Wedding Flowers

Wedding flowers were one of the few things I had little control over. I knew that I wanted to use all of the milkglass vases we collected (seen here) but other than that I was pretty clueless (seen here). I pretty much left the entire process up to our florist and I'm glad I did because there was plenty of other random projects that took up all of my time!

Wedding Signs

[BEFORE]

[AFTER]

One of my favorite DIY projects for our wedding was the signs. Ian helped cut and assemble them and I painted them. I loved how they turned out, but now I have NO idea what to do with them!

Escort Card Cookies

One of the craziest DIY projects I took on for our wedding was the escort card cookies. Our wedding theme was "Love is Sweet" and I wanted a way to tie my love of dessert into something other than the dessert bar. I had the brilliant idea of baking, decorating, and packaging close to 200 sugar cookies and despite the hard work I was really pleased with how they turned out. Of course I didn't even see them on the wedding day, but I did get a lot of positive feedback from our guests!

Bridesmaids Dresses

I wrote about finding Bridesmaids Dresses here and here and while it wasn't an easy process I couldn't be more pleased with how they turned out. All four of my girls were given the option to select ANY grey dress and it turned out they all liked the same one. Rather than force them into different dresses I decided that mismatched accessories would achieve my goal and above is the final result!

Married and it feels so good!

We are officially married and back from our mini-moon! I just had the best week of my life and I cannot wait to share all the details, for now I will leave you with this photobooth reel.

Less than 1 week!

We are in the home stretch and I am actually ahead of schedule on all of my DIY projects. I even added a few things to my list in order to stay busy this coming week. I cannot wait to share all of the projects I worked on leading up to our wedding, but here is another sneak peak...stay tuned to see how I use these yellow pieces on our wedding day!

10 days and counting

September 2008 - Our first hike to the top of Donner Summit

October 2008 - At Muir Beach with Sierra as a puppy

November 2008 - in Costa Rica on our first Vacation

May 2009 - in Maui for my Birthday

Septemeber 2009 - In Chicago celebrating Ian's birthday a bit late

August 2010 - vacationing in Guerneville

September 2010 - on Donner Summit and engaged!

February 2011 - Engagement pictures at Fort Chronkite

As our wedding quickly approaches I have found myself completely caught up in every detail. I realize it's time to take a step back and actually enjoy the few days we have left as an engaged couple. Above are a few highlights from our relationship.

P.S. I cannot wait to marry this man!