When California Meets Texas: August 2008

Okay, so I've been looking at SOO many bios on the knot and It's driving me completely insane! I've been stressing out because I don't think my wedding is going to come together like it should. I've been really second guessing myself with all my choices and how things will look and even if I should just give up on what I'm doing and start over with a wedding planner. Realistically, a wedding planner isn't in the budget, but if it means I can stop going crazy I will make a couple of notches here and there. I'm probably just talking just to talk because I don't think I could ever give all of this power away to someone else to do...I think it would stress me out more! I've been trying to just narrow all of my wedding planning activities to Sundays....but I find that lately I've been itching to do things during the week and really REALLY anticipating Sundays. I missed last Sunday because I was SUPER busy doing other things, and it just really feels like I'm just behind now. I have so many projects that are floating around the house (and I'm sure my Mom is getting tired of having things everywhere!) so I think I just need to gather everything, and do one project at a time.

On a side note, I had 2 cake tastings this week. The first one was a place out in Cedar Park and when we arrived (3 min early), she was in the back with her headphones on doing whatever she was doing and didn't realize we were there until about 15 min later. We then had to wait for her to get off the phone, get our tasting, and find a pen and SCRATCH paper to write on. I felt a little uneasy there and Edgar was just lost the whole time. I went in open minded not knowing what designs I wanted or how many tiers. I wanted to see the different options, and while she was really just telling us what she was going to do instead of asking us....we left LOVING her cakes but not really loving her style of business. She didn't give us a quote (told me she was going to e-mail me & 2 days later still nothing), no design or anything that we decided on, and didn't really give Edgar an option on his grooms cake. The 2nd place was a little further of a drive, out in Kyle, Texas. We didn't mind driving because it was still pretty early during the day, so we didnt hit any traffic or anything. We got there this time 15 minutes early and she was waiting there for us. We actually got greeted walking in the door and our tastings were ready. She sat us down with some photo albums and then we ate and looked while she was taking care of something in the back. About 10 minutes later she came back and I still had no idea what I was looking for. She walked us through EVERYTHING from the amount of servings we should get, to the shape of each tier, designs on the tier, cake flavors, icing flavors, cake topper, and she even gave me advice of when to tell my vendors to be at the reception site. With Edgar, he got to actually choose everything, she walked him through different types of groomscakes she has done before, and the style, and flavors of everything. He came out less confused as the day before and HE was the one that told me to stop booking tastings, and she was going to be our cake maker!

My cake will be 4 tiers, I chose Vanilla Cake with strawberry filling and white buttercream icing. I will be providing her with the ribbon(lime green) and she will be doing a different design on each tier. The top tier(which she provided for free!!) will have the 3 dots connected with each other pattern, the 2nd tier will have a "P" and some scrolling, the 3rd tier will just have a 1 dot pattern, and the 3rd tier will be another type of curvy design. It will serve 180 guests. Edgar's cake is going to be an Igloo Ice Chest and she will have rock candy at the top airbrushed to look like ice and of course he will have beer in there. We haven't decided if he will do the aluminum(because their not as heavy as regular bottles) budlight lime, or if he will have a mixture. He will be providing her with the bottles (prob about 6 or so), and there will be some in the inside and there will be some coming out on the sides. It's going to look so cute, I can't wait! Oh yea, his will serve 100.

I also went to Hobby Lobby to get a type of hole puncher for my favor tags, so when I get my camera from the car later, I will do a blog about my new semi DIY project! I also bought some lime green bags from knottie TDiddy so I'm waiting for those to come in.

Okay, so I've been quite busy lately. Usually my Sundays are FILLED with wedding stuff....but today I couldn't find time to do ANYTHING wedding related. My Mom is in the hospital and won't be out for a couple more days. My sister is about to go to the hospital tomorrow...really later today....to go to her 2nd to last chemo treatment. I have 2 cake tastings scheduled for this week, on top of it being my sister birthday, the alumni volleyball game and hosting 2 swimming parties. If this is a good look at what's to come this year, I'm really glad I've been doing all of the wedding planning that I've been so far! It's amazing to see all that I've gotten done, and of course....all that's left to do.

Just real quick before I get to my DIY stuff that I DID manage to do today, I wanted to add something. I think we are changing our reception venue. There's 2 good things to 1 bad. I'll start with the good....1. its cheaper! and 2. it's where we live/where the wedding will be. Okay, so the bad is that it only holds 200 comfortably and we were looking at like 250 to show up. We'll have to look at the guest list and see who all we are really going to invite and who we have to cut back on. The way I see it is....if we are going to have to introduce the guests to one or the other then they shouldn't be at our wedding. We want to share this special time with our loved ones and the ones that I have seen our relationship grow.

Okay time for the good stuff.

Reserved Seating Signs for Immediate Family.
These were super easy and they took about 5 minutes to make. I could have went without them, but I wanted to make sure our family had a place to sit after pics.

Materials: 5x7 pic frame ~ 1.00 at Dollar Tree
Scissors
Paper Cutter
Double Sided Tape
"Reserved for Immediate Family of the bride/groom" card made in Photoshop.

I put double sided tape on the smaller card (reserved card) and put it on the black cardstock.

I did the same with both and placed them in frames. TADA!!!

Monogrammed Cake Table Runner

Step 1-Lay out design under fabric. Step 2- Trace design with a pencil.