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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Project Updates

I've been a busy bee these last 2 days working on my cardbox. Remember I showed you a picture of the card box that I wanted fromThe Wedding Main Street, it costs $119 plus shipping and taxes.

Well I decided that I didn't want to pay that amount of money for a cardbox, plus it just wasn't in the budget, so...

I thought that maybe I should try to make one myself considering how great a DIYer I am. (modest right?) So I shopped around for aqua wrapping paper cuz I didn't think I could paint or spray paint a box well enough. Anyway it turned out that I found Tiffany wrapping paper from Sophie's Favor's, a little on the pricey side at $11.99 but the boxes were free from the shoe store and I bought the ribbon from Michael's for about $2 and the rhinestones for $1 for a pack of 120. So all in all, it cost me about $15 for my pretty cardbox.

So ladies, tell me what you think. TTFN (ta ta for now)

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Wine and Cake

In keeping with my crystal theme, I wanted my wine glasses to be crystal. Not for all the guests but for us and maybe the wedding party tables. The prices for crystal glasses were out of this world. Like these here from Waterford cost $100 for 4.

Tiffany had these beauties for $40 each.

That was the case with all my searches. I however have an account with Macy's and they occasionally (and by occasionally, I mean all the time) send me sales brochures, catalogues and coupons. Last summer a friend of mine was visiting from the Caribbean and wanted to go there, so I browsed through the brochure to see what deals she could get and voila, there they were

and the really great part was that they cost $26 for 4 of each set. Just for that day however, there was a coupon that could be used to bring the price down to $9.99 for 4. Thank you Shirley Ann! If I hadn't been looking for sales for her, I would never have found them. I was able to get 32 crystal glasses for $80 making it $2.50 each and I can use them in my house after. Service for 8, yay! I got 8 of each, water glasses, wine glasses, champagne flutes and liquor glasses. That takes care of us and our wedding party.

Our cake knife and server had to also be in the crystal family and of course everywhere I looked they cost an arm and a leg until I went to walmart to look for Thomas DVDs for my son. There they were on sale for $9.97. I was lucking out everywhere.

aren't they purty?

Monday, November 23, 2009

Accessories

I really want to have a tiffany "little blue box" wedding and i've tried to really stay true to that in many ways. This is my DIY ring pillow.

Similar ones sell for $24 and up. I was able to make mine for $3 and if I do say so myself, I think it's adorable. Really what's the point of spending a fortune on something that will be used for 30 minutes. I still want everything to be pretty and classy but I'm not going to keep them after the wedding so to me splurging on them is not important to me.

My card box is like the one shown here from wedding main street.

It cost $100 or something crazy like that. I made mine for the cost of the wrapping paper which was $13. I picked up shoe boxes from payless and wrapped them with the paper like presents. I bought some ribbon for $1 and a huge bow for $1.99 from Michaels and used some rhinestones that I picked up from a craft store somewhere in North Carolina for $3 for three bags of 120 each. My bow is alot bigger than the one shown here. It covers the entire top of the top box. I didn't put a picture here because it's not assembled now. I wouldn't be able to store it, since it's so high. Tiffany blue gift wrapping paper is very expensive and I looked everywhere before committing to this one from Sophie's Favors It is the exact shade.

My flower girl basket has been reassigned to being the bubble basket. Since I was told my ceremony venue (the park) won't allow flower petals, my flower girl will carry an aqua pomander made from tissue paper hung from a ribbon and my bubble wands will be placed in this basket.

I was told it looked like something from Claire's anyway. Since I made it for about $3, I don't feel so bad and I still get to use it for something else. I'll give it to my flower girl when we're done.

These are my cute little aqua bubbles that i'm going to tie a sheer white ribbon to.

TIFFANY BLUE BRIDE- Can Anyone say blue?

I've always adored turquoise, aqua, teal and every light shade of blue. For anyone who knows me, it was a pretty obvious choice as to what my wedding colors would be.

We decided that our colors would be aqua/tiffany blue and white. Our theme initially started out as butterflies (my other absolute favorite thing) and I was so excited about that but the more I researched aqua or turquoise, the more tiffany came up, so I found myself leaning more into that theme. I may still have a few butterflies in there but nothing too noticeable. so my new theme is the 'Tiffany Blue Box'.

Once we decided on the "Tiffany Blue Box", I decided to add some crystal and silver elements to it to give it a little sparkle.

Most of the time, its pretty hard to find a true tiffany blue - it's called robin's egg, aqua, pool, light turquoise and even sometimes mermaid among other things. I've decided that it doesn't really matter if they're not all the same thing, as long as they're in the same family. I actually think that the different shades make it more interesting.

The bright white will contrast nicely with the various blues, there's going to be just enough bling from the crystals to give it that extra sparkle and small pieces of silver will be spread around for an additional little shiny element.

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