November 15, 2011
I’m thankful for my friends! As my mom always says: “It’s not about quantity; it’s about quality.” So true, Mom. So true.
November 16, 2011
This is a little out there, but I’m thankful for the Investigation Discovery (I.D.) channel. Weird, I know. But I’m somewhat obsessed with murder mysteries and things of that sort. I majored in Forensic Psychology for my undergrad degree, so that tells you something. It’s pretty much the only channel I watch, besides some other shows I record. Kevin thinks I’m weird because of this (and probably for other reasons too, but that’s neither here nor there). 
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Here are the last set of pictures from our wedding! These are all the little details. I’ll link to sites that I got stuff from and explain things for anyone who’s interested.
I got this wire name hanger from the Etsy site Buttonz & Bloomz. I liked this site a lot because she made the wire in color and added beads and the bow. I also ended up getting one for Maygan and Alison for each of their wedding shower gifts. 
As I posted in the past, Maygan got me these shoes for my bridal shower gift. I wore them pretty much the entire time of our wedding. They were so comfortable!
My mom, MIL, Kevin’s grandma, aunt and my SIL all helped me make the bouquets. We ordered the roses from Costco and they were delivered. It took us about half the day to make seven bouquets, 13 boutonnieres and four corsages. (And just as a side note, if I were to do the boutonnieres over again, I would have covered the floral tape in black satin ribbon.)
These crystal pins came in so handy! I got them from Save-on-crafts.com. Seriously, this is the best website ever. Perfect for wedding planning, party planning and/or any other type of décor. A box of 100 of these pins were like $2.99. I bought a ton of boxes and even have a couple boxes left over that I’m sure I’ll find some use for. I put them in each rosebud in the bouquets, as well as each rosebud of the pomanders.
I ordered a ton of stuff through Save-on-crafts: corsage/boutonniere pins, floral tape, floral wire, bird cages, wishing tree, wishing tree tags, crystal garlands and shepherd’s hooks. Great website.
Of course the brooch bouquet I made. This will have to be for another post. It was quite involved, but so worth it!
So I didn’t really have anything in mind for a centerpiece between Kevin and me at the head table. So the week of the wedding I went to Michael’s and got these wood letters, then decoupaged some damask scrapbook paper on them. Literally, the second we sat down to the table at the reception someone came up to give us a hug over the table and the thing fell off the table and broke. Oh well! Ha!
The wishing tree; used as our guest book. I really really loved how it turned out! Like I said, the wishing tree, crystal garlands, wishing tree tags and the bird cage (that held the tags) all came from Save-on-crafts. I made the little sign that said “Advice and wishes for the Mr. and Mrs.” and found that frame at TJ Maxx.
I made this seating chart myself. I am still very proud of this. I designed it using a program that’s similar to Adobe Photoshop and just taught myself how to use it and I was able to come up with this. I prefer seating charts like this, versus individual seating cards at a wedding because it seems to me like it’s a lot easier for guests to locate their name. Instead of having to hunch over a table and try and search out their place card amongst a hundred other ones that look the exact same. But that’s just my preference.
I bought this frame at Michael’s. I’m going to re-use the frame for a wedding photo. I put one of the table runners behind the frame. The table runners came from Tableclothsfactory.com.
The menu I made. I posted about this as well as the table numbers and seating cards for the wedding party in this post.
I ended up doing all the centerpieces as the pomander on top of the vase with the crystals hanging down. I ordered the pomanders from afloral.com. I was really concerned the pomanders were going to look like fake flowers (because duh…they were!), so I ordered two different kinds and went with these ones because I felt like they looked the least fake. I unhooked a portion of the crystals from the crystal garlands and hooked them onto each pomander (luckily each pomander came with a little part to hook the crystals to). Then I hot glued each one onto the vase.
To keep the pomander theme somewhat consistent throughout the wedding day, I also used them in the ceremony, instead I also added a black satin ribbon on each one. They were hung from a shepherd’s hook and lined the aisle at the ceremony.
Our Flower Girl also had a pomander to hold as she walked up the aisle. I used the crystal garland as a little handle for her.
Red chair sashes provided by the wedding venue.
Mom was in charge of the candy bar. I’m not sure where she got all the candy. She kind of began collecting it as time went on whenever she would see any on sale. She also did a lot of searching online. She stuck with the red, white and black theme. The candy bar was a HUGE hit with the guests. I made the sign. Luckily, we had a family friend who had most of the candy bar jars, ribbon and tongs that she let us borrow, so that was a huge help!
Cake and cake stand came from Ettore’s.
This gorgeous cake topper initial came from Toppers With Glitz. I also went ahead and ordered the matching cake serving set to match. All this was handmade and was such good quality. I’m going to frame the initial in a shadow box. It’s just too pretty to not display.
Kevin’s aunt made the bouquet for the ceremony and also put together the extra rose bouquets we had and set around the reception hall. She is quite talented. The unity candle set came from Michael’s.
I took this chalkboard sign from our wall at home right before we left to head out for the wedding weekend. I sure am glad I did because I hung it on a post and our guests were easily able to find where they were supposed to go. Didn’t cost me a thing!
XOXO~
And I’m also thankful my friends let me love on their babies too. Just call me [baby] crazy Aunt Kay Kay. Ha!
