Centerpiece Mock up II

Hello my lovlies, I had an earlier post where I showed my tablescape among other little projects. I got good feedback on it, but like all my other consumed bride colleagues, who are constanly scouring the world wide web for even more inspiration. For those of you who didn't see it, here's a pic of the original idea:

Bear in mind that this is my cardbox and if I go with this option, it will be slightly smaller and shorter but the concept will be the same.

Here's the second option with the lights on:


and with the lights off:
So I need your honest opinion, the boxes would cost about half what the vases would cost but I would honestly go with whichever is prettier since either option is within our budget. Which one do you like best?
TTFN (ta ta for now).

My First Giveaway!

I am really happy to announce MY FIRST GIVEAWAY! When I started this blog, it was from inspiration from Shooting for a $3,000 wedding. I googled "$3,000 wedding" and her blog came up. So thank you PandBwedding. I wanted somewhere to air my views and keep my ideas and projects organised but I never imagined it would be this much fun and generally give me such a good feeling, and for that I want to express my gratitude. Also I have 10 followers now. 10 people who actually pay attention to what I say (or write) who don't even know me. YAY!

Since I have no sponsors and no money (he he), my giveaway has to be something handmade by me. So without further ado, I would like to make one of you lovely ladies a card box. If you go to my previous Cardbox post, you can see my handiwork, although that one was my first attempt and I had lots of issues. I have since been able to really perfect my craft so don't worry, it'll be really pretty.

So this is how you enter, the winner will let me know what their colors and style are. To enter:
1. Become a follower of my blog
2. Blog about this giveaway and post a link to your blog.
Since I'm not on facebook or twitter, these are the only methods of entering. Contest ends January 15th and the winner will be announced on January 16th.

Make sure to leave a way to contact you.
Good luck ladies and TTFN (ta ta for now).

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)

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.