I like to think that with a long engagement you better manage your time but I’m not sure so that is the case. Here I am with 5 months to do and I feel like I have so much to do still! Fortunately, most of things I have left are just the little details such as reception decor. I believe I have mentioned where we are having our reception before but here is an inside look of the Glendale Lyceum through some pictures of a past wedding that have taken place there. I intend to have mine look much similar. Funny story about the gold chargers…my Mom and I ventured to the Christmas Tree Shop on Sunday in search of them. I told myself I wouldn’t spend more then $1 a piece since I had to buy almost 225 of them. Well….they were $1.50. So I went to the register and told myself I would buy 10, take them to the Lyceum to see how they looked and decide from there. The awesome, wonderful, fantastic sales woman, Dakota, told me that she would not only give them to me for $1, but she would also give me a 20% off coupon. Needless to say, 2 hours later, my Mom and I walked out with 225 gold chargers at just $.80 a piece! Whoo hoo!!!!
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I was going to write about this topic at some point in the future but since Martha Weddings tweeted brides asking what the biggest challenge is I thought I’d talk about the theme issue now.
So here is my take on the topic: I guarantee that the first 3 months or so after you get engaged you will do nothing but scour every wedding website known to man and write down dozens of things you think are neat, cute, pretty and memorable. Therefore, you will inevitably become totally confused and disheartened about the fact that you have no clue what you want. Well, my tip is this, do all of that until you are blue in the face and then give yourself a break from the planning as it will all come together in time. It all comes down to budget and the initial feeling of how you wanted the wedding to go.
Me and Mr.Pom initially wanted to go to an island and have a really small ceremony followed by a party closer to home. Thinking all of it through I am now, after 4 months of deliberating with myself, going with a simple theme. I never wanted to pick colors and I also never truly wanted a theme. So here goes, I’m thinking of classic white – because it’s classic AND simple – with pops of yellow, because yellow brightens even the gloomiest days. This would not only give the whole reception tent an airy feeling but it would also keep true to our original desire of having a simple and effortless wedding. The fact that we are getting married on a lake only adds to the simplicity and fun.
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Mr. Peach and I recently went to our first wedding since getting in engaged. It’s definitely true that you look these celebrations now with a very different lenses. What did we like? What didn’t we like? What hadn’t we thought of? This wedding was one of my very good friends from college, who has very similar tastes to me, so on top of being over the moon happy for her and her new hubby, I was very excited to see the final product of her special day, knowing all the hard work and details that went into her planning.
Anyway, we go to the church for the ceremony and then off to the reception. We arrived an adorable italian restaurant with a very European feel. The cocktail hour was in one room and after some munchies, we were ushered into the main area of the restaurant for the main meal. The dj welcomed us for the evening and then introduced the newly married couple, but no first dance. Hmm. Then our salads were served and her MOH and the best man gave speeches. Then our main course was served. Midway through my filet, I turn to Mr. Peach and say, “When are we going to dance?” Peachy MOH who was sitting on the other side of me responds with a quick, “Um, after dessert!” To which I must have looked shocked and surprised, because I had never been to a wedding like this. Sure enough, we finished eating. They cut the cake. We were served dessert. And then danced the remainder of the night.
Our entire table started talking about the order of events on a wedding day and apparently I’m the complete outsider.
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How is everyone doing? I hope everyone’s wedding planning is going well. Today I wanted to give my two cents about a good place to have an engagement party, or even a small wedding reception, in Boston. A couple of years ago a friend of mine got married and we knew that there would only be about 12 people coming. My friend and I decided to throw him and his partner a reception so we began scouring Boston for a nice place for the celebration.
Luckily, we didn’t have to look too far when we came across a “function” room at Stephi’s on Tremont. The staff there was extremely accomodating and because they don’t bake cakes they told us that we could absolutely bring in one of our own. Below are a couple of pictures of the room but they can help you plan things out the way you want. The food is also extremely delicious.
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I came across this super cute idea to help spice up the traditional guest book. As a bonus, it seems super easy to make! Here is the idea…have your guests answer questions about you and your hubby. Leave a pen at their plate or have the books set out for all to sign. This is a great way to capture some funny memories that you can look back on for years to come. Simply buy some notebooks with a blank cover, type your questions out, print on some sturdy paper and place on front. Some fun questions would be “where should we go for our ten year anniversary?” or “what should we name our kids?”. You could ask “what is your favorite memory of us?” or “best marriage advice. Go!”. The possibilities are endless and responses can be super fun to read.
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In my last post, I shared about using home grown wheat and corn in our centerpieces. The rest of the centerpieces were also a DIY project…one that was certainly a group effort.
At first, I wanted to use tin cans as vases for flowers – no big enough. So I turned to wine bottles…but after collecting about 30 of them there was one in particular that caught my eye – cobalt blue wine bottles! At the time, I was not yet 21 – so I had to turn to friends and family for some help. I told them of my plan and before I knew it empty wine bottles were being given to me left and right.
 small aqua accent vases I knew I was in trouble when at a family Christmas gathering someone pulled out a jumbo bottle and it was that same beautiful cobalt blue…I had to get my hands of some of those! Lucky for me lots of stores were running sales on such bottles. What’s more, I’m told the wine was not only cheap, but it was good too! Before I knew it I had more jumbo cobalt bottles than I did regular sized. This was due in large part to the fact the Poppy Aunt called me one day saying she had a box for me. Low and behold it contained 20 empty jumbo wine bottles complements of her neighborhood!
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Poppy Dude and I are very much in love with the simple rural surrounding that we were raised in. It was important that our wedding really reflect those values. I wanted to find a way to get Poppy Dude really excited about the wedding planning process because I know sometimes the groom just smiles and says “whatever you want, honey!” when it comes to picking and choosing wedding details. I had an idea that fit the ticket for both wishes – a touch of country.
Poppy Dude is a “country boy” when it comes down to it. He was raised on his family’s farm/ranch where three generations of men come together to make the operation a success.
When researching and coming up with ideas for centerpieces – it struck me. What’s yellow and plays a huge part in our agriculturally centered lives? Corn and Wheat. I ran my idea by Poppy Dude and his eyes lit up. We decided to incorporate corn and wheat grown right on the Poppy Dude family farm. Corn would be easy to get – Poppy Dude’s family has some stored in bins on the yard. The wheat on the other hand only presented a certain window of time for cutting at the perfect golden color. That’s usually around the 4th of July here in south-central Nebraska, but because it’s been so wet this year it was a little later – even better for us!
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Poppy Dude and I will be setting out a mailbox for guests to “deliver” their cards at the reception. This was our solution to keeping the cards contained and safe – after hearing a horror story from Poppy Dude’s mom.
Long story short – at a family friends wedding they left the cards out on the table all night to find that someone had stolen them. One of the guests who had purchased a gift card called the store where they purchased it and they caught someone trying to use the card…turns out it was the DJ.
Anyway, Poppy Dudes’ mom was concerned that we have a receptacle and plan for the cards that evening. We didn’t really like the look of a card box (that really didn’t fit with the feel of our wedding). So we opted for a chocolate brown mailbox. Of course I had to DIY something on it. Using our decorative element from our wedding stationary, burlap scrapbook paper, and my soon-to-be last name…tada!
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When I got home from work today I had planned to write a post about either our engagement pictures (They’re AMAZING!) or our save the dates (they are still non-existent). I promise I will write about each. However, when I sat down to start typing I began fumbling through some other wedding blogs and websites I frequent quite often and found this:
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I love the idea of ribbon wands. I mean, how cute is this??
LOVE. Since we’re already doing a bubble exit, I thought about another way to incorporate ribbon wands. And I think I’ve found it! At our wedding, our guests will “wave” their wands in the air for a kiss from the bride and groom. I looked and looked, and finally I found Pebbles, who makes the most adorable wands based on your wedding colors (at absolutely amazing prices):
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