The Wanderlust Wedding June 2014

[MmmBlondie]

Thanks for all the lovely comments everyone writing this journal is actually quite relaxing and takes the edge of missing/worrying about him lol.

Originally Posted by ValarMorghulis

Love this! When I saw what you were walking down the aisle to I was like, "what?!?!" but I've just listened and it's SO perfect!

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Haha I know right! It sounds like a crazy thing to walk down the aisle to but it's beautiful! One of the 2 friends who knows what I'm doing is going to film me walking down the aisle. Already I know I'm not going to have a straight face...especially once the penny drops and people realize what I'm walking down the aisle too haha!

[curry1402]

It all looks beautiful - I'm sure you're going to have a wonderful, memorable day

[ginger ninja]

All your plans look so amazing and I am sure you will all have a wonderful day
loving the smores bar and all the details you have planned

[SPN Clann]

Love the feel of your bridal shoot

Isn't Pinterest the best?! I could spend hours just searching and pinning

Oooh seen the s'mores table on a show the other day, and thought it was a great idea. Oh lord I love s'mores!

[MmmBlondie]

Originally Posted by curry1402

It all looks beautiful - I'm sure you're going to have a wonderful, memorable day

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I hope so! With nearly 100 guests I bet I spend most of my day saying thank you lol.

Originally Posted by ginger ninja

All your plans look so amazing and I am sure you will all have a wonderful day
loving the smores bar and all the details you have planned

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Thank you

Originally Posted by parris

Love the feel of your bridal shoot

Isn't Pinterest the best?! I could spend hours just searching and pinning

Oooh seen the s'mores table on a show the other day, and thought it was a great idea. Oh lord I love s'mores!

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Oh Pinterest is my best friend! I love it and yes how could anyone not love s'mores!

[carys]

What a lovely story xxx

[Guest]

I have only just seen this and have got to say I have really enjoyed reading it.Love your wedding plans. I can't wait to read the rest.

[Manyin]

Just saw this, what a lovely story. Your plans sound amazing

[MmmBlondie]

DIY Projects

I've always thought that adding a few DIY items to a wedding adds a personal touch and well lets be honest...a wedding is expensive so every little helps

Most of my DIY projects are relatively small but some have been slightly time consuming. The map I mentioned in my travel section post was ordered online from art.com after the one I bought from Barnes & Noble was far too large. I didn't realize at the time as it was rolled up but it was the size of my husbands truck windscreen! I decided against that map and bought a new one lol. I will be having the names of my guests printed this week and I will be putting it all together ready for the big day!

I have found some little travel inspired stamps from Hobby Lobby which I will print onto the luggage tags too.

Something I made last week were cufflinks for all the groomsmen. I saw some lovely map cufflinks on Pinterest and some more from another dibbers wedding pre trippie.

These were the ones I found.


And these were the ones I made.


Now I don't mean to brag but I think I did a pretty good job on them I bought the cufflink pieces and glass tiles off etsy for $13 and my friend sent me pictures of the road maps which I then printed off. Each cufflink on Esty was I think $20. I made 4 for $15 as the glue I used was $2 lol. BARGAIN!

Each of the 4 groomsmen will have 1 compass cufflink and one map cufflink of their hometown. Josh will be wearing RAF spitfire cufflinks that my mom bought him & were still deciding on what my dad is wearing

Now onto my bridesmaids!

Each of them on the day will be given either a box or tote bag full of goodies. Their main present will be a piece of jewelry, a wedding day survival kit and a few other things including these...





Each wine glass has their name painted on one side & their wedding party position on the other. I did one for my mom and myself too, ready for the mimosas on wedding day morning!

It didn't take me too long to do them. I bought the wine glasses and craft paint from Walmart which were my only needed supplies. It was slightly difficult painting the names but I was happy with the end result and I hope the girls like them too.

The boarding pass place cards are being made by my maid of honor and I too. We will have each guests name, meal choice, the date and venue of the wedding etc printed and then placed on the table.

There were a few things I was going to make myself like the wedding programs/fans but I got lazy and decided to order some nice custom ones off Etsy instead.

They will be looking a little like this.


The Wedding Favors

Thinking of what to give our guests as favors was one of the more difficult tasks. I didn't want to give out the traditional mints or sugared almonds. I wanted to mix things up a bit.

Some of the ideas I had were:

• Candles
• Magnets
• Luggage Tags
• Drink Koozies
• Corkscrews & more

We finally settled on personalized shot glasses for all our guests



I have had them ordered from Etsy. They will be 1.5oz and will have this design on them but in blue.



We have debated filling them with personalized M&Ms but upon creating them they were coming out at over $400 for the amount we needed. I didn't really want to spend $400 on Candy so I will just fill them with standard M&Ms lol.

NEXT UP...The MiniMoons

[Guest]

It all looks great! Love the DIY projections, the glasses are so cute x