Save the Dates

Save the dates are mailed!

Luminaries

I absolutely love the way these turned out!  We're making a few more and they'll go on the cake and gift tables.  I started with a Febreeze luminary.

I pealed the seal away on the shade to use it as a guide to cut the cardstock.  A 12x12 was about 1/4" too short so I had to cut two separate sections, with two tabs to connect them.

We printed an Android graphic from Google Images and I used an Exacto to cut him out, then laid it over white cardstock and traced it.

Once I cut out the figure on the cardstock, voila!  An Android luminary!

Our Flower Picks Came In!!!

We're not sure what type of flowers we are going to have yet; we just know they won't be roses.  I found the flowers that I would love to have, however, I somehow managed to choose one of the most expensive from what I'm reading.  Green cymbidium orchids are beautiful.

They are also $70 a stem.  I found silk stems at afloral.com for $10.69, but they aren't nearly as pretty.  We're not sure what we're going to do about the flowers yet, but luckily he has a family member that will hopefully help us.  Whatever we end up doing for the flowers, we want an Android pick in each bouquet.  These are supposed to be key chains, but once we snip the top off and put a wire into the bottom, they'll be ready to go into a bouquet.

Thank You Cards

This is really a strange topic to think about since we are 6 months to the wedding, but for someone who makes all their birthday and anniversary cards, 6 months just might be long enough to create enough handmade thank you cards for our post-wedding gratitude.  I am thinking that the card will be a traditional 4" x 6" card, but horizontal.  Then possibly a pic of Androidified Rhys and Vanessa on the front of the card, but that's where I'm stuck.  I don't know what color card to start with for starters.  I love the idea of going with a black card, but then you have to use white ink and we all know that sometimes that's difficult to read.  If we go with a white card, it would need to be really dressed up.  Either way, I really wish that there was an Android stamp out there somewhere.  No need to look for me.  I've crawled the Internet for hours in search of anything remotely similar that I could transform, but to no avail.  Thinking I might play with a potato this weekend and see if I can create one...how cool would that be?

To Do's

Rhys and I have known for awhile that we were going to get married; it was just a matter of when.  Now that we officially have a date (10-01-11!) and we've started the planning, I realize that there's a lot to do!  Of course, The Knot gave me a list of 193 items with a ticking time clock next to about 40 things that I should already have done.  Way to make a girl feel like a LOSER! LOL    But I thrive on to-do lists and keeping busy, so I'm loving this!  The plan is to get everything printed before the UPS sale is done on April 15th, so we're off to Mooresville tomorrow for all of our printing needs.  Then home to work on luminaries.  I'll post pics as soon as I have a prototype.  Wish me luck!

We Booked Our DJ

Both my mom and Rhys' brother and sis-in-law told us about a potential DJ...turns out it was the same guy!  We had already seen the DJ used at Jaleasa and Billy's wedding, so we figured we already knew his style and we called him first.  In the process of talking to him, I mentioned that both our families were in Morgan county.  He asked who my parents were and, lo and behold, he's the same DJ that Mom was telling me about that did all the entertainment at the clubhouse!  So he comes dually recommended which makes us even happier! :-)

Invitation Frustration

So once we got the invitations made, I checked with different printers for the best price.  Ranging from $0.59 at Kinko's down to $0.45 at a small printer in Greenwood, I called one last place.  The UPS Store on 135 said they were running a sale for $0.31.  I was ecstatic to get them for almost half price from the original quote I got from Kinko's.  In the process of running around on Saturday, we went by the store in Speedway and found that the special was actually $0.25!  But they only had 20 sheets of cardstock.  We had to run through Mooresville, so we stopped at the store there and they printed a test invitation, RSVP card, and save the date.  They looked great, but they were closing and he wanted us to come back and get them.  I figured the one in Greenwood is a lot closer, so I'd go there one night during the week.  I went on Monday night and they printed a test copy that came out about 3 shades darker green than the true color.  He compared it to the on-screen image, said he had no idea why it was printing darker or how to fix it.  No worries.  I'll head to the one in Franklin.  I went after work and they aren't running the special at that location.  I have already addressed the save the date envelopes and am ready to send them out, if only I could get them printed!!  Guess I'm headed back to Mooresville this weekend.