I can’t stop laughing. I think my favorite is the Big Wedding Secret!
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Category Archives: Wedding
Photo Guestbook
Currently at JFK airport and have been up for way too many hours as I return yet again from another (2 day) Switzerland trip. This is the last trip before W-day. The nice part about this return-home trip has been the upgrade to business elite (1st time ever, thanks Delta) and now the relaxing in the Sky Team Lounge. It’s quiet, cool, and has free food and drinks. I could travel more often if every trip was this luxurious, but I digress…
Last night in my hotel room, I finally finished our wedding day guestbook. I wanted to make it personal, cute and memorable, so of course I used Heritage Makers and I used an existing guestbook template to create ours which made it super easy and quick. Click the photo below to view the entire super-cute guestbook.
I also just bought a few of these Zip Photo Signature Pens from Scrapbook.com. The reviews looked promising so hopefully they work for people signing the pages of our guestbook.
Thanks to my mom for all of the “engagement” photos in our guestbook. One thing I was starting to regret was not having engagement photos, so last weekend we headed to my parent’s house with 2 different outfits each and for about an hour my mom took some really awesome, great photos. The best part – they were FREE!! Thanks mom!!!
Time to brush my teeth before my next flight!! (20+ hours of flying makes me feel pretty disgusting….).
– Mary
4 Weeks and Counting
Less than 30 days to go! Today we visited St. Charles and took a sneak peak at someone else’s wedding setup. Our caterer Berwick (who’s the BEST), let us in early to check it out. It was good to see and have a real image in my head of what it looks like for a wedding reception. Up until now it just looked like a really big room with incredibly high ceilings. Of course in viewing someone else’s wedding I immediately saw about 10 things I hadn’t even considered yet. Mints for the bar? Framed photos of parents and grandparent’s weddings? Sparkly table cloths to add color to the white ones? Pretty decorations to wrap around the banisters down the stairs? A list of drinks for the bar? I already nixed the cocktain napkins – phew.
I also noticed the gold chairs they have at St. Charles. They stood out a ton. They aren’t necessarily ugly, they just don’t quite go with the color scheme (today’s wedding was white and light blue). The caterer quoted $3.75 / chair to cover them from a woman he knows, but my mom is going to search for cheaper, because $1125 to cover them up is ridiculous, insane and illogical. (Now ask me later if covering them up is worth $600? $300?).
Last night, we stayed in Dayton with Nick’s parents and his mom and I did a trip to Joanne’s and Michael’s looking for wedding favor bags. I’m stocking up on Swiss chocolate on my trips (I go to Switzerland again in a week), and we found some 3×4 Navy blue organza favor bags that I think will work great.
At Michael’s the bags were $3.99 for 12 (or $0.33 / bag). After a quick search of the internet, Idea Ribbon is having a sale and if I buy 300 I can get them for $0.08 / bag. Luckily, I need 300!
Speaking of numbers… the RSVP deadline was Wednesday the 1st. As of right now we have 226 yes’s, very few no’s and we are waiting on responses from 70 people. It looks like we will surpass my 250 people estimate!!
Happy 4th of July!!
Mary
Yesterday Marriage License; Today Wedding Rings
Hard to believe that the wedding is only 5 weeks from today! Yesterday, Nick and I obtained our marriage license and today we bought our rings.
Obtaining the license was quite uneventful, it just required waiting in line for about 40 minutes. The woman who issued our license said most people in line were getting the license for the next day. Yikes, I couldn’t image doing that.
I think buying our rings was more exciting for both of us. We did a first look for rings about 2 months ago, to get an inital idea. Today, we started with the jewelry stores in the mall. After waiting 10 minutes at one place and not being greeted we left, wandered around to other shopping stores, got a Starbucks coffee and went to another jewelry store. At this store, all of the men’s rings were the “average” size for guys, which meant none of them fit Nick’s finger, so he was done. Then the saleswoman (wrongly) assumed the size of my ring (which irritated both of us since she was off by 40%!). And she pushed me towards this crazy-huge ring wrap (I can’t remember the formal name) which meant she wasn’t listening to what I said I wanted!!
Finally, Nick and I looked at each other and decided to go to Jared’s where Nick purchased my engagement ring. The experience at Jared’s was beyond wonderful – they have excellent customer service, attention to detail and were so helpful. We were immediately greeted and one woman started helping us with my rings. I pointed out what I liked last time and started trying them on, although still wasn’t sold 100%. The woman started to get a feel for what I liked and pulled out the perfect ring for me! I put it on and knew it and Nick knew it too; I started to tear up. Then another woman helped us find Nick’s perfect ring – a yellow gold comfort fit band. Both women were so knowledgeable, helpful and FUN!! They brought us bottled waters, cleaned my engagement ring and took such good care of us. We won’t be shopping anywhere else for jewelry, and Jared’s now has two customers for life.
Marriage License with Wedding Rings
Nick with Wedding Ring - I love it!
My ring - so dainty and perfect
Travels in Switzerland
Note: I wrote this post one evening this past week while in Switzerland for work, but since I didn’t have an internet connection at the hotel room I’m finally getting around to posting this today (from home – it’s always great to come home)…
So I’ve already failed my 1-posting-a-week promise. What can I say, things got busy (insane). I’m writing this 6 time zones away from home base. I’m currently in Zurich, Switzerland for the week getting introduced and inundated on a new project. It’s nice to have a short break from the day-to-day wedding planning, but it feels odd to be so far removed.
On Friday last week I took the day off to accomplish two major items: Finish moving out of my apartment and mailing all of the invitations.
I’m happy to report that I was able to complete both with tons of help. Thanks to my Aunt Carol and cousins Lexie and Katie for helping me finish with the last few things to move. Also thanks to my Grandma Rosie and cousin Nicole for putting the final stamps on the invitations (and thanks to Maria, Lindsay, Heather, Christine, Catherine, Aunt Sue, my mom and of course Nick for helping assemble them throughout the week). A note to those who will be mailing ridiculously-large invitations in the future: Make sure you go to the post office and have them weighed for postage rather than guessing!! I can’t stress enough how happy Mr. Postman was that I came in BEFORE I mailed them. He told me that he often has visits from disgruntled brides who mailed invitations without consulting a post office first.
I mailed the invitations at 6:30 pm on Friday evening at a post office and on Saturday Nick and I started receiving text messages and phone calls from those who had already received them! Wow, that’s service!!
Here’s where project wedding currently stands (I love lists, hence, a list):
- We met with the caterer last week to finalize the food details. I can’t say enough good things about TJ from Berwick. Wow, wow, wow, do I feel great about having him cater our wedding. Oh yeah, and come hungry. There will be insane amounts of food.
- The invitations were ordered through Paper Occasions. The invitations look wonderful, although there were a few issues with the timing of when they were ready and when I had requested they be ready. I also did not receive enough of the reception inserts. These delays caused me some unnecessary stress in getting them mailed before I left for Switzerland that I could have done without (thank goodness for all those that pitched in to help – again, THANK YOU).
- I have not had a good workout in 2+ weeks and that doesn’t make me feel so good. At least this week in Switzerland I’m walking at least 3 miles a day between the hotel and train and then the train and work, so at least I’m doing SOMETHING! Granted, the pressure to workout is all me. Nick repeatedly tells me how much he loves me the way that I am!!
- I’ve started to nix some unneccessary details. Cocktail napkins = cut. Cupcakes for the kids = cut. (We’ll have cake, ice cream, Italian cookies and swiss chocolate, I think that’s enough for a sugarhigh).
- Theknot.com message boards make me slightly crazy. I need to avoid them.
- I’ve been buying some good Swiss chocolate for the wedding favors this week. I’m not able to buy truffles as carrying 600 of those home would be painful, but I am buying my second favorite swiss candy, little Lindt candy bars. Now I have to keep Nick and I from eating all of them…
Time to find some dinner. A little over 6-weeks to go…
Power of a Story 