All Married Up - intro to the NEW hesper blog

It's been almost 1 month exactly.

May 1, 2009 all of my stresses and my fears, my future and my present mashed together. I got married. And it was great. It was incredibly stressful and frustrating until right before I walked down the aisle.

EVERYTHING I'd heard from my girlfriends, is true. Once you see all of your friends and family members, the people you had to handpick to be a part of your most important day, nothing else really matters. When you reach the altar and see your husband to be with tears swelling in his eyes, who cares what the centerpieces looked like, or that a whole table name/number went missing, or that you forgot to give the DJ 3 songs you wanted played... Well, that last one we didn't realize until we were about to enter the reception. Thank God for the digital age...

Everybody who was there keeps telling me how FUN my wedding was! It's so nice to hear! They also say it was beautiful, because it was. The place was gorgeous, the wedding party looked great, my husband wore the most handsome colors in his tux and I felt like a princess in my brand new Maggie Sottero designer gown I had bought on ebay.

I would LOVE to offer any tips and advice on the whole wedding thing, based on my experience. You REALLY have NO IDEA how rough and frustrating it is until you go through it. I have a lot of great stories I'm going to share on this blog. A lot of great pictures, too! Please feel free to contact me if you want advice or info. In the meantime, check back in for the updates.

Escort Cards

Because we've gone a different route than the standard table numbers, I was thinking about putting the image from the film and perhaps the title on the escort card itself.

So, it would kind of look like;




Michael & Alisha Savage


War of the Worlds table





OR I guess we could have a table number as well, but still the image, so they can easily match up the tables to their cards.

Another idea to help the themes mesh, would be to put a layer of unbuttered OR color-coated caramel popcorn around the escort cards. Similar to this;


I want to make sure the B-Movie theme doesn't feel or look like it came from left field, even though it kind of does. But it ties in with the cake, so the table numbers and escort cards, and escort card table, should help keep is solid. Right?

Table Numbers

SPOILER ALERT!!

Seriously, if you want to be surprised by our cool table numbers, then don't look any further.

They match our cake! They have nothing to do with the overall, young-love-in-springtime theme we got going on, but we came up with the cake design and wanted to compliment it.

For The Little Ones!

The Flower Girl dress has been chosen!

For the Bridesmaids and MOH

Done! I realized I just HAD to make a decision. And it was so easy to go round and round about it because I want to be considerate to each woman's size and shape and bank account. But in the end, I'd love you all to look cute, and kind of wearing the same thing and I've been stressing WAAAAAAAY too much over it, so here you go! Check out the size chart and, if you want to, contact the shipper. If you'd prefer to have me order all of them, I can do that, but 1 of you lives in seattle and 2 of you live in Portland and the other 2 I barely get to see, so it may be best to order it on your own.

I really like this dress because it's super cute and it has an optional shawl and shoulder straps. Shoe's are a whole different thing.

Wedding Colors

I know I bought my favors in blue and silver already, but I'm thinking about changing up the colors. To what, I do not know. But something more springtime.

I think the general theme for the wedding should be "Young love in springtime" which sounds totally gay, but you at least get the idea. And I need to figure it out before we dye the dress and before we make the invitations. Which is now.

This is a template of colors available from our wedding location, for table settings.

Dresses for the girls!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

THIS is the year I get married. What?! Crazy. But seriously, reality has smacked me in the face on Jan 1st knowing that I would be celebrating my wedding day in EXACTLY 4 MONTHS!! What happened to the time?? Everyone kept saying "you've got time" and now, I don't! Aaah!

So, back to business I guess. The MOH (Maid of Honor, duh!) is going to be the only one standing during the ceremony, so realistically she should be the only one wearing a specific dress we pick out, leaving the bridesmaids to wear what they want, right? Or no?

The bridesmaids will walk down the aisle and will be in pictures. I was thinking of doing a separate flower/corsage/boutonniere for bridal party. I don't know. If money wasn't an option for anybody (and it is for everybody) then I'd pick out different dresses in the exact same color, and same length for everyone - and it would be one they could wear again.

As of today, Kelly (MoH) and I have decided to see about dying the dress I wore in my engagement photos a blue color. I know I got my moneys-worth because I bought it at a thrift store for $7.
This is the winner


If we are able to dye it blue, that is the dress she will wear. Here's another dress I had her try on. I found it in mint condition at a thrift store for $10 (the tag is still on it, little yellow thing in the corner - not part of the dress). It's the right color and fits well, but I prefer tea length and I don't think Kelly was crazy about it.


And lastly, this may be just me showing off a bit, this is a dress I sewed. It's an olive black color with gold highlights. And it looks pretty good. Now, if we just go with, "wear whatever, who cares" then someone could wear this!


Thoughts? Theories? Zen moments of merriment and wonder? ... yeah, I don't know what that means either.