Crystal's Wedding!

This is a little late, but better late than never right!?

Crystal and Kelly got married July 4 at our church (the same one that John and I got married in) and then had an at home tented reception at her parents' house. It was awesome because you can see the Albany fireworks from the yard. At one point, I think that there were 4 or 5 sets of fireworks going on that we could see from outside the tent.

Crystal is originally from upstate NY and Kelly is from New Hampshire. A couple of years ago they moved together down to Florida. For the wedding, they brought the beach to NY!

The church before the ceremony.

Programs

The first kiss!

The new Mr & Mrs!

The table numbers.

The centerpieces.

The favors- sugar cookies cut into beach things and frosted!

The tent. The lanterns were so pretty!

The menus. I was in love with the shrimp.

Place/table cards.

On the table with the place cards were sparklers! These were so fun later on with the fireworks.

The bridal party. It was really windy & you can tell a bit in this picture.

The cake that my mom and sister made! Notice the cake plate??

Up close.

Cutting the cake.

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Centerpiece Trial

When I was home in NY over Thanksgiving (old, I know), we went to the reception site to check out the table layouts and try out a centerpiece idea. I just got these pictures from my mom and they are the results.

The tables set up for a Sweet 16 (!) party w/the way I want our napkins & favors.
The candle holder on the centerpiece will be used as CP's on our cocktail hour tables.

Our trial run of the centerpieces without the actual flowers
(the pink runner will actually be red- it was more for effect I guess).

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Productive!

I guess we were relatively productive this weekend. Friday we went to the movies and saw Role Model. I thought it was pretty funny.

Saturday- went to Ikea and got pebbles for the centerpieces. Then we went to Macy's and got John a tie for the wedding. The groomsmen will be wearing this in red- John's tie is a white on white paisley.

Next stop- the jeweler to get John a wedding ring- fail. The owner that John knows (and gets a discount from) wasn't there. We went to another store but they had crap.

When we got home, John tried on his whole getup- it looked good. Yay!

While we were watching football, I started the table cards. I'll have a post about them this week. I'm really excited about them. John even helped out, though he wasn't as excited as I was.

Oh! And I finished writing the ceremony yesterday. Woo hoo!

TODAY, we went to church, Target to get thank you notes for the shower, our LAST wedding counseling session at church, the grocery store, and we have yet to go out to supper for a friend's birthday.

Sounds like a good weekend to me!

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Centerpieces

In order to keep our January wedding from becoming too stereotypically "winter", especially with our use of red, we are incorporating brown accents. I am hoping that the brown breaks up the red and softens the palette. Touches such as mason jar centerpieces, textured flowers and wood will add a bit of a rustic garden feeling without confusing people.




The centerpieces will be a pint mason jar with several stems of white tulips (enough to fill the mouth of the jar). Surrounding the mason jar will be 3 smaller jelly jars (these have the quilted pattern on them) that will have a red votive holder and a votive inside. Since we are borrowing the mason jars (woo saving money!), I didn't want to get wax all over people's jars so they couldn't use them again. Underneath the centerpieces we will have a red table runner (that is actually a chair sash from Quality Chair Covers.com). Surrounding the mason jars, we are hoping to gather some brownish river rocks.

The image on the left is how I want the tulips to be- nice and tight, but only a few.

My mom couldn't quite picture the mason jar idea when I told her about it, so she did a mockup with flowers that she had in the garden. Don't mind the pink. :)

This is probably the closest to what the layout will be- I plan on squishing the jelly jars in closer to the pint jar with the flowers though.

And this is what the votive holder looks like. I got them for $1 each fro Jamali Garden.

Several of these images are not credited- if they are yours, or you know whose they are please let me know, so that I can give them credit!!

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