Weekend Plans and Disappointments

The end of the week. AT LAST!

Tonight we have practice at church. Chayce will be spending the night with my parents, then tomorrow morning when I pick him up I'm taking him and my sister to the movies.

This weekend begins Week 1 of the Free Summer Movies at our local theatre and they're kicking off the summer with an old classic.

The Wizard of Oz!

Not only is it mine and my sister's FAVORITE movie of alltime, but Chayce has never seen it. So I think it'll be quite fun.

On another note, I think my husband will kill me today. I did another mock-up centerpiece and I think I like this one best of all, so all the dried branches we've had stored in our garage the past YEAR will NOT be put to use (only a small portion of them will). We will still use Crystal Trees for church decorations. But I'm pretty much sold on the most recent idea.

A bit disappointed today that the Magic lost to the Cavs last night. LAME. I was hoping it would be the end last night.

Pray for redemption at Game 6.

GO MAGIC!

Thankful Thursday

1. The Rose Dress Website

2. Weddingbycolor.com

3. Capri Sun 100% Juice:
They FINALLY went to the healthy side!
I only buy 100% juice for Chayce,
so I'm excited to see how he likes this.

4. Bryers YoCrunch: With M&M's
I just started buying these to give to Chayce as a special reward treat
for earning a certain amount of stickers on his chore/award chart. Yum!

Wedding Blogging

No more congesting my original blog with the wedding chatter. I've created a new blog today just for all things wedding. So if you are curious about how things are coming along, feel free to check out my Wedding Blog! The link will also be posted on the Sidebar of this blog along with my other fave links. ------>

www.weddingbycolor.com/arose4me7305

Thanks!

Centerpieces: TAKE 2

Changes Made:

1. Added clear marbles/pebbles to vase.

2. Painted branches glossy silver

3. Added lights to the vase.

4. Sprinkled gems on table.

5. Eliminated candles for now. We MAY try and find yellow LED lights instead of the true white. Still debating.

RESULT:

(Flash On)

(Flash Off)

Close-up of Gemstones... I seriously am in love with this photo <3

Wedding favors & centerpieces

These favors were SO time consuming! I printed the monograms out yesterday and it took about an hour to print them and put them on the tins. (There's 90 favors) Then today I bought 90 yards of ribbon (YIKES) and tied ribbon around all of them! But I think it was worth the 5 hours of my time. I love them. They will be filled with black and white M&M's (We're buying them by the color... or wedding colors are black, white and red)

We did a mock-up of our centerpieces. I'm glad we did because I learned a lot doing it! Like:

1. I don't like the black branches. We'll be trying silver next to see how it looks.

2. I don't think i'll fill them with sand, but with glass rocks.

3. We may also put a small light in the bottom of each vase with the rocks, so the vases light up!

So the next mock up will be with the rocks, lights and silver branches. Photos will be posted of course! Jon handmade the crystal strings. I'm proud of him!

Bad Blogger = Busy Bee

I've been on the go, non-stop, since Thursday.

Chayce went to my in-laws for a few days so Jon and I took that opportunity to jump on the wedding planning some more. We picked our wedding bands, bought the favors, assembled them (halfway.... didn't put the candy in yet obviously. But got our monograms on them!), Jon tried on tuxes, we're still looking at Bridesmaids gowns (I know, this is my HARDEST decision to make, which is why I'm STILL not 100% decided) too, touched base with the hair and nail salons.... I bought the pen for the guestbook table, the table markers for the reception.

Next week we're booking the venue, DJ and paying the florist. Jon's buying my ring tomorrow and I'm getting him his for Father's Day.

Check. Check. And... Check!

Think that's busy? Try adding a 4 year old's birthday party to the mix! Yep! We got his invitations printed yesterday. Got them sealed up, address labels printed and ready to go today. Mailing them out Tuesday. Still doing the carnival themed party. So we stopped at a few places to price out bounce houses, popcorn machines and all that fun jazz.

Next Saturday we're going to HOPEFULLY make our final choices on the wedding party attire, then Sunday there's a Bridal Show here at the Crowne Plaza Oceanfront. So I will be going to that with one of my bridesmaids and maybe a few other friends that are part of the wedding (the flowergirl's mom and my coordinator).

I sprung out a change on Jon and told him I'm switching up our centerpieces... SLIGHTLY! Instead of doing the bare brances with hanging votives like this:

...I want to do Crystal Trees!

Everything is by candlelight. So... our crystal trees won't be in those tacky vases, ours will be in glass Eiffel Tower vases. Then on the table will be tons of tealight candles. I think the crystal trees would illuminate the light MUCH better and we'd get more lighting this way. So our tables will look like the top photo, but the trees will look like the bottom (just in prettier vases). The eiffel tower vases I want are I *think* 18 or 24 inches. So our centerpieces will be TALL!

Just a small change in plans that I think would be best for the lighting effects.

So it will be a tree like this:

In this vase:

FINGERS CROSSED!

Told you all we've been busy!

Lifetime: "Do You Know Me?"

Actress Rachelle LeFevre (most popular from the movie Twilight) starred in a Lifetime movie (it premiered Sunday night). I DVR'd it and just watched it last night....

BEST LIFETIME MOVIE I'VE SEEN!

The plot points were genius. It had a better storyline than most movies on the silver screen. It wasn't like any other made-for-TV-movie I've seen and I highly reccomend it.

Hey! Even my husband loved it. He was glued to it. So if you hear it advertised, be quick to DVR or watch it.

"Do You Know Me?" on Lifetime