Royal Wedding

Thanks Kate & William for setting your date the day before ours.  I don't have to miss your wedding.

Rentals

D & I visited a party rental office, weirdly enough I've never planned a party with rentals so I had no idea where to even begin.  We saw what they had to offer, now we're just waiting till December to do the walk through our location in order to get a better idea about what we need to rent.
I'm figuring out the tables we need, how many glasses we'll need, linens, etc.

I'll report back on this as soon as I have more details.

Save the Dates

Oh boy this is how I realized that I can't take criticism.  Don't know how creatives do it.  I finally decided to try make our own STD's.  D tried to do his own, and I tried to do mine, twice.  The second one I tried ended up looking a bit sci-fi.   Perfect for a Halloween party not so much for a wedding save the date.
Judge for yourselves...

My cubemate H loved it, but she loves all that sci-fi, ghost, csi stuff.  So I researched STD's on Google, I found one in the colors I liked.  I'm obsessing about these B/W stripes linens I saw on some pictures from a Martha Stewart wedding.  My other friend & co-worker J helped make the shape on illustrator, I had no idea how to do it.  And I took it from there.  Although I had to ask her how to do lines, had no idea how to make that either.
All in all it was fun, except cubemate H yelling at me asking me to add polkadots ("I don't know how to!!" I yelled back). 
That night I went home to show D what I had done and he had some ideas.  He asked to add drop shadows.  I complied, after making faces, and complaining the whole way through.  Move this over here...  Change that font.  This is too much for me to take, I can't take the criticism!  We finally both approved it.
Then I had to print it, of course I built it to the wrong size.  Built it 5x7, postcards should be 4x6. Fine I'll just print at a smaller percentage.  I made up the CMYK combo for the blue, once I printed it on regular paper it looked awful, so I changed it.  Then when I tried printing it on cardstock, totally different story, I basically went back to the original cmyk colors.  Definitely try it out on the paper stock you want.
I finally made 2 versions of them with the back included.  I shipped it to my mom to try it out.  4 days later it made it.  Whew!  Here they are

Now it's a matter of printing more & sending.  If only I have better handwriting...

The Wedding is on!!

D & I finally decided on a wedding venue that would satisfy our requirements:

1.  Be cheap
2.  Allow alcohol
3.  Allow music
4.  Did I mention be cheap?

And we found it.  Drum roll please...

Our ceremony and reception will be held at

Heritage Square Museum

The security deposit has been paid, the date has been put on hold.  Now it's a matter of doing everything else.  Rentals, food, bartenders.  Oh boy, the list goes on and on...

The Knot is telling me we have 172 days to go!