save the dates-first DIY!

Last night Adam and I had our first experience with DIY projects for the wedding. I spent most of the day playing around in Photoshop while Adam was watching a movie and I started playing around with an idea for our Save the Dates. After a few hours and many retrys, I finally had a scheme in mind and ended up really liking the end result. Adam liked it alot, and since we aren't going to be able to have our pictures back in time to use one of those and we really need to get them out in the next week, we just decided to roll with these. Granted I'm not a graphic designer, but I think they turned out pretty cool, I printed a sample and found the right paper, and am actually impressed with the end result.

So I drug Adam out to the store to buy the rest of the paper, and then he promised to go to Kinkos to help me cut the paper down to size if I would go with him to see Star Trek... I figured it was an even trade, so we bought our movie tickets, and in the 2 1/2 hour wait time, went to Kinkos and had fun cutting time! This is just the first cut time, to make the paper smaller. The detailed time will come after they are printed, probably next weekend. Anyways, here are a few pictures of our first DIY project! I'm so excited!!

He insisted that if I was in charge of cutting I would mess them up...so I was in charge of handing him the paper!

Paper goodness! I dont usually shop at Archivers, but I had an amazing coupon!! It's not a super fancy paper, but it is textured, so it gives it the look I was going for..

The finished stack!!

Thankfully I have a pro printer so I can print them myself. It may use a bunch of ink, but I like the fact that I get to make them! I can't wait to start printing!

rainy backups

Since we are having an outdoor wedding there is always that lovely possibility that it will rain. We are going to hope and hope and hope that it's a bright sunny day, but in the event that it's less than ideal, we have to come up with a backup location. Since our ceremony place is just a piece of land, our only option for a backup is a tent. Now, we really arent too keen on having our ceremony take place in a tent, but I have been collecting tent pictures so that in the event of weather we have a way that we'd like the tent to be decorated to take away from the fact that we are saying our vows in a plastic circus tent.




Obviously these are just a couple and I need to find more, since these are just from receptions and not a ceremony...but it's all I can find right now, and you get the idea!

pretty

I really like this centerpiece. I keep hounding my mom to start making them so I can post pictures!! I'm excited, because I know they are going to turn out so nice.

pictures!!!

I am so excited! Christina posted our engagement pics a couple days ago and they turned out soooo well! We are so excited and lucky that we found someone like her to take our pictures. We now just need to be able to take some time to sit down and look through them all for our favorites! Things are just so crazy right now, it seems like all I have been doing is weddings and looking for a house lately! Hopefully things will calm down a bit soon and we will get a chance to sit down together soon to pull out our faves. We really need to get our Save the Dates out soon!

engagement pictures accomplished!

Wedding planning has started to become a bit more stressful. I think it is because I realized today that we are less than 6 months from the big day, and we have very little planned.

But a good thing, back on Sunday Adam and I had the chance (finally, after over a year of waiting!) to get our engagement pictures done! We knew we wanted the pictures done in KC, mainly because we live here, but also because there are some really, really neat places to get them done here. So after many, many days of searching, we finally decided on Sandberg Photography to do our pictures. Christina is super talented, and I love love love her editing style and use of textures. She also takes absolutely incredible pictures of children!

She and her husband took us down to the West Bottoms on Sunday and we really had a fun time finding neat places to take pictures. She had some really fun ideas, and it was an entirely different experience being on the other side of the camera for once. Adam wasnt too thrilled about having his picture taken, but in the end he admitted that it wasnt as bad as he thought. But I do admit it was a bit strange being the one photographed instead of taking the pictures! Now I know what everyone is going through when they say they feel awkward. ;)

But the shoot went really well I think, and I cannot wait to see Christina's pictures. She posted a couple on her blog last night, and I LOVE them so far. It makes me very excited to see the rest, especially because even though I love taking pictures, I'm really not photogenic whatsoever. Hence why my talent lies behind the lens and not in front :). But keep checking her blog in the coming days, she'll have more teasers as well as a little "Spotlight" interview type deal she did with me about my business!