Best Tool Ever!

I recently made the best purchase ever. As you all know, I'm making paper flower garlands. My plan for said garlands is to create an entire wall of tissue paper flower goodness that will hang behind the head table. While I love how this project will turn out, it's a bit of a pain in the ass to do. Britney helped me fold about 80 of these the other night during SVU... I love her. In order to make the flowers I have to cut down each sheet into 12 smaller squares. You then put four squares together to make a flower. Considering I need to cover a 15x8ft section of wall, this equals a lot of tissue paper cutting. I've been working with scissors and its tedious and slow BUT enter the best purchase EVER:
THE ROTARY CUTTER AND SELF HEALING MAT!!!!!
















This tool has seriously made my life a million times easier. I cut all this in one hour while watching SVU!



For $14.99 this is a lifesaver.

I think I've found a direction to go with the bridemaids outfits. I definitely want all of the girls to wear black dresses, all different but similar in length/material. I'm seriously considering going to dresses with straps/sleeves since it will be winter and a little chilly. I know I want them all to wear cute heels, but I don't know if I want them to match. I am definitely leaning towards black dresses with gold accents/shoes. If I go with gold heels I think that they would almost have to be the same in order to get all the same color.




I'm also kind of in love with this dress and this dress. I don't know if they would really work for the wedding but maybe i'll just get one for myself?

Wedding Date Update

Alright. Here's the official not ever changing unless the world implodes, set in stone, enforced by Jake wedding date - December 11, 2010.

We did decide on March at first, as mostly a compromise. It made sense in my head, but the more I thought about a March wedding the more it didn't make sense in my heart. In case you all are wondering, here's how we ended up at this date.

We originally planned on getting married in August 2011 before we were even engaged. The plan was to get married when Jake was done with school and his licensing exam. As we moved closer to engagement and marriage, I realized that waiting another two years to get married just wasn't going to make me happy. Luckily Jake loves me and wants to marry me whenever so we moved to date to May 2011 so at least he was done with school.

May didn't exactly work because of the multitude of graduations and proms within the family that would almost definitely conflict with our chosen date and make life stressful.

We still felt that it was important to at least put off the wedding until Jake was comfortable fitting it in with his school obligations, so we knew we didn't want to get married in the summer or 2010. We tossed around the idea of a Christmas wedding as well as a random month wedding sometime between Dec and May. At the time Dec seemed like it would present way too many complications and settled on March because if I did decide to go back to school I would at least be on break. March 19 was just the compromised, sensible day so we went with it.

I've been thinking about it a lot, trying to decide what I really wanted for the wedding. My first choice would be a nice summer wedding, semi-outdoors, and smallish. That went out the window very quickly - summer of 2011 was too far out and summer 2010 seemed to too soon. To be honest, the only other wedding vision I kept coming back to was this white, winter wedding with a candle lit ceremony and lots of soft pretty touches. This, unfortunately didn't seem to fit with March.

After lots of thought, stress and deliberation I have decided to go with December. Jake told me the other day to just decide what I wanted and to do it, and just make it work no matter what. So here we are. I will be having white winter wedding with candle light and soft touches.

Also, this wedding date is now unmovable. Jake has assured me that he will not let me change it, and so it is now set in stone. I will begin working on our Save the Dates now and once they are done... no changing my mind!

So we've now started re-thinking about the wedding date. We are still toying with December 2010. We're thinking it would most likely need to be either December 11th or 18th (both saturdays) in order to have time to do a honeymoon, Christmas, and family Christmas stuff. Not sure if we could fit it all in though? If its not in December it is going to still be March 19th. I'm just afraid that if we move it to December we would run out of time to do both family's Christmas stuff as well as the wedding and honeymoon.
Any thoughts from the loyal readers?

Falling in love... again

So I was at the thrift store today and totally fell in love with milk glass!!!
I bought three vases for .50cents each!! At that price falling in love is even easier.

Here's some inspiration wedding pics with milk glass...