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Hi, my name is Miss Lime, and I am a blog-stalker. Not only am I a blog-stalker, I’m often a yellowbellied cowardly one that anonymously subscribes to RSS feeds, rarely comments these days (mostly due to this madness called wedding planning), and leaves not much more than a footprint on the webcounter/stats tracker, if the blog has one.
Anyway, my current eye candy is housemartin, the blog of ink & peat, a Portland-area floral & home decor/lifestyle store (Mrs. Bee also featured them earlier this year). While some of her home ideas are a bit too…country (not sure if that’s the right word, still)…for my taste (albeit still well done and beautifully eclectic), I’m drooling over her florals. They’re organic yet not overgrown or shabby looking, fresh yet classic and not overly trendy. I’m also loving yellow right now, and she brings fun flowers and some fresh yellow together in these arrangements.
Upon the advice of a few commenters, I decided to conserve ink after all. I ended up just doing Option 1, as it combined the elements of #2 and #4. Also, I ran out of the lovely #10 envelopes I was going to use. Luckily, I already have some good A2 envelopes, so folded card it is. Sorry, buckslips, maybe another time.
I printed two up on an 8.5×11 sheet of 80 lb. cardstock bought at my local Kelly Paper. I’m not sure on the specs of the paper, but it’s a bright white matte copier stock.
I banged these out late last night in Adobe Illustrator. We will probably print them using our inkjet on some bright white card stock I already have to keep costs minimal on this project. Please let me know which you like best! I may do a combo of the buckslip sized ones just for a bit of variety.
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One of my bestest college memories involves a Target finally opening up in my liberal, anti-chain, smalltown college town. However, I was honestly very skeptical about their wedding line of shtuff. I subsequently turned around and bought four tie + pocket square sets the first day they started hawking the wedding wares online. I had this brilliant idea to bargain shop over the months we were engaged for various patterns and shades of ties in either black, brown, or aqua for the groomsmen. Alas, this lazy bride found a few coupons online for Target and decided to hit the “checkout” button instead. It’s only a few months out. I haven’t shopped for menswear yet, so it’s highly doubtful I will at this point, and I know our guys would not appreciate having to shop for their own.
White for my groom, aqua for his groomsmen.
Yes, I’m getting matchy matchy here [see invite paper and bridesmaid dress swatch]. I very much dislike the matchy matchy. However, I dislike shopping even more.
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Because I can’t wait the 3 weeks or more it will take me to finish my invitations, here is a sneak peek.
What? I said, “a snippet,” and “a sneak peek.” That’s all you get for now, dear readers. I so hate keeping secrets and am pretty bad at it. I want to share with you all…now! Patience, lime, patience.
Guess what part of the invitation this is showing 
Get them while they last! For your mom, maybe, if your wedding isn’t right about now. I found these beauts at Whole Foods earlier yesterday.
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
…at a reasonable price, and eat it too!
LA-area brides, Fantasy Frostings, of celebrity wedding fame (they purportedly created 2 of 3 of J.Lo’s cakes), is offering a great deal for the rest of the year. Fondant cakes start at $4.50 a slice.
By now, you all know I am usually anti-frills. However, even I have fallen prey to the loveliness of peonies (which I did love before the wedding, thanks to a flower cart at Nordstrom many many Mothers’ Days ago). Delicate sugar paste ones? Sure!
Here’s all the paper for my invitations, cut and ready to be Gocco’ed and assembled. It looks like so little, bundled up this way.
I’ve heard horror stories about more than one local Kinko’s mangling paper or being inexact while cutting it, so I looked up a few stand alone print shops in the area on Yelp. I called around for a few quotes, and they seemed similar to Kinko’s prices, around $1 per cut, but a few also had a setup fee of a few dollars for each layout.
I ended up picking Printing Palace because of its convenient location (to my office, anyway), and because they had previously sent my office some literature regarding their services (yep, I’m a sucker for advertising). They didn’t itemize out the costs for me, but the total divided out to about $1.25 per cut, including any setup fees and taxes. It was totally worth it. Despite my mad x-acto knife and paper cutter skillz, it would have taken a ton of time to cut the large sheets down to these rather smallish sizes. Read more…
I am basing my tablescape on Martha’s famous red + aqua spread:
(from MS Weddings, Summer 2006)
However, I of course need the contemporary, less fussy version. Sorry to you bird-theme lovers out there, but I have this weird aversion to birds (more live ones than the cute ones found in wedding decor) that Mr. Lime can attest to. He’s seen me scream like a little girl running from birds. And it has nothing to do with the Hitchcock film, as I’ve never seen it. Anyway, I digress. Read more…
Here’s another candy you can personalize for wedding favors, shower favors, candy buffets, and friends (beside the infamous and rather pricey m&m’s). Alright, so these are rather pricey for what they are, too, but they are a good, individually-wrapped alternative.
They have kisses with generic messages that could work.
You can also personalize a plume on a 1.45 oz. kiss in these kits, or a giant 7 oz. kiss.
These would be even cuter if the plume that actually comes out of the chocolate/wrapping of the regular sized kisses could be personalized. A crazy DIY idea could be to personalize your own plumes. That could get rather, er, sticky, though.
[via bffbridal.com]
kay, okay. I just wanted to alliterate. Ignore the bridal squeal at the end of the title. It’s been a long while since I’ve blogged due to searching high and low for an apartment [Blugh. Yes, that's a word.], finding one [whew], moving Mr. Lime in [meh], starting to pack my own place up [double meh, but at least I have a month to move], squeezing in my company retreat to Napa [Whee! For real this time!], dealing with some family health issues [:(], and all this while both of us were extraordinarily busy at work [as in busier than we've been in over a year]. Gotta love how life always works that way. Needless to say, the wedding planning got pushed to the back burner for a bit. Fear not, for I am back with a few fun updates!
So to the real update. My most amazing roommate [Only for another month. *sniff*], who freelances on the side [she's in the middle of a re-design of her site] is very close to finishing our website so it can finally go live. Up until last month, I was procrastinating majorly on it. I thought I could DImYself despite the fact I haven’t designed a full website in about 5 years. Yes, web technology has advanced quite a bit since then. I designed the concept and pages I wanted in Adobe Illustrator, then she translated it into web-ready fun for me, and finally she took my basic layout and ran with it, producing much cooler features than I would have thought of on my own.
Yes, yes, Miss Pearl already posted about this fabric wonderland. BUT…I come bearing actual photos of the place!
Bolts upon bolts!
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I had my third [kind of fourth] and hopefully final cake tasting this past weekend. Yes, this dessert-lover is all sugared out. This vendor’s [found via a recommendation on my local knot board] specialty is cupcakes, so she prepared a dozen filled cupcakes for me to taste in order to maximize the number of flavors/fillings/frosting combinations I could taste. However, I am probably doing a stacked cake instead of cupcakes for various reasons.
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Mrs. Lime, Los Angeles Age and Occupation in 06: 25, Design Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, IT Engagement Date: July 7, 2006 Wedding Date: August 5, 2007 Venue: An historic estate About Me: Between work and wedding planning, I try to squeeze in napping, drawing, random spurts of craftiness, tennis, and eating lots of Sprinkles cupcakes, dark chocolate, and noodles of all kinds. Mr. Lime and I have spent our adult lives growing up together, and we're very excited to finally be getting married!
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