Worth a Million Words

Deadlines Approaching...

Today marks the two month mark.  Exactly two months from now, I will be putting on my wedding gown and getting ready to marry my best friend.

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In the meantime, our RSVP by date is fast approaching.  Out of 108 invitees, only 34 have sent their acceptance RSVPs back.  I'm not relishing the idea of hounding our potential guests to see if they will join us, but it may come down to that.

Sad, but probably true

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Thinking about family

Now that the RSVP cards are starting to trickle in, I've had a chance to think a lot about the special people we will have with us at our wedding. I'm so excited that many of our family members are making the trip to Idaho to celebrate and support us.
 

Our niece Ella (one of our adorable flowergirls) and my new sister-in-law Dana and brother-in-law Darrell, pictured with us in the Rockies last summer.

Our furry ringbearer Ash, pictured sleeping in the living room.

Rich and his sweet mom Terese, pictured in Idaho a couple years ago.

My Aunt Linda, who is hosting our rehearsal dinner at her home, and my mom, who is hosting our Sunday brunch at her home (pictured at my childhood home in Boise).

My sister Bailey, who is my bridesmaid, and my brother Brock, who just wanted to watch the ceremony (with me at the Denver Nature and Science Museum last summer).

Most of my extended family on my mom's side.  We've only received one 'no' RSVP from all of the family pictured (due to the inability to travel to Idaho because of a pregnancy), so I hope everyone else will be there.  With just over two months to go until the big day, I can barely wait to see everyone!

The countdown continues in style

Bridesmaid Accessories

I love shoes.  All different kinds of shoes.  Heels, flats, hiking, running, work, boots, they are all wonderful to me.  So I've enjoyed searching for the perfect shoes for my bridesmaids.  Both bridesmaids have at least three inches on me, so I'd hoped to find them some nice flats to wear with their BCBG/Max and Cleo dresses.  Of course, none of the flats I've found match the level of formality of the bridesmaid dresses, so I started looking at (gasp) heels.

Macy's has these simple, dressy heels that I just love.  The color is subdued enough to go with the champagne blush dresses, but the metallic sheen makes them special enough to stand out.  I think these Bandolino heels would look wonderful with the dresses -- but I might just have to buy a pair for myself either way!

Pretty Papers

I decided early on that I wanted to do semi-DIY invitations for our wedding.  As in, about two years before Rich popped the question I decided this.  I found two boxes of invitations at Target on clearance years ago and snapped them up!  They were beautiful and classic.  Luckily my tastes have not changed much since then.

After a few printing difficulties (vellum paper does not absorb printer ink like regular paper...), we ended up with these lovely pieces of paper to make up our invitation suite:

(lf to rt 1st row: wedding website info, hotel info

2nd row: outer envelopes, cardstock, printed vellum)

(same as above, but now with sweet little maps I made)

(can't forget the stamps!)

To "make" the invitations, I lined up the holes in the vellum and the cardstock.

Then I threaded some iridescent white ribbon through the sets of holes once,

then back through again,

and straightened out the ribbon into a faux-bow.

Here is the final product - with our names and venue info blurred with Photoshop, of course.

These babies went out Saturday morning and we've already received four RSVP cards in our mailbox. Sending out the invites made everything so real!!

Here are a few action shots of me and Rich working hard away at putting everything together...

We're still smiling at least!

I'm marrying a comedian....

Our ringbearer supervising the progress.