I do

Two weekends ago, I was in a wedding for a best friend who goes waaaaay back to grade school.  It was a beautiful day in all ways: the bride was beautiful, the weather, location, decorations, colors, and most importantly their vow saying I do forever and ever!  I was lucky enough to help make their wedding invitations and thought I would show you their fun and simple invites and some pictures from the wedding day :)

Here is the invite packed and ready to be sent out:

Here it is all unpacked:

Here is the invite itself - obviously the lovely rectangles are not part of it!  

Very pretty and just right for her wedding colors!

Here are some pictures from the fun day!

Becky and her mom had a bridesmaid brunch - it was so fun :)

The hydrangeas look like a heart - so cute!

There were even pinterest worthy cake pops!

Then we all went to get our nails done.  So many choices of colors!

Massage chairs = heaven (and some giggles)

The beautiful bride getting her nails done.

A quick fill!

And I really didn't have my camera on me to take many of the day - but here are some of the pictures I was able to grab!  

The bride getting her hair done :)

Makeup = check!  Hair = check!

The sancuary - I loved the shadows of the cross.  Such a great representation of marriage.  The bride and the groom are the shadows, with Christ in the middle of the marriage and being the example.

Here she comes!  Walked in by her dad.

Married!

Bubbles and bells exit!

To the getaway car!

Congrats!!!!

I love weddings - it always reminds me of our own.  I always look back through pictures or watch our video.  Hard to believe we are coming up on 3 years of marriage - where did that time go?

E & E

Bridal Shower & Bachelorette

As I mentioned in the last post, I was at a bridal shower this past weekend.  It was a luau theme because the couple is headed to Hawaii for their honeymoon!  It was a fun theme!  Here are some pictures from the fun day celebrating with the bride to be!

Here are the hosts and party planners.  The bride is in the middle in the pink.

Here she is with her soon to be mother in law and sister in law.

The food display fit the theme :)

The presents:

First we played a game - guess who would marry this celebrity, there were some good laughs :)

The answers were read off and the bride had to guess who picked that celebrity.

The next game was toilet paper dresses!  There were four "brides" to be dressed.

This was my team:

(the plan was to mock the dress she was already wearing)

She even had a nice simple veil: 

And we even made sure she had jewelry to add some final touches.

Another team designing their bride's dress:

The actual bride having her dress designed:

The fourth team's dress:

Here they all our, ready to be judged.  The "bride" on the left went for multicultural, it was quite hilarious.

The back view- one was becoming more revealing by the second!

I believe the placement went: (from left to right) 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 1st

Then it was time for the gifts:

New luggage for the honeymoon!

Here she is opening my gift.  (More on the gift I gave can be found in a previous post.)

It's amazing how many new and cool things are out there even from 3 years ago when Eric and I were doing this!    

More luggage and a very neat wine and wine glass holder that sticks into the ground or sand on the beach.  Perfect for watching the sunset while they are on their honeymoon!

Later that night we went out on the town for her bachelorette party!

Here is Elton John the bride to be! :)

Cheers to a happy and wonderful marriage!

(Girls, if there are any pictures you want a digital copy of let me know and I can email it to you!)

It's officially SUMMER for me, so check back because I have a long list of things I want to do this summer and started one of the tasks today!  

- E  

Wedding Season!

It's that time of year again!  Surprisingly though, Eric and I only have 3 weddings this summer (I think).  So that isn't too many compared to the last few years.  This past weekend I went to a bridal shower for a long time friend who gets married in just a couple weeks!  I finally got to use a fun pinterest find and make a useful gift for her and her fiance!

If I had more time last week I would have made the tags over with my own creative touches, but I just used the template that was on the blog.  Here is how it turned out: 

The tag farthest to the right goes on the top - it says Marriage Survival Tool Kit

Each tool was labeled with a tag.  Here is the Jpeg:

I used card stock, cut them out, punched a hole and tied each card to its piece.  It ends up being a really great starter tool kit for newlyweds.  Good for hanging decorations/pictures and little fixes.

Packed it all in:

Here is the final product - with easy wrapping!

And here is the bride to be opening it up!  I think she enjoyed it and I bet her fiance enjoyed hearing of this gift.

She read them all off to everyone - and it even worked for the game we played.  Since they are honeymooning in Hawaii, they had a contest for the leis and if you said her fiance's name, love, church, or wedding then you had your lei taken away.  And as she read them, she said the word love.  Oops!  I was awful at the game and had my lei taken away right away and never got one back.  

Happy Wedding to them!

and Happy Memorial day to all!

E & E