About getting those things done

Re: my post from last week:

1. I picked up the bowls and it feels great knowing I don't have to think about the centerpieces anymore. Well, except for buying all the components, but I won't be able to do that until the week of the wedding anyway.

2. Went to Rose's Flower Shop to talk flowers. Monique, who I think is the owner, and I chatted for quite a while and I just love her! She was very straight forward and actually gave me tips on how I could save money. She was my kind of lady. I like the look of 1 flower bouquets and my first choices were ranunculus or peonies, but being that they are out of season I had to come up with a different plan. Let's take a moment and see how beautious my bouquet could have been though...

At the time, I pretty much decided on white hydrangeas for me and smaller green ones for the bridesmaids. Kind of like these:

Although, I've been on the dahlia/zinnia/spider mum train this week, so I might switch it up. I am thinking they are more me than the hydrangeas. Imagine the below in white and green:

I have always liked the punch of color these green spider mums would give too.

3. My mom and I went to get our dresses fitted. Very exciting! I'll have to go back in a couple weeks for another fitting. I hope it looks good after it gets altered...I don't know if that is a common worry, but I sort of am nervous about that

4. Drove all the way to what felt like the end of the earth (Oak Creek - ha!) to pick up some free envelopes from Molly. Seriously though, I came from Brookfield and felt like I was driving forever to get there. And in my defense, it probably was about a 40 minute drive. It was worth it though because I got all my wedding envelopes, plus some...all for the cost of a Starbucks gift card that I chose to give even though she asked for nothing. I think I have about 300 A7 envelopes in 4 different colors now.

5. Got my hair high/low lighted at the Vici Beauty School. The student I got was super cute and really good. I am trying to gradually get closer to my natural hair color. I had been highlighting my hair for what seems like forever and it is a lot to keep up with. I don't know if I will ever give it up completely, but hopefully if I have less blonde in my hair, it will be easier to maintain. I was there for about 3 hours and it cost $60.

6. Did not get the invitations printed yet. What is wrong with us!? It is getting dangerously close to crunch time.

7. Saw Sex and the City and loved it so much. In hindsight, there were things I thought that weren't necessary, but overall I was immensely satisfied! I kind of wanted to see it again immediately after it was over. I thought Charlotte especially had some great lines and brought out lots of emotion.

As for what we have on our agenda this weekend...

• This Saturday we have our engaged enrichment day. It is a day long retreat you have to go through if you are getting married in the Catholic church. I can think of a lot of other things I'd like to do on Saturday, but I am sure it won't be as bad as we think it will be.

• Hopefully laying by the pool on Sunday if it isn't raining
  

• We are also going to get those invites printed. I mean, it's not even funny anymore.

1. faye and greer 2. Vogue Flowers 3. The Knot 4. unknown 5. Mrs. Lime from the Weddingbee's BM bouquets 6. unknown 7. urban bride

fonts

I have been a little hesitant posting actual things we will have at our wedding because there are people that read this blog that will be at the wedding and I would like the details that I have been working so hard on to be a surprise. I then realized that there are probably only a handful of people (that I know of) out of over 200 who read this and I needed to get over myself. So I decided that I could compromise. I will show things I am debating about, but not the finished product. Of course I will post things after the wedding, when the cat is out of the bag, but for now, I'll only be teasing...

Back to the fonts: A couple weekends ago I stumbled upon urbanfonts.com and dafont.com and I officially wasted away 2 days downloading free fonts. It was a little ridiculous, but I got some great ones that I knew could be contenders for our invitations and other paper products. We are hoping our wedding will have a classic, fun and laid back feel (duh. who doesn't?.), so we didn't want our invitations to be too formal. With that in mind, I wanted to find a calligraphy font, but not a real stuffy one. We narrowed our options down to 2 different font combinations...

We have made our final decision and I made up an mock invitation that we are super excited about. I had made one a while ago that we thought was definitely the one, but now that one seems so gross in comparison. I'm glad to have this done with plenty of time to get them printed and everything also. Having the design down for the invitations is also making everything else super easy to envision. The escort cards, programs, table numbers, etc seem to be obvious now that we have made this decison. I am having so much fun creating these things! I can't believe some people don't love this stuff and would rather pay someone to do it. I think I missed my calling.