Sunday, September 28, 2008

Venue search...

We finally have an appointment to visit T&S Farms on Monday Oct. 6th. I am so excited to finally go and visit. I am working on my list of questions to ask. I hope this location lives up to my expectations.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Mr. Jim LeBlanc

One thing we knew before we ever got engaged, was that if we did get married we definitely wanted Jim LeBlanc to play at the wedding. My fiance has been going to see Jim play on a regular basis for years and I have been going with him since we met. We love Jim! He is a very talented musician and we love the music that he plays. We always have such a good time singing along and that's exactly the vibe we want to carry over to our wedding. We are so excited that Jim has agreed to play!
Here is a picture of Jim playing one night at Delaney's in Five Points.

Monday, September 8, 2008

grading papers, bleh...

So one of the many joys of now being in graduate school is the hundreds of papers I get to grade each week now. School has pretty much entirely consumed the last week or so, with little time for wedding planning stuff. I have worked on our Christmas cards a little more. And I've bought most of the stuff for my cake decorating class now. We don't meet this week though. My mom is all excited about making this wedding cake now. The problem is, my mom's idea of a wedding cake, and what I want are two very different things. I absolutely HATE columns on wedding cakes. If I am going to have a tiered cake, it will not have columns. I am still not convinced that I don't want cupcakes, but if I do end up with a cake this is the one I want with slight modifications:

I am also considering having several small cakes displayed on pedestals.

Monday, September 1, 2008

diy projects... the beginning

My mom and I did a bunch of wedding crafts shopping today while my dad and FI worked on fixing my computer. I found the envelopes for our Christmas cards/engagement announcements. We also bought several purple flowers that were on sale. We also bought several more large birdhouses.

On Saturday FI and painted the smaller birdhouses that we had bought at the dollar store. Here is one of those birdhouse perched on top of the flowers that I have arranged. We are planning on having these on the tables.

And here is a mock up of our Christmas card/engagement announcements: