For the last few weeks wedding planning has kicked into high gear. Since my grad school classes ended at the beginning of May, I have had more time to think about the big day.
In that time I have:
1. Cut 3500 strips of vellum for paper chains
2. Ordered 4 pairs of shoes from Zappos to see which one would look best with my dress
3. Ordered a custom-made veil from a vendor on Etsy from Germany.
4. Thought of a very clever gift for our wedding party (hopefully they like it)
5. Painted another 45 candlesticks and am ordering 15 more for good measure (actually had tremendous help from, Mom, Sister, Gandy, and Dan on this one)
6. Designed and started cutting out doilies for the table settings (Mom cut out the rest)
7. Calculated to Nth degree how much of everything we need for the table settings, hopefully I am right, or else someone is going to have an empty table.
8. Finished writing little bios about our wedding party, which will go up on the website this weekend!
9. Started looking for an alternative caterer for our rehearsal dinner.
10. Last but definitely not least Jon, Leo, and I, with help from their little brood, started making the invitations, it has taken several hours so far and we are still not finished but I am really happy with what it looks like. I know everyone getting theirs in the mail (probably in August) will see the hard work, planning, and love that went into each invite. Each invite is hand torn, has a screenprinted design that Jon pulled (and I designed) and will have a letterpressed message on the backside, the same with the reply cards.
I cannot thank them enough for their patience and determination to see this project to the end. They have been so helpful and wonderful it is no wonder why I never wanted to leave Trinity and become a lifelong student.
There is plenty that still needs to happen, I still need to finish designing and cutting the papel picado decorations, get my dress altered, put down deposits for the last of my vendors and put all of the missing pieces together, somehow though I am starting to see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel even though it is far away and faint.