The quest for the perfect bridal shoe begins (and ends?)

Well it’s been a week since we sent out the wedding invitations and I was fully prepared to rant about how even though that’s supposed to be “done”…. it’s not!!!… but I got totally distracted by a momentous event that happened today.
I think I may have found THE SHOE.
So here’s the thing. Everyone that [...]

Ding dong, the witch is dead! Er, I mean, the invites are done.

Oh my lord. HALLELUJA. My invitations are doooooooonnnnne! I finally put them in the mail today and I can breathe a huge sigh of relief.
I read about people making their own invitations on other blogs, notably Weddingbee (so addictive, that site) but I can now tell you with absolute certainty that even if you read [...]

See the photos, feel my pain

Here’s visual evidence of the carnage I was talking about in my last post about Phase 1 of my Do-It-Yourself wedding invitation project: cutting the cardstock.
Here’s my pretty paper and ribbon, oh so pearly and innocent and carefree (pre-disaster).

Here is Mr Purple executing his so-called “brilliant” cutting technique – putting the ruler down on a [...]

It’s official: I AM crazy. And there’s a reason wedding invitation companies exist.

Oh. My. God.
If I never see another X-Acto knife in my life, it’ll be too soon.
Last Saturday, Mr. Purple and I attacked Phase 1 of the D-I-Y wedding invitation project: cutting the paper.
As you may recall, deciding on a design and buying the cardstock for these things was quite the ordeal. Once I realized that [...]

I’m making my own invites. Crazy? We’ll see.

Now that we’ve got our wedding date, it’s FULL STEAM AHEAD for my little wedding invite factory.
That’s right – after much research online, a couple of panicky trips to local stationery makers and lot of grumbling from Mr Purple (the fiance) about the cost of things “that people are just going to chuck in the [...]

To Save the Date or to not save the date… that is the question

Now that we’ve finally got a wedding date, I’m in a rush to get wedding invitations done (more on that soon).
I never did figure out what to do about sending a Save the Date out to our guests until it was too late, so I didn’t end up doing it. I think we’ll be okay; [...]

“We don’t have prices yet” or, Why I hate the Flight Centre

Four and a half months, five travel agents and a few fits of frustration (tears included) later, we have FINALLY confirmed our travel arrangements which makes it all official – I’m getting married on November 17th, 2008 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It finally feels real.
What an ordeal.
In this installment, I will regale you details [...]

Websites to help you choose your DW location

Although I am sure there are many great travel agents out there, the first two I approached basically smiled and nodded a lot and handed me a big pile of brochures and said, “Here you go, dear… You just go ahead and flip through these and see what you like, and when you’ve narrowed it [...]