Excess Luggage

89 days

216 invited
50 attending
12 declined

RSVPs today:
-Matt's godparents, Doc & Natalie
-their daughter, Cait
-my friends from high school, Kevin and Sam

I found a UPS sticker on our door today that says we have two packages that couldn't be delivered. Of course, there was one buried on the table from Friday that Matt never told me about as well as a thin package. I opened it and it was a cute Mr. and Mrs. set of luggage tags from Target! That means that one of the big packages is our luggage! (My mom's friend Liz ordered it for the shower and had it shipped here instead.) I'm so excited to be getting it!! Here's a picture of the luggage we chose:

And here are the luggage tags:

I'm hoping that the other package is the rest of our centerpiece vases!!

Home for the Holidays

176 days

I'm back in the Berkshires at my parents' house. Matt is at his parents' house, but I'll see him tomorrow at my grandparents' Chirstmas Eve party. I'm really excited for Christmas even though there's barely any snow here and none in Rhode Island. (Thanks global warming.)

So now I'm waiting with my mom and siblings for my dad and gramma to get home with the pizza for dinner. We're going to play Sour Apples to Apples that I picked up at Target while we're waiting. (And talking to my aunt who never takes a breath or lets anyone get a word in edgewise.)

Right This Way

Matt and I have come up with an idea on how to display the escort cards at the reception! I originally wanted to use vintage 1920s frames that would match the decor of the hotel, but that would prove to be WAY out of our budget. So we took that idea and went in a slightly different direction.
We're going to use black collage frames (from Target and Walmart) and put in a mixture of 1920s photos and quotes. Each frame will be for a different grouping of our guests (family, college friends, work friends, etc.) and the quotes and pictures will correspond to theme. We will use glue dots to secure the escort cards (in envelopes) to the frames as well as labeling each with its group and logo.
I think it will make it easier for guests to find their escort card. Plus, we'll get to keep and use the frames after the reception!

Here are the frames:

Both of our families

Bride college friends

Groom college friends



Bride high school, Gap, work, and dance friends

Groom work friends

Carded

I went to Target today after work to grab the wrapping paper for the card box. First, though, I stopped at Michael's (of course) to get some more wire for my bouquet. I also found some nice silver wrapping paper that I picked up for the card box and the black glitter tape that I wanted to use on the table numbers. Here is our table number with the black glitter tape:

So then I went on over to Target and found the black wrapping paper with silver glitter Mr. and Mrs. all over it as well as some white wrapping paper and a HUGE silver bow for the top!
When I got home I wrapped the boxes, tops and bottoms separately, and now I have to wait until I get a retractable knife (that I meant to buy tonight) so I can cut the slit for the cards and the wholes in the tops so I can stack them all together.

I'm going to continue working on my bouquet now and perhaps put the vase labels on the vases, or at least on mine!

See Spot

Matt and I were wasting time today at Target and I stopped to look at the wrapping paper for our card box. I found some really pretty wedding paper that I'm definitely going to use. They had one that was black with white glitter Mr. and Mrs. all over it as well as a silver one with swirls and hearts. I'd like to use them both, the black and glitter one on the bottom, plain black on the middle, and the silver on top. I may have to buy them and see which way looks best, though. The boxes should be here tomorrow and I'll probably buy the paper later in the week, so it shouldn't be too long until it's completed!