Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow

Today is a lot of things. Today is the day before my RSVPs are due. *cough* I'd like to say today is the day I book my porta potties, additional rentals, and photobooth, but that really depends on their price quotes and response time. So today is the day I email all those people and attempt to get some booking done! Oh right, and today is exactly 30 days from our big day! (According to theknot.com; I would've thought it was yesterday since it was the 18th!) 30 days from today, I'm getting married. I really truly have no idea where that year long engagement went! I'm excited, but I'm also trying really hard not to have a major freakout! I have so much left to do, and only 30 days to do it! Do you have any idea how fast 30 days flies when you're planning a wedding?

Two words:

LIGHT

SPEED

Yesterday I had my "final" dress fitting (turns out I needed a couple more nips and tucks so I now have another final dress fitting Sept. 8th). So glad I finally have my jewelry and shoes decided, though!

Tomorrow (well, Friday - Sunday) I'm going home (AKA my wedding venue) even though my house is still a disaster area from moving - sorry FH but it looks like that's just how it's gonna be when you get here (in less than 2 weeks!!)! Other than the wedding weekend I was planning on only going home Labor Day weekend. Yeahhh I realized I definitely should go this weekend after starting to make a list of things I can do while I'm home. It's a pretty long list. It includes a site walk through with the tent guy, meeting with my caterer, meeting with my DJ, and scoping out photography locations for our first look and day after shots! The last one's my favorite :) One of my photographers is pushing for Wild West City for the day after shots. I'm not opposed to it, but I guess I think it'd be more me than FH? I got me some country roots but he's... well, he's British! I don't think they had British cowboys... But I have an email into WWC to see if we could get in there and we'll see what they say. I'd rather not have to pay admission to get pics taken in front of wild west cheesiness :) But if they let us in for free, that could be another story altogether...

I know I haven't posted much lately in the way of projects. It's not that I haven't been working on any, I have, but they're either slow going and not finished or I forgot to take pictures at the time. :( Don't worry, I'm sure there will be plenty in the coming weeks, and even after the wedding as well! Last weekend Bridesmaid Amanda, Bonnie and I worked on our "nuclear bombs" as their sig others called them (who were present during this project). AKA LED throwies for my chinese lanterns (they'll provide light for the lanterns with the battery operated LED light, versus having more string lights). They're done! I ordered my chinese lanterns from PaperLanternStore.com. As soon as those come in I have to figure out how the LED lights will get attached. I'm thinking fishing line, but need to see how the lanterns are constructed inside. I think I may need to stock up on fishing line before the wedding... Michael's must sell it, right? Since so many people use it for projects? I'll check that out this weekend when I go home.

Hopefully the LED project will make my tent look like this! Except, green instead of blue, of course. :)

Via TheKnot.com

-C
xxx

I Heart Fishing... Line

I LOVE THIS! I've been trying to come up with something unique for where we stand during the ceremony, since there's not really an altar or anything in my mom's backyard. I am totally doing this.

My Sweet And Saucy

Seen on Dog n' Bird

It's so simple looking - and simple to do as well! Fishing line + flower buds = easy peasy decor project! I'm even gonna go out on a limb here and say either real or fake flowers would work. Maybe it's just because I'm obsessed with fake flowers (have you noticed? not yet? ok i'll blog about it sometime.), but honestly? With fake flowers you can assemble them ahead of time and just run out and hang 'em in the trees the day before or something. No wilting, no worrying about breaking them either. Who doesn't like projects they can do ahead of time?

Have I mentioned how much I heart fishing line? Fishing line and I are LIKETHIS now. Is there anything fishing line can't do??

At my wedding, fishing line will be...
-holding flower buds (duh)
-how I tied the buttons onto the boutonnieres
-used in some capacity on the corsages I’m sure
-holding up the chinese lanterns
-how the lights I'm making are attached to the chinese lanterns
…and that's only just the beginning! I'm sure I'll find plenty of other uses for it. As long as I'm not actually using it for fishing. That's just gross.

-C
xxx