Tying the knot

Today's journey in journalling is all about weddings!
  Oh how I love thee!  I need someone getting married to let me plan it for them, mmkay?!   I love everything about them--does it make me a big baby that I cry at every.single.one?
I already gabbed on about the blt wedding that was just about 15 months ago, but here are black and white shots I likey.

forget a limo, trolleys are the thing!

could he be anymore handsome, I am such a proud mama

check that backdrop, we made it!

and one in color, for good measure :)

random wedding deets: it was a movie theme--seriously, it rocked

my favorite things were the photobooth and the candy buffet--it doesn't get much better than goofy pics and sugar overload!

we (read I) did a lot of diy projects to save dough rei me--you can read about some if you click wedding on the side bar

we had over 225 guests on what many peeps spend on a 100-150 guest budget! 

Now you want me to plan your wedding, right?!  right?!  

Go check out prenda le stelle for more wedded fun!

s:)

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A few unique things

We are madly packing to move to our new house and I'm sure they all think I'm nuts to be blogging at a time like this!  It's just such a nice respite from the chaos!

Our Save-the-Dates!  

Since our wedding was a Hollywood/movie themed event we did a trailer DVD and sent them our with our Christmas cards--you can see a version of it here--don't know why the quality isn't so great--anybody know much about tweaking youtube videos? 

The pros--I liked putting it together

The cons--several peeps didn't watch it--they thought it was pics of the kids (wha?!)

Our engagement pics

I posted these all on fb, but I loved doing a movie themed shoot.  I like themes, even cheese-tastic ones :)

pros- I love them, the props, the vintage style/dress--it was fun

cons-not so much 

Post wedding pics

We did these with our awesome photographer Tami Martin (who took many of the pics you see 'round these parts)

this shot sooooo epitomizes our fam!

Thanks for playing along this week!  Who knew we'd go from this

to this!

life is a roller coaster sometimes, but it's surely interesting and educational!

s:)

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My sweets

I have a super awesome family!  

 

Love this seriousness :)

We danced to Michelle, My Belle--my dad sang to me the whole time (awww)

they danced to 'You've Got a Friend in Me'

The other kind of Sweets!

Our awesome cake, by BakerWee

Our Huge and tres Popular Candy Buffet

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I do projects!

I do I do, do you?  I heart projects!  With 3 kids and a wedding to plan I was definitely one of those 'champagne taste/Pabst blue ribbon budget' brides...

Even if I was having a platinum wedding though, I'd probably still do a lot of projects, love that personal touch.

 I made all of our invites.  We're talking over 150 here peeps!  Yowza it was a lot of work, sooo worth it though.

(so cute, one lady from my church thought you had to have the ticket to get in)

the invites were a pocket-fold style and the response postcard was the popcorn box.  I realize these aren't super detailed pics--got questions?  Lemme know!

I got many many ideas from the knot message boards--a popular hang out for brides-to-be, it's a wealth of info wrapped up in a message board format!  

These pomanders are made based on Martha Stewart's instructions for tissue paper flowers

We made soooo many (wouldn't do it again) but I've made lots of the type you hang from ceilings since-insert random non-wedding pic

I also made activity books and crayons that spelled love and our wedding date--freakishly too much time on my hands

but I love kids, had my own 3 kids at the nuptials, so why not?!  We also put together these rockin' 'fun packs' for each kid at the reception (like 25) and I have no pics-boo.

Each table had its own movie theme (the whole thing was a movie theme-sorry I didn't mention this)

We chose all of our favorite romantic movies for our tables (I let the hubs help a little with these choices-no Steven Seagal allowed!)

One of my favorite things to put together was our centerpieces--ah the beauts!  

Isn't it gorg!  Ahh, so many ostriches pitched in to make our day a success!  Tomorrow we'll analyze some of the other players!

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Pre-Wedding pics

I have a thing for shoes.  Not an Imelda Marcos thing, but I like pics of feet (not a fetish thing either ya dirty bird :))

Seriously, how can you not love shoes!?

My older daughter's awesome chucky t's

My little one's awesome 'stilettos'--good thing she was only crawling then

one of the benefits of having a dude in your bridal party

Don't you just love a pop of red underneath the dress!

Good lookin' reflection!

Somebody was soooo nervous that someone else had to help with the dressing!  Goofy!

I, on the other hand, was completely relaxed...

Here I am surfing to the big event!

All images (minus above silliness on the trolley) are from Tami Martin Photography! Love her!

Wow this is a lot of pics!  Tomorrow let's talk projects shall we?

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