"What flowers are you going to have?"
"What cake will you serve?"
"What kind of food will be served?"
"How much did you spend on Save-the-Dates (which will be referred to as "STD's" from this point on, in honor of my buddy and bridesmaid, Emily) and/or invitations?"
"What sort of favors are you going to hand out to all the guests?"
"How are you spending the money we donate? Huh? Huh? HUH?"
All very good questions. But geez... stop being so pushy. :-)
Here's what we've got going so far:
- The STDs went out about two months ago. We had Emily make them (thanks, Emily!) and we took the PDF to the FedEx/Kinkos website, uploaded it, and had them print the little suckers on lime green cardstock, which is about as cheap and ridiculous as it gets. We love them. We think they send the right message about what our wedding is shaping up to be. (The real ones have the date and location. Don't panic. I'm not an idiot. Most of the time.)
- My sister (maid-of-honor and total geeked-out musical genius) is doing A TON of footwork back in good ol' Pennsylvania for us. She went on a Cake Tasting field trip to this bakery and we're working out the specifics of what we need. Heads up for all potential brides: cake is apparently serious business. There is no room for humor in cake. Ask my sister. I'm sure she smirked at several points during the APPOINTMENT -- WHO MAKES AN APPOINTMENT FOR CAKE???? -- and I only wish I had been there to witness the very serious, very important event.
- My brother (groomsman and a fine vocal percussionist) has been dealing with the contracts and goings-on with catering. The menu will be casual... it will include pierogies... and it will be delicious for under $15 a person. That's all you need to know.
- Flowers seem silly to me, seeing as we're having a wedding OUTDOORS. THE WHOLE WORLD can be our floral arrangements, right? With all the help I've gotten from readers and family, I haven't quite nailed this one down, but I do know that I can make -- correction -- I WILL make flowers out of watercolor paper for the bouquets. I spent twenty bucks. And hopefully they'll turn out looking like this, only with stems and ribbons and all that crap.
- Favors = homebrew. It's delicious. It's inexpensive. And if someone doesn't want to drink the beer, they can pour it out and keep the really awesome eco-friendly (read: reused) bottle with the insanely awesome labels. (You can find another sampling of our labels here.)
As for how we're spending all the donated funds, you can rest assured we are using it for more wonderful, eco-friendly, cheeky (but not-too-cheeky) things like the above.
Not this. Although I like his sunglasses, too.
As always, we appreciate the readership, the support for our wedding and for our donors.
Dir Ont Meredift,
ReplyDeleteSo I'm assumin yu red boft mai blog an mai commintz on yerz. Also that emayl mom sent yu on rymin stuffs.
Mai big qwestshu is if mom alreddy givd yu monnee, ar yu still egspektin a prezint from me? and from her? Or mebbe or?
Anneewae,, tho I am disapoyntid that yu has disregardid mai ideer on moussee-flingin, mom has egsplaynd to me whai som chiks migt freek a bit on havin moussees, howevr kool, flung into their arms. So OK, yah. Fyn.
Also mom sez she'l interdoos me to perrogees. She duzn't egspekt me to eet them, but fer som reezon that duzn't wurry her. She seem lik happee anneewae. It a big mystree. Huh.
If yu kin egsplayn it,I'd be purrin, but not in yer lap cuz that's just so extra.
Luv,
Yer nepfyu,
MUSASHI
Musashi (& Sue) -
ReplyDeleteNo presents necessary. Only presence.
Sorry I couldn't use the mouse-idea. My mom would end up standing on a chair. Or a piano. Or a chair on top of a piano.
That, as they say, is all.
- M
Dir Ont Meredift,
ReplyDeleteMom has descrybd whut a mom wud luk lyk if she wer piktchurd in a city sitchuayshun. She says her sit=shu=ay=shun wift the Bostun Glob, as of las Toosdae, (4/30/09), wer the mos recent, considerin that the Glob may or may not be around in a few daes, an that may or may not be about how the news ends.
I say splurge a littl eon real flowers. You can get them at a flowermart. They really make a difference. Even mixed with paper flowers.I prefer tissue flowers, sort of mexican folkloric tissue ones. One huge regret I had was not hiring a photog. I had friends take pictures and they took a ton of amazing pictures, but only of our friends.They skipped my grandma and the like. Now that she is gone, I wish I had more pix of her at my wedding. if you can't hire one, make sure your friends have a photo to do list. Ok those are my 2 cents!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Anonymous.
ReplyDeletePoints well made. We'll probably have a few real flowers here and there -- maybe on the tables. Not sure yet. I'll post another picture up once I get the first bouquet made of my paper sort.