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11 days to go...

Labels: , , - Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Yes, you read the correct, 11 days until we say "I do." It's safe to say that I'm still not nervous, only full of excitement, and that FI is still nervous. hehe

The sheet rock team finished up yesterday morning by sanding all the sheet rock mudd to give us a nice smooth level surface to paint over. We made our trip to Lowe's yesterday afternoon to get all of our paint (we picked out our paint colors before we started having showers because EVERYONE was asking what colors we were going to use) and primer and ceiling paint, etc. After a heartbreaking $413.00 bill, FI left headed to the house to start painting. We completed painting all of the ceilings and are pretty pleased with our progress. We don't have the power turned on in the house yet, or I could have started wiping down the walls and priming them when FI went to fire meeting. On the agenda next: FI is working his 24-hr shift at EMS so he won't be working at the house any tonight, and I have to take his pants to exchange them tonight & get his best man a shirt, so I MIGHT get back in enough time to wipe the walls down.

As for the wedding, planning has pretty much been finalized. I fully intended to finish printing the programs last night until I ran out of ink :-\ I am putting below my last to-do list before now & the wedding 9**I HOPE**).
- sew the flower on the ring bearer pillow
- finish printing page 4 of the program
- assemble the programs
- buy tablecloth roll for rehearsal dinner (Party City)
- print & attach vellum to memory candles
- print the labels for the centerpieces
- finish fluffing the tissue paper flowers (which I do during my free time at work)
- complete the pomanders (stick tissue paper flowers in the styrofoam ball & attach ribbon)
- get lights from Lauren for the aisle (buy more if needed)
- finish BM bouquets (put ivory ribbon on them)
- make sure everything is boxed up according to the location it will be used (ceremony/reception/rehearsal)
- trip to Sam's (silverware, plates, cups, food for rehearsal & reception)

I believe that's everything I have left to do. Hopefully it doesn't grow, because I could get most of this stuff knocked out in no time as they are such small tasks. I have pictures to share with you, at home, on my camera...they just can't seem to find there way off the camera on to the blog! Hopefully in the next couple of days I'll get you some pics of the DIY progress I've been making.

Update

Labels: , , , , - Friday, May 07, 2010

Hello everyone! I'm so excited as the time quickly passes getting me closer to the day I get to marry my love. As this time is quickly passing, I'm left with less time to get my projects done. Currently on the list: printing programs, dying the garter and the flower for the RB pillows, assembling programs, and fluffing out the tissue paper flowers. Tomorrow will be 2 week left until our wedding day; I'm oh so excited because I really don't have that much left to finish and FI is nervous, at least that's what he says. 

As for the house, the sheet rock is all hung, and will be sanded by the end of today. They will be back to do the ceilings and knock them down Monday. Now, we'll be painting this week coming up. I REALLY need to get the wedding stuff finished and put on the back burner until the wedding so I can be helping with the house as much as possible. 

I don't have pictures to share right now, but I will later :)

Working In Progress

Labels: , - Friday, April 30, 2010

I'm working on today:

Table Name Cards
BM Bouquets (wrapping the stems)
Maybe the card box since FI keeps putting it off :P

I scheduled my bridal portrait session and hair trial this week, so that's something else I can mark off the to-do list! Hopefully I'll be back with pictures this evening of my accomplishments! 

Labels: , , , , - Monday, April 05, 2010

I have wedding project updates for everyone!

I began working on my cake server set; I'm stringing beads onto fishing line to wrap around the handles. I've completed one of the two. Here it is just before I finished it up:

I'm getting ready to start on the ring bearer pillow, so I should (hopefully) have pictures of it tonight. EDIT: Here are the pictures of the mostly finished product. Now I just have to add some pretty ribbon!


Haha...I wouldn't let Daisy in the chair with me while I was stuffing the pillow, so she just crawled up in the basket of clothes by my feet and took a nap! :)

I've finished up separating all of the candies for the favors (I'll post pics later!). EDIT: Here is a picture of my favors all zipped up tight in a baggie so they stay fresh!

I finished up making all of the tulle poofs (through step 2 - ready to be hung). I stopped putting the fishing line through them because they were getting tangled. We'll save that part and the fluffing for the week or two before the wedding. EDIT: Here are the pictures of my tulle poofs (some finished, some unfinished).

I think that's all for now. I'll bring you pictures this evening!

I feel like sharing a helpful (to me anyway) blog today! Visit here for craft store coupons! It's always nice to have a quick link to visit to get all the current craft store coupons for a quick trip to pick up something wedding related.

Checking In

Labels: - Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Hello blog followers! I'm dropping by to let you know.....there has been no progress on the wedding front so far this week.

Recently completed item (hehe, only one thing to share!):
- Separated the candy into blue, purple, pink and put 15/20 candies in each bag.

Still need to complete:
- Ceremony Programs
- Buy tulle to line the aisle
- Borrow lights to line the aisle
- Make many more pomanders
- Wrap the wreaths with ribbon
- Find unity candle holder
- Perfect the BM bouquets
- Talk to the florist about my bouquet
- Figure out how to make boutonnières
- Find a guest book & pen
- Make "In Memory of" candles
- Mail sheet music to pianist
- Choose the rest of music for Ceremony (pre-wedding music, bridal party entrance, my entrance, and recesional)
- Find stand/table for unity candle to sit on
- Make ring bearer pillow
- Slideshow (maybe)
- Order table clothes for all tables for Reception
- Get flowers to finish centerpieces
- Buy drinks and dinnerware for Reception
- Buy garter
- Finish making tulle poofs for windows (Reception)
- Finalize Cake details
- Print & assemble coloring books for the young ones

I think that's it for now, at least that's all that I have on my list. I'm sure it will grow in the next few weeks, but I hope to get some of this stuff knocked off the list since I have a 4-day weekend coming up!

Attire Check

Labels: , , , - Friday, March 26, 2010

I'm SOOOO excited and relieved to mark another task off the to-do list! FI and I went tonight to find suit pants for him and the GM's tonight and we found them @ JcPenny! We found the pants so quickly that we moved on to picking out shirts for all the GM & FI and got all of them with the exception of the Best Man's b/c they didn't have the color to match the MOH's dress. Our gift to the GM are their ties, so we found ties for everyone tonight as well...and they match the pattern on FI's tie! :) I'll have to wait and post pictures tomorrow!

I HIGHLY recommend brides looking for khaki suits (ours were linen look pants by Stafford) to check out JcPenny! We got the pants for $34/each (on sale & we used a coupon) making the total cost for each GM only $51! :)

::beaming with joy::

My sister and I are heading to a warehouse sale tomorrow for Shoe Show and I'm hoping to find me and FI some shoes to wear for the wedding. Maybe I'll have more than just groom/groomsmen pants/shirts/ties to share tomorrow! :)

Missing In Wedding Action

Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Thursday, February 25, 2010

Hi everyone! I am very apologetic that I have been missing around here! We had our church revival all last week and it was late every night when I got in. I woke up last Friday morning with sinus issues and have been down and out with that until my meds really started working yesterday. I have made a pretty good little bit of progress along the lines of wedding planning progress, and we also have TONS of action along the lines of house progress. FI and his dad have really been working on the house the last couple of weeks. We did find an issue in the one room of the house we had planned to remodel after we moved in so we are now remodeling every room/aspect of the house. I'm very excited for everything to be finished so I can show you before and after pictures!

On the wedding front:
~ I finally paid of my wedding bands (first post about them can be found here)! Good pictures to come when I can get a good picture of them.

~ I completed the printing on the back of the majority of our RSVP postcards (I'm waiting on a second batch of 100 to arrive from Vistaprint).
~ The brown paper that Hobby Lobby had to special order for me came in and I finished cutting all of those earlier this week. I get the rest of the invites assembled.
~ My sister and I found the coolest decorating idea for the fellowship hall windows! I'm anxious for the tulle I ordered from CODWholesale to arrive so we can experiment with these!!! We plan to use fishing wire to hang 4-6 individual tulle poofs at varying lengths from the tulle covered curtain rods.


~ We also nailed down how we're going to decorate the pews at the ceremony!



The Sanctuary we're getting married in looks almost IDENTICAL to the one in the above picture. I love the lights in the tulle and will probably go with that look!



On the house front:

Since we're having to fix the bathroom now as well (this was unintended; we planned to wait and build on to the back of the house where the bathroom is when we started a family, but we found a few things and decided it was best to go ahead and tackle this project now as well). I made a quick little layout of the the house for it's before and after layout:

Getting Something Done

Labels: , , , , - Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Yea, I really need to start getting some wedding things ACCOMPLISHED! I did bring my invitation paper with my today so that I can stop by Staples after work and get an estimate of what it's going to cost to have them printed there. I need to start getting invites made because it's just around the corner that I am going to have to start mailing those out. ::yikes!::

I've really gotta start getting some things done :-\ I thought I had made so much progress until I see this HUGE list of 'items/tasks' that need to be checked off.


On the bright side, I used some of my Christmas money to buy the Wii game EA Sports. I am doing Bob Greene's 30 day challenge with the 'game' and had day one last night. I LOVED it. I can't imagine the Wii Fit being any better than this was. You have a personal trainer to guide you (she/he will let you know if your squats aren't low enough, if you're rushing the exercise, etc.) and I really found this helpful. There are step by step instructions before each exercise explaining move by move what you will be doing; it's also nice that, for those who are familiar with the exercises, there is the option of skipping right through the video tutorials.
Day 1 (medium-intesity): Challenging but not so hard you can't do it.

Plan a Wedding?

Labels: , , , , , , - Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Now that I'm done with school, and there is less than 5 months until the wedding and I've got to get B-U-S-Y with planning our wedding. Tomorrow on the plate for after church is making a couple of the new envelope liners with the new paper I bought. I need to decide if I want to use the silver/white paper or the blue paper to line our envelopes. Next on the plate is our invitation design. I have one now that I can use, but I'm just not 100% satisfied with it. I'm going to start working on a new design in my spare time and hopefully have a decision made about the final design within the next two weeks. I'd also like to get started on the ceremony and getting a program started. I've got to get the Bridesmaids dresses ordered (still waiting on two of my girls' measurements) as well as find someone to alter the dresses one they come in. I'm beginning to feel a little overwhelmed since 2010 is right around the corner.


::deep breath::

Off to get some rest. My first day back to work today really made me tired.

Graduation Anticipation 2

Labels: , , - Saturday, November 28, 2009

If you read my first graduation post you know that I had much to do before I could graduate in two weeks.
As of now, I get to move one Obstacle to the Accomplishment list and add another Obstacle to the list.

Obstacle 1: Advanced Accounting Chapter 17 Assignment (due Dec 3)

Obstacle 2: Business Policy 7 page research paper (due Dec 7)

Obstacle 3: Take Business Communication Final (Dec. 5)

Obstacle 4: Receive graduation attire (I ordered it late by accident & put it in as RUSH order :-x)

Accomplishment 1: Excempt from American Lit. final!

Accomplishment 2: Advanced Accounting research paper complete!

Accomplishment 3: Advanced Accounting Chapter 10-12 test completed!

Graduation Anticipation

Labels: , , - Friday, November 20, 2009

As my last semester of undergraduate school comes to an end, I find myself overwhelmed with projects, exams, and Senioritis [defined by Wikipedia as "a colloquial term used in the United States to describe the decreased motivation toward studies displayed by students who are nearing the end of their middle school, high school, college and graduate school careers (Senioritis)"].

So, in hopes of motivating myself, I'm making a sort of "to-do" graduation list!

Obstacle 1: I have an APA formatted, 10 page research paper due for my Business Policy class (status: outline completed).

Obstacle 2: A comparison paper of US GAAP standards and IFRS for my Advanced Accounting class (status: untouched).

Accomplishment 1: I did, however, accomplish high grades in my American Literature class which exempt from the final (::fingers crossed:: I will find out Monday for sure, but I've been pretty on it for that class!).

If I can only make it through December 5th to complete all of my course work and make it to my December 14th graduation, I can finally put myself into wedding planning bliss :)

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