Wedding planning: the search for invitations

So one of the things I've been having a difficult time nailing down for the wedding is invitations. This is for a number of reasons, mostly that I don't want to pay more than $1/invite and I don't like pictures of mason jars. So that eliminates a lot of the options out there.

The other problem is my taste is apparently more expensive than what I'm willing to spend on invitations. I like things in off white with raised borders, not too flowery. So letter press style. Once I figured that out about my style it made it a little easier to search for things and I ordered some samples from Ann's Bridal Bargains.

I loved loved this calla lily invitation. Sadly, it's folded like a card (so kind of small) and the paper is thin.

I love the delicate flowers

It's kind of weird that it's a card.

The size and paper of this invite with roses was nicer and Cooper liked it but to me the roses were just too old lady. I also accidentally ordered a sample with the roses colored yellow and green and that's super weird. 

I liked this invitation with the border but Cooper did not. It's sort of shiny and sparkly so that's the part he didn't like. The size and paper were good again though.

I did some more searching last night and come up with three more invites that I've ordered samples of. This time from David's Bridal (who knew they did invites?).

First, an invite with a raised celtic border.

Second, another rose invite. Not my favorite of the three but I'm willing to see it in person since Cooper likes it.

Last, a plain framed border invite. This is my favorite of the three, hopefully it looks good in person. I like that it's simple with clean lines. I'm worried it's a little too plain but we'll see.

Wedding planning progress update

We accomplished a lot on the wedding planning front this week. In no particular order here are the things we did:

Called two different florists to set up consults for people flowers.
We called one place my sister recommended but the lady was weird, initially telling Cooper that he should call back in January because we don't know what we want yet. It turns out they also didn't deliver all the flowers Tammy ordered and didn't bother telling her, just changed what they were giving her and assumed that'd be ok without asking. This is sending up big red flags. We might cancel the consult because of this.

We called another place that seemed much more on top of it and we will meet with them in a few weeks.

Work on center pieces with Tammy
My sister's mother in law Tammy is passionate about flowers. When I told her initially I wasn't going to do much flowers-wise she was horrified and offered to help. Which was very thoughtful of her. And I have to hand it to her, she has great taste. We chatted with her a few weeks ago about colors and flower types and she ordered some samples and put together some center piece ideas with the candle sticks left over from Caitlin's wedding. It looks amazing. She'll order all the flowers and we will just get a group together to assemble the center pieces the day before the wedding. Perfect task for aunts and others who want to help.

Booked the honeymoon
My grandma is gifting us the use of her time share in Mexico for the honeymoon. My dad booked the hotel a few weeks ago and then on Monday we booked our flights! Initially our only flight options were either 6am flight Sunday after the wedding or spend 25 hours getting there. At the last moment we found an 8am flight for just a little bit more, score!

Dress!!!!!!!
I ordered my wedding dress at the beginning of Feb. and hadn't heard anything from the bridal shop. So it's been on my to-do list for a while to call them and check in. I called this afternoon and they said they had also noticed that it was late and had contacted the manufacturer and the dress should be shipping tomorrow. Yay! I'm so excited to see it. Hopefully it'll be in before my mom visits next month and I can show her, she hasn't' gotten to see me in it yet since she was in Hawaii when I bought it. I'm really hoping it is perfect since I got a few things changed from the sample so I haven't seen it exactly the way I ordered it. But I'm sure it'll be good.

Rehearsal
The rehearsal dinner is starting to take shape. We've at least decided what kind of thing we wanna do so that's a step in the right direction at least.