Bachelorette Party

The Bachelorette Party my friend Carrie planned for me was wonderful!! We went to a resort in Port Canaveral, Florida and then went to a nice restaurant that was also an awesome dance club outsuide, who knew. It was relaxing, fun and an all around wonderful time!

Carrie and I arrived first to relax by the pool and lazy river, having yummy drinks and a nice lunch. I started with the Dirty Monkey drink and Carrie had the Liquid Sunshine, I then got a Liquid Sunshine! Carrie had the Mahi tacos with fries and I had a yummy blacked chicken wrap with onion rings that I shared with Amy.




Great minds think a like, Carrie and I both made favors and crowns for the girls.

Carrie's adorable Hangover kit.



And the favors I made to thank the girls for coming and throwing it for me!


Later Amy, Lia, Andrea, and Tara joined us and after a little more relaxing, going down the lazy river and then the water slide we moved to the huge suite for games, three homemade fresh fruit martinis from Amy that were awesome, Strawberry basil, Honeydew, and Mandarin orange, so yummy, snacks (spinach dip from Carrie is the best!!) and a giant cake Tara made, its not appropriate for this blog, but was hilarious, delicious, and huge! We had a sculpting contest with Playdough, a nice poem that Amy had written, she is the poem queen, and then a nice poem that Carrie put together, giving me underwear for the rest of my life events!






After the games we all got ready to go out for dinner, we had a very nice dinner at Millikens Reef and the girls were on a mission after to get me drunk since I wasnt yet. Sylvia joined us for dessert and we all decided to stay at Millikens for the great dancing and bars on the dock outside.


We had such a great crazy time, I love to dance and everyone was so wonderful celebrating with us. The amount of shots the girls had me do was crazy, but very very fun!! Thanks to all my wonderful fun girls for coming out and planning this for me! It was a wonderful time!!

Place cards/Escort cards

I had seen these two escort card pictures on two different blogs and wanted to do something similar for my escort/place cards and holders.


I found these brads online and thought they were perfect with the paper I decided to make the cards out of. I got them on Ebay for half the price since I couldnt find them in a local store. You cant tell but they are super cute with bright pink cherries on a bunch of them.


I found these gifts tags at the Dollar Tree and decided to use them as templates to cut just regular card stock that I printed the guests names on.



I had originally picked a Basic Grey paper, but then wanted to go a little lighter since the favor tags and menus were going to be light, so found this adorable Heidi Grace paper. It was just a coincedence that, the menus, favor labels, and place cards, all had birds on them.


Finish Product... I think they turned out cute!


For the holder I got two memory boards from Micheals when they were on sale for $9, I saw cheaper ones other places, Ross and Marshalls for around $6, but they never had two the same size, so these were fine.


I couldn't find a fabric the exact color I wanted so I went ahead and used the wrapping paper I am using for the cardbox.


Choosing the ribbons and in the order took the longest, but it was fun.


I found two holders/stands at Tuesday Morning for only $6.99 each, I decided later to spray paint them pink.


Here is the final product, escort/place cards and holders. I ended up adding more ribbon than in the picture above.

Favors

I went to a wedding in New York City 5 years ago and received a very cute candle tin and when it came time to decide on our favors I remembered this favor and tried to duplicate it, adding personalized matches and making the candles myself.



I had a ton of beige candles leftover from another event, so I looked up how to melt down the wax to reuse them.







I had to get creative with keeping the wicks up, having a ton of chopsticks help!



I got the candle tins and wicks, 4 for $1.90 with a coupon at Michaels, it took us forevery to get all of them because they were always sold out.




We got these cheeselicous perfect match matches to go with the candles.



And here is the complete look after using the boxes I got 100 for $23 from Uline, ribbon from Michaels and making our own labels

Programs

I found those two programs I really liked on Etsy and tried to combine them into one to go inside the holders I already made, and I think they turned out really nice.


I found these two square punches at Joann Fabrics for only $5.97 each, to make these square labels. I got green cardstock at Michaels for a 50 pack of 5 different colors it was only $2.50, without even using a coupon.


I just got regular 110lb cardstock at Office Depot and cut them down and folded them.


Added the labels and ribbon.


Then just printed the inside on regular paper and glued it in.


I think the final product turned out nice and looks good inside the holder for them and the bubbles.

Catch up...says Papa Tomato!

I have been so busy I am so behind on all the stuff I have been doing for the wedding! I will most likely write 4 or 5 posts just today on what I have been doing the last month for the wedding! Everything is done and with just three days a away we are super excited!!

Bridal Shower!

My bridal shower was held three weekends ago by my sister and my aunt and it was so amazing!

I have to say it was the prettiest party I have ever been to. The day was so nice and made me feel so special.


Kelly brought these gorgeous cupcakes topped with homemade signs, they were so pretty I didnt even want to eat them.


The food Aunt Debbie did was so yummy, the chicken salad croissants and shrimp pasta salad were the best and the champagne punch with raspberry puree was addicting!


I swear my sister and mom started shopping for pink and green goodies right when I got engaged. They found so many cute things for display and prizes.




The only thing that didn't work out was the dress I bought for the shower, it was too cold to wear, but I decided to wear it for the bachelorette party so it work out in the end.




Another great thing about the shower was I got to keep a lot of the pretty little things for the wedding. I will be reusing some of the table clothes and the big frame with our engagement pictures along withe the Molly and Dan sign, yay!


Special little touches were so nice, I had a monogrammed pink and green wine glass for my yummy punch and even a wrist corsage.






I think everyone had a great time I know I did.
Thank you Kelly and Aunt Debbie for making it so gorgeous!

Candy Buffet

It's March!! Since the wedding is getting closer and closer I am finally able to do some of the things that I had to wait last minute to do...like buy candy for the candy buffet!!! This is one of the really fun things that I get to do for the wedding!

I got the 7 jars a long time ago at Ross, a few different ones from the same brand so they go together, the most expensive only being $10.99. I still see them there, so they are still available, we went to two different ones to get the ones we needed.


I got the scoops, tongs, and bags off of ebay, for such a great price, only 19.95 for everything in a package deal!!


Now for the candy!! I did my research when it comes to the candy, I checked the prices of so many different places and researched all the candy options in pink and green. Heres what I got...


I ended up getting Lindor truffles in mint and raspberry off of Amazon, for both bulk boxes I only spent $37.00, got free shipping and they arrived prefectly, not melted or damaged at all (I was a little worried).

I got strawberry and apple gummi bears, and strawberry and cream and pear salt water taffy from The Candy Warehouse, other places had more variety of salt water taffy flavors, but the shipping on other sites made the price crazy!

I lucked out finding Bombay Duck London lollipops on sale at my local Hallmark, I got all the pink and green and green and white ones they had for around $1.97 each.

I got watermelon and apple licorice twists, and bubble gum and margarita jelly beans from Bulk Foods, they had the best prices i wish they had more pink and green candy because they had flat rate shipping for only $5!

Now for the M&M's I got them at two different places, originally I was going to get all of the from Michael's, of course using the 50% off or 40% off coupons, I did this for all the green ones and was going to go back and get the pink since 7 oz bags ended up only being $2.99, but then my sister found the Susan G. Komen two toned Pink M&M's for $2 for the 12.6 bags at Big Lots for my shower and she went back and got me 4 bags for the wedding, Thanks Kel!! I also saw Walgreens had an all green 12.6 bag of M&M's just for Valentine's day (I guess they are playing up the green M&M myth) for $3.49 I was shocked, who knew, but since I already had my green ones oh well, but good to know for the future pink and green brides!