Wedding DIY: Table Decor

Along with the help of a fabulously creative family friend/designer person, we're doing our own table decor for the wedding. Every table will be slightly different and we're going with kind of a vintage theme using silver and glass and flowers and ivy.

So I've been rummaging through my mom and grandmother's kitchens and doing stocktake of their stuff! It's been fun! Here are just some of the things I found... (And anything with a tag on is from my mom's recent wedding decor shopping spree!)

Yes, our fabulous family friend can even make spoons look like decor items! (Who would have thought...)

And, uh, we'll obviously remove the biscuits from the cookie jar and figure out something marvellously creative to do with it. (And those flowers were from our we've-been-dating-for-FIVE-years anniversary last week! Soon we'll have to start counting from zero again ;-) )

Wedding DIY: Invitations & Bridesmaids' Dresses

When I wrote this Masquerade post at the beginning of the month saying I'd be taking a break from publishing Creepy Hollow stories for a while, I thought my life would become less stressful. *Sigh* Did I really honestly think that?! I'm feeling more and more overwhelmed by school work, wedding preparation (why is there something wedding-related to do EVERY SINGLE DAY?!) and my newest writing opportunity (short stories for Gr 8 and 9 English FAL textbooks - very cool ;-) ) - and there are still blog comments from WEEEEEKS ago sitting in my inbox that I haven't got to yet!

Anyway, here are a few things I've been up to lately...

Invitation DIY

I love craft projects, so I never even considered getting someone else to make our invitations. Problem is, measuring and cutting out so many pieces of cardboard, paper, lace and ribbon (not to mention the folding and sticking together part) can take quite a while!
(Have I ever mentioned before that I have a possibly unnatural love of lace and ribbons? Well, I'm saying it now. Lace and ribbon rock.)

Bridesmaid dress DIY

We couldn't find ready-made dresses that we liked for the bridesmaids, so we went pattern and fabric hunting. Actually, that's the royal "we". I didn't do any hunting. I went to school while my fantabulous mother did all the hunting and presented her findings to me for a yay or nay :-) We're having satin with a floaty layer of chiffon over it, and a pretty sparkly layer covering the bodice. Length: above the knee.

Gift registry shopping!

And yesterday we went gift registry shopping!

Me: Ooh, take a photo of me scanning something! Wait. This is something coffee-related. I don't want to scan this.
Fiance:Yes! Coffee! We have to scan that.
Me: Fine, I'll just pretend. *Cheeeeese!*
Fiance: [click]
Me: How is it? Do I look like a freak?
Fiance: Hmmm. More like an insect.