I Won a Dress!

A couple weeks ago, I entered a contest via The Wedding Chicks for a chance to be one of 20 people to win a wedding dress from Simply Bridal. This morning I woke up to an email from Simply Bridal saying I was one of the randomly chosen winners! How exciting!

Simply Bridal is a company that makes high quality wedding gowns to the measurements you send in, so your dress fits you perfectly with no alterations needed. There is no middlemen, so the prices are unbeatable, and the dresses are delivered in 30-35 days!

Although I already have my wedding dress, I will take advantage of my win to order a dress for the bridal shower/rehearsal dinner.

I'm so excited to pick out a dress! :)

xo
B

Sample Bridal Shower Invites

My wonderful future sister-in-law and future mother-in-law have offered to throw me a bridal shower. It is going to be a tea party complete with hats, finger sandwiches, and antique china courtesy of Matt's maternal great-grandmother. I am so honored that Nancy, Matt's mom, has offered to let us use her grandmother's china for my bridal shower!

I can't not help Lori with the shower. I think it's my OCD, or maybe my love of crafting, but I stumbled across this cute DIY Painted Card with a FREE printable! It's the cutest thing ever- its a card with three teacups on the front and you paint them with tea! That's right, tea! Any type of tea, really.

So I made three sample cards: one painted with tea, one with regular water colors, and one colored in with colored pencils.

Aren't they just so cute!? I then just put together a little invitation on the back with the computer and printed it out.

I was playing around with them and on the water color and tea color ones I outlined the teacups with colored pencils. I like how this gives it a straight, clean edge. What I don't like is how I traced over the boarder with colored pencil, it looks horrible. When I make the real ones, I will leave the border alone! ;)

I think with some practice, one of those fancy paper cutters that cut a straight line, and new ink for the printer (we're almost out) we will have some quality home-made invites- the best kind! :)

Reception Brainstorming

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Flowers & centerpieces::

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Table, chair and seating ideas:

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No seating plan!

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 Cake [and other] tables:

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Food and Drink:

We will have three of these: One for Matt's mom's famous Mint Tea, Lemonade, and water with cucumber.

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Pre-made cocktails in mason jars!!

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Mason jars for non-alcoholic beverages

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Desserts:

 We will do cupcakes instead of a wedding cake, but there will be a small cake for me and Matt to cut.

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White wedding cake cupcake recipe!

 

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We are going to have a smore station or two. :)

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It would also be nice to offer things other than cupcakes.

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Favors:

Jarred local honey!

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Games:

Cornhole!

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Horse Shoes

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Croquet

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Other decor:

  Two of these totally awesome Candelabras, just white instead of black!

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Mix-Matched Candle Sticks

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For the bathroom(s):

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A sweet "thank you" to our family and friends

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Globe lights made out of doilies- how cool is that!?

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"Honeymoon Fund" ;)

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Our get-away vehicle will be a pick up truck bed that was made into a trailer being pulled by one of our tractors. I want something like this on the back!

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Rustic inspiration:

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 Vintage inspiration:

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 Color inspiration:

Blush/neutral

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Looks like we've got our work cut out for us. Just looking at everything stresses me out right now!