DIY Wedding...

I want our wedding to be unique. I want it to be elegant with a hand-touched feel. I want to DIY at least something for our wedding.

I'm thinking of doing my own table overlays to put on top of grey tablecloths. Check out Mother Martha's  goregous examples:

photo courtesy of marthastewartweddings.com

I also found this image on Pinterest that after some searching seems to come from the Etsy shop FantasyVintageBridal. 

pinterest picture on WeddingBee forum but apparently custom order from  FantasyVintageBridal on Etsy.

another from FantasyVintageBridal

I will also be tackling my own flowers. Luckily this means bouquets and boutonnieres and limited centerpiece items since Laurel Manor supplies beautiful flower-less centerpieces. 

I'll probably also tackle a project for each of our bridal party members but I'm not going to mention it here yet as maybe two of them regularly check out my blog and I don't want to ruin the surprise :)

I think I'll limit it to that. Well the big one I guess is my sister is making my dress! But that's primarily here (thank you sister!!)

Look at me go now!

I clearly had a lot of downtown at work today with all of my posts! Really I just wanted to put a link up to our wedding website for anyone trying to find it! Here it is:

http://FeistAndTodero.ourwedding.com

Also, we have booked our ceremony location! Helloooo, Farmington Civic Theater, glad you worked out and that we can say our "I do's" with you!

Don't have to...

A Reminder

Bursting

Ever felt so overwhelmingly happy that you think your heart might explode? So overcome with excitement you can actually feel the energy moving through your body? Your heart pounding with joy as though a marching band is thumping out a cadence?

This is how I've felt for days on end.

It's pretty damn wonderful.

Location, location, location.

Turns out that where you locate yourself is not only important in home buying, but also in planning a wedding. During the four short weeks we have been engaged, Vince and I have struggled with the location for our nuptials. First was the debate between a local for us wedding or one that cuts down my Iowa family's drive time. I thought for sure I would be getting married in southwest Michigan at a rustic location. However, after an unprofessional meeting with a venue and several unreturned catering inquiry calls, we went with a local venue that is elegant and classic ans beautiful location. Not what I dreamed and envisioned. But I am in love with the service and price and everything about Laurel Manor and my vision has changed now.

Then it was about the location of our ceremony itself. I didn't love the pricetag of doing our ceremony at LM ($900 for the site only, Ouch!) and I also didn't want to be at the same place all day. I against my better judgement started perusing churches even though I've thought and told everyone I didn't want a church ceremony for months. But that's what you do when you get married, right? Wrong! Not if it doesn't feel right to you. As luck would have it.Vince's family church is unavailable and everywhere else OS astronomically priced so again I searched...

Now nothing is confirmed and I don't want to jinx it before it can happen for real but let me tell you, I am excited! Giddy even about this possibility. Let's all hope that it works out.

Fingers crossed!

As I said in my last post, we recently asked our friends and family to stand up for us on our big day. My baby brother will be standing up for us and we Skyped with him to ask since he was at school in Missouri at that time, though he is now home in Oskaloosa for the summer. He has his own personal musings blog and this is what he wrote our upcoming nuptials:

"Today, I got asked to be a groomsman at my sisters wedding! I am super pumped that she is getting married to a great guy! November 10th, remind me to mark that day down, as it is when the wedding will take place!"

My family is not great at communicating our feelings with one another, though as us kids have become adults we've gotten better. Charlie was also super psyched for us when I called to tell him Vince proposed and then when I read his post it just made me smile. Love you, brother. And congrats on finishing your first year of college! 

Why hello there!

It has been forever since my last post, almost a month! but boy oh boy have I been busy! My <i>fiance</i> and I have been busy dreaming up our wedding day and to be honest I pretty much have the wedding on my mind 24/7. Is this normal? I even wake up from dreams at 3am about wedding planning. We have set our date: November 10, 2012 aka we have 6 months to plan this shindig! Some people look at me like I'm nuts when I tell them. I have never been great at waiting for what I want though.
We will be having our reception at Laurel Manor and tasted their food this week and it is delish. Not to mention that the place is gorgeous and elegant and wonderfully priced!
I got all (SEVEN) of my bridesmaids officially asked and Vince is almost there! Our colors are charcoal grey, mustard yellow and cran/raspberry.
It is a but challenging planning ky wedding with my mom in Iowa, my sister aka Maid of Honor in LA and we are in Detroit. However my mom is coming up in a couple weeks so we can play dress up and send inspiration pictures to Kaitlyn so she can get to sketching as she's ddoing me the great honor of making my dress. How lucky am I? The answer is extremely, incredibly, and wonderfully!
I'm going to try to post more wedding info here, you know I will be doing at least a few projects. We will also link up to our wedding website once it gets a little more info on it!

How's that for rambling? And that's just the tip of the iceberg here folks!