Celebration!

The wedding has finally come and gone! We had a fabulous time and I am so happy to be married to my best friend. I will be posting some pictures in the next couple days of finished projects from the wedding and reception! Gotta love a good crafty wedding!

Getting Rid of Stuff

So in the middle of everything getting extremely stressful with the up coming wedding I have decided that I need to de-clutter my life! Simplify things. Not that my life is horribly complicated, its more about getting rid of the extra stuff I don't need. What started my thoughts on this subject is our registry for the wedding.

After being together for 8 years we have accumulated a lot of stuff. Some of it has come from us buying things we have needed, other stuff has come from people handing down their old stuff to us. Putting together a registry of stuff to receive as presents is hard when you already have many of these items and many of these items you already have are in good to great condition. Yes some of it we are going to hand down, like it was handed down to us, but the rest is going into a garage sale.

After the wedding I will be getting rid of all our unneeded stuff. I have started separating many items and am finding stuff I never use anymore and stuff I have never used at all. Its time to release this stuff back into the world where it can hopefully be used by someone else.

I am hoping to that getting rid of stuff will add a level of clarity to my home and thus affect my life. Sometimes you just have to do it!

Invitations Done!

Thanks to our wonderful Bridal Party, we stuffed and addressed our invitations this past Saturday. They are now ready to be mailed out by this coming friday. As we were needing to save some money we went with something very simple in design, but it also matches the simplicity in our wedding.

We ordered out invitations from Michael's online design service MiDesign@MIchaels. It was very simple to use, very customizable and inexpensive. Of course you could get really creative and go with a more expensive design if you wanted. We would have liked to use a handmade artist for out invitations but the expensive was too much for our budget. If you have the room in your budget Go Handmade!

We also went inexpensive by not using a calligrapher for the addressing of our envelopes. We simply used the clear address labels available from Office Max. Very easy to use and we now have address labels we can use again in the future.

Along with printing out our own address labels, a couple months ago we ordered new return address labels from VistaPrint. Planning ahead (a very important thing to do!) we ordered them in our wedding colors, so that not only would we be able to use them on our current mail but we wouldn't have to order new ones for the wedding. It also saved us on the invitations since addressing the envelops on MiDesign cost a little bit extra.

I also learned today that we did not need to add extra postage to our envelopes because we took out the second envelop that usually is adding into the wedding invitations. Always check the weight of your invitations because anything that you add to your envelop adds weight and you don't want them to not get mailed!

Wedding 101: The New Way to Cake

New trends are always arriving in the world of weddings and I have to share the new trend that my fiance and I are working into our wedding. A friend of ours was at a wedding recently and told us about these cute little cake balls that were around at each table in lieu of having a large cake.

After reaching out to the bride who had these at her wedding only to find out that my fiance had gone to school with the new baker of the cake balls. Christina had changed her career path and was starting her adventure of starting her own business. As a huge supporter of small businesses, this was a no brainer.

These "cake balls" have a much better name: Cake Kisses! They come in a variety of different colors and flavors. We are selecting three flavors, with a plate made for each table in all three flavors. Not only will everyone get a chance to sample the cake but it is less likely for us to have wasted cake.

In putting together our wedding we are striving to keep on budget, be inventive and also to not be wasteful. These fit all three of these categories, plus they taste sooooooo good.

Here are Christina's Links:

Cake Kisses on Facebook
Cake Kisses Website

She also does small parties, events, and holiday themes!

Up Coming Wedding

Lately I have been very busy putting together my upcoming wedding. I am getting married to my wonderful fiance' on June 2nd 2012. We have a very tight budget and I think the stress of staying within it is making me crazy.

We are having our wedding at a hotel which takes up the majority of our budget. We could have rented a hall and spent less but we had a couple reasons in mind. First of all we have been to several weddings that have been hosted at hotels and enjoyed the fact that we could go back to our room after the wedding instead of having to drive home. Not having to drive home will allow some of our guest to relax a little more and would keep them from endangering themselves and other if they plan on drinking at our event.


The other main reason is that my family lives all over the place. They would have to find a hotel anyways, this way they can stay at the hotel for a great price and not have to worry about renting a car or other transportation.

To cut costs we are also having the ceremony and reception in the same place. This means, no need for a limo. It also cuts the cost of travel for our guest. A win win for sure!

Stay tuned for some more money saving ideas on planning a wedding as well as some other creative idea we are using that are upcoming trends in wedding planning.

Vacation Time

You may have noticed that I have been a little absent this past week and a half. This is due to my fiance and I having several days off which is extremely unusual. We work opposing schedules him monday thru friday 9-5 and myself retail which means working every weekend with my days off during the week. So basically we don't get to spend days together unless we request time off.


My fiance was off this whole week which was wonderful and meant we could spend some time working on our upcoming wedding! (Stay tuned to some upcoming post about how I am designing our wedding).


The main areas were accomplished was the cake and the music for the ceremony. I can't wait to share with you the vendors we have found for our wedding. So far they have been fabulous and have made things very stress free.


Another big event during this time period was my Birthday! Well my birthday wasn't really the big event, its what I received for my birthday. My fiance adopted a cat for my birthday!


Her name is Vavita and is an affectionate and playful 2 year old. I am so excited to have her join our family and you better believe there will be some upcoming posts on her!