moms! We have to go pick out the shoes for the tuxes but otherwise that’s done. The girls dresses are all ordered!

Also, I’m going to try my hand at another brand new craft! I’ve now done heat embossing and flower arranging, and I’m going to try another! I’m not going to say what it is, but I am excited about it and it involves the girls. You might be able to guess but I will neither confirm or deny.

Oh, I can’t forget the invitations. I FINALLY finished the outside pockets for the invites, now I need to start on all the inserts..

That’s about it for now… DJ, picking out food, getting the florist booked are top priority. Then veil finding and scheduling hair stuff and finding a tailor to add the bustle and hem my dress. Then guest book and getting the materials for the table numbers… so much to do, so little time!