Countdown: Flower Friday

Well we have made it all the way to Friday morning! The day before the wedding and the day of the rehearsal. There was still SO much to do … even after all the work we had been doing. My main focus was the DIY flowers. I had 160 sunflowers that we needed to arrange [...]

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Home Wedding: Lighting the night

I had read MANY blogs about outdoor, backyard, home and park weddings. One thing that I knew would be key was lighting. My parent’s and I had discussed different ideas over the last 6 months. Now it was time to put those plans into practice. The first area to get lights was the patio. It [...]

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Countdown: The assembly begin

Now that the tents were up, the lawn was mowed and I had my toe nails done .. it was time to start assembing the last minute details prior to setting up and decorating on Friday and Saturday. My girls showed up to help and we started getting as much done as possible. We started [...]

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Countdown: Folding and Flowers

Wednesday (T-Minus 3 days) was 9/9/09 … this was the day we had originally planned to be married. That is what was in the back of my head ALL DAY LONG. I could not dwell on that little tidbit of nostalgia of what could have been … I had work to do. FoldingThat morning the [...]

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Countdown: Seating Chart woes

This brings us to Monday before the wedding. Projects were either getting completed or thrown out. One project that I had to get finished and NOT throw out was the seating chart and water bottle place cards. I had been using Martha Stewart Wedding’s seating chart program and it was working perfectly … expect I [...]

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Made By Mom: The DIY Ceremony Arch

Even though I was content to just stand on the deck and get married, my mom (knowing better) decided we needed some kind of arch. We had previously tried ordering one online that my mom liked, but shipping was more than the price of the arch. We went to the local rental company and the [...]

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Countdown: Landscaping, the bark will fix it

As my mom said that last week … bark fixes (and covers up) anything! For less that $4 a bag it is a very easy and inexpensive way to cover up plain dirt areas in the yard and fill in between the more expensive greenery. Saturday and Sunday before the wedding we spent working in [...]

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Home Wedding: The House Prep

Part of getting married at a private home involves prepping the property for the high amount of people AND cleaning things up more than normal because there will be pictures taken of the property. When my parent’s arrived back from vacation we had 11 days until the wedding. The DIY efforts turned to yard prep [...]

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Countdown: The DIY wrap up

T-minus 7 days and it was a flurry of DIY at both my house and my mom’s house. First – some of my cost cutting DIY projects: I designed the DIY water bottle labels in Photoshop and sent them to Staples to be printed. I had already created the monogram and the template was used [...]

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DIY: Table Number Frames

Long before Mom & I decided to have assigned seating, I knew that I wanted framed pictures from our engagement session on the tables. When we placed our order for the e-pics we got 2 each of our favorite 8 poses. That would make 2 different photos on each table, I thought it would be [...]

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