All planning, all the time

Gads, less than 90 days to the big event.  And it looms large...

Good thing The Boy moved out when he did: we turned his former bedroom into Wedding Planning Central.  Centerpiece of the room is the giant planning board.  Color coordinated (of course), and kept up-to-date by the Wedding Planner Extraordinaire.

She said today that she is the love-child of Martha Stewart and Bob Vila.  I believe it.

Favors for Book-themed Wedding

I am not a nick-knack person.  I generally see them as dust-gatherers.

And I don't believe that many of the wedding favors pushed by the wedding-industrial complex are welcomed by their recipients.  Who really wants a tiny jar of bubble soap?  Or barware engraved with our names or initials?

Our solution: bookmarks.  And children's books.

Each wedding guest who wants will be invited to take a children's book with them.  I hope that they will be loved, and read, and passed on to other children.

Sea of Blue/Teal/Aqua

Our colors are aqua and pewter, with touches of eggplant/deep plum.  We seem to have a plethora of blue shades at work here.

Clockwise from top left: (1) Sweetie's dress shirt, purchased for the wedding (she may not end up wearing it though); (2) Junior bridesmaid's dress, with swatch color card for reference; (3) ribbon fabric, will be combined with white tulle for the altar arch; (4) fabric for table decor; (5) embellished felt, for possible decoration; (6) the original inspiration fabric.
 

Blue landscape glass, for table centerpieces.

 Confidential for MB: is the color of the bag on the left too bright?  The flocked fabric on the right will be a table covering (gift table, most likely), the tulle in the center will adorn the bar area as bunting.  I have several of the purple bags--you can see they hold 4 pictures--but don't have a plan for how they might be used.

Got the Guest Book

Thanks to a timely coupon from Shutterfly, we made our Guest Book as a photo book, using one of the templates available on the site.

I won't say it was child's play, but it seemed pretty straightforward.  (Especially with Sweetie doing most of the work.)  We peppered the book with Selfies; seemed pretty cheesy, but fun.

I have seen good Shutterfly coupons from Groupon, from Coke Rewards, from the bridal shows we have attended, and from being on their email list from previous purchases.

Wedding Sewing/Crafting

That other post is taking care of sewing goals not related to my upcoming wedding, but I need a place to keep track of wedding sewing and crafting.  And my mind is reeling from all the To-Do lists I am trying to hold in there, so better to write it all down in one location.

1.  Oakie outfit
2.  Button/brooch bouquet
2.  Take in shoulders on Junior Bridesmaid dress
3.  Table runner for the cake table
4.  Ribbon streamers for the arbor
5.  Underlayer for table toppers
6.  Groom's gift
7.  Cover-up for the winery's statue

Only if there's time...
8.  Curtain poetry
9.  Knit boy briefs zip pouch
10.  Kleenex couch(es)

More Program-ish Ideas

I already mentioned the Wolfpack Program. (I sent this idea to my graphic design-y friend, and she is doing the artwork for me)  But I keep thinking of ways to entertain, surprise, delight, and inform our guests.  (Our wedding theme is "Loving, living and learning" and is represented with books and lots of text.)

One example of our text-y deliciousness

Mad Libs.  I really like this idea, since it goes so well with our book/wordy theme.  Found downloads for 6 different templates at Something Turquoise here and here.

I want to use something similar to the Mad Libs, but just like the I Spy cards I already bought from Green-Eyed Girl Productions, they are too traditionally gendered for a same-sex couple such as Sweetie and I.  Sigh.  Well... it just gives me more impetus to personalize.

Program Ideas

Yes, I probably would have known so much more about this if I went on Pinterest.  But it's a bad, bad place for a person with ADD such as myself.  Even more of a Pandora's box than the Interwebs themselves (which are already pretty bad)

Wolfpack Program (go ahead, look it up if you must; if you already know what it is, you are probably rolling your eyes at this point and saying "Geez!" at my clear lack of wedding culture knowledge)

Shamelessly stolen from: www.southboundbride.com/diy-wolfpack-wedding-programs/

Maybe I can get my seriously-talented almost-a-professional-graphic-artist friend to work on this one. 

While I'm at it, great compilation site for wedding ideas and DIY blogging info:
Wedding Bee