Wedding Wednesday

Hello Ladies!

I am back again for some more Wedding Wednesday

I already mentioned on Monday that I finally got to go get my dress but since its very much wedding related I have to mention it again, of course!

now I am on to deciding what I want to do about my sash.

I personally think the belt that comes on it is too blingy and takes away from the simplicity of the dress

but I still want to dress it up a little bit. 

When we were in the store I tried it on with a different belt they sell there (middle picture) loved the two flowers but the rhinestone gems on the side are too gawdy!

So last night I decided to try my dress on at home and wanted to see what it would look like with one of the flowers I have created. Aside from the burlap on my flower being really rough looking I think I really like the look of the flower on the side with the rhinestone belt.

what do you think? 

any suggestions or etsy shops I need to check out for this?

Another very exciting thing that happened last night was Ashley over at Rustic Living posted her new designs for the ring bearer pillows! 

I was immediately over to her shop checking these babies out!!

I am in love!!! 

and I ended up ordering two of them last night for our ring bearers

I cannot wait to see them in real life!!

One other project I started working on last night was the signs I got some inspiration off of pinterest to have put outside the church and eventually the ones to put along the road directing people to our wedding.

I really didn't want to go with the tradition posterboard and some balloons so ofcourse I resorted to Pinterest from some ideas and this is what I found!

Style Me Pretty

Style Me Pretty

Katelyn James Photography

I have some boards from a barn that was torn down and my brother scored for me that has been screaming "Brittany make me into something pretty!"

So here is what I got done last night: 

I ended up painting the boards light blue and the hearts are actually orange 

I just have horrible lighting in the basement.

I just need to buy some stakes to put these on so I can put them in the ground

this one is actually going to go outside our church in the big flower pot that they have since its in the middle of a concrete jungle.

I also need to drive the route that everyone will be taking to get to the reception hall to see how many signs are needed and what direction the arrows need to be pointing.

I also got slightly distracted in Hobby Lobby last night playing around with the flowers 

and making some bouquets. We are not real sure if we getting the flowers from hobby lobby or somewhere else that has a little better looking flowers. 

We have to include daisies in the bouquets because there are daisies in the center pieces that we got from Alyssa and Nick. And I want everything to match but here is what I came up with last night.

Let me know what you think...

I am no florist so if these look ridiculous with the other flowers please let me know. 

 These are the centerpieces we have

I am planning on pulling the purple daisies our and replacing with blue daisies like the ones I have in the bouquets I put together last night and I think I am going to take the purple sticks and paint them green or blue and possibly add some burlap, lace or ribbon around the jars.

Next weekend we have the marriage counseling class at the church that I am ready to get done and over with and hopefully soon we will be getting our engagement pictures back from Blaire.

Here are two more that she posted on facebook:

Weekend Recap

I had a pretty fun weekend! 

I knew October was going to be fun and eventful and it is already going too fast.

Friday I got to go pickup my wedding dress!!!

the estimated arrival was December 3rd so I was pretty pumped when I got the email that it was in

 Friday night I was going to work on my gallery wall for my bedroom but was quickly distracted by Mr. Tank and we had a little cuddle sesh.

 Saturday we were up bright and early to go fourwheeling!

It was so nice to get back out on the rocks since we hadn't since March.

 Our playground for the day!

 just some BIG Boy Toys!

 loved this truck!!

 my traditional Oh Shit handle picture...only this time I have this pretty rock on my finger!!

Saturday night Anthony and I babysat Molly and went to a wiener roast at Aubrey's dad Jim's house.

 Sunday was filled with catching up on studying and writing papers. 

Dad surprised me with a grilled cheese sandwich!

His are always perfect, mine always fall apart.

Did all of you have a good weekend?! 

Any big plans for the month of October?

Fridays Letters

Dear Weekend, I am so excited that you are finally here. Its the last weekend of September and this girl loves October. It officially feels like fall and we have a lot going on! Just this weekend is jammed packed with fun stuff going on!

Dear Truck Bash, I am so excited that Anthony is finally getting the zuki fixed and we are going to get to go fourwheeling on Saturday with a bunch of our friends that we haven't seen forever! This girl is ready to get behind the wheel of that big toy!!

Dear Tank, I love you big boy but your aggressiveness when it comes to food or your toys has got to stop! Your scaring me buddy and Turbo and Lightning. You only have roughly 8 months and we will be living in our own place just you and Diesel with all the toys you could ever ask for and no one stealing them. Now as for one armed Looey he might not be as lucky to make it that long, but there will be many more.

Dear October, you are bringing lots of fun into my life but please take it slow so I can remember to enjoy it. We have a couple wiener roasts, a maternity session to shoot, some fall family sessions, the start of bow season starts on Saturday, Pre-Cana at our Church, Ohio State football games, a trip to the pumpkin patch and I am sure there will be more fun thrown in there. Can't wait (:

linking up at: Adventures of Newlyweds

Happy Wedding Wednesday!

I am really close to having the wedding invitation design all finished.

Originally I was planning on just ordering the invitations from a company but kept going back to my love for anything DIY and just the personal touch it takes to put into anything handmade. So after tossing the idea around for a couple months I decided "why not?" I began looking all over pinterest and other websites for ideas. After finding an amazing site called Wedding Chicks who offer free invitation suites where you can choose from one of the many designs that are available, fill in your information and then download it to your computer where you can then print them from your home printer or take them to a printer and they can do the printing for you. 

Last week I showed you the idea from pinterest that I fell in love with and decided to do my own of: 

Here is how mine turned out!

For the inside with all of the information for the wedding I used the invitation suite from Wedding Chicks which was the simple monogram one. Next I was racking my brain for a cute idea for the RSVP cards and the guest information cards to be put in the invitations.

I noticed a trend of just using a postcard for the RSVP card and I loved it but wanted to create it myself.

I ended up taking the RSVP mason jar card from Wedding Chicks and doing a little editing in picmonkey to give it some more colors. I also downloaded a mason jar digital kit from Alisa's Etsy shop - Graphic Market since we are going with the mason jar and rustic country them for our wedding. For the back of the card I once again resorted to picmonkey and created the image to be used with the RSVP information in a postcard format. 

For ordering the cards I ended up using Vistaprint and just download both my images and since this was my first time using Vistaprint account I got an amazing deal on the postcards...100 cards for $24.96 plus shipping it came out to $38.64. The postcards came in the mail on Monday and I was so excited to see they turned out just like I imagined!! 

Now I am on to designing our guest information cards, I know I am wanting a little twist with these to have our engagement pictures on them. As soon as we get our engagement pictures back from Blaire I will also be putting the finishing touches to our Save The Dates!

If you have any questions on how I designed our wedding invitations or need help with your own feel free to shoot me an email and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

A little pick me up...

While looking around for new blogs today to read I came across this amazing story. 

Do you ever find one of those blogs that is just perfect, everything is written to grab your attention, the pictures are beyond being able to be explained in words, maybe the blogger has a great story or even a great looking home with all the greatest DIY projects?

When I do find these blogs I am all over them. I literally go back to the beginning and start reading it post by post. I hope I am not the only one who does this.

Today the person I came across might not have the most gorgeous home but his story is one that will pull at your heart strings and remind you not to take anything for granted. I cannot even begin to explain to you his story. All I can tell you is go check out Taylor's story. 

I first saw it from looking at this Love Story in 22 Pictures but then followed the link over to Tim Dodd Photography's blog. There is also Taylor's Blog that I am now busy reading through! I am telling you this man's story will make you cry, smile, maybe even cry some more, and leave your heart feeling warm and a new sense of acceptance for what you might have to go through every day. From now on when I think I am having a rough day I am going to think of Taylor and quickly be reminded that things could be worse.

photo credit: Tim Dodd Photography

Fall is finally here

I had a pretty exciting weekend!!

I am loving the fall weather finally setting in in Ohio.

Friday night we were lazy and just sat around and watched movies.

Saturday Anthony and I got our engagement pictures taken

by our friend Blaire!

Who by the way is an amazing photographer, check her out on

facebook: Blaire Border Photography

 After riding in the bed of the truck on the way back from taking pictures.

 Saturday night we had a bon fire down on the sand bar along the river 

at the farm. It was a perfect night to be out except it was a little chilly

luckily we had the fire!

 It was also Jk's 19th birthday! my baby brother isn't a baby anymore ):

 Sunday I took Anthony to work and was lucky enough to get to borrow

his truck for the day! Made me miss driving my truck and having stick shift

 Blaire posted a little sneak peak of our pictures

on Sunday too!

Let me tell you, I am IN LOVE with them!!!

 We started out at the county fairgrounds where we met 7 years ago and got some pictures there
and then some at a farm! 

The rest of the weekend consisted of giving my

doggies baths and playing and lounging around outside

I also fit in some wedding crafting

and got the wedding invitations designed

so now just to get all supplies and get them all put together. 

Just another typical Saturday morning around here..

woke up to coffee kisses from Anthony

watching some early morning hunting shows in preparation 

for the coming deer season.

some VH1 Totally 80's music videos with my Dad

this is one of those things that goes on every Saturday morning.

Soon enough I am going to get my butt off

this couch and start getting ready for the day.

I have laundry to do..

dishes to wash..

and start getting ready for our engagement pictures!

I am so excited

I have had my outfits planned for 2 months now

but last night I started really putting them together and pairing them with Anthony's.

my friend Blaire is taking them for us

We are going to the fairgrounds where we met 7 years ago

and to two different farms.

I cannot wait to see how they turn out.

After reading some blogs 

taking a gand on pinterest 

I am going to get off of here until Monday in order to enjoy my weekend

Here's hoping that yours is wonderful too!

Wedding Wednesday

I am finally getting stuff done around here pertaining to the wedding!!

and it is so exciting!!!! 

there are 276 days until we say "I Do"

that is nine months to get everything wrapped up and ready to go. 

two weeks ago I posted some of the stuff I was wanting to get done 

before the end of this month and man oh man am I getting those checked off.

my list included:

-hiring a photographer

-getting our engagement pictures done

-picking or creating our save the dates

-mailing out the save the dates

-buying my wedding dress

-hiring a caterer

well last Monday I hired our photographer!!

this was a big thing for me since the pictures are what make my 

top 5 list of the most important things for our big day.

We chose the same girl that did Alyssa and Nick's wedding and I am so excited

because their's turned out amazing!!!

if you are from around the Columbus, Ohio area and are looking 

for a good photographer check her out on facebook:

TyNicolePhotography

this Saturday we are getting our engagement pictures done

by one of my really good friends and bridesmaid!

I have been looking forward to this for a long time now but for some 

reason just kept putting it off and putting it off.

Well Saturday Anthony has the day off so we are definitely getting them done then!

After we get our engagement pics then I 

can finish working on our save the dates! I have lots

of ideas but I don't want to make anything final until I have our

engagement pictures to go with. 

We pretty much have the caterer picked 

but still need to call around to a couple other places 

and possibly have a taste date at the place I really want to have do it!

On Sunday we all went up to David's Bridal

where I bought my wedding dress!

I wasn't completely sure if I was going to find what I wanted up there 

but as soon as I put the dress on I knew that it was the one!!!

I am so excited with it.

It won't be coming in until December 3rd and I am not posting any pictures

of me in it because it is a surprise!

the only picture I will post is the only one that I showed Anthony:

yes your seeing that right too!

those are my boots peeking out from under there.

Last week I ordered my wedding boots

and ofcourse I had to wear them to try on dresses.

Now the only problem is not wearing them until the big day!

aside from engagement pictures.

Everything is finally coming together and I am so excited about it! 

Everyone was right though when they said
"it will be here before ya know it!" 

Where were you?

Where was I?

I can remember it as if it was yesterday.

I was in the 5th grade at St. Thomas. Like any other Tuesday it 

was my classes turn to go to the library. 

The librarian and many other teachers were glued to the television

the majority of the time we were in there but I didn't think too much about it.

After returning to my classroom where Mrs. Sulens also had the 

other half of our class watching the tv we were filled in with what was going on.

I am not going to lie at such a young age I didn't even know what 

the twin towers were or the severity of what was going on.

The news station was kept on for the remainder of the day 

and since I went to a Catholic School the whole school actually gathered in the church 

where we prayed for all the people being involved in this horrible tragedy.

The following day at school Mrs. Sulens taught our whole class the words to

Good Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood. 

To this day I still remember this song word for word. 

This morning on my way to work I was reflecting 

on what had happened on this day 11 years ago and thanked God that

I didn't know anyone personally involved in any of the September 11th attacks 

and that I have not lost anyone defending our freedom.