Less then a Month!!

It is officially less then a month before the wedding!!!!! I can't believe it! I went last night and got the program paper for my DIY programs. I also got my second bridal shower dress and shoes!!! I went to Ross (for those who don't know it's like a TJ Maxx or Marshalls) and found a super cute ivory and black dress and then I saw some oh so cute red/hot pink pumps to wear with it.....I wanted a splash of color!

For the centerpeices at the reception I decided to use pictures of Fiance and I instead of flowers. I'm using pictures of us in our travels! Here are a few examples.....

This is us in Rome right in front of St. Peters Basilica minutes after Fiance had proposed to me!

This is us in front of the Trevi Fountain in Rome.

This is us at Mt. Serrat in Spain

At the beach in Lloret de Mar, Spain.

At a sightseeing spot overlooking Florence.

I thought that it would be a fun twist to flowers on the table that people probably wouldn't even notice anyway. I think we have about eight tables that we are going to put pictures on and I got some frames for them last night at Ross. I'll probably just put a little card beside each frame that tells where we are.

Did you or are you doing anything different for your table arrangements or any other decorating for your reception?

Finally Pictures!!!

So I am just going to let everyone know that I'm very slow on the technological wave that is the little cord that connects your camera to your computer and allows you to download your pictures! I'm not proud to admit this, but there it is, shoo I feel better all ready! :)

Now here are some long overdo pictures!!!

This is a picture that I took of my hair after my bridal portraits, I would say it was around 6:00 and that would be a good 7-8 hours after my hair was done as well as a good photo session outside in the 90 degree heat!!! Needless to say I was impressed! (Please pay no attention to Feifal and Shrek in the background!)

The second part of my bridal portraits were taken at my Grandmother/Aunt and Uncle's house and they were so sweet as soon as they saw me my Grandmama and Aunt both started crying!!! And then when the photo session was over they had sparkling peach cider and shrimp cocktail waiting for me! And they gave me the above handkerchief that belonged to my Great Grandmother to use as my something old!!!! I was so touched!!!!!!!

This is my BCBG dress that I got for my shower and it was a hit!!! Everyone loved it even Fiance he said it accentuated my best feature (my legs, I'm 5'9") at least my best feature to Fiance ;)

Here are the letters that I got to hang on the Church doors, I'll be hanging them with the tartan ribbon I got!

These are the frames that I got to include as part of my Bridesmaids gifts, I'll be putting poems in them for my girls!

I got a couple of these frames from Michael's to use around the reception!!

And here is my LONG overdo Christmas in July presents that Miss AR got me! A monogrammed hand towel, cute Christmas frame ornament, pink and green photo book, an awesome scarf, an even more awesome gift card to Starbucks, and two pads and a Sharpie pen that will be used at the reception for my coffe table books!!! I'm one lucky girl!

And last but not least here is a peak inside my bachelorette party, you'd think I was at Mardi
Gras with all those beads around my neck!!!!!! hehe!

Single White Female

I saw this on the Weddingbee and after debating on what to use to hold my programs and not having any luck in finding what I wanted I decided this was really cute and affordable and would do just fine!

So basically I Single White Femailed Miss Sundae.......thanks Miss Sundae : )

(photo from weddingbee)

Here's the dilemma I'm facing though......my colors are black and ivory......the basket is black and white......the programs are going to be ivory......is that okay?????? Will it look bad do you think????

I'm using Ribbon.....

everywhere I can!

And the ribbon is actually the Blackwatch Tartan and it looks just like the pattern in the pictures below!

The groomsmen will actually be wearing the Blackwatch kilt so I wanted to have the matching ribbon woven, no pun intended : ), throughout the wedding. So the bouquet's are going to be wrapped in the ribbon, I think it's going to go really well with the black dresses! And then we'll have the ribbon on the programs and on the Church pews and I'm going to use it for wrapping the vases for the sparklers at the reception. I'm also going to use it for our Out of Town Bags! And I haven't fully decided but I might hang our initials on the doors at the Church and if I do that I'll obviously use the ribbon there too! Is anybody else incorporting their initials in their wedding?