Today’s wedding nonsense was to finalize the save-the-date magnet and announcement postcard designs so we could get them ordered. I used 123Print.com for the save-the-dates and ordered 40 business-card size laminated magnets. For the engagement announcements, we ordered 100 5×7 inch full-color postcards from Uprinting.com. I also looked into custom postage from Zazzle (more for [...]

Because of my general aversion to most flowers, I have been throwing around the possibility of carrying an “alternate” bouquet for a while now. My original thought was to carry a handful of clovers, since we’re doing a sort-of luck theme, but clovers are very small and the stems aren’t really condusive to bunching for [...]

It seems that, for most girls, one of the first and most important decisions made for their wedding is what to wear. They shop tirelessly for their perfect dream dress and often purchase it before even setting a date. I, however, am not most girls.
I hate dresses and I have probably only worn them [...]

When I first started planning, I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t buy into the corporate wedding trap of custom cake toppers, fancy tossing garters, engraved champagne glasses and other silly wedding nonsense.
But then I stumbled across this:

It’s ridiculously vain, completely unnecessary and I have to have it. I also found these little [...]

This week I went on my very first wedding shopping trip to pick up the vases we’re using as centerpieces:

The two big drum vases will be filled with water and green apples. The three tall, skinny vases will be filled with water and whole limes, and then topped with flowers and curly willow like the [...]