March...

I feel like this month has flown by insanely fast. My birthday came and went (wait, it was my birthday?) the bridal fair is finally done, our house is clean (yes, finally, after living here for as long as we have we have a clean house) and things are finally calming down..well, ok, not really calming down but at least we arent stressing about the fair.

This month has kind of flown by in a big blur...I can't really remember anything except the fair.

Last weekend we went to visit my mom and sisters. That was nice, since it's been a really long time since getting to see them. Even though my mom was just getting over being sick, it was still nice to see them even if it was only for a day.

The weather is so nice out this week, it's so great to be able to have the windows open and have fresh air in the house. So nice. I wish it would stay like this all year long and not become so insanely hot like it's going to!

Bridal Fair!!!

Alrighty! I've finally gotten caught up from the bridal fair last weekend. I've spent the past week emailing all of our amazing brides from the fair and setting up meetings and consults with everyone- it's been alot of work but we are so excited from the response we have been getting!

I'm finally able to post some pictures from our fair setup- we are SO happy with how it ended up. I have to admit that it was ALOT more work than we originally anticipated, but everything turned out great and we are so happy with the final setup. We had some help from some great friends here in town and everything went off better than we could have hoped. We were incredibly sore on Sunday and could barely walk- but it was definitely worth it!

Forgive me, most all of these pictures were taken with my little handheld, non-pro camera. There was so much going on it was much easier to just whip out this little guy and take pictures then setup the big baby! So alot are blurry- we were working fast and I apologize!

Everything is inside!

Walls are going up!

Walls! We got help from Darryl and Ryan from the station, without them we would have had a REALLY hard time putting them up!

Putting up the logo! The printing place we used was very disappointing and printed the wrong colors...actually reversed them...but there wasnt enough time to fix them! Oh well, I dont think many noticed...

Hanging the canvases! They looked so great!

The FINAL setup!!! We are so happy it looked so great!

We loved these chairs!! They were exactly what we were looking for. And the zebra chest was AMAZING!!!

Our giveaway table

Our favorite album! It was so big! I was SO happy with how the silver snakeskin turned out!

We are so happy with how everything turned out and the great response we had! :D All of the hard work was worth it and we can't wait for the next one and for all of the great bride's weddings we have coming up!

Bridal Fair Planning...Adam With Tools!

As promised, pictures from the last few months of bridal fair setup! All of the months of stress and everything leading up to it were worth it. We decided to keep everything under wraps until the Big Reveal at the fair because we really wanted everything to be a surprise. Alot of the decorative things and the overall design for the fair has actually been in the works since last March- we've been picking up things here and there (zebra chair! That was one of our first purchases that we sort of based the theme around!) and it all came together. Adam built our walls on a nice weekend and although we had alot of troubles with them, in the end they looked great!

This was one of the happiest days!!! Aside from the day the canvases came (I think the Fed Ex man was outside for literally 20 minutes carrying in all of the boxes!) this was the BEST day! I came home to these- our albums!!!! Apparently our cat, Minnie, was just as excited as I was to see what's inside!

One of our albums- the packaging was so cool! This was the first major order we placed with this company after going back and forth between many others over the past year. We finally took a chance on them after liking their variety and we couldnt be happier!

Our massive 8x20 flipbook album!

One of our other great albums!

Another awesome day!! Prints arrived!!!

We spent MANY days here over the past year....many trips back and forth for this and that....I think they knew us by name at the end!

And many trips with this handy guy! Ha, this is what happens when you have very small cars! Good thing we lived close!

Starting the wall building process! We used so many of these screws!

My amazing and handy Husband!!

He did such an incredible job!!

These are just some of the MANY many pictures I collected over our building/planning/designing process. I took pictures of EVERY item-- I think I was a bit camera happy with every new purchase and every new box that arrived. Haha, I wont bore everyone with EVERY picture, but these are some of my favorites.

Luckily we wont have to go through this huge process for the next fair this fall. We are really happy though with all of the work and everything came together perfectly, despite my negativity that it wouldnt! :D