Thursday, January 12, 2012

Prepping for Bachy #1

Tomorrow morning I leave for our Nations Capitol, Washington DC where I will meet up with the girls for the weekend to celebrate my departure from the land of bachelorette-hood! This is the first of two bachelorette parties that have been planned (one for out of towners, and one for local gals). I am super excited as I don't get to see these girls as much and I know they have lots of fun planned for us. I can't wait!

Some photos of my sisters bachelorette in West Palm Beach a few summers ago. A very generous mother in law loaned us her house, we drank, ate, took a limo to South Beach for a night out on the town, relaxed on the beach, and sent Waggie off into wife-hood on a great note.

One of the Bridesmaids suggested all buying the bride a pair of undies and writing a special memory or note to the bride and not sign the card, the bride had to guess who they were from. Obviously one of the gals was a joke-ster by including these granny panties.


The Beautiful Bride to Be


On the way to Miami


Sisters


All the gals (and Cory, a friend who lives in the area) before going out to a nice dinner


So past brides, what types of embarrassing moments should I expect?! Full recap to come when I return.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Sneak Peek at Welcome Bag Tags

Since I was hot on the topic of welcome bags for out of town guests, I was inspired to create some fun tags tonight. I started planning these early and have gotten the creative bug with some other fun things I will be including in the bags (which will be featured on the blog at a later date).

Here is a sneak peek of the labels!!


I know it may seem awfully early to be getting started on these but I figure the more I get out of the way now, the less I will be stressing about closer to the day.

Will you be making personalized welcome bag labels?


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Monday, January 9, 2012

Welcome Bags

My newest DIY task that I am concentrating on is welcome bags. Anyone else doing these? I know its just one more thing to stress/worry about but I think its a nice gesture to our out of town guests. I am definitely one to immediately paw through a goodie bag when I first check into a hotel.

Here are my thoughts so far on what to include in the bags:

Directions - including to rehearsal dinner venue and to the wedding venue
Schedule of events and things to do in the area
Granola bars
Bottles of water
Mini bags of chips/fritos/doritos
Gum
Mints
Tea Bags


I bought the actual bags today and will hit Sam's/BJs/Costco for non perishable items in a few weeks. I also will be printing/creating our own personalized tags.

Anyone else doing or have done these? What sorts of things are you including?
Any other good suggestions out there?



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Saturday, January 7, 2012

How Low Will I Go?

Today I found myself hitting an all time new wedding multitask low. At around 3:00 PM today, I looked in the full length mirror in our bedroom to see a scary reflection staring back at me. Let me try and paint the picture for you:

I was wearing my Old Navy Rockstar Jeggings, A Green tank top, I was sporting my 4" wedding shoes while trying to break them in (which actually looked quite cute with my jeggings), I had a white DIY face mask of Greek yogurt and egg whites caked all over my face, a shower-cap on my hair because I literally just got back from the salon and didn't want egg whites in my freshly highlighted hair, and I was pacing around the room while lifting my three pound pink arm weights.

So there you have it..I was breaking in my wedding day shoes, working on my beauty regimen, and toning my arm muscles all in one shot!

I admit, I have finally hit wedding rock bottom..I can not post a picture of this as it was truly too embarrassing of a moment to share.

What crazy things have you found yourself doing in order to get game day ready??


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Friday, January 6, 2012

Post Office Visit

I hit the US Post Office today on my lunch hour with my invitation suite in tow. I wanted to make sure I had the invitations weighed to ensure I purchased the correct amount of postage for each one before placing them in the mail.

At the Post Office I was informed that the price of the stamp is going up 1 cent on January 22nd and that I should probably send them out before then. Yes of course I will just to be sure, could you imagine if 100 invites got returned back to my doorstep for lack of a penny on each?? I would be heartbroken and very upset to see my beautiful invitations stamped with RETURN TO SENDER all over them. Oof I bet I will have nightmares about this tonight.


I was planning on sending them out on January 24th as that marks the two month/8 week mark, but I suppose a few extra days early can't hurt.

I spent my Friday night tonight behind an assembly line stuffing 100 envelopes, and they are boxed and ready to go. Being the worry wart that I am, I stamped my parents invite and mailed it out to them JUST to make sure it makes it to them safe and sound with the correct amount of postage before placing all the stamps on the invites.

My Assembly Line (Flipped over - No Peeking until our guests receive them)


Did you have any worries about sending out your invites? How relieved will I feel once these babies are out of my hands??


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Check out this Giveaway!

Hey Gals, just got word that Lillian and Alice is kicking off the new year with a bang with this fabulous giveaway!

I am loving gold this year and even received some beautiful gold bracelets for Christmas that I can't seem to take off my wrist!

Entry to the giveaway is as simple as 1.2.3! Here is the link!
Lillian and Alice Feather Necklace Giveaway


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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Happy Holidays (Even if a little late!)

Hello there blogger world, hope you all had a wonderful and happy, healthy holiday season. My last few weeks have been insanely busy hence being MIA on the blog for a short bit. I hope to ease back in slowly by giving you a recap of how I spent my holiday season.

I spent Christmas with my beautiful family up north in Connecticut, luckily for this wimpy Florida girl it wasn't freezing cold up there so I was able to survive. I spent a wonderful five days with friends and family and as always it was tough to come back.

I got to hang with these adorable mugs.



Coming back was especially tough because when I did make it home, I was plagued with a cold/virus/lost my voice situation. Its been a week and a half with me hacking and having no voice and I FINALLY went to the doctor today after Groomzilla told me last night "I think its time you head to the doctor". I'm pretty sure he was getting tired of me keeping him up all night with my uncontrollable cough in his ear or not being able to hold a proper conversation with me for a whole week (actually he was probably happy I could not nag him regarding his wedding task list).

Groomzilla and I started the New Year out with a bang, we attended the Citrus Bowl Parade, as we have decided to make it an annual event, two years in a row we have gone!


New Years Eve we threw a party at our new place, we had a blast and the night flew by. I thought we were going to have TOO much food but in the end I was bummed we had zero for leftovers the next day :( I also sang a little too much karaoke this night.

Some of our guests lighting off biodegradable sky lanterns.


I created a New Years Eve Resolution board and encouraged all of our guests to write down their New Years Resolution. We later turned them over and tried to guess who we thought wrote each one. It was a hit and fun for sure. I used a cork board and decorated it with scrapbook paper and then just cut out all the squares from card stock.

Before shot


New Years Day - After shot



New Years Day, those that spent the night stayed for breakfast and mimosas and we re-capped the previous night and spent a nice holiday together. At one point the karaoke started up again. :)

Gromzilla scored some tickets to the Capital One Bowl Game so him and I and three of our mutual friends tailgated for a bit and then watched the game.


Sooo is it any wonder that I started the New Year out without a voice?!

This week I have fallen back into my routine and kicked it up into high wedding gear, we are getting there..12 weeks to go and less than 80 days, yes 80 days!!!

How did you spend your New Years Holiday!?


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