Wedding Pictures

So this time last year, this was a blog about my wedding planning experience.  By May, I was so busy, I was unable to keep up my blog posts.

Before I transition to a regular blog of my family, I thought that I would post some pictures from the big day!

June 4, 2011 - Our Wedding Day

Quick Update on Another Diva Moment

Diva Dustin just changed the cake icing back to butter cream.  So it is a red velvet cake, with butter cream icing.

Our (Hopefully) Delicious Cake

It's a lucky thing that I waited to do a blog on this one, because Dustin was a diva and changed his mind last weekend. ;-)

SO!  There are a couple of things that Dustin wanted to decided. 1. Music 2. Cake.  I was 100% okay with him choosing the cake flavors, as long as I approved, but I would get to do the cake design.

At first it was just a straight white cake with white butter cream frosting.  However, we attended a wedding and their cake had a hint of lemon in it.  Dustin HATES lemon.  So he wanted to make sure there was no chance of that happening - hence the change.

OUR NEW CAKE!  We are going to have a red velvet cake with a cream-cheese based icing.  It is going to be a round stacked cake.  At the bottom of each tear, there will be pearls made from icing.  Cascading up the cake will be purple freesias.

DELICIOUS!  I'm so excited.

Our groom's cake will be a grooms brownie.  We love our brownies. :D

Here is where my questions/concerns are.  I am not sure if the cake stand set up is included, and if we should go ahead and get the serve-ware (even if I don't care if we have a formal one).  SO.....

• What was your cake like?
• What did you do for the cake stand and serve-ware?

The Musical-Feast for the Wedding

Music is a big influence in both Dustin and my life.  We wanted the wedding for the music to be different from the typical wedding music (no "Here comes the bride").  Our wedding theme is romantic, so our music mainly from the romantic era.

Dustin's musical life has always been about the saxophone.  I have always fantasized about a string quartet.    Neither of us was happy with the other.  SO we had to compromise!  Piano makes us both happy, so we are going to have a pianist (Dr. Adams, a piano professor from WCU) and a vocal soloist (Courtney Umphlett, an SAI sister).  Done!

Dustin was in charge of choosing music, but he couldn't seem to decide.  We spent MONTHS picking this out, so I hope you enjoy.  Feel free to look up some of the music on youtube!


Prelude:

• Dawn - Marianelli (From Pride and Prejudice)
• Humorersque, Op.101, No. 7 - Dvorak
• Waltz in Ab Major, Op. 35 - Brahms
• The Maiden's Prayer - Badarzweska
• Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 62 - Mendelssohn
• Wedding Day at Troldhaugen - Grieg

Seating of Families & Wedding Processional: Clair de Lune - Debussy

Entrance of the Bride: Meditation from Thais - Massenet

Song during the ceremony: Wedding Song (There is Love) - Stookey

Recessional: Polonaise No. 3, Op. 40 - Chopin

What was the music for your wedding like???

Flowers Make Everything Better

Flowers are an important part to the decor of the wedding!  Our wedding theme is romantic.  Our music is all from the romantic era, and we are using candles EVERYWHERE! (My church has over 200 votive candles we can use :D).

The florist is a vendor that you should look for early on.  It's important to price compare.  Honestly, it is the most expensive part of my wedding, and we are trying to not have too many.  Luckily our florist is the head of the decorating/flower committee at my church.  She is familiar with the venue, and I believe will do a great job!

Now to the fun part!  Our flowers for our wedding.

My bouquet is mainly going to be sweet peas. Hopefully it will look exactly like this!

The bridesmaids and junior bridesmaids will have white calla lilies bouquets, smaller than this.

The boutonnieres are going to be made out of picasso calla lilies (pictured below) and green hydrangea.  The mothers and grandmothers will have a mini-bouquet with picasso calla lilies and other assorted flowers.

In my hair, there are going to be two purple lisianthus.

We are going to have hurricane glass candles with ivy in the stain glass windows.  There will also be a flower arrangement display in the entryway and loose flowers in the church choir loft area where it will be filled with candles.

Our centerpieces will be simple and have purple orchids in square vases (and candles).  Not sure the type of orchid though.

Finally, our cake will have purple freesias.

WHEW!  I think that's pretty much it!  Flowers/design can be a very complicated area of the wedding!

What did/will your flowers (especially the bouquet) look like!?!

Wedding Invitations are OFFICIALLY in the Mail!

If you've been following my blog, you see that Dustin and I have been working furiously on our wedding invitations.  It was a very tedious process (especially if you have 175 invitations going out to over 250 people).

First I had to tie ribbons on all of them.

Then we included labels with our registry, and printed labels for the addresses.  We wrote names in the inner envelopes, included RSVP cards, and put the addresses on the outer envelopes.  Not to mention hand writing the names on the extra invites our parents came up with.

Then Dustin worked really had to put wax seals on the outside.

Finally, we bought stamps and placed them on the envelopes!  They were all in the mail by March 5!

All of the hours of hard work was worth it!  Can't wait to hear back from some people.

Finally my tips:

• Make sure to allot time for the work of putting the invites together.
• Order extra invitations for the people you forget to invite.
• Go to the post office and have your invitations weighed to make sure you have to correct postage (especially if there's a bunch of extra stuff on it!).
• When budgeting the cost of your invitations, remember to include the cost of postage!