As you know, I had a lot of DIY projects so now I want to show them off! Remember me talking about making my veil?

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One things that we saved a big chunk of money on was flowers. I made all of our wedding flowers in advance with silk flowers to not only save money but also reduce stress (and they don’t wilt!). We were pleased with how all of the flowers came out.

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Some brief notes, so you can have an idea of what I’m— errr, we are planning:

• Colors: No thank you.  As of now, the plan is to put the BMs in neutral dresses (probably black or grey) and get the flowers at the last minute (day before), and put them together ourselves the day of the wedding.  I can tell you that I love orange (how appropriate).  Orange will be somewhere in there.
• Food: BBQ/Southern comfort food.  Ideally, I’d love to have someone come with a smoker… I can already taste the turkey legs, ribs, grilled corn, pulled pork, cole slaw, hush puppies… nom!
• Drinks: Beer & Wine.  We’re going to have a couple of different kegs of our favorite beers; and wine.   Haven’t thought out the logistics of that yet.
• Location: As of now, we’re considering a couple of historic sites… but more to come on that in another post.
• Date: All we’ve talked about so far is Fall.  Mr. Man seems to think he’ll be able to talk me into a Spring wedding, but let the record show: IT AIN’T HAPPENING.  Why does he want this?  Football.  Surprise, Surprise.  I’m pushing to consider getting hitched on a Friday (cheaper), that way we can make a weekend out of it – be lazy on Saturday, watch the Skins wherever we honeymoon on Sunday.  I’m thinkin’ Sept/October. I’ll keep you lovelies updated, don’t you fret.
• Dress: I’m a plain jane.  My only requirement is that it not be frilly and that it absolutely, positively must have pockets.  I will not budge on this.
• Veil: I don’t do veils.  I think they’re annoying.  I plan on having a cute-as-a-button birdcage with a to-die-for fascinator.
• The Boys: Mr. Man wants to wear black suits, but I’m trying my bestest to convince him to wear grey or khaki; again, I’ll keep you updated.
• The Ceremony: Quick and dirty.  Nothing religious.  Maybe have a friend get ordained.  I dig.

Image by Cotton Bud

A link to a very interesting article was posted recently on a thread over at the forums on Wedding Wire, that discusses the many tiers of a bride – based on her budget.  Naturally, I landed on the bottom rung, which didn’t surprise me.  What did was the seeming lack of respect the author had for brides on such a small budget.

Here’s a direct quote:

“DIY Bride: (Budget: under $5000) Someone who probably doesn’t have the resources to get married just yet and is likely to turn most of her wedding into an Arts and Crafts project.”

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Well, here’s our first diy project.  I say ours, but Lotus Dude did most of the work.  I photographed, which counts as work too!  We decided to use modified French memory boards to display the escort cards.

The needed materials were canvas in the desired size, cotton batting, fabric in your wedding colors, ribbon, staples and a staple gun, scissors, and decorative tacks.  We chose to use a small canvas and scrap fabric for the first one just to make sure we knew what we were doing and not wasting good fabric.

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My favourite projects lately have been making soap.  I’m no expert, but I have figured out an easy process that can be done in a quick evening at home.

Soap for Party/Wedding Favours:

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Enter to win a DIY kit to make custom wedding program fans for your ceremony!

From custom-programs.com

More details on the Contest page.

Save-the-Dates…check

Invitations…check

Oh the wonderful feeling of checking off items on your To Do list!!  Last night I was able to finish our RSVP cards.  It was actually easier than I thought it would be since Dandelion Dude and I decided on leaving some space on them for friends and family to write us little notes.  Since this is an destination wedding for some, I know everyone will have a little something to say. Here they are…super simple and to the point.

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My supervisor bought cork board for her home office, but then ended up not using it. Because she couldn’t return it and knowing I love DIY projects, she brought it to work and gave me several 12×12 cork boards… I accepted them with delight, but was unsure of how I could use them…

Then, with a little inspiration from Pansy Bud’s awesome DIY flower monogram project, I had an idea. When you enter our venue, there is a short hallway leading to double doors before you get to the main room, so I decided to create something to decorate the double doors. Here a close up on the finished project:

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Whew! It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks for me. In addition to a month solid of booked weekends, my work life has become much bigger. Thank you Mr. Recession.

While I visited my sister last weekend, we completed a few DIY projects, which I will post separately. First up were the Organza flowers. 

Personal Photo

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