Lauren1027
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- Joined
- Jun 26, 2013
Invitations, Cake Topper, and We're Officially in the Double Digits!!!
Hi everyone! Apologies once again for my absence. The university I work at is beck in session so work has been absolutely INSANELY busy and I haven't had a chance to catch up on any PJs, including my own. The biggest update I have is that as of yesterday, WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN THE DOUBLE-DIGITS until our wedding!!! 99 days to go!
Invitations
The next biggest update is that we have FINALLY finished and ordered our wedding invitations! I know we're pretty late in the game for this, but since we're having such a small wedding that's mostly family, we basically already know that everyone is committed to coming and that the invitations are just a formality. Either way, we took a little longer than we should have designing them and getting them absolutely perfect. We had scoured Pinterest and Etsy to find invitation design inspiration, and while we found ones that we liked, we didn't love any of them and they were EXPENSIVE! So since George already has Photoshop and graphic design experience, we decided to just create our own and then print them through Vista Print. We finished the invitations pretty quick, but then procrastinated on creating the response cards. When we finally had everything finished, we uploaded our designs to Vista Print anddddd they didn't fit. It was super stressful and we must have uploaded and tried to fix the dimensions 50 times and we finally figured it out and ordered them last night. I had to do expedited shipping so that they get here by early next week and I will need to send them out literally the next day so I need to go postage shopping this weekend. Overall, I'm glad we took so long because I LOVE LOVE LOVE how our invites and response cards turned out! I can't wait to get them photographed on our wedding day.
Front of Wedding Invitation:
Back of Invitation (Swoooooon):
Response Cards:
How cute are they?!? And we got all of our cards with envelopes AND upgraded linen paper for less than $50. I can't wait to see them in person!
Cake Topper
We also got our custom cake topper in the mail last weekend and we love it! We ordered it from Etsy from a shop called Pink Owl Gifts. There are tons of shops that do similar cake toppers, but I'm really pleased with ours. The quality seems really great too.
I've been trying to cut down on desserts lately, now that we're in wedding crunch time and I'd love to lose a few pounds before the wedding and I have been dreaming of our wedding cake and how good its going to taste! Haha.
Other than those small updates, we do have our minimum expenditures payment deadline coming up on September 2nd. I've actually already transferred the funds to my account and am ready to pay now, so that payment should be processed any day now.
My bridal shower invites have also officially been mailed out this week, according to my bridesmaids <3 I'm so, so excited for my bachelorette/bridal shower weekend coming up at the beginning of October!
The only other major thing I'm still waiting on are for updates on my bridal bouquet and bridesmaids bouquets. I'm not too anxious because they are paper flowers and I know will take time to make, but the Etsy seller that I purchased them through promised to send me updates along the way and I haven't received any yet and its been a little over a month since they were purchased.
On my list of things to do for September are:
- Order wedding favors (I'm Celebrating buttons)
- Get all my bridal jewelry and potential hair accessories for the wedding day
- Mail invitations
- Create our music playlist
- Decide if we're going to take dance lessons
- Go over ceremony options with our officiant and start writing vows
Blah, I didn't think I had that much more to do and now when I look at my list, its still pretty significant. Oh well, only a few more months of planning and then the big day will finally be here and we can enjoy it! I also need to start planning some stuff for our honeymoon, since I haven't even had time to think about that yet! Hopefully I'll be back on here soon with some more updates. Hope you ladies all have a fantastic week
Hi everyone! Apologies once again for my absence. The university I work at is beck in session so work has been absolutely INSANELY busy and I haven't had a chance to catch up on any PJs, including my own. The biggest update I have is that as of yesterday, WE ARE OFFICIALLY IN THE DOUBLE-DIGITS until our wedding!!! 99 days to go!
Invitations
The next biggest update is that we have FINALLY finished and ordered our wedding invitations! I know we're pretty late in the game for this, but since we're having such a small wedding that's mostly family, we basically already know that everyone is committed to coming and that the invitations are just a formality. Either way, we took a little longer than we should have designing them and getting them absolutely perfect. We had scoured Pinterest and Etsy to find invitation design inspiration, and while we found ones that we liked, we didn't love any of them and they were EXPENSIVE! So since George already has Photoshop and graphic design experience, we decided to just create our own and then print them through Vista Print. We finished the invitations pretty quick, but then procrastinated on creating the response cards. When we finally had everything finished, we uploaded our designs to Vista Print anddddd they didn't fit. It was super stressful and we must have uploaded and tried to fix the dimensions 50 times and we finally figured it out and ordered them last night. I had to do expedited shipping so that they get here by early next week and I will need to send them out literally the next day so I need to go postage shopping this weekend. Overall, I'm glad we took so long because I LOVE LOVE LOVE how our invites and response cards turned out! I can't wait to get them photographed on our wedding day.
Front of Wedding Invitation:
Back of Invitation (Swoooooon):
Response Cards:
How cute are they?!? And we got all of our cards with envelopes AND upgraded linen paper for less than $50. I can't wait to see them in person!
Cake Topper
We also got our custom cake topper in the mail last weekend and we love it! We ordered it from Etsy from a shop called Pink Owl Gifts. There are tons of shops that do similar cake toppers, but I'm really pleased with ours. The quality seems really great too.
I've been trying to cut down on desserts lately, now that we're in wedding crunch time and I'd love to lose a few pounds before the wedding and I have been dreaming of our wedding cake and how good its going to taste! Haha.
Other than those small updates, we do have our minimum expenditures payment deadline coming up on September 2nd. I've actually already transferred the funds to my account and am ready to pay now, so that payment should be processed any day now.
My bridal shower invites have also officially been mailed out this week, according to my bridesmaids <3 I'm so, so excited for my bachelorette/bridal shower weekend coming up at the beginning of October!
The only other major thing I'm still waiting on are for updates on my bridal bouquet and bridesmaids bouquets. I'm not too anxious because they are paper flowers and I know will take time to make, but the Etsy seller that I purchased them through promised to send me updates along the way and I haven't received any yet and its been a little over a month since they were purchased.
On my list of things to do for September are:
- Order wedding favors (I'm Celebrating buttons)
- Get all my bridal jewelry and potential hair accessories for the wedding day
- Mail invitations
- Create our music playlist
- Decide if we're going to take dance lessons
- Go over ceremony options with our officiant and start writing vows
Blah, I didn't think I had that much more to do and now when I look at my list, its still pretty significant. Oh well, only a few more months of planning and then the big day will finally be here and we can enjoy it! I also need to start planning some stuff for our honeymoon, since I haven't even had time to think about that yet! Hopefully I'll be back on here soon with some more updates. Hope you ladies all have a fantastic week