Its all over!

and it went beautifully...

Sight Visit

We went and met with the venue today, for a finalization of a lot of the details. I got the lay out of the room, finalized the menu, finalized the rehearsal dinner, picked out the linens, checked on the tent, we did everything!

The only thing that took me by surprise was the linens. I thought we would get chocolate brown but they didn't have it as an option anymore! So we ordered Rust, which is quickly becoming our third color. The guys ties are rust, rust is the accent color in the bouquets, so it makes sense to add rust in the napkins! Here is a sneak preview:

Rehearsal Dinner

Turns into second reception (technically first reception)! We decided to have a BBQ as our rehearsal dinner on Friday evening. I really wanted to use the tent and have it be casual and at the resort. But our caterer pointed out that many of our guests might be around and having a BBQ in front of them without inviting them would be weird and kind of rude. So we decided to extend the invite to all of the guests coming in Friday night (thinking that it wouldn't be more than half!) well it turns out almost ALL of our guests will be there Friday night and they are all coming! This is amazing but also crazy. I'm excited because secretly (ok not so secretly) all I really wanted was a BBQ wedding reception outside under a tent to begin with! So now its on, we get to have two receptions, one practice and one real. One for me and one for him. It will be super.

A little inspiration from Wedding by Color

Guestbook

Thank you!

We have amazing friends. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G friends. They hosted a surprise Jack and Jill shower this weekend for us at our local watering whole, a German Biergarten. It was the most awesome shower EVER, and it came with the best slogan of all time.
Thank you guys so much, you truly are the best.

Cake Toppers Arrived

They are super cute! I love them. They are the perfect size too.

Almost there...

So I think the centerpiece is officially almost complete, haha. Here is the latest final version, I think there may be a few more tweaks in the works, and excuse the wrinkled pillow sheets.

The table "numbers" are going to be the different islands around the lake.

DIY Menu Board

Here is my attempt at this

1 salvaged window

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What do you think?

Inspiration

I just found this wedding, coordinated by Proud to Plan out of Pennsylvania.

I LOVE the look of this wedding and it reminded me that I wanted to do apple cider and donuts at some point in the wedding. Seems this couple had them out during the ceremony. Hmmm...

Favors

This weekend I am going to attempt to make these



for possible favors, we shall see how it works!

Cake Topper

Just ordered two of these



So we can accomplish something like this:

Bird Seed

Tackled some DIY projects this weekend. First the wedding invites and then this project.

Hopefully we will look really cute when people throw bird seed at us and it won't end up like this

Cake

A friend of ours has graciously agreed to make our cake for us for the wedding. But that is old news. The new news is that she is opening up her own shop, Too Sweet! We are super excited for her, so if you happen to be in the Albany area be sure to check her out.

Favors

I saw these on another blog and think they are super cute! Plus it would cut our carbon footprint :) I bring you Trees in a Box...

Oh I NEED this

From Etsy design Florrie Mitton

Forks

Do we need these? I think we might.

Wedding Rings

FI still needs a ring. I am loving the rings from wood-rings.com, they are amazing and when you buy a Wood-Rings.Com ring, through their partnership with American Forests, a tree is planted in America with every ring purchase! How cool is that? Here is a video (I know right a ring video?) of my favorite one so far :)

Lights!

So I keep thinking about this tent! One of my main concerns is lighting. I know that the venue has a few spot lights but soft lighting is an issue. That is I was concerned until I stumbled upon these

Apple basket lights!



Sounds like a project for FI! These baskets coupled with string lights might just be perfect...maybe too perfect.

Boating

If you remember FI's dad bought an amazing boat last year that we are hoping to fix up and take pictures in. Its prefect for a couple and super cute it just needs some work to get her running.

But the more I thought about it the more I wanted the bridal party to "escape" with us and go take pictures out on the lake! Ideally the whole bridal party will be out there with us celebrating and taking pics.

So I have started looking into renting a party boat for the get away, so we all can go out. Maybe we can even do a mini cocktail hour thingy on the boat like this:

So about this Tent...

It is good for a number of reasons. As FI pointed out its a good back-up outdoor light rain ceremony location and if the weather is beautiful its a great back-up outdoor reception location. Basically it just gives us a lot more options. While I don't necessarily LOVE its location (it just seems a little out of place to me) I do LOVE its versatility. Now on to figuring out how to decorate the thing!

We could to Chinese Laterns:


Or string lights:


Or Tulle (but this might be super expensive!):


Or we could do what all the hip kids are doing and I could start bunting: