There is a short story behind getting the china.  My mother’s house burned down the beginning of June this year and she barely made it out alive.  Some how she survived along with everything we would have wanted to keep in the house, family pictures, mementos, christmas ornaments that we’d made throughout the years, and this set of china.  This china was in the attic in the very far corner and we slowly made our way through getting everything we wanted, and this was the last thing we got out of the house, including my and my brother’s baby bed.  So without further ado, here it is!

It has 8 place settings, dinner plate, soup plate, fruit bowl and bread and butter plate, saucer and tea cup.  It also has 1 12″ chop plate, creamer, sugar bowl and a salad bowl.  I’m so excited to have this!  I can’t wait to use it, and display it.  Our house isn’t big enough right now, but our next house is so having a china hutch and displaying my beautiful china!

The last 3 are the sitting room the bedroom and this lovely one at the bottom is the view from our room!  I’m so incredibly excited!  We have a honeymoon registry (GASP!) and we’re hoping to get things to do, not pay for our room or trip there, just things to do while we’re there.  I’m hoping they have a salon, they do destination weddings and sell wedding dresses so surely they do and if the price isn’t incredibly outrageous I’ll probably get my ‘wife chop’ there, although it won’t be crazy short, I don’t like it that short.

57 Days to go, and so much to do!

A few days later my mom’s house burned, horrible I know, but my birth certificate was somewhere in the house, where I don’t know!  So I freaked out about that, and had to order a new one, $18  and only like 4 days later I had my new birth certificate.  You have to make an appointment at our post office to get it taken care of if you don’t have your original to turn back in.  I put my birth certificate and the form I filled out from the passport website on the sofa table and left it there, I knew I’d need it later.  I had an appointment today at 12:30 to go get it taken care of.  I had taken a shower and fixed my hair and was checking my invites, I was going to drop them in the mail while I was there, to make sure they were all ready to go.  15 minutes before my appointment I got my checkbook and went to get my paperwork from the sofa table and of course….IT’S NOT THERE!  I have no idea where it is, I think someone came in and stole it, no really.  I think someone is trying to tell me not to go on this honeymoon.  First Sandal’s didn’t credit our account and therefore did not have any record that we had booked our honeymoon, after several days of trying to get that fixed, with no upgrade of any sort, only a I’m sorry, and that was it.  Then couldn’t find my passport then couldn’t find my birth certificate and now it’s lost again….I’m getting really sick and tired of this passport crap!

The invitations are ready to go today, I just need to get them to the post office!

The black is what Jeremy will be wearing (Joseph and Feiss Single Breasted 2 button notched lapel tuxedo with a white pleated tuxedo shirt, black satin vest and tie with black and silver button/cufflinks as well as a white pocket square and a red rose bout) the boys will be wearing the same ensemble but with an Apple Herringbone vest and bow tie with red pocket square and white bout)

I also agreed to let him have his saddle shoes or spectator shoes as Men’s Warehouse calls them

The sales lady didn’t really like the idea, but I got to pick out my outfit without any input from him so if he wants to wear them he can.  He will be the only one and they have extra black in the store in case he changes his mind, which he might once he seems them on his feet.  Either way, doesn’t matter to me, if it makes him happy them it makes me happy!

Only 70 more days to go!

Embroidered Mother’s hankies next (once I finish them!)

From the amazing pinkcakebox.com

We had originally pick out cake from an amazing place in Nashville, but it would just be 4 cakes, it wouldn’t look like a wedding cake.  We tried a lot of it and i just thought one day it was way too rich and I just wanted something simple golden yellow cake with fruit fillings and vanilla buttercream, but no one around here will do it!  The bakery I really liked, but it was in my hometown 45 minutes away, doesn’t do fillings because they make the cake too unstable, well that’s weird everyone else does fillings….I’m talking to a lady right now who is willing to do my fruit filling and deliver it to the cave, which I was worried about, but it’s been almost a week since she said she’d get me a price and I haven’t heard from her, but I’m being patient!

The cake will be just like this except no top tier, and the ribbons will be brown and possibly real, I’m not sure yet.  I still have to find some brooches that i like, it’s proving difficult at a reasonable price!

The next cake is the groom’s cake!  Fi doesn’t really like cake so I’m not making him cake…I’m making him a tiered dessert I suppose.  The bottom layer will be layers of brownies separated by vanilla buttercream, covered in butter cream then fondant and decorations.  The middle layer will be layers of cookies separated by buttercream, covered in butter cream then fondant and decorations.  The top will be s’mores treats, rice crispy treats but with golden grahams and chocolate pieces, covered in butter cream and fondant and decorations.

Jeremy has always loved Super Mario Brothers so I found this cake and knew it was it!

The middle layer might be more like the underworld area of Super Mario Brothers, because…that’s what Jeremy wants for some reason, I’ll have to do some sketching for that.  He is so excited about this cake he doesn’t really care about the other cake, it’s just this one he cares about.  I think he’s even said he’s most excited about this cake of the whole wedding….except for marrying me of course!

I also got the Mario and Peach plastic toys to be our toppers, they are so cute

I’ve seen a picture where someone added a veil and bouquet to Peach’s hand and I might do that, I’m not sure!!

This is very fitting because for our engagement party we had a halloween costume optional party.  We were Mario and Peach

Coolest halloween costume I’ve ever had!  We were the talk of the party…and town because after the party we went to see Paranormal Activity in the theater, but it was sold out for the show we wanted to see so then we went to wal-mart to get new tights for one of our crew… I’ve never had so many people stare at me before!  Granted it was October 17, but still it was october!  And yes, i was still wearing the crown, it was awesome.  Both costumes were completely home made, his was much easier than mine, but it was completely worth it.  I kind of want to bust it out at the reception because it was just such a fun costume!

So, now you know all about my cakes and the coolness of the groom’s cake, and my awesome Peach outfit, I show it off anytime I can!

Next up…..no clue!  Stay tuned for something else fun!

Yesterday I stopped by a cake shop on a whim and got a quote and I’m pretty sure I’ll be going with them!  I will be posting about cake next time, so stay tuned, I have some awesome scheduled!

I also spoke to my lovely wedding coordinator today, Leona Morelock, and told her my linens and she will be ordering those soon.  The worst part is coming though….all the money…..I hate money.  The biggest source of grief is money, Jeremy deals with money completely and he doesn’t like to talk to me about money because I always get upset at our lack thereof.  We both have very extravagant tastes but not the money to really live that, but we try a little, that’s just who we are!  So to save more money I got plain old boring coffee poly table linens when I really wanted the beautiful pintuck, oh they are so gorgeous…but they were double the price of the poly and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it

We are going camping for the weekend, so wish us luck!  I’ve never been and Jeremy hasn’t been in a long time, hopefully we’ll come back in one piece! Have a great weekend, everybody!

The some of the information has been changed to protect the madly in love.  These will be in a coffee bean pocket fold with a candy apple invitation mat.  The envelopes, outer as well as the RSVP will be in pomegranate, which is a sparkly red, so pretty!  All paper is from Cards and Pockets, I can’t say enough good things about them!

So excited to get them in and start assembly!  However, not looking forward to address all the envelopes.  They will be printed by me in Feel Script in that infamous way where the last name is much bigger than the address.  The question is what color to print them.  I think black would be hard to read, can’t print in white….hmmmmmm.  Any suggestions for color?

This is the color that the envelopes will be.  Think black will work for printing?

I will be ordering red roses, orange roses and white hydrangea.  I’ve been price comparing and I think I’m going to go with Sam’s Club.  I can get 20 hydrangea stems for $55, which is about 2.50 a stem, awesome!  Roses are fairly cheap too, around $0.55 each.  I can’t afford someone else to do it so I will be doing it myself, florist charges are ridiculous, I get they make a living that way, but goodness!

I will basically be making 4 bouquets for each table.  They will be placed in small vases around the larger vase that will be holding the tree branches.  I’m hoping to get at least 10 hanging votive holder for each table, I love the candle light.  Our venue can be rather dark:

This is a pic taken by Joshua McCoy during a wedding at Lost River and a lot of the picture turned out this way because there just wasn’t enough light.  It has lots of light at the top but it gets lots by the time it gets to the floor.  I want crazy amounts of candlelight, hopefully we can get enough candle light!

I love the idea of the little bouquets so the only extra bouquet I will have to deal with making will be mine, my 3 bridesmaids will just carry 3/4 of a table centerpiece and we’ll be good to go!

Next up is cake!

Only 124 days to go!

Here is front wall of the cave, which will be where we will be getting married:

The pic on the left is coming down the aisle, this will basically be our set up, hopefully with the tables push more out of the way, but they will still be there.  The trees will not be there but the lights will, I might attack them with ribbon to make them prettier.  The pic to the right is a close up of the wall, not pretty, will definitely need some work!  We may have ferns, it depends on if they buy them this year and if they last until October.  These were taken last year I believe.  These ferns were huge and beautiful and they lasted until sometime in October and we’re in the beginning!  I think the hanging sparkles and tiny buds will dress it up a lot.  I believe I will use the candlesticks my mom bought for my centerpieces here as well to give a little bit of color and some candle light.

The biggest is about 15″ tall, smallest around 10″, rough guesstiment haven’t actually measured them.  I have 3 sets of the red and 2 sets of the clear for a total of 15 candlesticks.  They are beautiful with a candle in them and maybe some rose petals in the clear ones to give them a little umph and coffee beans in the red ones just because they are so dark you really can’t see what is in them, just for height.

The aisle I’m still thinking about this is my inspiration pic and I love the way it looks.

I had planned on decorating our entire wedding with tissue paper pomanders then decided against it, I don’t want anyone making comments about the cheap decoration, but I will be using the tissue paper pomanders in our aisle decor.  I’m unsure if I want to use some organza like they have here or if I want to use rose petals like this

Or maybe, I’ve been thinking of doing the red petals on a white aisle runner or vice versa up til the chairs, then start the organza…I’m not sure.  This would be a DIY project, as is everything in my wedding basically.  I can only use real petals in the cave to scatter, a member of our wedding party works at the cave so no rule breaking!  Even with the real petals I have to be conservative, don’t want lots of petals getting into the cave and upsetting the ecosystem there.  But if I sewed fake petals onto the aisle runner like they offer here, I believe I could get away with it!  Crazy labor intensive, but you only get married once!

I would like to put something on either side of us during the ceremony, something similar to this

Our ceremony is at 6:30 and sunset is timed at 6:19 so a candlelight ceremony should be AMAZING!  This would add a little more light and romance.

Now the final decoration idea for the ceremony is bows on the back row of chairs to dress that up a little bit

Not necessarily with a flower, but I love the wrap around with the ends trailing down, maybe to the floor and just kind of drape on the floor.  I think it would be lovely!

I love being able to share all of my ideas, so I will be posting more often, just to show you what I’ve been up to and what I’ve decided on so far.  Next up is centerpieces!

Only 125 days to go!

Still working on my tissue paper pomanders, those will take me forever!

Hopefully I’ll be back this week to show some progress!