Saturday, 19 January, 2008

133 Days to go till the wedding

So I decided to make a lot of things at home, some things my bridesmaids can help with and others like sewing my dress, I plan to do on my own.

Here's an update on what's happening

Wedding Dress - 30% complete

Flower Girl Dress - haven't started just picked the pattern

Ring Pillow - decided not to have a ring bearer

Bridesmaid jewellery - have some ideas in my head, nothing made yet

Bridesmaid handbags - bought the fabric, next step is to design the pattern

Invitations - bought the supplies and I'm going to start making them next weekend with help. I only have to make 50, not too bad

Programs - have the outside paper and the ribbon

Favors - decided we're going to make jam, probably raspberry, strawberry and peach our favourites. They are also going to double up as place card for the tables

Cake Design - i ordered a Styrofoam cake on eBay and got it last week, it's going to be simple white cake with blue gross grain ribbon that matches the ribbon on the invites and bouquets. My friend is a bake and she is going to help me cover it with fake icing or plaster.

Cake Topper - not sure about this yet


New handmade items on my list:
Chuppah - I've narrowed it down to hand painted silk with 2 trees to represent the joining of 2 families or a blue crocheted chuppah to match my colours.


Veil - I'm using my mom's veil because it's still in good condition after 34 years, I'm just going to add some pewter coloured ribbon to match my sash.

Table Numbers - we wanted lots of photos of us around so we've decided to combine 2 ideas into 1 and were going to have pictures of us at different ages that match the table number ie. table 10 will have pics of us at age 10.

Bridesmaids sashes - I'm allowing the girls to where whatever dress they want as long as it's black, has a defined waist and complements their body type. I don't want to make them buy a lime green dress at $300 that they may never wear again so I'm going to make blue sashes for them.

That's it for now, once I have more complete I will post some pics.
jtt

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