Royal Wedding

So I reallllyyyy wanted to see what Kate's dress looked like....mainly to see if my idea of what it would be was correct...and I have to say it was pretty spot on!!

She was Absolutely stunning!!!! I hope I look a fraction as good as she did on my wedding day :)

Gorgeous..just gorgeous!!!

And on another note..im busting my bum to get some more of these pomanders done...I swear I do like 30 flowers and then i count them and Ive only actually done like 10 lol. I can tell this really is going to be a labor of love! Ive got a lot of these puppies to bust out!

Color combo

Here's a little inspiration for our colors :)

So pretty :)

Tissue Pom

So I finally completed my first tissue paper pom! And in all truth it really wasnt that hard!


So heres a picture of the Pom:

I think the hardest part of the process is cutting out the tissue paper, but besides that its pretty easy and it goes pretty fast!

Heres a rough mock-up of the centerpiece:

This isnt a very good picture because with the flash you cant see the blue light.

I think I might put a ribbon at the top of the vase because I cant fill the aqua gems all the way to the top of the vase otherwise it will make the tissue paper wet and it will probably bleed. I think we decided these will be on the tables with the pink table cloths.

I bought my tissue paper from paper mart and the 400 sheet pack of tissue paper should be enough to make 20 tissue poms...which is more than enough for all of these types of centerpieces and maybe some to hang off the chairs on the aisle during the ceremony. And now I just need to figure out how to store these!!

Hobby lobby also has a 40% off any item coupon for this week, so Kyle and I will be going there a few times to pick up some more Styrofoam balls. With the coupon it brings them down (6 inch ones) to 2.27$ a piece which is a good price for those!!

My next project is to order the lose orchids from the website I found and do a mock-up of our other centerpiece...which hopefully will be a lot less work then these ones!!

Wedding Steal

Last week Michael's was having a really big sale so I decided to check it out...armed with my email coupons of course :)

I wasnt expecting to find much but I scored a major deal...I got 14 boxes of votive candles and two glass containers for 50$!!!!

The candles (12 pack) was originally 7.99 but were on sale for 4.99 and then I had a 30% off my entire candle purchase so that brought them down to 3.49$ a 12 pack!!! Seriously, THANK YOU MICHAEL'S!!!! That saved me over 50$ off of the cheapest place I could find them online..not including shipping.


The glass containers were 1.99$ which was a good deal as well and I will add those to the collection of containers for the candy bar.

But this just reinforces, for me at least, that Micheal's is a DIY brides Best Friend!

So for now we have been slowly purchasing the items we need, Kyle just purchased the take out containers for the candy bar and a large pack of pink tissue paper from paper mart. Im going to do a tissue paper pomander run-through for one of our centerpieces. Hopefully it works out well and I will post the mock-up as soon as Im done.

DYI Ideas

Well now that we have most of our big checks off of our vendor list I have been focusing a lot on the DIY.

We are going to do fuchsia overlays with turquoise napkins and these centerpieces:

Im going to put clear vase filler in the bottom and a pink floralyte. There will also be about 5-6 votive candles around this.

And then the other half of the tables will have turquoise overlays with fuchsia napkins and carnation pomander centerpieces kind of like these:

but with a different vase that will be clear with a blue floralyte and clear aqua marbles and a more round look.This one will also have 5-6 votive's around it. I was talking with one of my BMs, who is getting married in Oct, and she said it will probably be much cheaper to use tissue paper carnations then real ones. I was planning on doing tissue paper pomanders for the ceremony chairs anyways so I think I will take her suggestion. I am trying to do this as cheap as possible so I think it will turn out to save a lot of money. So Im not sure if I will do a full pomander or cut the spheres in half and do a half pomander.

I am also considering doing some kind of bling on the outside of the vases and some faux diamonds I bought off of ebay around the center of the table.

I am also hoping to do a centerpiece mock-up of both the options really soon; so I will post that as soon as I do!

I also think I have found the perfect totes for the BM gifts!