Disney Honeymoon Registry Card

When I got home from work today; I was excited to find a FedEx parcel waiting for me. I had absolutely no idea what it could be and while ripping into the packet, I was trying to think what I could have bought and forgotten about!  

When I eventually got the packet open it was a letter from Disney! and our Honeymoon Registry Gift Card ! 

Now we can activate our online gift registry and our guests can contribute to items on it as a wedding gift to us if they like. We will be probably end up purchasing most the things on the registry as it’s a great way for us to take advantage of the dollar while it is doing better. 

Plus we got a super cool free gift for reigistering

The great chair cover debate .....

This is the one thing I knew immediate I could not budge on – chair covers & sashes I can’t stand them, I personally HATE HATE HATE them ! (and the matching organza / silk sash & table runner – no thanks!) On occasion I have seen them look ok, but it usually depends on: the space/venue, the quality of the cover, the colour/theme combination you choose and the amount of space you have. Far too often people cram chairs with covers & sashes into venues that either have enough character on their own or are too small for all the extra clutter and all you end up seeing is a sea of material, chair covers & sashes .....

 

 

 

The solution would be to either find plain wooden chairs that won’t need covers & sashes, or splurge and have Tiffany chairs (which by the way I adore) they are fine and delicate, they can definitely add to the elegant atmosphere without taking over and standing out. Nearly every venue we like has plenty of character on its own so the idea would be to have the chairs almost disappear into the background – not stand out and make a statement! I did think this over for a long time and decided to splurge on tiffany chairs in a white wash (the ones in the pic are silver) with a white cushion! They will be perfect!

Our Engagement Party

Our Engagement Party story - in photo's, the party was great, except we were missing a few extra special people, you know who you are :) and DF couldn't make it through the whole night without taking a rest for his back.

our party in pictures.............

The Party

The Dessert Bar

The Cake

 Our Favors

 

 

Still No Favor Bags !!!!

Despite the $100+ USD it cost to have our gift bags express posted 10 days later and they are still not here !

With no idea if they will arrive in time tomorrow or not it's time for plan B ! plain white gift bags & 12hrs to come up with something to make them a little more exciting..

Possibly a little too much pink in the end but still pretty cute !

Flower Markets at 5AM

My MOH & I were up at 4.30am this morning driving to the flower markets, hoping to find a few great buys and some gorgeous flowers for Saturday night. We came home with bells, lilies and my favorite’s lisianthus

Engagement Party Invitations

Woo Hoo !!

We finally finished our invitations tonight YAY !!!

I was starting to get nervous as it is so close to the party and we still need to do all the resizing, assembling, cutting and addressing ourselves. None of which could begin until the stationery store printed the cards! after proofing them nearly 4 weeks ago they still had not started printing them!

So, we went in yesterday and stood in the shop until they either printed them or refunded our money. Needless to say 45mins later they were printed and I was on my way home planning our DIY day ! and they turned out great !

Now we just have to take them to the post office on Monday

Our Engagement Party Invitation Design

I'm finally making headway on the invitation front. After we settled on a chocolate and pink theme we visited a few specialty paper shops today and have selected our materials :

Pink Card stock

Wrapped in translucent Marie Antoinette paper

Then ties with golden chocolate rat's tail satin ribbon

Then I have a chocolate envelope & a silver seal

We have decided to let the supplier print the invitations on the card stock and MOH and I will give the assembly a go ourselves!

As time is running out we wrote & proof read the cards today and they should be ready in 2 or 3 days!

How do you choose?

With so many gorgeous papers and invitation designs, I have no idea how am I going to choose just one for our invitations! Let alone the actual design & paper for them! I adore stationary & paper crafts so I knew it would be a tough decision, but this is going to take a while :) So far some of my favorites are :

 

 

By Papel Vivo

 

 

Studio AYT

 

 

Oh Happy Day

 

 

I have already lost track of how to find some of these again, so I really need to start adding them to my favorite websites list! - that will be the first project after our e-party.

 

We are going to getting working on our theme & colors this week as we need to have this finalised before we are able to make the final choice anyway. So until then I will keep searching for the perfect invitation!

My Favorite Websites

A spot to keep track of the best websites I come across

Planning

Wedding style Guide
The Knot

Once Wed

Wedding Chicks
Polka Dot Bride

Martha Stewart Weddings 
The Wedding Co 

Merci New York
Snippet & Ink
 
Photo's
 

Project Wedding

 
 
Favors & Supplies
 
 Beau Coup
 Pink Frosting
 
 
 Disney Planning
 
 David Tutera
 Preston Baily
Disney Weddings
Disney Cruise Line
Mouse Savers
 
 Blogs
 
Wedding Bee
Style Me Pretty
Disboards
 Darcy Miller  
1001 Layer Cake
Ruffled

My Wedding Scrapbook

Pages so far .....

The Wedding Planning Suitcase!

The ultimate planning bag! after my journals this is my most valuable planning possession

I love this bag I got it on our trip to Disneyland last year (along with “Disney Fairy Tale Weddings" dvd) & it is our wedding stuff all in the one place. Inside I keep my Hunter Valley & Knot Wedding Planner, Journals, stationery supplies, note cards, small photo album (supplier business cards & photos of things I’m looking for), colour wheel, my favourite “Sometimes Brides Forget” Post-its & as always my emergency chocolate supply!!

Only one final piece is still needed in my planning pack....the new edition WDW travel guides !

  

FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2008

Woo Hoo my planning books finally arrived !!!!!

My Planning Notebook

The best piece of wedding planning advice I received was to get the biggest blank notebook I could find and keep it as my planning journal. It's so much more useful than any fill in journal I have seen; I adore both of mine and don’t know how I would survive without them now.

 All the thousands of moments that you don’t want to forget, plus it’s a great place to keep ideas, inspirations, magazine cut-outs & articles, material & paper samples, supplier details, checklists, wish list (the if money was no object I would choose), cards, letters and photo’s. I found a blank notebook on sale and covered it in paper & ribbon to make it my own. Originally mine started as a collection of notes, things I liked, things I didn’t want to forget, thoughts and a place to keep all our letters & cards we had been given.

 

 

Then we were given a fantastic selection of stickers as an engagement present, and my inner scrapbooking took over. Now I am keeping it as a Wedding Journal and I have a separate one for checklists, scribbling and all the paraphernalia you collect along the way.

My Inspiration Board

I have been working on mood/inspiration boards, to try out the ideas, colours, themes and styles I like and see what works well together.

We're finally getting married

10 years & 24 days later WERE ENGAGED .….. seriously Matt & Ness ... getting Married 2009 !

 So welcome to my adventures & misadventures of planning 2 wedding celebrations, 2 weeks apart, on different sides of the world !!

First is our home weekend celebration in the Hunter Valley and then our Destination Wedding in Disneyland.

Our budget is tight, so we will track down every contact we have, call in ever favour we can, and work hard to come up with clever & creative DIY ideas & alternatives to make the budget last !