Centerpieces

Oh centerpieces.
Sometimes I truly loathe you.
Sometimes, I like you.

Back in December, my mom and I set off on journey to find sales at Micheal's. While we were there we came across these lovelies:


They were on sale for $5 a piece. We bought 10. And, suddenly, my centerpiece journey began. We played with some ideas of what we wanted to do with them. We talked about lights with leaves spread around them (keep in my mind: November wedding).

And then, my world changed when I saw these:

via: Little Black Book Blog

Uh, yeah. These are perfect! One hundred percent perfect! So, I set out on my venture to make it work, because by golly it will.

I bought keys:


And crystals:


And, just for extra measure, we decided to make cranes:
*side story: we're {and by we're I mean my good friend} is making 1000 cranes for the wedding. they range in size from 6x6 paper to 3x3.

And then we did a test run:

This one, I'm not so sure about. Since the vases are kind of short and dumpy, making the flowers tall doesn't seem aesthetically pleasing.

So, I cut them:

I like this much better. However, I'm afraid of where they will sit on the table. You know the old rule "better high or low than in eyesight"? Yeah. This is where I worry.

But, I do like the hanging stuff. And I love the crane in the flower. And I love the hanging cranes. It's all adorable. Really, it is. My pictures just don't do it justice.

Luckily, I have another, you know, 8 months to play. I told Chet that it's such a shame he'll have to start buying me flowers {with all the sarcasm in the world}.

So.

I was going to talk about our venue, which we have in fact decided upon and even put down a deposit. However, Chet is a much better story teller than I, and as such, I commissioned him to work on that. He's has the first one done. You can read it here.

We ordered our Save the Dates. As you may remember, (or I may have not even said) we were going to e-mail them out. It was cost effective and really non-time consuming at all. And I was thrilled by this. So was Chet.

However.

My parents were not. They argued that for their generation e-mail is not a communication means like it is for mine. E-mail is meant to be for informal or business use only. Not for something like a wedding. Alright...

We ordered postcards from Snapfish and they were slightly cost effective, will be time consuming, but you make concessions.

(click to enlarge)

So there they are. Our Save the Dates. How did they come about you ask? I'll tell you! First, we love the photobooth idea. I've always thought that was a cool idea, even before it was cool to have (so we all say right?). Then we saw these great pictures:

here and here and here.

And we were in love. So, we put our own spin on it. And that's what we got.

Quick funny story: We were ordering them and we were about order 150 so that we would have extras in case errors occurred. And then we were doing math and yadda yadda. And then I had a 'duh' moment. I was not about to mail out individual save the dates to every person who we were inviting... with that thought, I realized we were about to order about 60 more than we needed. Yup. I love my logic.

To Do in March

• Change Blog Layout (Which means, if you get this by e-mail, you need to come look! www.ourkindofday.blogspot.com)
• Work on Guest List
• Visit Austin Places
• Send Thomas our photography contract
• Send out Save the Dates
• Go at least look at dresses
• List old dress for sale
• Take a deep breath
• Send Angie cake pictures
• Book a DJ? Yes? No? ... So, make a decision
• Test run centerpieces
• Wait *patiently* for my shoes
• Enjoy Spring Break
• Enjoy my friends
• Don't get too wrapped up all of this

3 down... unlimited to go. Though, I think I can handle some of that. We'll see.

I'm on Spring Break. And we're running away again. And then we'll be in Austin looking at places. Ah... :)