Since I posted last, we FINISHED the bouquets (!!), began the invites, tried a centerpiece idea, tried on the dresses that finally came in (mine, my mom's, Tara's), and visited a bakery!
And now it's less than 3 months until the big day! I've been wanting to post pictures, but all my spare time has gone to wedding crafts. :)
I'll have to add pictures to this post later, but for now, I'll just fill you in on all that happened!
The bouquets are BEAUTIFUL (in my own, not so humble opinion :P). The flowers are perfect and the crystal spikes look great. We wrapped the handles in two colors of ribbon and added a letter charm to each so the bridesmaids and CoMOHs know which is theirs. I've been dying to show them off.
The invites are really starting to come together. We got ivory granite resume paper (it's watermarked, but you can't tell) and matching envelopes. Tara, my CoMOH and sister, is taking a calligraphy class at school, so she's hand-addressing all the envelopes. We printed all the inserts and I stamped each one with a swirly border (That's over 400 pieces of paper stamped so far!). We're (and by "we", I mostly mean my mom and Tara... I got kicked off this job pretty early on!) currently working on starching and ironing rectangles of the aqua crepe-back satin and using spray adhesive to attach them to the invite paper. Then my mom is using my rotary cutter to slice off the excess fabric. It's quite a process! I'll be posting in-progess pix soon.
For centerpieces, I was thinking I wanted a potted plant. So we went to English Gardens and picked out a "spike" plant. It looks roughly like this:
We were then planning on adding some tall ivory spikes (it's hard to explain) on some tables, and pearls on wire spikes on others. However, the spike plant we bought didn't get watered for a few days while we were in Kansas, and now it's very sad and brown. :( So we're still trying to figure out options... do we keep the plants inside? Do we buy them right before the wedding? Do we come up with an entirely new idea? So it's been interesting. I definitely want something very different though.
It was so exciting to try on MY wedding dress! I took pictures, so perhaps later I'll post some links so you can see. :) It fit perfectly, it just needs a tiny bit of hemming in the front. And a bustle, of course. My mom's dress fits her perfectly too! Hers needs quite a lot of hemming and some straps added. We went to go see Tara's dress today and it ALSO fits perfectly and needs just a little hemming! It looks so fantastic and she looks so skinny in it! It was hard to tell how it would look when the girls tried on the samples, since the sample sizes were far too big, but I love it so much in the correct size!
Anthony and I visited a couple bakeries today. We finally nixed the decorating-it-ourselves idea... it was just a bit too crazy and there's so much else to do. I think we're going to order from Party Cakes in Berkley. I'm going over there tomorrow to pick up a "drive-by tasting" order, which apparently allows me to sample 6 different kinds of cake and two types of frosting! After going to the bakery, Anthony and I looked at over 2,000 wedding cake pictures on the knot.com and picked our favorites. It turns out that he really doesn't like some of my favorite elements! Oh well, haha. I combined some of our favorite ideas into a VERY rough mock-up... which I will now post, even though it's not very pretty haha.
Here's a (tiny) picture of the elements that I tried to combine....
That's all for now - I'll try to add another post with pictures later! <3