Weddingbee Blog

Here’s the story: I put on Made of Honor, started making my seating cards, and by the time the main character was meeting with her pastor for the first time, I was done with them! Now I realize for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, that means nothing. So let me elaborate… I’d say half the movie, maybe not even that far, I was done making the seating cards. So niicceee.

I decided to go with the seating cards around the tree idea that I talked about in August. Here was my inspiration:

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I had a few people ask how I made our save the dates, so I thought I would provide some tutorials. First up is how to put the image together in Photoshop. I am using Photoshop 7.0 for Windows. Other versions should be fairly similar, but menu items may not be in the same locations.

First, start a new file and make the dimensions fairly large. I made mine 2000 x 2000.

Then, I found a graphic to use for the background and made a pattern. This option is located under Edit > Define Pattern. A dialogue box will pop up allowing you to name the new pattern.

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You don’t have to guess what I’m doing this morning… online shopping! Get 15% off any purchase of $125 or more with promo code FALLSALE. It ends October 1st, so you better shop quick!

If you’re looking for a pretty clutch to carry on your wedding day, look no further! Banana Republic is here to help! This pretty little thing is on sale for $54.99!

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The overwhelming favorite choice for our new DIY guest blog icon was a pair of scissors cutting ribbon off a spool. Irene made two versions for us:

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One frustrating aspect of having a 1950s-inspired vintage wedding is that many people, after having asked you about your wedding, simply don’t understand what on earth you are talking about. “Ooh!” they cry, “A 1950s wedding? So, like Grease? Are you going to wear a poodle skirt?” D’oh! Yes, we are having a 1950s wedding. Yes, poodle skirts were a fad in the 1950s, but for the teenager set! I’ve always been a fan of mid-century romantic comedies (Tea For Two, anyone?), so my wedding vision was predominantly inspired by those celluloid film images, rather than Rizzo and crew. In particular, Marilyn Monroe served as the direct inspiration for our colour scheme—
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Planning our wedding has been a bit stressful. However, as crazy as it may seem, it has also kept me sane. I love crafting and having a project to work on. No matter how big or small the project may be, it is relaxing and rewarding to me. Today, my project was small; I made ‘reserved’ signs for wedding chairs that immediate family will be seated in.

Below you will find a tutorial on how I made the signs.

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Mr. Ballet Flat and I have a pretty interesting relationship. Before he even proposed, we were already talking about our big day and spending the rest of our lives together!

When Mr. Ballet Flat proposed to me, I think he really did his homework. See, I’m pretty darn shy around strangers, and I get embarrassed very easily when attention is brought my way. So, in my head, I was hoping he wouldn’t do a public type of proposal when the time came. I didn’t want people to watch me bawl like a baby and turn a candy apple shade of red.

Mr. Ballet Flat proposed to me on my birthday. Minutes after it turned midnight on March 16, actually. At the time, Mr. Ballet Flat had just recently closed on what will be our first home, and we were spending the weekends there painting, cleaning and renovating the house. So, needless to say, around that time, I was half asleep and pretty out of it. I didn’t expect this to happen at all!
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Psssst…. Over here! SShhhhhh! Come closer. No, act casual. Listen! You want a sneak peek in on our Save the Dates? You’ve been so patient, I feel you deserve a little tease.

Actually, I’m just so freakin’ excited I can’t contain it anymore! Behold, our Save The Date envelope—complete with the bad ass wraparound label the gals at Elizabeth Anne Designs* created for us, and the gloriously adorable “love: all heart” stamps. The actual STDs will arrive today, according to FedEx… but we wanted to be ready for them. Now we can just stuff, and send them off!

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I mentioned in my bridesmaid gift post that I created necklaces for all of the girls. I actually made these necklaces for all of the bridesmaids, readers, and house party. Now that the rehearsal dinner is over, I can share with you my creations!

We live in a small town east of Dallas, but the funny thing is that there is this incredible bead store in my hometown, which has caused Mom H and I to dabble in jewelry making for the past several years. We decided to take a quick class at our local bead store, and off I went to shop and create. After the class, I purchased sterling silver clasps and chain, as well as real pearls and Swarovski crystals. I played around with the lengths and with mixing the different beads.  Here are my results:

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Many people ask me what the hardest part of planning a destination wedding is. They guess it is choosing venues, restaurants or table linens. The fact is, the hardest part about planning a destination wedding is figuring out how to get everything to the destination! Every planning and decor decision makes me think about how we will get the item to the other side of the country. Can we ship it? Pack it in our checked baggage? Do we have to carry it on the plane with us? Our luggage will include all our wedding week clothing, rings, parent/wedding party gifts, my dress, Mr. PN’s kilt, honeymoon clothes, etc., so we decided it would be best to send along some items in advance.

Our amazing florist graciously accepted to receive a few packages and take them to our venue on the morning of the wedding. So, we have spent the last couple weeks finishing our wedding programs, table names, escort cards, menu cards, and cake table photos.
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My friend Heidi was married last March at the famous Little Church of the West wedding chapel in Las Vegas. Unfortunately I was not able to attend the wedding, but Heidi has given me some super cute photos to share with the hive. (These are the biggest images I have, my apologies for the size.)

Here is the bride, pretty in pink!

Her dress is so out of control cute. I love the hem!
 
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It took a few months of finagling, but I was finally able to nail down a “week-after” photo-shoot with Mamacado for the Thursday after the wedding. I wasn’t sure it if could happen since she has the huge task of assembling our hometown reception 2 days later. I won’t be there to help them set up and tear down this event for 150-200 people, so I know that she will be insanely busy trying to get everything coordinated. It’s a huge thing I am asking her to do, but we don’t have much time for couple portraits on the wedding day, so this is the best way to fit them in, and there is also something to be said about having wedding portraits taken by your own Mom hanging up in your house.

We won’t even have to leave the honeymoon site, as we plan on having them taken at Cave B Inn. I’m sure we will spend a few minutes holding hands, wandering through the (frost covered) vineyards. Ironic that we don’t drink wine, isn’t it?

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After much trial and tribulation, the bridesmaid dresses are finally almost altered.

Since we are on a strict budget for the wedding, I decided early on that I would DIY as much as possible (without taking too much on), to save a dime here and there. I fell in love with the idea of pocketfold invitations early on, but websites selling them at over $1/piece, I knew this would be pricey. However, with the help of this DIY pocketfold bio, my creative mind started building a template.

In my template, I have 7×19 inch pieces, and divided it originally as: 3″, 5″, 5″ with 6″ on the end for cutting the pocket out. (Note: I only really needed 7×17 inch pieces for this project if 19″ is hard to find or if you are custom ordering your paper.) However, after scoring my first one, it just didn’t fold into one another naturally. So, I went to another knottie’s blog (heatherkj’s Road to the Aisle) and found in her blog, that she had one 5 1/8″ score then one 5″ score, so that it would fold into one another smoothly. I tried that, and it worked (and it still fit in the A7 envelopes I bought!). 

So here is how to make a pocketfold in 5×7 size. Once, I got in the swing of things, I could pump out 15 of these each hour that I really paid attention to it. This was rare though, because I would mainly do this while watching my reality TV.
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If there is one thing I do well, it is to use the crap out of any free resources. We got a ton of good feedback on our website, so I thought I’d share some snapshots. We’re not web or graphics savvy folks, but I think we left a good impression with visitors by keeping it real. (see readable versions via the ‘biggerize!’ links)

The Welcome Page - To keep it casual, we chose a photo we took of our goofy selves rather than using one of our e-pics. The text invites them to explore, with our choice songs playing in the background (more detail on the music below):

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