A busy weekend...

Ok, here goes a long post with lots of fun wedding details...

Friday night we baby sat for the munchkins that I nanny for.  I truly love when Vince and I get to watch the kids together, because it makes my heart melt to see him with them.  He is so patient (he spent 30 minutes on this one book answering every single "why" question from Tyler) and he loves them so much.  I literally cannot imagine what it will be like to see him with our kids one day.  I can't wait!!

(check out Vince's standard weekend "comfy" outfit.  Sexy.)

On Saturday my mom and I headed up to the mountains to check out some wedding stuff.  We got to meet with our AMAZING DOC and venue owner, Suzy.  She is seriously an amazing woman who truly loves what she does.  We found out some AWESOME information: I thought our custom package and price was for 100 guests.  I've been stressing out about cutting the guest list to keep it to 100, and she told us on Saturday that our price includes 150 guests!!!!  That is the biggest load off-I cannot even explain to you!

So...after we met with Suzy we met with a cake lady, and I showed her the EXACT cake I want.  She quoted us a great price, and her cake tasted delicious.

I can't remember where I found this wedding, but I love so much about it...

I love this cake, and I cannot wait to see it in our venue with our cake toppers.

One of my biggest dilemmas right now is what to have the grooms wear.  Vince does not want them to have to buy anything.  He wants them to wear a black suit that they already have.  I'm thinking no.  I love this look below: 

Another big development is the dress.  We thought my mom was going to make my dress.  After a lot of discussion, we decided this might be too difficult and stressful for her and me.  SO, I have been looking at Nordstrom and Dillards online...here's what I like.  But I have to try them on of course...

I still want super simple and no poof.  So I cannot wait to try these on.  Although, I am still 40 pounds away from my goal weight, so it will be hard to tell right now what I will look like on the wedding day!

I'm OBSESSED with this boutonniere .  It's so manly and DIY friendly, don't you think?

So thats all for now.  I'm sorry I'm not too bubbly today, but there is some not so fun wedding stuff going on right now that has me really down.  I'll go into more detail later, but I will say that I can totally relate to all the girls who blogged about fighting with your fiance in the midst of wedding planning.  It's not fun, and I'm so confused as to what I should do right now so as not to offend him or his family.  Wish me luck!

The things I want to DIY

This list keeps growing.  

I met with my mom last night to go over some wedding things.  She was practically laughing at me as I told her all of my ideas of things I want to DIY.  She thought I was over extending myself, and that I wouldn't be able to do it all.

DON'T.  UNDERESTIMATE ME.  Is what I said to her.  

And so it continues:

DIY LIST:

Kids Table.  Precious.  

Duh.  I love these.

I want to request in the invitation that everyone mail a wedding picture in with their RSVP.  I want to display them at the wedding in mason jars.  So easy. Right?  

The *NEW* candy bar...

Popcorn. yum.  From here

I love mason jars.  I have to have them hanging from chairs.  From here.

The oh-so-famous map.  My oh-so-talented uncle is going to make one for us.

this one from here.

My awesome cousin is making our cake toppers.  I hope they look like this :)

My mom is making our ring bowl.  

She's very talented with making things out of clay.  

Oh yes.  Vince says he doesn't want to wear a flower.  Ok honey, you can wear feathers, berries and dried flowers.  I love you.  From here

Yet again.  Julia has convinced me so I'm going to do them.  And they will be fabulous.  What wouldn't be fabulous with feathers involved?

Our bouquets.  This one might make me a little nervous.  I know we can do it though.  From here

These are so doable, right??

Monday Morning Inspiration

Good Morning Friends!!

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  I definitely did.  Friday night was wonderful.  Vince got a much deserved promotion that day so we celebrated with a friend and a special bottle of champagne.  

Saturday was full of house hunting (nothing we love yet) and then dinner and drinks with friends.  It was a great and relaxing weekend.

I came across this picture here

I am IN LOVE with the idea of hanging mason jars from things.  Branches, chairs, etc.  Since our amazing DOC and venue owner is already doing our centerpieces at Neverland Farms, I have felt a little sad that there wasn't anything for me to do as far as decor.  HOWEVER, now I can do this!

As mentioned here,

I have a little obsession with personalized cake toppers.  My super talented cousin is going to make ours out of sculpey and I couldn't be happier.  I still want ours to be me dragging Vince.  I just think it's hilarious.  

I think this one is awesome, and would be STOKED to have ours look like either one of these cake toppers.

I am also in love with this wedding found here via here.  This bride's hair and makeup is now in my inspiration folder to show my girl, Candace-who is doing my hair and makeup on the big day.  

Controversial Cake Toppers

Apparently some women find this cake topper offensive.  I guess it looks old fashioned or repressive that a woman would have to drag her guy to the altar.  Well, I have no problem with the world knowing something about me: I am going to have to drag my guy to the altar!  He is a dude.  He doesn't care about weddings.  If he had his way, we would skip all of it and go straight to the part where we have kids. I want to have a cake topper like this because everyone knows how much I want to get married and I can have a sense of humor about it.

Lucky for me, I have a SUPER talented cousin who makes figures from a material called sculpey.  It's a clay that he uses and he makes awesome characters whose detail is incredibly realistic.  I thought it would be so sweet for him to make a cake topper of me dragging my guy to the alter, and it will look like us!  There are companies who do this, but they are expensive.  I think it would be SO much more special if my cousin makes it for us! I hope it will look something like this:

Pretty cute, huh?