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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher Engagement Date: September 2008 Wedding Date: October 2010 Venue: Parents' backyard About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!
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We finished our wraparound labels:

Slowly Crossing Things off Our List :  wedding decor invitations stationery tokyo P704125

Ugh, what a pain in the ass these were. We downloaded the file and typed the information into them using Photoshop, printing them three to a page on A4 paper. Since the resolution wasn’t great and I felt guilty about typing up the addresses, we took a black calligraphy pen to them and wrote over the type. Then we X-Acto-knifed them to straight-edged glory. We’ve both got the X-Acto skills of a five year old, so we had to reprint, re-ink, and recut a bunch of ’em.

Slowly Crossing Things off Our List :  wedding decor invitations stationery tokyo P70412501  People haven’t been visiting our wedding website, so we decided to include a small sheet of paper with the address on it so that our guests can carry the slip to their computers and check it out! Slick.

We were going to make belly bands to hold the invitation suite together, but OH WELL! We were exhausted and busy. Sometimes you’ve just gotta let go, you know what I mean?

I went into Daiso again that weekend. Bad move. Found paper lanterns for 100 yen.

Slowly Crossing Things off Our List :  wedding decor invitations stationery tokyo P70412502  We got five white round lanterns and two pink table lanterns. I have no idea what I was thinking when I bought these. They’ll have to fit in our suitcases somehow. You win again, Daiso.

Have you made a wedding related purchase and then thought “Doh! Why did I do that?”

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4 Responses to “Slowly Crossing Things off Our List”

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ilee (message)  64 posts, Worker bee

is there a Daiso in socal you can also buy lanterns from? we have one here in norcal, but its not as cheap as the 100 yen ones you buy at Daiso Tokyo.

 
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Miss Sand Dollar (message)  1,305 posts, Bumble bee

Good call on the paper website insert. We included ours in on the invitation, foolishly thinking people would notice. Yeah…no. We have absolutely no honeymoon gifts yet! I have a feeling we’ll be getting a lot of cards at the wedding…

 
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SandraMarie_1986 (message)  1,363 posts, Bumble bee

Awesome, I’ve been a bit hesitant to make our wrap around labels.

 
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Miss Locket (message)  2,837 posts, Sugar bee

Umm Yeah have those “why did I buy that?” moments all the time. You don’t even want to see the collection of nonsense I’ve gathered!

 

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Mrs. Glasses
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Mrs. Glasses, Tokyo/Los Angeles, CA Age and Occupation: 24, English teacher Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, English teacher Engagement Date: September 2008 Wedding Date: October 2010 Venue: Parents' backyard About Me: I’m an expat living in Tokyo. I’ve been in Japan for almost three years now, where I met my fantastic English fiance. It’s time to leave Japan, so we are planning a fun, intimate, backyard ceremony back home in the suburbs of L.A. in October. Our wedding will be a mix of my love for food, beer, my Japanese culture, and Mr. G’s Englishness. We are on a tiny budget and DIYing almost everything!

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