Budget friendly rehersal outfit

Right now there isn't a lot of extra money in my bank account, but there have been a few splurges I decided to go for. Like this...

Invites

Invitations were sent out almost a month ago, yet I haven't blogged about them. There were just so many details to them I hardly know where to begin.

I designed the invitations, rsvp, and maps using Microsoft publisher. The layout I "borrowed" (read as stole) from another bee (august15bride), but it was so different and perfect I had to. Without my families help, I would not have been able to put these all together. They cut, folded, stamped, and helped me create the vision I had for these. All materials were bought though paper and more, the paper mill store, vista print, and Micheal's.

Let's start from the beginning. When one of our guests opens up their envelope (5.25x7.25" in sand) the first thing they will see is...

What do you want for...

For the gift giving holidays, I usually get asked "What do you want for ______?" I say nothing and let him fend for himself most of the time, but this valentines day I actually had an idea. I decided to ask for perfume. Its a pretty generic v-day gift, but I also asked FI to pick it out with me. I'm planning for this scent to be my wedding day fragrance, and I didn't want him to hate it. So I needed him to judge the perfumes too.

We started out by going to Sephora. Where we found this

and this

Unique but bridal

Through out wedding planning, I have been striving for a unique but clearly bridal look.

Bridal hair Google image search results

To buy or rent?

I know. The obsession with umbrellas is getting a little much, but I just found a new website.
http://www.bellaumbrella.com/

Can we just talk about the TOMATOES for a minute?

Okay...
I know this isn't exactly wedding bee, and my small amount of readers might not want to hear about this, but what else is a blog for but to vent?

I have beefsteak tomatoes.

Tutorial Time!

This is a tutorial of my bridesmaids gifts. So, if you are a bridesmaid... DO NOT READ!!!

Nom nom nom CAKE!

While food is probably my number one wedding priority, the cake was not. Don't get me wrong, I want a great cake. Its just that the cake vendor was the last vendor on my list. I was burned out and didn't want to make any more calls/emails by the time we got to cake. I'm pretty sure free cake samples is really the reason we have a cake.

Accessorizing the Bmaids

Now that we have talked about the dresses lets move on to what will go with said dresses.

No Bmaids past this point. (That means you Karen!)

The elusive green dress

Green isn't an uncommon wedding color. But I see a lot more of this
than this.
So by picking a darker, non-hunter green, I may have in inadvertently made the bridesmaids dress search 10x harder. Lucky for them, I need something to search for on the internet.

Its been a while

I know its been a while. I needed to take a break/slow down on all the wedding stuff. You could say I got a little burned out. My wedding break came at the perfect time. After all the vendors were booked, before most of the craziness of a time crunch came, and during the holidays. But now I'm back in the game! Now its full force planning time.

A lot has happened since my last post, but I thought I would start off with one of the cliff hangers...