But I am sticking with my first choice of Brown and Orange as they have the cutest ideas in the orange boards. I might even have to get orange shoes now! Sarah would be so proud of me :)
Here are some of my favorite idea boards!
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
The Inspiration - Part II
After I found the Inspiration Ad again, I set out on a mission to find more pictures and images that would inspire me and I came across the most wonderful website ever - The Perfect Palette. The sole purpose of this blog is to inspire color for your wedding; they have custom inspiration boards in every color combination available. I'm not gonna lie, a couple of their boards almost had me change my colors because I was so intrigued!!
But I am sticking with my first choice of Brown and Orange as they have the cutest ideas in the orange boards. I might even have to get orange shoes now! Sarah would be so proud of me :)
Here are some of my favorite idea boards!
But I am sticking with my first choice of Brown and Orange as they have the cutest ideas in the orange boards. I might even have to get orange shoes now! Sarah would be so proud of me :)
Here are some of my favorite idea boards!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Save the Dates are in the Mail!!
FINALLY!!! I am so excited for these to be done and in the mail. What I thought was going to be a painless process turned out to be a pain in the neck! I am really happy with the final product of the magnets.
But the process of printing the information for the hotel card was a nightmare.
At my old job I purchased this pearl metallic cardstock to use for an event invitation and as soon as I received it I knew I wanted to use it for my wedding stuff. So back in the beginning of October I went online to order it - 100 sheets for $30 + shipping. I figured I could use the extra for programs or something. Once it came in I was so excited - I did notice that it was thicker than the average cardstock but didnt think anything of it. I attempted to print on it using our inkjet and it immediately jammed. So on Monday off to Kinko's I go, assuming I am now going to pay just as much as the paper for the color printing there, but again this paper was worth it and I wanted them in the mail on Tuesday. The guy at Kinko's told me it was too thick for their machines as well and they couldn't print on it. They wanted $21 for 17 color copies on cardstock - I was very frustrated and left because I knew I could go buy my own cardstock for significantly less (ok Mom, Dad, Beth & Kristy - I know what you are thinking, stop making your cheap jokes about me - I am not cheap I am frugal!)
Tuesday night I was at Staples buying ivory cardstock, which is definitely not as pretty as the other paper but was much cheaper - $7.00 for 125 pieces. The printing went seamless at home and then I brought them into work on Wednesday to use the paper cutter. I quickly discovered the paper cutter was from 1980 with a dull blade and that was not going to work! So last night I spent two hours cutting them all by hand - I hope they are all straight - my eyes were starting to cross by the end. If you get one and it looks like I was drunk when I cut it, please do not think any less of me :) (Seriously, I didn't let any of those any where near the envelopes - I hope!) A big thank you goes to our friend Alissa who gave us the cute Love stickers to use to seal the envelopes. There was no way I was licking all of them!
Marcin was a huge help with stamping and labeling. He did attempt to help cut at one point, but I was having a heart attack over him not being the straightest cutter. I figured it was easier to be mad at myself if they looked bad than be mad at him! He did joke around at the end that his fingers hurt from all of the stamps he put on and I almost hit him with the scissors! Here are some pictures I snuck of Marcin helping.
At my old job I purchased this pearl metallic cardstock to use for an event invitation and as soon as I received it I knew I wanted to use it for my wedding stuff. So back in the beginning of October I went online to order it - 100 sheets for $30 + shipping. I figured I could use the extra for programs or something. Once it came in I was so excited - I did notice that it was thicker than the average cardstock but didnt think anything of it. I attempted to print on it using our inkjet and it immediately jammed. So on Monday off to Kinko's I go, assuming I am now going to pay just as much as the paper for the color printing there, but again this paper was worth it and I wanted them in the mail on Tuesday. The guy at Kinko's told me it was too thick for their machines as well and they couldn't print on it. They wanted $21 for 17 color copies on cardstock - I was very frustrated and left because I knew I could go buy my own cardstock for significantly less (ok Mom, Dad, Beth & Kristy - I know what you are thinking, stop making your cheap jokes about me - I am not cheap I am frugal!)
Tuesday night I was at Staples buying ivory cardstock, which is definitely not as pretty as the other paper but was much cheaper - $7.00 for 125 pieces. The printing went seamless at home and then I brought them into work on Wednesday to use the paper cutter. I quickly discovered the paper cutter was from 1980 with a dull blade and that was not going to work! So last night I spent two hours cutting them all by hand - I hope they are all straight - my eyes were starting to cross by the end. If you get one and it looks like I was drunk when I cut it, please do not think any less of me :) (Seriously, I didn't let any of those any where near the envelopes - I hope!) A big thank you goes to our friend Alissa who gave us the cute Love stickers to use to seal the envelopes. There was no way I was licking all of them!
Marcin was a huge help with stamping and labeling. He did attempt to help cut at one point, but I was having a heart attack over him not being the straightest cutter. I figured it was easier to be mad at myself if they looked bad than be mad at him! He did joke around at the end that his fingers hurt from all of the stamps he put on and I almost hit him with the scissors! Here are some pictures I snuck of Marcin helping.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The Inspiration
So I am definitely one of those girls who has dreamed about her wedding since I was a little girl. I used to think I would have a spring wedding because I LOVE PINK, but then a few years ago I started seeing more and more pictures of fall weddings and fell in love with the colors and flowers. In fact, it was this one wedding advertisement that I saw in a magazine that made me think that was it, that is the wedding I want!
So I ripped it out and put in a box. Yup, at the time I had no boyfriend and no prospects for getting married, so I just tucked it away and thought it would come in handy one day. A couple years later I came across it, and decided I seemed a little crazy for keeping it and threw it away. Then of course the day comes and Marcin proposes; the next morning I pulled out the box and started looking for that picture. After about ten minutes of pulling my room apart, I remembered throwing it away, I was so sad!
About a week later, my friend Anna at work brought in a bunch of old bridal magazines she was done with. I was so excited! So that night, I grabbed a glass of wine and started looking through them all. Marcin barely had a space to sit on the couch, because they were sprawled everywhere! I turned the page and there was the ad from a few years ago!!!! I started freaking out and Marcin once again thought I was crazy. I think there are going to be a lot of those moments between now and the wedding. As long as he can live with it :)
So here is my inspiration for my fall wedding:
(Picture courtesy of David's Bridal)
I'm still trying to work on my sister Kristy to get her to like the orange. And my mom told me a few weeks ago that my other sister, Beth's hair matches the dress too much! So I am working on Plan B because with orange flowers, that may be too much orange for the dresses. But the overall colors of the wedding will be brown and orange and I am really excited - I never knew so many brown and orange things existed out there!
So I ripped it out and put in a box. Yup, at the time I had no boyfriend and no prospects for getting married, so I just tucked it away and thought it would come in handy one day. A couple years later I came across it, and decided I seemed a little crazy for keeping it and threw it away. Then of course the day comes and Marcin proposes; the next morning I pulled out the box and started looking for that picture. After about ten minutes of pulling my room apart, I remembered throwing it away, I was so sad!
About a week later, my friend Anna at work brought in a bunch of old bridal magazines she was done with. I was so excited! So that night, I grabbed a glass of wine and started looking through them all. Marcin barely had a space to sit on the couch, because they were sprawled everywhere! I turned the page and there was the ad from a few years ago!!!! I started freaking out and Marcin once again thought I was crazy. I think there are going to be a lot of those moments between now and the wedding. As long as he can live with it :)
So here is my inspiration for my fall wedding:
(Picture courtesy of David's Bridal)
I'm still trying to work on my sister Kristy to get her to like the orange. And my mom told me a few weeks ago that my other sister, Beth's hair matches the dress too much! So I am working on Plan B because with orange flowers, that may be too much orange for the dresses. But the overall colors of the wedding will be brown and orange and I am really excited - I never knew so many brown and orange things existed out there!
Friday, November 6, 2009
1 year to go!!!
It's so weird to look at the countdown above and see there is only one year to go! These last 11 months since we got engaged have flown by, I can only imagine how the next year is going to go.
Good thing I have been busy with in the last year to get a lot of things off the to do list:
Venue - √
Photographer - √
Band - √
Dress - √
Florist - √
Save the dates - √
The save the dates were ordered on Tuesday and we hope to have them in the next week or so. I am so excited for them, they turned out great. A HUGE thank you goes to Michele, you know the bridesmaid who is a Yankees fan, (we won't even comment how the World Series ended - she and I will be friends again soon!) When Marcin and I were up in New York for her birthday she took some awesome pictures of us in Central Park. We are going to have engagement pictures taken with Sarah but we didnt want to do that until next spring at the beach. So we started thinking about the save the dates and realized we didnt have any pictures we liked for them. I knew Michele loves taking pictures, so it made perfect sense! Here is a teaser of our photoshoot
Good thing I have been busy with in the last year to get a lot of things off the to do list:
Venue - √
Photographer - √
Band - √
Dress - √
Florist - √
Save the dates - √
The save the dates were ordered on Tuesday and we hope to have them in the next week or so. I am so excited for them, they turned out great. A HUGE thank you goes to Michele, you know the bridesmaid who is a Yankees fan, (we won't even comment how the World Series ended - she and I will be friends again soon!) When Marcin and I were up in New York for her birthday she took some awesome pictures of us in Central Park. We are going to have engagement pictures taken with Sarah but we didnt want to do that until next spring at the beach. So we started thinking about the save the dates and realized we didnt have any pictures we liked for them. I knew Michele loves taking pictures, so it made perfect sense! Here is a teaser of our photoshoot
A BIG thank you goes to my parents who have been a huge help through this entire process and will continue to be so throughout the next year!
Marcin, I can't wait to be your wife! I hope the weather is as nice as it is today next year :-)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
I HATE SEPTA!!!!
OK, so this has nothing to do with the wedding or even Marcin, I just needed a venue to vent. My commute from Philly to SAP in Newtown Square usually takes about 50 minutes door to door. I got into my car this morning at 8:00 on the dot on Wallace Street, 2 blocks north of our apartment on Green St. (I have included a map below so you can feel my pain along with me!) Now I will admit, 8:00am is leaving a little late for me, so I expected it to take a little bit longer than usual. I pull out my parking spot and make it a block and a half where I am stopped for 10 minutes while all the parents drop off their kids to school because the kids can't take public transportation!!! Ok, light is green and I make it cross Spring Garden where I SIT FOR 40 MINUTES between callowhill and vine street. That is only 1 block apart from each other!!!! There city police directing traffic, but of course the block I am on, we have the cop who doesnt know how to direct traffic. He kept having cars already on Vine Street block 15th street when the light turned green! Oh and the city has a HUGE PROBLEM with syncing their lights. I have complained about this to Marcin for as long as we have been dating - when one light turns green and you think you will make it a couple blocks, the light on the next block turns red - someone really needs to look into this when the strike is over.
My commute went from 50 minutes to an hour and a half. This article explains the misery the entire city is feeling.
Can someone explain to me why SEPTA employees are being so selfish in this economy??? Can't they be happy they have a job at all? I heard Ed Rendell on the news the other night saying they offered the union a 10% increase in thier pensions and they turned it down! Even Ed Rendell said, whose pensions are being increased these days???
They better hurry up and fix this! At least I have a car and am driving out of the city; I can't even imagine what it's like for the people who use public transportation everyday. Marcin said all of the parking garages downtown were full - he almost didnt have a place to park!
Ok, I'm done - thanks for listening :)
My commute went from 50 minutes to an hour and a half. This article explains the misery the entire city is feeling.
Can someone explain to me why SEPTA employees are being so selfish in this economy??? Can't they be happy they have a job at all? I heard Ed Rendell on the news the other night saying they offered the union a 10% increase in thier pensions and they turned it down! Even Ed Rendell said, whose pensions are being increased these days???
They better hurry up and fix this! At least I have a car and am driving out of the city; I can't even imagine what it's like for the people who use public transportation everyday. Marcin said all of the parking garages downtown were full - he almost didnt have a place to park!
Ok, I'm done - thanks for listening :)
Monday, November 2, 2009
The Photographer is booked
Actually she has been booked for awhile now! As soon as Marcin and I got engaged there was no question who our photographer was going to be. Sarah Schulte photographed two friends weddings and I would occasionaly run into her at weddings where I was the Day of Coordinator. (insert shameless plug here to hire me as your day of coordinator!)
So just a couple weeks after I was engaged I emailed Sarah and told her to save the date for us! She emailed back and asked if I was open to bartering a little and having Marcin and I travel up to The Berkshires in Massachusetts to be her Day of Coordinator! Of course I said yes. Marcin and I love taking road trips together and neither one of us had ever been to the Berkshires. It was such a beautiful drive and yet one that included lots of little back roads. Good thing we had GPS, although one night it led us to a Mall Parking lot - Marcin blames me for that one since I was driving, I blame the GPS! We really had a great time with Sarah, John and their families and they have become good friends of ours throughout this.
This was one wedding that I worked that I didn't take pictures :-( I left my camera in the car and didn't have a chance to go get it. So here is a link to their photographer's blog post on their wedding. (Check out her orange shoes - love them!)
Sarah and John, thank you for having Marcin and I share your day and we look forward to having you spend ours with us!
So just a couple weeks after I was engaged I emailed Sarah and told her to save the date for us! She emailed back and asked if I was open to bartering a little and having Marcin and I travel up to The Berkshires in Massachusetts to be her Day of Coordinator! Of course I said yes. Marcin and I love taking road trips together and neither one of us had ever been to the Berkshires. It was such a beautiful drive and yet one that included lots of little back roads. Good thing we had GPS, although one night it led us to a Mall Parking lot - Marcin blames me for that one since I was driving, I blame the GPS! We really had a great time with Sarah, John and their families and they have become good friends of ours throughout this.
This was one wedding that I worked that I didn't take pictures :-( I left my camera in the car and didn't have a chance to go get it. So here is a link to their photographer's blog post on their wedding. (Check out her orange shoes - love them!)
Sarah and John, thank you for having Marcin and I share your day and we look forward to having you spend ours with us!
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