Reception Details

Last Thursday my mom and I made a well needed trip to The Reception Room to pick out and see all the details for the reception. We are going for an elegant and romantic look, so lots of candles, lighting and flowers. Going to do satin chair covers, organza sashes, organza flocking overlays and table runners. Will be alternating colors on the tables. Our wedding colors are light blue, chocolate brown and white. Here is a sneak peak...

Head table will be something like this one above but in our colors. No fabric draping over the back though, and the front will have both brown and blue draping across it. Table and backdrop will have up lighting behind them not string lights and table will be bunched together in random sections with rhinestone buckles. Will be draping the ceiling with four wide panels of white tulle with string lights and they will get connected to the center hoop chandelier. For centerpieces we will be alternating between the centerpiece I posted earlier and white lighted lanterns with blue hydrangeas. So excited, I can't wait to see all these details come together!!!

Hello, Cupcakes!!

For our wedding we are doing both cupcakes and cake. The cake will be just for us to cut and cupcakes will be for the guest. We are fortunate enough that my fiances SIL owns her own cupcake shop which makes things so much easier for us. Picking out flavors was so hard, they are all amazing and she has over 100 flavors to choose from. I have changed my mind so many times!{smiles} But for now this is what we ended up picking... key lime pie, blue velvet, cherry limeade, dark chocolate raspberry, apple pie ala yum, pb cup. classic vanilla.

 Dark Chocolate Raspberry

 Red Velvet(ours will be blue), PB Cup, Dk Choc. Rasp.

Apple Pie ala Yum

http://amescupcakes.com/   http://www.facebook.com/AmesCupcakes

Cricut Creations

My wonderful fiance got me a cricut machine for my birthday this last March and I absolutely LOVE it! You can not believe all the things this machine can do, it's incredible. You can buy all kinds of cartridges, they have fonts, holidays and special occasions, some tv shows, batman and superman etc. I bought two specifically for our wedding not to long ago, Tie the Knot and Bridal Shower. Here are a few creations I have made with the machine so far with these two cartridges.

Here is what the cartridges look like. 

Bridal Shower/Bachelorette Party Invites

 

 Invites will either be inside or on the back

               

Place cards and Favor Boxes...you can make them in many sizes and with any color card stock 

Bridal Shower Purse Game

One game I want to play at my shower is called The Purse Game,  I made them using microsoft word. It took some time typing it all out and making the boxes perfect but after all that I really like the way it came out. I couldn't decide on just one color to make the umbrellas along the outside so made some in black and some in teal. I think it could be trimmed down a little more and a purple ribbon at the top. Will have to mess around with different ideas and see what I end up doing!

My Beautiful Ring

Of coarse I have to show you all my amazing e-ring!

Transportation

For our wedding we are having two different types of transportation, a limo for the wedding party and a large bus for all our wedding guest. Since we our having an open bar all night we wanted to make sure our guest get home safely! Ceremony and reception our both in small towns, only about 15 minutes from each other. Where the reception venue is there are no hotels, that is how small it is :) Since most of our guest live in the town were the ceremony will take place and the hotel is at, we made sure there was an option for the guest to get back. We want everyone to be able to stay and have a wonderful time and not have to worry about how they are going to get home that night.  We are having a larger wedding since everyone can't fit on the bus all together at once the bus will take shifts every half hour/hour.  So everyone can come and go as they please :D The bus will take them to the hotel or even take them directly to their homes depending on how full the bus is of coarse.

Wedding Party Limo is an Escalade!

http://www.npilimoservice.com/vehicles.cfm

Wedding Guest Bus! 

http://www.midwestcoaches.com/

Kim Kardashian Wedding vs. Average Wedding

 

Brilliance Loose Diamonds

Kim actually went through three Vera Wang dresses during her wedding night. Wow!

Average Cost of a Wedding

So when I was searching a wedding blog today I can across something very interesting. The question is what is the average cost of vendors/details for a wedding and the over all cost of the wedding for 2012.

I found this to be a little bit surprising but also very helpful by knowing what to spend on certain things. A lot of them were spot on and a few were kinda crazy. Like spending over 6,000 on just a wedding planner alone. (crazy right?) Now a days I feel like most are diy kinda brides so wedding planners aren't really needed. I think it would be an absolute blast to be a wedding planner or even to have one but not for that chunk of change. I think I will just stick to myself and my family as my wedding planners. (smiles).

We have lucked out a lot on our expenses for our wedding by my fiance being a wedding dj,  his sister in law having her own cupcake shop and family friend doing the catering :)  Also just from being from a small town with an amazing community! Everyone has been so generous and thoughtful with wanting to help us out with the wedding. We are so grateful!


Happy Planning!

Check it out here http://www.weddingstats.org/average-cost-of-a-wedding.html.

http://www.austinweddingblog.com/