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06/24/2008
 Flower Girl Dress Up close, front Ruth & Christie @ bridal shower Ruth in her dress!     |
Wedding Dress
UPDATE: I've added a picture of Ruth in her dress. It's a bit big, but as a growing girl, she may fit perfectly into it by the time the wedding comes around. She went shopping with Mom for shoes and was very excited to not only get wedding shoes, but a pair of Hannah Montana ones as well- yay for Payless BOGO.
I keep posting about this and it keeps not showing up. Let's try again! My cousin Ruth is my flower girl. We have struggled a bit with getting her a dress because she lives in Connecticut, my Mom lives in Vermont, and I live in Virginia. We wanted to be able to take her shopping for a dress so she wouldn't feel left out, but I think instead we are going to purchase this dress for her for my Mom to bring to her when she goes to visit for my other cousin's graduation. Then, while she's there, my Mom is going to bring Ruth shoe shopping so she can have the shopping/trying on experience that the older girls have had. http://www.mygirldress.com/elaflgidr.html |
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06/05/2008
 mason drinking jars |
Attendant Gifts!
Personalized mason drinking jars
I thought I already posted about these and where they came from, but maybe I forgot to hit save... or maybe the site was being a pain earlier. Hmm.
Anyways, these drinking jars for our attendants came in yesterday. We knew we wanted mug style glasses, but we went back and forth about what to get. Finally I found these. They are great because they don't "scream" beer drinking, which is good because some of our attendants aren't 21 (and other reasons). The best part is I got one for each of our 14 attendants, plus one for each of us, for the same price as just getting them for the boys from other places (which is what we were going to do if we got regular beer mugs). I ordered them from engravablesplus.com. They had them engraved and shipped them the day after I ordered them, so they got here really fast! The only downfall is they are a bit smaller than I anticipated, particularly the handle. They are advertised as 16 oz, and will hold a 12 oz beer with room to spare as Casey tested last night, but for grown men, the handle is a bit small. I still love how they came out though! The picture is from their website, but our engraving has the attendant's name, "title," and the date of the wedding centered in three lines. I'll try to post pics soon. |
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06/05/2008
 Casey's ring! |
The boy's ring!
Casey's ring came in yesterday. We had gone to Jared's last week to pick out our rings, but they only carry a size 10 in the tungsten rings, which is what he wants. Well, this is some comfort fit ring, so it ended up being a size 10, but the ones that were size 10 at the store were too small. So, we went online and looked around. We found this one at http://www.titaniumkay.com/. He helped pick it out and he really likes it. It only took two days for it to get here, which is awesome. And now that we know it fits, I'm sending it back for engraving. It got me really excited to see it on his finger- I can't wait for it to be permanent!
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06/05/2008
 finished pieces   |
Wedding Decoration
Matchboxes!
Wow, my Mom and her "assembly line" (which is really just my Grama, haha) have been busy. Last night they got together and finished the matchboxes that will be out on the tables. Part of the centerpiece is votive candles and instead of just throwing out regular matchboxes, they decorated them up a bit to go with the decor. They look great!
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06/02/2008
 finished wrapping stamping pieces on tablecloth      |
Wedding Decoration
Napkins!
My Mom and her assembly line worked on the napkins up in Vermont this weekend and she shared some pictures so I could see the process. The final product is simple, but beautiful, and I just love it.
Pieces: pool cardstock paper (papersource.com) flourish stamp (papersource.com) teal-ish ink pad (Michael's) tag punch (Michael's) aqua colored plastic flatware aqua ribbon (favorfrenzy.com) white napkins (Anichini- linen company my Mom works for... these are from their hospitality line.) wetnap Mom did the card punching and stamping, while my Grama did the wrapping of the flatware and wetnap into the napkins. Can't wait to see these on the tables! We were going to put on the tag that we were doing a donation rather than individual favors, but after seeing how much the napkins blend into the white tablecloths, we've decided to print the "in lieu of favors" note to our guests on pool paper to place under the napkins and help them to pop out on the table a bit more. Any added color is good for me! |
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04/09/2008
 Before- blah pool envelope. Tools for change. In progress. Finished product. Big paper cutter! Stamping at work. Test card. rsvp         |
Rubberstamp magic!
I wanted to add a little oomf to the invitation envelopes and I'm so happy with how they turned out.
Pieces: Pool envelopes from Paper Source Large flourish rubberstamp from Paper Source Teal colored ink (bought at Michael's) In order to get the half flourish on each side, I just put the envelopes side to side and stamped (as seen in third photo from left). It may seem obvious to do that, but I'm just glad I thought of it or this look would have been much harder to achieve! Haha. And I'm not amonogram/initial oriented person, but I do like how the curl on the stamp resembles a letter "C," which is fitting for a couple whose names are Casey and Christie! :) I'm also using the large flourish on the RSVP and Reception cards- same half print style. And I used the small version of the flourish stamp on the place cards. There are pictures of the place card process included here. I used a huge paper cutter at work (not just for these but for all my cutting!) to cut them to 5 x 2 1/4. The test card will obviously have nicer writing and it wont have a star- that was just to mark which one I liked best out of several lay outs. |
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04/09/2008
 Just out of the box! Three days later. Lucy checking them out. Vendela and sahara. Leonidas Bridesmaid bouquet test. Table top test.       |
DIY Flowers!
My flower ideas have changed a bit. I've stuck to wanting white roses for the bulk of the flowers. However, I've gone from using a mix of spray roses and regular size roses to regular size roses and hydrangea with stephanotis in my bouquet to just regular roses and baby's breath. The final decision is simple, but I love it and think it will be beautiful.
My Mom was visiting this past weekend and we ordered a test bunch of roses from a company called 2G - located at freshroses.com. We've been looking at places to buy flowers from directly and this company grows their own roses right here in the U.S.- across the country from me, but still in the U.S.! Again, my Mom was a little worried about the DIY part, but after receiving and playing with the test bunch, she wasn't worried anymore! The roses were beautiful! They were packaged nicely, they bloomed amazingly, and she ordered as soon as we decided what we needed. The pictures are of the roses after they arrived- still mostly closed- and three days later when we played with bouquet and centerpiece ideas. I was going to go with all white flowers for everything, but I fell in love with the leonidas colored rose- the reddish orange one- and have decided to do my bouquet in that color and have everything else be white. It's a good choice because it solves the problem of having a white bouquet blend into my dress. The bouquet is a bridesmaid bouquet test. The test bunch is 25 roses in a wide range of colors, as you can see, but the bridesmaid bouquets will be a total of 15 roses in a combination of vendela and sahara roses (third picture from left). They look a lot more yellow in the picture than they actually are. Vendela is an ivory/cream color and the sahara are a very pale peachy coral color. The centerpiece is the same roses from the bouquet. The white cloth is actually a napkin, but the tablecloths are exactly the same- just bigger of course. The pool colored square is an iridescent piece of 12X12 scrapbook paper. And of course there are the vase gems. We've also wrapped a strip of the white vellum paper used on the invitations and a strip of pool paper around the vase. |
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03/23/2008
 invite front invite back   |
Wedding Invitation
So, my Mom and I went to look at invitations we could order from a store. I had been wanting to do them ourselves, but Mom thought it would be a good idea to look at ordering before we took on that challenge. It turned out that our taste in order-able invitations was more than our budget would allow. With that in mind, Mom agreed that we could make them ourselves. I think that we are both very crafty when itcomes to paper-products, and plus this allows us to get exactly what I want. We searched around online and found the pieces and I put together a sample invite, seen in the photo. The workshop I went to at PaperSource was a big help, especially because I knew that I could go there to get quality papers that still weren't nearly as expensive as ordering pre-made invites.
The pieces of the invite are as follows: *The back card is from formal-invitations.com. It is the HandmadeTiffany Blue with Silk card. It adds great texture to the invite. The sash-like paper is from Paper Source. It is Filigree on Ivory vellum cut to around 2.5 inches. The top paper is also from Paper Source. It is text weight paper in the color pool. The ribbon which connects the back card and the pool paper together is from favorfrenzy.com. The color is aqua and the width is 1/4 inch. Note of advice from my Mom (who ordered the ribbon)- if you use favorfrenzy, use their Ebay store, not their regular website. She had some trouble with her order, but by using Ebay, you can elimate being taken advantage of. |
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03/23/2008
 girls |
Bridesmaids
Things are getting busy! Casey and I are in the process of purchasing our first place and we move in just a month. That is only in addition to the wedding stuff that's becoming necessary to get done. I'm under control, but things are getting more and more real every day in terms of getting things done!
The bridesmaids have all chosen dresses and most have ordered. It made me really excited to see them all in what they've chosen- almost more excited than I was in my own dress! Haha. They all chose a different dress- well, two chose the same dress, but one is the MOH and she is wearing a different color so it's kind of like it's different. Casey and I went and he picked out which tux the boys will be renting. We went with Men's Warehouse because they do accessories that match David's Bridal, plus they aren't too pricey. This is a picture I created on David's Bridal that shows all the bridesmaids' dresses. The one long dress will be shortened before the big day. She is actually going to be around 8 months pregnant, so she chose a dress with flowy fabric that fits over her belly, but that can be altered to a length more consistent with the other girls. I'm so glad everyone found something they really like! |
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01/23/2008
 wedding |
Wedding Party Attire
This is approximately what my wedding party will look like. My dress is not from David's Bridal, but the dress shown is similar. The maid of honor/best woman and the bridesmaids are wearing one each of the four styles I've chosen, with the best woman in oasis with a pool sash and the rest in pool with oasis sashes.
I like the groom in a black tux with ivory shirt and tie and the groomsman in black tuxes with ivory shirts and pool ties. |
chrisncase08
| 5 | years since wedding |
Christie
Casey
Aug 09, 2008
Tunbridge,
Vermont,
United States
United Church of South Royalton
Big White Tent
Bride's Parents' House
Bride's Parents' House
Janet Osha Miller
Blue
We live in Virginia, but are getting married in Vermont (which is where we are from), so we are planning long distance.
Goals: Simple and memorable.
Goals: Simple and memorable.
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