DIY, What was I thinking?

So being the graphic designer that I am, I of course wanted my invitations to be a reflection of my own personal style and taste. It's been challenging finding paper that will work with my color scheme and design, but finally I found the perfect stock. TextStyle Designs is the cheapest company that I found you could buy Envelopments from and PaperSource is where I found the most beautiful and rich chartreuse green card stock I've ever seen. Everything was going so well. I found my paper, I finished my design, I then ordered my paper, but when it came in there was a problem. My original design of was a 5x7 folded gate card, but I ordered those from TextStyle Designs and the beautiful chartreuse A7 envelopes from PaperSource and the cards didn't fit inside the envelopes. Oh No!!!! Just one more mistake in this bumpy ride I'm on called "Wedding Planning". Well I couldn't panic, I wanted to but I really couldn't. Unfortunately I wasn't going to be able to return the paper stock and I wasn't going to order more because I have already spent too much as it is on these things. So I had to come up with a new design that I could use everything I already had and use it to come up with a fabulous result. This all really reminded me of problems I faced in design school. After a long night of thinking I came up with a new design that I liked even more that my original design. However, it was going to take some work. So it began. Yesterday my mom and I sat down to start our invitation "pocket making" adventure. We worked about 6 hours and got 100 pockets made. That's pockets only, not invitations. That means only 150 pockets to go. Then we have to assemble the invitation part and then put them all together, address them, apply postage, and then mail them off. I think there is about 20 steps to this project so for those of you who receive one next month, just know I put a lot of blood sweat and tears into the making them. I will post the final product when they are completely assembled.

London Bridge is Falling Down on the Eiffel Tower

Strange title, I know, but it got your attention right? As my wedding is nearing (Only 2 months and 5 days to go) I think reality is finally sinking in that this whole amazing event is actually going to happen. I'm so excited about the wedding. I've been taking charge of planning everything, and while Brandon is quite the involved groom, his main contribution has always been the honeymoon. I realized that I haven't talked about our honeymoon plans. So here goes.

Well at first we thought we would take a cruise. It's safe. We know what we would be in for, and we could afford it. Then we thought well maybe we would take a trip to New York. I've always wanted to go there, but we just didn't know if that was something we really wanted to do. We kinda put off thinking about the honeymoon when out of the blue we get a very exciting email from Brandon's uncle Dewayne that changed everything. You see, Dewayne's wife Sharla, works for Continental Airlines, and since they love us so much, they decided as a wedding present they would fly us wherever we wanted to go to in the world. Isn't that amazing? I mean what do you do with that kind of information? Well first we were in shock. We then jumped up and down in delight. We then sat down and not calmly but rationally started to write down places we might want to go. We thought about Ireland, Australia, Greece, Hawaii, Italy, and even Japan, but when I really thought about the one city I've always wanted to go it was Paris. Paris, France can you even imagine? I'm just a simple girl from Lubbock, TX who is obsessed with culture and art and I'm going to the center of the renaissance world for my honeymoon. It's too good to be true. After doing some more research, however, the trip got even more exciting when we decided to make it a double city venture and take on London as well. So it was set and now it's really happening.

We got our itinerary this week from Sharla. We will leave the Thursday after we get married and fly to London. We will be in London for til that Tuesday and take the train to Paris. We will be in Paris from Tuesday to Sunday. What a whirlwind!!! I'm so excited. In London we plan on doing all the main site seeing stuff as well as seeing a play and taking a tour out to Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and Bath. In Paris, we of course will be going to the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Versailles, river ride on the Siene, and the Orsay Museum and so much more hopefully. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with Brandon and what a wonderful way to start our life together. Thanks Dewayne and Sharla!!!

Brittany & Jonathan's Wedding

The day finally arrived. My baby brother got married this past Saturday in Austin. It was amazing. I loved every minute of it. I cannot believe how perfect the day was and how wonderful everyone looked. Of course he cried. What a sap! But can you really blame him, his bride was so beautiful. Now I have a sister :) Here are some pictures from the gorgeous event.

Rehearsal Dinner Stubb's Bar-B-Q January 2, 2009







The Wedding Day January 3, 2009