Monogram

Decorations have been hard for me and the Dude. We are both adamantly against any kind of overlying theme, because really, the theme is wedding. (It's just. a. party!) So for decoration-challenged folks like us, there is one thing that we can use that is both personal to us and can silence all the critics who can't find cohesion in our wedding... our monogram.

Here is ours:



Conceived after many hours of trial and error, considering and rejecting fonts, and choosing which ampersand should go in the middle. Yikes.

It was worth it, though. This monogram is going to be EVERYWHERE.

Making Decisions: Centerpiece

Part 1 of our centerpiece:


{Candle Holder and Image from Crate and Barrel}

Photo Table Numbers

I have to admit, I resisted Martha Stewart Weddings for a very long time. I already had the Knot and brides.com, and that was enough. But after a few of my friends had sent over decorating ideas, I had to relent. Also I can thank Martha Stewart Weddings for the idea for photo table numbers.


{Image from Martha Stewart Weddings}

DIY Silk Boutonnieres

While visiting my parents' house this Christmas, I got to spend some quality time with my preferred craft store, A.C. Moore. I wanted to finish table runners for guest tables since my mom has a sewing machine, but stupid me, I forgot the color swatch. So I decided to focus on the boutonnieres.

I hadn't yet figured out what to do with boutonnieres, seeing as I also hadn't figured out what to do with the bouquets, so I wandered around the store.

Lo and behold, I found a bunch of white silk roses that don't look too fake.

A couple of hours and some sore fingers later, here's what I came up with.

Groomsmen Boutonnieres:


Dude's Boutonniere, a slight variation from the other men:




A view into my workarea:




Materials Used:
- white silk flowers
- floral tape
- burgundy filler flowers
- wine colored ribbon
- wire cutter or very strong scissors

I didn't really follow a pattern or directions but I did my research here on eHow. I have some leftover material so I'll be making wrist corsages out of these, and maybe even a tiny bouquet for my flower girl.

Simple and Pretty

There is a very good possibility I've found the centerpiece design.

Ugh, Flowers

Despite the fact that I've barrelled through most of my to-do list there is one thing that I am procrastinating on because I really hate it... the florist.

Let me be honest here for a moment. It's not just that I have severe allergies to most flowers. I just don't get flowers. I don't understand why it ever became tradition or custom to give and receive and expect flowers. I have this image in my head of some caveman, failing to obtain an appropriate meal for the evening, picks up a bunch of weeds and offers it to his cavewoman as a distraction. And then what cavewoman would forgive such a deed just because there's something pretty in her face? I understand that flowers are pretty - but pretty for pretty's sake is of no interest to me.

I contemplated not even having any flowers at the wedding, except that if all eyes are going to be on me and the bridesmaids, we better well be holding onto something for dear life.

I have still not ruled out waking up on our wedding day, going to the corner bodega, and picking up a few bunches of whatever is there, tying them up with some ribbon.

The point is, I still don't have a florist.

I'm a Copycat

Here's what I have so far in terms of images and such that I like