Officially official

Now that this wedding is really happening, for reals, because the invitations have been sent out and I even watched someone open one because the US postal service is sometimes too quick, I've decided to share the final products with you. The invitation is actually not at all what I was envisioning when I first embarked on this quest to make my own, but I like what I came up with. We are getting married in a barn, after all, so I thought I would add a little bit of that to the invitations. Also, on each table at the reception, instead of table numbers, my dad is making custom table barn animals to direct our guests to their assigned table. All the more reason to carry the theme to our invites.

Save the Date

Invitation

RSVP

Each item was packed in a lovely shimmery brown envelope with custom labels made my yours truly, of sea foam green gingham. And I had to choose the King and Queen of Hearts stamps, which were fitting to the occasion and actually really pretty! Who knew stamps could be pretty?

Now I just have to make my wedding dress.....and fabric flower bouquet, and fun little bouttineers for the groomsmen. I've got some long nights ahead of me!

3 Months To Go?!?

WHAT? Are you serious? This can't be happening. I'm getting married in 3 months? I think I need to lay on the floor for a while. Oh wait, the floor smells like pee. Damn dog ruins everything. Too bad he's so darn cute.

Wow, the time has really started to fly. Now that I'm working more than full time (6 days a week, yuck) I have very limited time to finish up all this wedding planning nonsense, I really need to kick it into high gear! On the upside, I have all of our invitations and RSVPs printed and ready to go, just waiting on the stamps I had to re-order because I can't seem to count correctly. Oh, and when you ask someone for their address, don't expect it right away. For some reason friends and family find it very difficult to type out their address into an email or facebook message and click "send". I know, it's like a number, then some word you've probably never heard of before followed by some crazy abbreviation like "st" or "rd" or "ave" it's a wild world out there folks. And then you have to know what city you live in! And don't even get me started on the zip code, ohhhh the zip code. I'm getting a hernia just thinking about what my zip code might be.

I digress.

All complaints aside, I'm super excited for our wedding day. And to top it all off, my mom has agreed to play her guitar with her friend Elisabeth while we walk down the aisle. I'm probably going to burst in to tears as soon as I hear her play, but I'll try to hold it together. I told her to play whatever she wants, I know she's good so there's no use in me micromanaging. Now if I can just get the Sprains to play a song or two during the reception we'll all be having a great time! Gosh, I know so many talented people, I could probably get almost all of our guests to play a song for us! Wouldn't that be a treat!

While we're on the subject of music, somehow "Patience" by Guns n' Roses became our song, and we've asked our band to play it for our first dance. The song itself isn't even close to resembling my relationship with Jesse, we've been inseparable since the day we met, but we like the song anyway. And who can deny their love for Guns n' Roses?? Not me!