Fun Fridays! 1-28-11

Wednesday night, hubby and I ate pizza, watched Fried Green Tomatoes and finished up those bridal shower invites!  I saved the template originally thinking I was going to send them out as Valentine's Day cards, but thought they would be perfect for Em instead :)

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A Garden Affair

This past weekend, my old college roommate and I had a bridal shower for one of our other college roommates. It was a surprise for the bride - all she knew (or thought she knew) was that the three of us were getting together to do something girlie. I made up these invitations and mailed them out to a few of her closest family and friends.
She showed up a little early to the party, but was stunned none-the-less. Her mom, sister, and best friend drove down from Seattle to celebrate the occassion. I forgot to take pictures of the food spread, but we had cucumber tea sandwiches, ciabattas with either ham or turkey, greek salad, pasta salad, florentine salad, veggies, baguettes with hummus and cupcakes! Everyone got souvenirs of canned jam I had previously made- cherry jam, strawberry jam, or tayberry jam. The start of a quilt her future mother-in-law is making for the couple. There were a few other pieces put together and it was one of the most detailed designs I'd ever seen!
After opening gifts, we went to a local spa to pamper ourselves with manicures and pedicures.

The atmosphere at this spa was so relaxing - the owner has it decorated much like something straight from Italy. Only a few more weeks until the bride & groom head off to Maui for their wedding!! I hope this little get together made the bride feel so very loved!

Rehearsal Invitations

Since our wedding invitations were so time consuming, I wanted to put together something much, much more simple for the rehearsal invites. I even considered not sending any out, but my love for paper was much too great!

I printed these on regular cardstock I had leftover from the invites and was able to fit both pages on just one sheet. I used a Martha Stewart craft punch for the top page and made sure to align the red underneath so it showed through. After placing the first page on top of the second, I used a rectangular punch I found at Michael's and tied a knot through the two punches to bind the pages together.

I had some leftover scrapbook paper that I traced an envelope template onto by carefully disassembling an envelope I had around the house in the right size and then cut and folded to make envelopes. And voila, they were off!

Finally, our invitations!

Here are the invitations, as promised! These were a true labor of love!! Steele and I started working on them back in January and about 3 weeks ago one of my BMs and I spent 7 hours (yes, SEVEN!) corner-cutting and assembling these babies. We used Brock and Minion for the fonts. I also had a Spanish version that I made for those family members que no hablan Inglés. I mailed ourselves a copy before sending them out to our guests. I hope they liked them! I scanned the bird details from a congrats/wedding card we'd sent to 2 different couples! I wonder if they noticed when they received our invites...I don't know if you can tell, but at the bottom of the RSVP card, it had a note that said "Psst...Help the newlyweds build their cookbook by bringing your favorite recipe to the reception! See you soon...Mireya & Steele" Who knows if our guests will actually do it, but it was a fun little detail none-the-less!I just finished our rehearsal dinner invites and a draft of our program. I'll post some pictures soon :)

The latest wedding news

I'll start with the sad news: I had been working on a post with pictures of our final invitations, having not added the pictures to the actual post. Over the weekend I made a BIG boo-boo and pulled out my xD-card from my laptop without safely doing so. I lost over 400 pictures, including our dogs when they were puppies, college graduation, Xmas, Thanksgiving, house projects, my friend's wedding this past weekend (which I'm REALLY bummed about because I was so excited to share her BEAUTIFUL wedding), and of course our invitations. Fortunately, 75% of those pictures I've either saved on my laptop, at work, or emailed them to family and friends so it's not a complete lost. I was devasted none-the-less (note to self: NEVER, EVER, EVER do that again!!!!). I am pretty sure the card is fried *tear* so as soon as I get a chance to purchase a new one and take pictures of the invitations, I will def. be posting them! I might be able to find Percy's camera somewhere and post some of the fun responses we've been getting back!!

On other news (this is the good stuff!!) we received confirmation from a Pastor we have been talking with that he will be performing the ceremony! Yippeee!! This has been a pretty stressful part of our planning (um, the wedding is less than two months away and we STILL hadn't nailed an officiant down) so I was overjoyed when I received the email!

I'm currently working on our rehearsal dinner invitations. They are going to be very simple and def. not as labor intensive as our wedding ones (Baybee, if you are reading this, I LOVE YOU! You are awesome for a bajillion reasons, one of which is helping me finish those darn things!) We've booked the location for the rehearsal and although it's a little hole in the wall, their food is DELISH!

6 weeks away and things are coming along! I'm so excited to be marrying my man!

paper

I ordered 4 packs these yesterday, I sure hope they match everything else. The invitations are coming along. I'm really happy with the map. That's all.

Firecracker Red

This weekend we went to the TC to visit my parents/sister and then later, Percy's best man (who's dating my old roommate, who started dating a week before Percy and I and who are on the brink of engagement, yay!). I love spending time with my family, 'specially when my Momma makes my favorite dish: Albondigas! Woot Woot! I had two servings by the way! She also let us have her Adobe Creative Suite so we can get started on those invites; I think they are going to be veddy veddy time consuming.

Over at the BMan's, their Shitzhu Violet just had puppies, one of which we will be picking up in two short weeks. We've named her Bailey and I really hope she fits in with our other two pups, Riley and Chloe. This was her at about 1 week old, when we'd gone to visit a few weeks back:

This was her this weekend, at about 3-4 weeks. What a lil' stinker! Too cute for her own good!photos by my better-half, Percy

Also this weekend, I got some wedding things accomplished! With the help of Weddingbee's Mrs. Daffodil and Miss Sushi, I ordered our envelopes and cardstock for the invitations from here and here! I'm so excited to get them in the mail! Firecracker Red, gotta love it!

Happy Monday!