The Bachelorette Party: Part 3 (Homeward)

The Bachelorette Party: Part 2 (Sin City)

The Bachelorette Party: Part 1 (Pre-Vegas)

On the way to Vegas for the Bachelorette: bride to be, the MOH and the bridesman.

Another Reason to Love Google: Wedding Templates!

I just saw this on the site GeekSugar - very cool!

"Google has taken notice and is rolling out 20 new wedding templates within Google Docs to utilize during your wedding planning. Manage your guest lists, catering, and flower details, and even set up email templates to get updated contact info from your guests so you get those (sometimes pricey) invitations into the right hands. "

Full article.

Disney Gowns at Costco with savings starting at 40% off!

You Washington peeps are so lucky!! I just got an email from Costco and the Costco in Issaquah Washington is having a Disney gown event & the gowns have savings starting at 40% off!! Normally stores trick you with UP TO 40% off (i.e everything is 15% off but somewhere in the pile there is something 40% off) but not good ol' Costco! Read about it *here* & also make sure to make an appointment! MOB/bridesmaid first blogged about the Disney dresses in her official first post here at WW check it out*here*

Wedding iPhone APP

 In addition to my bridesman/Bff & groomsmen who have tried to keep me sane & help out as much as they can, I also have another life saver - my assistant aka & right hand man, my iphone!!!  It's been a while since I told you about some of my iphone apps that have helped me with wedding planning,  and with only 71 days till the wedding, these 2 apps help me know exactly how many days till each wedding related event.

First up is the free Days Till app, I like this app because it allows me to add a picture (see pic below), choose the font/color for the words that appear on the pic & even lets me move around the words - in this case I moved them so you can see the Hollywood sign, pay no attention to the sign that says caution & no trespassing ;-) the second picture shows a list of all the events I added, as you can see it's crunch time!

The second app I have to keep me on track with the dates is the .99 Countdown  app, I had this app first & like it as well, it also lets you upload a pic, I keep this app too because it tells me how many months, weeks & days until an event. 

As you see I have 2 months, 1 week and 4 days till the wedding. I'm ready to get married but not ready for the wedding ...still lots to do! I don't know how 10 months past by so fast, I think I spent too much time researching and not enough time doing things. I hear so many brides say that they didn't want to keep everything till the last minute but then somehow did..I am know understanding how this occurs. Work has been extremely busy & the wedding to do list has taken over all my free time. Once again I have over 1K unread posts in my google reader, I think I am going to unsubscribe from all wedding blogs that do not belong to a "real bride blogger" because I rather spend the little time I have reading all your wonderful blogs & hearing about your experience. 

I'm sorry for the lack of posts, I am going to try harder to post at least 3 times a week, I wanted to make sure and post something, so even though it's 11:16 pm on a friday night & I am soooo tired from the week, I had to log on & write to you :-)

miss you much!

DIY: Emergency Tins for the Wedding Party

I've been thinking of doing this DIY since I saw a similar kit when I was staying at the Shade Hotel in Palm Springs with MOH/cousin for our friend's bday. The one at the hotel was in a little tin, had 2 tylenol, a towlette, and an antacid & cost probably $30 (this is what I like to call raping you up the you know what without spit).

I decide I can make these easily on my own & by on my own I mean I design them on my own and bridesman and mi amor help me assemble them :-)

1. I bought some tins for about $1 at Cost Plus at their after Christmas sale, I then put some Goo Gone on them that I bought at Michaels to remove the Christmas sticker on them. This was so easy!

2. I made a template in word, this took a long time only because I can spend hours finding the perfect font (perfect for me) and I also had to figure out how to center everything. The template says "If you've partied too hard relief is at hand..."

3. I printed it out and cut the sheets in half vertically with my Fiskars Paper Trimmer, this way I could put them through my Xyron XRN510 four at a time and not waste too much permanent adhesive. Then I trimmed them again individually.

4. Bridesman & mi amor assembled the tins, removing the backing of the adhesive and sticking the paper on the tin.

5. Now all that is left to do is buy the items that will go in it:

2- Tylenol  2 - Bandages  2- Alka Seltzer 2- Pieces of gum 

6. These are for the wedding party to put in their OOT bags (although only 1 person is technically from OOT, I am making an OOT bag for each person in the wedding party since we are hoping that they will be staying at the hotel with us :-) I liked the tins so much I made one for me & mi amor too.

How are your DIY projects going?

 

Bridesman + Fiance = A bride to be's best friend

 With less than 80 days to go, it's been very stressful at the lovie dovie ranch. The time has come to stop researching and start getting things done. Problem is I spend too much time researching and not enough doing and on top of that I am *very* bad about asking for help, I tend to do things on my own, it's partly because I feel bad about asking people & partly because of that age old saying "If you want something done right do it yourself"...well in the case of the DIY that I did on Tuesday this saying did not hold true whatsoever!  If it wasn't for my bridesman I would have been lost on how exactly to cut my DIY matchbooks.  Bridesman and Groom both know that I do not ask for help, so unbenost to each of them, they both offered to help me out as soon as they saw me with printed cardstock, glue sticks, exacto knives, paper cutter & matchbooks.

Tuesday I decide that I am finally going to make the monogram matchbooks for the cigar bar, I did not think it was too complicated since I had 4 delicious bookmarks for wedding matchbooks, one from Project Wedding *here* and three from Style Me Pretty *here* , *here* (with template), and this one that has the template that proved very useful to me.  I managed to figure out how to place the monograms that Jeff Williams created for us onto the template but once I printed them on white card stock from Michaels, it was hard to figure out how to cut them exactly and that is where Bridesman saved the day! He saw me struggling and stepped in immediately! Once he figured out where they needed to be cut we had an assembly line, Fiance was responsible for peeling away the cover of each matchbook, & bridesman and I cut the paper, used glue stick to attach the paper to the matchbook cover and then assembled the matchbooks back. I was truly touched by how bridesman & fiance stepped in and helped me without waiting for me to say a single word. Without them I would be lost and alone with only my DIY materials to keep me company.  Oh and my little brother who came home after the matchbooks were already complete, wanted to help too but since we had already finished he helped me out by cleaning everything up & doing the dishes.  *Tear* Are these men not amazing?! Who would have thought that the three people to help a bride out were then men in her life?!  Did you have help with your DIY?

{Bridesman/BFF cutting the template}                    

5 Killer Ab + Core Workouts

Starting TODAY! I am doing these in rotation. No time to slack! I can't be a pudgy MOH!

List of 5 Killer Ab + Core Workout Videos on Ranker

Forever 21 finds for weddings

I was on the Forever 21 website today and saw a few things that maybe of interest to some of you, especially those of you that are having peacock feathers in your wedding like me: 
I bought the swallow to put on my bridal bouquet & the chandelier earrings just because ;-)

swallow Forever 12                         Charming Rhinestone Earrings $5.80

Ornate Feather Hair Clip $10.80       Feather Clip w/ Short Veil $6.80

    Rose Rhinestone Hinge Bracelet $13.80    Ribbon Tie Beaded Bracelets $4.80