September 3rd...one month out

Well it is officially one month away from the wedding. I have had a couple of rough moments this week, once I realized it is September. Today I feel at peace. We met with our Reverend last night and had our first pre-marital counseling session and it went very well. I feel very honored to have Reverend Maddox marry us.

I still have a long "to do" list, and I am just trying to hack away at it as much as possible. Little phone calls to make, and large projects to start and complete. This weekend is exciting with many wedding activities. We scheduled many of them in the same weekend since we would have several folks coming in from out of town, but it will be very busy. I hope to make Labor Day holiday on Monday productive with some of these projects!! :)

My look

Ok, I wasn't sure if I wanted to post this. I sent photos to family and friends...but I just can't seem to get enough. So here is my wedding day hair and make up look. My hair is very curly so the stylist bless her, re-curled my whole head! Took forever but I love the outcome.

grrrr....

Ok, new frustration. The invitiation pockets do not want to stay closed and the glue I am using with the ribbon to keep the pocket closed (aka belly band) is not sticking. I ran out of glue tonight so I will be picking up a couple kinds tomorrow to try. Currently I am literally squishing the pockets by weight of a heavy book to flatten and help the ribbon stay adheared. Oh the joy of crafting!

I was working on the green squares

And here is Ryan helping me out!!

Ryan's mom came over to help too!

Aisle Runner

Ok, so I was not a fan of aisle runners until I found that brides were painting on their wedding logo's to help personalize their day. I had worked hard on creating our wedding log and I thought "Perfect! a cheap way to personalize and get our logo included in yet another area of our wedding". So I found the perfect runner, bought the paint and got to work. It was tough and tedious, but I am happy with it in the end. Our aisle is really a deck and isn't very long but I think this will look very nice.

Amazing instructions followed from: http://www.roadtotheaisle.blogspot.com/

A few things

So a bride really needs a purse for the wedding day! She won't have enough to carry with her flowers, heels, poofy dress, and oh yeah all the emotion of the day! Right??...

This is what I tell myself...but isn't she so pretty?! My shoes will match once I find them

Oh, and check out the damask liner!!!

I found the purse on Etsy, Kelly "Simply Sage" had made one for another customer and posted it for purchase. This is when I see it and I HAD to have one, it was perfect. So I convo her and she makes me this amazing purse. She also was amazing and send me a swatch so I could match my shoes!!! I have fallen in love with Etsy. Such amazing crafts people and they really are some of the sweetest people!!!

You can check out her Etsy store at:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5861704

I also found these earrings that I *heart*

Another Etsy find and another amazing seller!

Her link can be followed below:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5541613

These earrings are more my style and I am so excited that all my accessories are peridot/green!!!

It's official

We have less than 100 days until the wedding. I have not been posting for a while due to the fact that when I get around to blogging I do not have any photos ready. Anyway, I will try to blog regardless to the photos now. My goal is at least once a week. Now that things are going full speed I have more to talk about as well.

I have met with the florist and loved many of their ideas! Just working on finalizing a couple things, meeting with the caterer next week and I should have engagement photos by tomorrow!! As well as the printed pieces of the wedding invitation!! So alot of put together coming up in July. Took some photos of working on the aisle runner last night so when that is complete I will post photos. So more to come!!

Did you know???

That Pier 1 and Lowe's are no longer offering wedding registries? :( this makes me sad, but what can you do?

We will be setting up registries with Target, Macy's and Pottery Barn. Target we have already hit up last night and it was fun and powerful with that scan gun. :) So many choices! Can't wait to work on the other stores too.