Happenstance

I had some Wedding Color Paint Chips, Save the Dates, and Wedding Invites left over, so I decided to make a garland out of them.   I used my 1.5" punch to punch out as many circles as I could.  Next I used thick thread and my sewing machine to string them all together. Not sure what I am going to do with this yet, but I loved how it turned out!

Wedding flowers are wicked expensive. Like stupid expensive. Plus they are basically just dying from before you even start using them. I just can't feed into that kind of nonsense.  Mark suggested that we went flower free, but I couldn't really get behind that either. So Erin and I set out to make flowers for the wedding! We don't mess around! That being said, the beginning was all messing around. We tried several different things, like making felt flowers, and were kinda hitting the wall. Until Erin made her first paper flower  using information she found on the Internet! I was completely over-the-moon sold.  We started making the flowers using Erin's Cricut to cut out all of the paper shapes. She had several die options and the Cricut allowed us to manipulate the shapes to make standard flowers, like roses, and our own creations.  Cutting out the shapes was only the first step. After we had the shapes, we used Erin's Copic markers to color the edges of

Mark and I are supremely lucky to have such talented and phenomenal friends, like  Sara ! Sara really helped us make some great accent pieces for our wedding decor.  She made our card box: She also made perfect Table Signage for us, which she cut into cute hearts!! Here are the digital images: It's these kind of pieces that really pull decor together and make venues more personalized. I really love that we are able to make every part of our wedding scream 'us'!

My mom is basically the most wonderful woman and is super talented. So when she offered to make my Cocktail Hour Centerpieces for our wedding, I was very excited.  We collected all of the details we wanted included in the vases (which were donated by a friend); such as, pine cones my grandpa collected in Hilton Head, golden cardboard tubes I bought when I was in the Brownies, and several other memorable items.  Most of these pieces went into the large vases: The smaller vases were less personal, but still very nice! I am super excited to use these at the wedding!

Originally, I really did not want to do a seating chart. I firmly believed that adults should be able to figure out seating by themselves. However, after hearing about some weddings where that went horribly awry, I broke down and decided to create a seating chart.  I decided to buy some small plastic animals to hold the seating cards. I started by cutting slits in their backs for where the cards would sit.  Obviously, this left the animals looking a little weird and I didn't like that they were all different colors. So next I spray painted them all silver!  After they were all dry, I noticed that some of the animals became a bit indistinguishable once they were all silver. So I sharpied on needed details. All 100 done! Next I used my Sizzix Die Cutter to cut out the Seating Cards. I added some extra width to the cards by including decor tape on the bottoms of the cards. Additionally, I used clear labels to put peoples names and tables onto the cards (I would