Thursday, January 5, 2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Centerpiece Fiasco
I have gone back and forth over what I want our centerpieces to be for the wedding,. I have been so indecisive because I'm scared of what if i pick something and the day of the wedding I hate. Well the Future hubby has decided the indecisiveness has to end and has given me a WEEK TO PICK SOMETHING OR HE WILL AHAHAHAHAHAHAH . So this is my first attempt at centerpices tell me what do you think?
Monday, December 12, 2011
Bridal party meeting
So with 4months and 3 days away from the wedding I had my first bridal party meeting yesterday and it was awesome to have almost all my girls there (One had to work the other is stationed in Afghanistan ). We boxed and got all my invites ready to go and went over tons of wedding stuff. I have to say im even more excited for the wedding after hanging with my girls
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| The personalized bags I got for everyone |
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| My Bridesmaids handbook promise its not bridezillish I just have a hard time asking for help lol but I can write it |
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Engagement Photos
Me and the future hubby took our engagement pics this past week and I am so excited to see how they look. We should have them back in about a week
Thursday, December 1, 2011
DIY Aisle Runner
So after spending forever looking for an aisle runner that was cheap and monogrammed I realized it doesn't exist. Refusing to pay anyone $80-$100 for it I personalized my own,
I got the aisle runner from michaels for about $20 bucks with a coupon and the acrylic paint bag of variety brushes with a coupon from michaels as well.
Step 1:
Design how you want it to look we did ours in photoshop and blew it up and taped it together
Step 2:
Tape the printouts of the logo to the surface your using and lay the aisle runner over it. We put the logo a feet away from the front of the aisle runner because we want it to be in our pictures. Than you want to go back to how easy life was in kindergarten and trace. We were able to trace ours kind of dark because were painting it dark colors but if your painting light colors you wanna trace lightly.
Step 3:
Once you got it all traced out you remove the tape and the print out from under it
Step 4.
You wanna start painting its way easier to work from the inside out. The paint will bleed through so you may want to lay wax paper under it or if you have tile table like ours its not a big deal cause it just wipes off. You wanna take your time because even though you can make little mistakes like going outside the lines (you can smooth it out) smudging paint somewhere could be a bit of a disaster.
Step 5:
Once your big initial is done you want to let it dry before you start working on your other lettering. I let ours try for about 4 hours.
Step 6:
Start on painting your names and date this part at least for us was the most difficult because we choose a really swoopy font. But it was so worth the effort because in the end it came out gorgeous
Step 7:
Give yourself a pat on the back
I got the aisle runner from michaels for about $20 bucks with a coupon and the acrylic paint bag of variety brushes with a coupon from michaels as well.
Step 1:
Design how you want it to look we did ours in photoshop and blew it up and taped it together
Step 2:
Tape the printouts of the logo to the surface your using and lay the aisle runner over it. We put the logo a feet away from the front of the aisle runner because we want it to be in our pictures. Than you want to go back to how easy life was in kindergarten and trace. We were able to trace ours kind of dark because were painting it dark colors but if your painting light colors you wanna trace lightly.
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| My Fiance Tracing away |
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| Our L traced out |
Step 3:
Once you got it all traced out you remove the tape and the print out from under it
Step 4.
You wanna start painting its way easier to work from the inside out. The paint will bleed through so you may want to lay wax paper under it or if you have tile table like ours its not a big deal cause it just wipes off. You wanna take your time because even though you can make little mistakes like going outside the lines (you can smooth it out) smudging paint somewhere could be a bit of a disaster.
Once your big initial is done you want to let it dry before you start working on your other lettering. I let ours try for about 4 hours.
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| Our names and date traced out |
Step 6:
Start on painting your names and date this part at least for us was the most difficult because we choose a really swoopy font. But it was so worth the effort because in the end it came out gorgeous
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| All done |
Step 7:
Give yourself a pat on the back
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
DIY: Scroll Invitations
Here are my scroll invitations I'm having a fairytale theme,,,, I know I know I always thought it was so cliche to have a fairy tale theme too until I was getting married and decided screw that I wanna look like a princess too lol. The invites cost us about $60 to make and they look fantastic if you ask me
First we got parchment paper from officemax for $12 dollars with a coupon normally its $15. Parchment Paper is kind of pricey but compared to what you would actually pay for invitation its a steal. We bought satin ribbon, crown trinkets, and the mini bows from Michael's with a 25% off your purchase coupon. Also we got dowel wood, rubber cement, and wood glue from Home depot. Your also going to need a hot glue gun
Step 1:
Figure out how long you want the invitations to be ours are a little over 5 1/2 inches you wanna cut the dowel wood to that size and sand down the ends if they look a little rough. This is totally something you can have your future hubby get involved with. Saws and sanding my fiance was all over this one.
Step 2:
Decide how you want the invitations to look. We did ours in Photoshop and created our monogram that were going to use on on the invitations, response cards, programs, and so on. Do a few test prints on regular paper in black and white because once again parchment paper is not cheap and neither is colored ink. Once you have the look right print them off on the parchment paper. We did two invites per page of parchment paper they measure 4 and 5/8 of an inch
Step 3:
Put wood glue on top of the invitations (the part your going to roll up so that they are scrolls) and roll that part up in the dowel wood hold them down for a few seconds and leave them for at least 30 minutes to make sure they are really dry
Step 4:
Roll them up and decide how tight or loose you want them in the ribbon
Step 5:
Use rubber cement to glue the smaller ribbon on top of the bigger ribbon. Let them dry for a minute or two once their glued and dry you want to cut the fringes around them.
NOTE: You dont want to try and use a hot glue gun to do this because it looks awful the rubber cement makes it look flawless like the ribbon came that way.
Step 6:
Than you want to roll them up and use the rubber cement to seal it. Allow it to dry for a minute or two
Step 7:
Put the invitation in the ribbon holders you just made. The easiest way to do it is to roll the invite up tight and than put them through the ribbon holder.
Step: 8:
Glue the mini ribbon onto the seam of of the invitation ribbon holder with the hot glue gun.
Step 9: Slide the trinket over the ribbon it wont fall off trust me I tried to fling it a million ways.
Step:10: Pour yourself a drink because they are now all done and ready to box up thats one big thing you can now officially check off your checklist
Oh and just in case you were wondering this what our response cards look like
First we got parchment paper from officemax for $12 dollars with a coupon normally its $15. Parchment Paper is kind of pricey but compared to what you would actually pay for invitation its a steal. We bought satin ribbon, crown trinkets, and the mini bows from Michael's with a 25% off your purchase coupon. Also we got dowel wood, rubber cement, and wood glue from Home depot. Your also going to need a hot glue gun
Step 1:
Figure out how long you want the invitations to be ours are a little over 5 1/2 inches you wanna cut the dowel wood to that size and sand down the ends if they look a little rough. This is totally something you can have your future hubby get involved with. Saws and sanding my fiance was all over this one.
Step 2:
Decide how you want the invitations to look. We did ours in Photoshop and created our monogram that were going to use on on the invitations, response cards, programs, and so on. Do a few test prints on regular paper in black and white because once again parchment paper is not cheap and neither is colored ink. Once you have the look right print them off on the parchment paper. We did two invites per page of parchment paper they measure 4 and 5/8 of an inch
Step 3:
Put wood glue on top of the invitations (the part your going to roll up so that they are scrolls) and roll that part up in the dowel wood hold them down for a few seconds and leave them for at least 30 minutes to make sure they are really dry
Step 4:
Roll them up and decide how tight or loose you want them in the ribbon
Step 5:
Use rubber cement to glue the smaller ribbon on top of the bigger ribbon. Let them dry for a minute or two once their glued and dry you want to cut the fringes around them.
NOTE: You dont want to try and use a hot glue gun to do this because it looks awful the rubber cement makes it look flawless like the ribbon came that way.
Than you want to roll them up and use the rubber cement to seal it. Allow it to dry for a minute or two
Step 7:
Put the invitation in the ribbon holders you just made. The easiest way to do it is to roll the invite up tight and than put them through the ribbon holder.
Step: 8:
Glue the mini ribbon onto the seam of of the invitation ribbon holder with the hot glue gun.
Step 9: Slide the trinket over the ribbon it wont fall off trust me I tried to fling it a million ways.
Step:10: Pour yourself a drink because they are now all done and ready to box up thats one big thing you can now officially check off your checklist
Oh and just in case you were wondering this what our response cards look like
DIY
So ladies I have decided to take on a few task on my own from personalizing my aisle runner, invitations, flower girl baskets, programs, menus, ring bearer chest, and a few other things. Wish me luck and for my fellow Drive Yourself Insaners (DIY'ers) Ill be posting pics and instructions just in case your thinking of doing the same thing. Because lets face it there are times doing it yourself can save a lot of moolah and it really adds that personal touch to a day that is all about you.
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