Wedding Creations

I took a look at my blog today and realized I have not written anything since January!!! Quick catch up on what's been going on I became and aunt and got engaged :-) Me and my fiance celebrated our 3 yr anniversary in April and that is when he asked me to marry him. Planning this wedding has been very interesting to say the least... I love planning events for other people and get told all the time I'm great at it but so far with planning my own wedding my favorite part is the stuff I have creating myself without any help or when me and Adam and decide on different aspects we want in the wedding (example: songs, cake topper, cake design, location) and not having 20 million people telling us what we want and us picking things ourselves.

Wedding Creations

Theme: Rustic Night Sky w/ Butterflies as an accent (butterflies stand for hope)
Colors: Ombre effect of blues and silver

Different things I have made (I will be adding them as I get them done)

Grooms Boutonniere's: So Adam wanted something different then the rest of the boys. Today I made his. I wanted to wait until I got my bouquet done first. He went to Hobby Lobby with me yesterday and he actually picked out the flowers he wanted me to use.

 

I have posted this item in my Etsy shop also. Please go check it out.

Groomsmen Boutonniere's: It was very hard to find cute blue boutonniere's as an inspiration.

I found the navy blue flower at Hobby Lobby and the pearl gems at Michael's or Hobby Lobby depending on the style you like. 

 I also got some extra leaves since I didn't care for the 2 blue leaves that were already on the flower. These were really easy to make but if ur not crafty or don't have the time I am selling them in my Etsy Shop.

Corsages: I made the corsages for the grandmas and my godmother. Again most of this stuff was from hobby lobby. Since it's for the gma's we decided to make these the pin kind of corsages so the wrist band doesn't bug them. I decided to buy the mom's corsages off of were else.... Etsy. Speaking of Etsy yes I am putting these up for sale also. We also, picked white since we don't know what color outfits they would be wearing.

Side views

Top and Bottom View

Card Box: Ok so I didn't 100% make this... The box itself I bought at Hobby Lobby. But we had to figure out a way to secure the cards in just incase heaven forbid someone tried to take them. My fiance (I love saying that!) got some cardboard and helped cut it up while I did all the decorating of course lol (although he did give me the idea...)

I'll be honest I wasn't 100% sure how I was liking it while decorating it.... I'm still working on it when I am done I will add a picture of the finished project.

 

Final product (I will try to get a better picture up after the wedding)

Center Pieces: Since we have the rustic theme going on not all the tables will have the exact same centerpieces.... Once I have all the centerpieces made I will take a picture of the different set ups we have ;-)

Front and Back View of 9 out of a bunch of Mason Jars

(I am debating of adding these to my etsy shop I have to see how much it cost me to make. If I do I will make sure I put a link on her to the listing.)

Programs: I love our program booklets but my hands got so soar after using a single whole punch on them and the game booklets. 

Cover Page 

Ceremony Page (I wanted this page to be funny and I was stuck figuring out the wording but then I got inspiration from my cousins wedding program).

Wedding Party Page

All the important people in our lives including the people who have passed away. 

Our Special Message to those important people and our guests.

The list of songs we will be dancing to at our wedding reception. 

Game Books: I wanted something for the people who didn't want to dance to do. I decided to create a game booklet. Adam's mom found these really cool pencils at TJMaxx that look like tree bark for the game books and since I made two coloring pages for the kids I bought some crayons. I also used one of the baskets I got for free from kohl's (I ordered one basket in a large and got two of each size baskets lol kohl's made a little mistake but it was a huge gain for me bc we are using a few of them for the wedding.) for the fame return location. Ok so this booklet turned out to be more of a game/activity book. 

Thank You Cards & Gifts:

Flowers: We have all the bridesmaids and honorary bridesmaids flowers done!!! WOOOHOOOO!!! They turned out super pretty and different than I originally planned but I still love them. They are rustic but I added my little touch of bling to them (always have to have bling lol). 

My bouquet is done!!!! So I have never made a cascading bouquet before but there is a first time for everything right? Adam's idea was to get extra styrofoam balls which was a good idea I messed up on the first one but luckly it was right away so I didn't have to take to much apart. After my mistake it pretty much fell in place. 

Please forgive the mess on the floor I haven't had a chance to clean up from making the flowers yet when I took the pictures. 

My mom did take pictures of me working on these but since I am a little sick today I don't look to good in them and will not be posting them lol sorry. 

*So my mom showed the girls at her work a picture of my bouquet and they all said I should make them and sell them.... I have decided after the wedding and all the holidays I will start working on this project. I'm not sure if I will be able to make blue bouquets like mine since I got some of my flowers from my cousins wife. She doesn't remember where she got them from because she has had them for about three years.

Favors: Everyone who knows me knows I love to bake (even though I haven't had a chance to bake a lot lately lol) I have decided to make homemade cookies for our favors... 

                 Our favor bags and tags 

Not only did I use Etsy to put things for other people to buy during this wedding planning process but also bought a lot of stuff from this site. Examples: thank you gifts, my necklace, my mom even ordered my bridal bag and some other things. 

Hair: I felt horrible because I went through three hair trials (luckly its a friend who did my hair and she didn't charge me for the trials) before deciding on one. I use to always be a hair up girl and I didn't notice the past few years I have started to turn into a hair down girl. So the first two where with my hair up and I liked them but the more I looked at them afterwards the more I didn't think they were me. Then after talking to Adam he told me "I like your hair down and curly best." I have decided to try a hair down and then since I am inviting my friend to our wedding after all the dances and special things like that she can help me pull it in a cute pony tail for while I dance the night away.