It's been a while!!!

Well, we are currently 64 days from our wedding day! Lots of things are being put in a row at this point! Sorry for the lack of updates, but it's been a crazy time recently! So, here's where we are at!

We had engagement photographs taken: http://www.martiniphotography.com/weddings2011/JenniferLauranEngagement.html

Invitations went out a couple of weeks ago. Lauran had the very great help of MooseL and Aude, and the art of the lovely Jennifer Kennedy to help make out invitation just beautiful. Here are some photos of the invitation:
This is the front.

 This is the inside

 This is the back complete with the very pretty red envelopes we got at Paper Source here in Portland.

Every single one was individually hand stamped and sealed. We had a fun little party and with the help of Jason and Deana and Wendy and Chris it was all done very quickly! We also used Garden of Love stamps.

I ordered red love mugs from Mug Revolution of Bend, OR for my bridesmaids. Once I get the actual mugs I will get some photos of them and the super cute gift bags that we found for them. But, here's at least an image to give an idea:

We went yesterday and got all of the men's wedding stuff sorted out with Men's Wearhouse. All of the groomsmen should have the information, but if you need it again just let us know! I have only seen 2 of my bridesmaids dresses, so I am anxiously looking forward to seeing my last two, both Michelles by the way. :)

We took advantage of the back-to-school sales and got colored pencils and pens for our guest book pages. I am very excited to see all of the things our friends and family write down for us!

My mother will be doing all of the bouquets, and we've decided to go with artificial flowers rather than real flowers just for ease of handling and we don't really have a dozen refrigerators to hold flowers in to keep them fresh. Here's some images of the flowers I had managed to find! I have more than this, but they're not on my computer yet.

Today I went in for dress fitting (yay! no alterations needed!) and for having my dress bustled! I will get to pick it up on September 16th and it will have all of the bustling things put in. Here are some photos from my fitting!

These are my wedding shoes!

Deana, Lauran and I also were shopping at FancyFlours.com and got some really good cake decor and cupcake things!

These will go on the sides of our wedding cake.

 These will also go on our wedding cake

These are the cupcake liners were using for the cupcakes!

Well, that's about it for now! Stay tuned as we get closer!!!

253 Days to Go!

Well, we have 253 days left before the big day! And some things have finally been locked into place! It's been a very busy couple of days!

1. We have finally SET THE DATE. It is locked in and going nowhere! Sunday October 23rd, 2011 at 1pm.

2. We have set some of our musical things! The intro for the ceremony will be a slack key guitar hawaiian lullaby version of Pachelbel's Canon. It's a beautiful cover. Our first dance song: Make You Feel My Love by Adele. Father/Daughter dance: My Little Girl by Tim McGraw. Throwing the bouquet: Little Miss Can't Be Wrong by Spin Doctors. Throwing the Garter: Girls Girls Girls by Motley Crue. Last song of the night: Goodbye Goodbye by Oingo Boingo We still need to figure out some other songs, but that's what we've got!
Here is a link to our music list!!

3. Yesterday we went to Shane Company and we purchased our rings!
The one near the top of my finger is my wedding ring. It has to be custom ordered, so it will be to me in 6-8 weeks. They have to make it in my size and hand pick the diamonds and sapphires for it! It's beautiful!

Lauran got a Titanium band that looks like this:

4. We ordered our guestbook from the Guestbook Store. The cover looks like this:

The inside is the casual style pages. They are double sided and give folks a chance to fill out stories and memories and draw pictures. It will be something nice for people to do between the ceremony and the food and dancing.

5. We set our date and paid our deposit and signed the contract for our venue and for our photographer! We will also be putting down to have engagement photos taken a little later in the spring when the cherry blossoms are out! We are having it at the Troutdale House and our photographer is Martini Photography.

6. I am thinking of buying this garter from Etsy:

7. We did get our reservation at the condo in Maui set up! We just need to buy plane tickets and preorder for some of the activities we want to do! :)

Going to sign up for vendors!

We have an appointment on Saturday morning to go put down deposits and sign contracts with our venue and our photographer!
Our wedding will be October 23rd, 2011 at The Troutdale House by the Sandy River.
http://www.thetroutdalehouse.com/
Our photographer will be Martin Burlus of Martini Photography
http://www.martiniphotography.com/

I am really excited to finally get things settled and locked in!

I am also starting to put together a bunch of pictures of us for a slide show and collecting music for the wedding reception mix CD. If anybody is willing to volunteer to run music the few times it needs to be done, please feel free to comment or email me at moredena@gmail.com. It won't be overly hard! I promise!

We did pick up some stuff to do the wedding scrapbook, which I am excited to do once we get pictures! Joanne's was having a 40% off sale on all of their paper stuff so we got a really good deal! :)

We got a quote on our Save the Date postcards. We need 50 of them and it's gonna cost about $35 to get them done. Still need to figure out invitations though...

Things are really starting to happen!!!

Also, I updated the main wedding website as well!

Wedding Food Plans

So, after pricing various catering services and not wanting to spend $500+ on burritos... I think we're going to do DIY hors d'oeuvres and punch. It will be a mid-day affair so it shouldn't be too hard for folks to have lunch before they come and we will end the party with cupcakes!

Food we are going to serve:
Veggie platter (various veggies and ranch dip)
Fruit platter (tropical, melons and berries)
Tortilla chips with salsa and guacamole
Potato chips and dip (ranch and french onion)
Cheese and crackers (3-4 kinds of cheese and crackers)
Potato salad
Cocktail wieners in BBQ sauce

The potato salad can be made a few days ahead and the fruits and veggies will involve a lot of prep time but I think it will be totally do able. We will be taking volunteers to help!

It's Been A While!

Not much has happened in the wedding planning world for us. A lot of things have already been decided on. We're just getting our deposits in for photographer and venue and such. We did get the artwork for our Save the Date postcards though! This was done by the wonderful Jennifer "Taen" Kennedy.

It will match really well with the picture she did of us getting married that you can see at the top of the page. 


In other world news, we did finally decide on colors for the wedding party!

To those of you in the wedding party! Here are your colors! (As seen in the David's Bridal catalogue) These colors to match up with Men's Warehouse!

As a side note, the men will get a discount and the women will get a discount on purchasing dresses and renting tuxes if you mention our names when you make your reservations! :D

Michelle Weaver and Jason Reynolds will be wearing Espresso

Michelle Brady and Kevin Clark will be wearing Cognac

Amanda Lack and Kris Thompson will be wearing Tangerine

Deana Reynolds and Edwin Wendell Dean III will be wearing Plum (Deana's dress only came in plum and it was close enough to lapis to do!)

If you need want to have an idea of length (about the knee) and other fun details!:

http://jirrisandmoredenawedding.blogspot.com/2010/05/today-i-bought-dress.html  has a pretty darn good post on it. As long as you don't go floor length I am okay.

As for Shoes! Ladies I want you in Converse All Stars. I am trying to decide if I want you to have color matching to your dresses (which might be difficult to find) or have you guys in classic black with white trim while I wear the solid white. 

PS: Michelle W- you may wear strappy fun shoes after all of the wedding pictures are taken. <3

We still need to decide on catering and what we're gonna do about that. SIGH. I am still thinking burrito bar! But not sure it will be a decent price to get it catered or if DIY would be better. Or to just serve light snacks and vegetables. Decisions Decisions! The wedding will start at about 1pm, so that's a good enough hour to not NEED to serve a full meal. I dunno yet.

I know we decided on cupcake flavors and I thought I wrote them down but I seemed to have not written them down. I know Deana has them though! And they will be delicious!

Our reservation for our honeymoon has been made at Ka'anapali Beach Club in Maui! Another big thank you out to my grandparents! I am looking forward to my first trip to Hawaii!