Wedding Blog

Our engagement party is a week away! We’re having a buffet dinner and some delicious treats for dessert, so I decided to make menus to put on all of the tables listing what’s available for dinner.

Here’s a rough draft:

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We’re so happy we numbered our little RSVP cards! We’ve received several cards from our guests with a check mark indicating whether or not they would be attending, but they did not identify themselves! Since we numbered them, all I had to do was flip the card over and see what number corresponded with our numbered guest list. Ta-da! Guest found.

Last night I attended the wedding reception of my good friends Joanne and Bobby, and this morning I woke up inspired and ready to get back into wedding planning/posting mode. I’ve been in a rather “blah” mood since booking the hall, photographer, and DJ because I’ve had nothing pressing to do.

Last night was just so much fun. It was wonderful to see my friends so…

Ed note: You may remember Jasmine (the author of this blog) from her honeymoon cruise posts and her RSVP Scrapbook cards that we’ve featured in the past.

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After I got engaged, my friend Emily and I looked at invitations I liked and bounced ideas around. We weighed different options but in the end Paul and I trusted Emily, so we pretty much gave her free reign. We knew…

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I was hoping you could help me out. I’m looking to make some magnets for save the dates that are going to be included in our invites rather than sent in advance. I’ve already designed it, but now need to find somewhere relatively inexpensive to have them made. I checked iprint and vistaprint, but neither seem to have circular custom magnets for as cheap as…

That was the name of the email below that was forwarded from FMIL. She said she couldn’t resist passing it along to us and said it seemed to sum up everyone’s thoughts. The email was sent to her from a family member who had received our wedding invitation.

Ok, let me just take a moment……I have been invited to many weddings…..dare I say hundreds…..and a lot…

As promised, here is what we put on the back of the menus! Sorry about blurring out the baby faces - that is something we are only sharing with the people at the wedding. It’s embarrasing enough as it is.

Also, on the bottom, where it says “Just Married,” I am going to punch tiny holes and tie a miniature wedding bell through it with…

In my recent frenzy of card-stamping for our Save the Dates, I also decided to make some cards officially asking my Maid of Honor and Honorary Bridesmaids to take part in the wedding!

First, I got some lovely Strathmore Deckle Edge Creative Cards (from Pearl Paint) with a blue deckle edge (& matching envelopes!), then I stamped a blue flower corner and a little drawing of…

We just mailed our save-the-dates!!! WAHOO!!!!

We live next to the post office, so just a minute ago we trotted over with our basket full of neatly-stacked, addressed envelopes and dropped them off. Here is Mr. Blueberry holding the basket:

We took them up to the counter rather than just dropping them in the slot because we wanted to make sure everything was in order. The nice…

Ok, I have taken on a huge endeavor.

I am set on making my programs, menus, and placecards by hand for my 250-odd guests. (Not to mention the rehearsal dinner and brunch invites and the out-of-town bags). Is this insane? Perhaps. But I’m owning my insanity and plowing ahead.

With a little inspiration from Martha Stewart, and absolutely zero rubber stamping (or crafting anything) experience, I went…

As the wedding gets closer and closer, I find myself obsessing over little things that really do not matter. Example - I am now trying to find the “perfect” guest book for younger and older guests.

At first, I wanted one of these:

(image from Adesso Albums)

It retails for $59.95 for just the book. You have to buy your own Polaroid Camera and film. I absolutely love…

My invitations are in. I’m getting the final guest list down. Shame on me for not getting it done sooner because I need to have everything done by this week. My RSVP date is October 31st. Not really much time.

I was planning on making labels, adding on cute customized stamps and sending out every invitation, but it seems as though my parents and my…

Sorry I’ve been too busy to post much lately, but we FINALLY put our save the dates in the mail last Monday, and “we received them!”s have been slowly trickling in!!! It is seriously the most exciting thing EVER! I’m pretty sure I will physically explode when we get RSVPs for our actual invitations next year, because I’m already pretty close!!

The reason we kept our…

We’re doing so many other things in a somewhat nontraditional way (dessert buffet, Swarovski crystal bouquets, secular ceremony) that it only makes sense to have a guestbook that’s a little bit offbeat as well. Not that there’s anything wrong with the usual sprial-bound, leather covered notebook — so many of them are absolutely gorgeous! But there are many other alternatives.

Probably my favorite idea is the…