Mothers' Corsages

I wanted our moms' to wear something different than the hydrangea shoulder corsages so that they would be a little more distinguished and have something different than the rest of the other women that will be wearing corsages.  I decided to make them wrist corsages.  As you know, I'm not to big on all things cliche and run of the mill when it comes to wedding decor, so I found a simple little baby corsage and used it for my inspiration.  Here's what it looked like...

I liked the cream flower and the brown ribbon, and at first I had decided on a single flower.  But as I was playing around with the flowers and ribbon, I decided that 1 flower wasn't enough.  Here is what I came up with...

What do you think?  I incorporated strands of raffia to keep it consistent with the corsages and boutonnieres,  And I think the garden rose looking flowers go great with the theme!

Cupcake Plate

Instead of paying someone to make me a large cake, I've decided to take on the challenge myself and make a small 2 tiered cake for Justin and I to cut and then have cupcakes (italian cream cake with cream cheese icing! yum!) for the majority of the bridal cake.  Here is a sneak peek of the cupcake plates that I made.  This is the only one that is finished, but more soon to come!

I spray painted a bronze candle holder and glued a Corelle dinner plate on top.  There will be 2 tall candle holders with a dinner plate atop it and 2 short candle holders with salad plates atop.  The small cake stand will be in the middle and then 1 short and 1 tall cake plate will be on either side of the cake stand.  

Cake Topper

Oh, I love this!  It is so sweet!  It's a cake topper by Willow Tree.  We were gonna make a wooden cake topper...something cute and pretty.  But after seeing this I'm having second thoughts!  It's 6 inches tall and only $20 so I think it'll work for the small cake I'll have and our budget too!  And instead of the topper being kept in a memory chest some where, this one can be displayed out in the house.  So cute!

Invitations

I think we've decided on the style of the invitations.  It's going to be a cross between these two....

We're going to play around with it and see what we like, but for now, we are going to use the design on the top, but try smaller ovals and straight lines.  The background will be white or maybe ivory.  The lines will be the dark pink and light pink of the wedding with matching colored ovals.  We will left align the font, like the invite on the bottom.  I also like the font they used for the invites on the bottom.  The font color will be brown.  We will use the kraft paper envelopes like they have done in the pic on the bottom and I'm going to try to find those "love stamps" since they look so pretty and go so well with the decor of the wedding.  RSVP cards will have the same design and will also have a kraft paper return envelope (if I can find them).  I'm thinking that the inner envelope will match the card stock of the invitation.  What do you think? 

Once we play around with it, it may not look as great as what I have planned in my head.  If all else fails, we can make an almost exact replica of the one on the bottom and I'd be happy with that too!

Kitchen Stuff

Ok, so this is not about the wedding but I'm so excited about the stuff we have on the registry for our kitchen, I just have to share!  I was planning on doing the kitchen in red, black, white and tan but I've really been loving aqua blue for the kitchen too.  I found a way to incorporate all the colors where they will all blend nicely!  New colors for the kitchen are red, teal, yellow, black and white!  When we get a house, I really want a white kitchen so these colors are really going to pop!

These placemats go perfectly with the dishes.

The cane napkin rings are going to look great with the brown basket weave napkins.  We also have brown wicker placemates that these are going to look well with as well.

I'm going to attempt to make cute decorative towels to bring out the colors in the kitchen.  I'll make some out of the burlap from the reception or maybe even make some small wall decor.  Etsy.com is a great place to find other neat decorative hand towels.  That's where I found all these pictures for inspiration.

These glasses coordinate perfectly with the dishes.  We'll have  tea glass goblets for more formal dinners.

All these counter top accessories will bring in pops of color.  Most of it will be red and the yellow and blue will serve as accents.  All our appliances will be black and chrome.

These canvas bins are going to be great ways to store things like extra potholders.  

This teal rag rug will be glamorized with red and yellow fabric flowers much like the towels above.

Garden Buckets

I searched all over to find these flowers!  Seriously.  I had planned to do garden roses, peonys and hydrangeas but I was storing these small pink mums in the buckets one day and I thought that these were perfect.  I bought the 11 bushes that the Michael's in Denton had.  I had planned to buy out the Lewisville store too, but I ran in to  a slight road block.  They had none and the sales associate told me that the flowers were being discontinued due to it being a seasonal item.  Oh no!  I was in panic mode.  I started to call around to all the stores in the metroplex to hold any that they had in the store.  I had a huge feat in front of me; I needed 96 total bushes for these buckets!  But I was up to the challenge!  I called several stores without much luck.  A nice sales associate at the Plano store looked at the invoice list for each store and told me exactly who had some in stock.  That night I went to Frisco, Plano, Addison and Dallas to buy out their merchandise!  It was a long night (took me about 3 1/2 hours round trip) but now I have these beautiful buckets to hang from the pews at the wedding!  They will also serve as the reception table center pieces!

Boutonnieres

These have proven a little more work than the hydrangea corsages, but I've gotten 4 made so far.  The trick is to get the small daisies laying just right against the rose.  I think they have turned out well.  I like how I was able to incorporate the dark pink color and the daisies with the men (they will be wearing light pink ties).  Here are a few close up shots so you can see the detail and a shot pinned to the tux. 

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