Weddingbee Blog

Have officially STARTED!

Last week Groomsman Will invited us over to his place because he had tons of wood that he wanted to split (for us and himself) to use as firewood and also (from my previous requests) for wedding crafts!!!

So, I carefully picked all of the pieces I thought we could use for some of the many wood-related projects I have in mind. They tried to teach me how to split wood the old way, as you can see:

{ Mr Poodle didn’t know what was coming! Muah ha ha ha! }

Don’t worry! I could never hurt Mr Poodle. (Well, not on purpose… I’m good at poking him with my hairpieces, but that’s it!)

Groomsman William had tons of pieces for me to pick! And on top of that, Mr. Poodle’s Dad told us that he needs to get rid of a tree in his yard, so we can use that, too!!

I am so excited! I was worried about where we were going to get all the wood I wanted, because even though we live right next to the dorest, we would never cut down a whole tree just for wedding projects.

Anyway, the next day we had all of the wood in our garage and we got to work!

We cut all the pieces we’ll be using as carved labels for our Buffet of Sweets. I know it’s hard to picture those pieces of wood in a cute way, with pizza and iced tea in the background, but just wait until we finish! I promise they will definitely look prettier! There’s still some massive carving, sanding, and finishing to do!

After that, Mr Poodle moved on to the next task for the day… table numbers!! Last time we were at Mr. P’s grandparents’ ranch we picked out some really old pieces I thought could work. I drew the numbers and Mr Poodle proceed to cut!

After that, he sanded the edges a little bit. I really wanted the rustic, not-so-perfect look for the number and I loved the result, but I wont be showing you how it looks until we finish the supports for our numbers!

Cutting the numbers out of such old pieces of wood was not easy because some of them had cracks and just broke while we were cutting, so as you can see, Mr. Poodle had to find something to release his frustration out on.

But don’t worry! He would never hurt Curly, either.

Here’s the proof that Curly did survive!

Are any of you working on wood-related projects for your wedding? Where are you getting your wood?