Place Cards

Well Irene is over, the windows are open and I am trying to work on some wedding DIY stuff while Nick is at his third fantasy football draft of the weekend.

I spent a couple hours working on the bunting while watching Bride Wars (totally not my types of wedding, but it seemed to fit the theme) and then I moved onto testing out our place cards.

Place cards are something I did not want to spend a lot of money on so I picked up two packs of black boarder cards at Michaels for $4.99 each and tested out some ideas today.  I like the font because it looks like how George Washington would have written, which fits the barn and the time period in which the planation was built.  I also wanted to use one of of our stamps from the invitations and went with the bucket, split between two names.

When you bring the couples together you get a whole bucket!

Now, I didn’t plan it out to be like that.  Do you think it is supper cheesy or kind of a cute idea?  Single people coming to the wedding will still get buckets too!

Sissy helped out a lot…

Bridal Shower

Last Saturday I had my bridal shower.  At first I was totally against it because I hate being the center of attention and a lot of people coming to my wedding live very far away and could not attend.  I did however have some very special people there!

Katie (BM and Nick’s sister), me and my MOH Katherine.  We missed you Rugge!

Momma Beans and I

Joanne (FMIL) and her beautiful table display.  Lovely farmers market flowers!  Fingers crossed they will be as nice in September!!!

Katherine, Katie and Joanne did a great job getting all of the food together, even with a 5 hour flight delay.

Tulle makes a great headpiece.

Lots of boxes!

Cake cutting – yes my hair was a mess because I got hot opening presents and had to put it up.

The cake was designed after our mailbox and had N+H “carved” on the branch.  Red velvet cake, indeed.

One special who I hadn’t seen in a year was my pledge buddy from my sorority in college!

Ms. Lindsay Bothe! She drove 5 hours through tons of traffic just to be here.  No one had easy travels last weekend, but lets hope all of that is out of our wedding karma system.

Thank you everyone who came to my shower, traveled many miles and made it such a special day.  A special thank you to my FMIL, Katherine, Katie, and my mom for putting this whole thing together!

p.s. I cannot wait to cut my hair!  Gross and long.

Wedding Invites

So sorry I missed farmer’s market Tuesday yesterday!!!  I actually do not have much to report except this cute little sugar ‘loupe that I got for Nick.

I like cantaloupe but it is not my favorite.  Nick loves it and he can eat this little softball size melon in one sitting and I am not eating the leftovers.  Perfect!

Something else I wanted to share, our invitations!

I wanted our wedding invitations to be simple and not expensive.  I also wanted to do an online or call in RSVP to save money and the environment!  This was actually a save the date card that we made into an invite.  My mom and I stamped all of the invites with the barn before stuffing.

I got the stamp from Etsy and the designer told me it was made after her parents barn that had been torn down many years ago.  Looove stories!

After the barn we need to do the envelope.

My mom really liked the idea of lined envelopes but they are crazy expensive and we already had the stamps because of our old stamping hobby.

The bucket is set to pour out the stars and leaves to give it a fall touch without being too much.  I like them a lot and we were able to put the money saved towards more important things like FOOD! Our tasting in on Monday and I am so excited!

Mail Call!

Look what came today!

I am so excited about this mailbox!  It is handmade from old barn wood and will be used at the wedding to collect our “guest book” postcards.  It will then be the mailbox at our first house!

N and I both agree that our souls belong in the country one day and this little mailbox gives us a piece of it to dream about before we actually get there.