Thursday, December 30, 2010

Cocktail Hour

Because MS and I did not want to see each other before the wedding, we had to do our pictures after the ceremony. We didn't want our guests to have to stand around and watch us (that's a little uncomfortable), so we decided to host a cocktail hour. We served margarita's (my fave) out of a margarita machine (regular and huckleberry!), and decided to add another little touch of us by serving popcorn! MS and I LOVE popcorn! So we had our venue rent a popcorn machine, and I went hunting for containers. That was not an easy task.

Our budget did not allow for all the cute and fancy popcorn containers, and I had almost given up on the idea of an actual popcorn container and was just going to use bags or something random, when I took a little trip to Wal-Mart.

I found the PERFECT container, and they were super cheap!  (Sorry I didn't take a picture of them plain!) I bought everyone that the store had and headed home to make them personalized. My MOH A came over to help me.

MOH A working hard!
We got purple and silver permanent markers and wrote on the containers ourselves. We thought about buying personalized stickers to put on them, but that was getting really spendy! So, it might not have been the most professional, but it was personalized, inexpensive, and I think pretty cute!

On one side we put an "S" in one color, and on the other side, in the other color, we put the date. This is how they turned out.



We had tried many different ways to put the "S", including doing our monogram, but because of the coating on the box, the markers started smearing. So doing just a plain "S" was the easiest.

Our popcorn machine was a hit!

Isn't it cute?!

My grandparents enjoying some popcorn!
What "you" touches did you add to your cocktail hour?

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Pretty Little Flowers

Since I had the hot glue gun out making my bathroom baskets (I glued the little flowers on the bows), I thought I would do some more gluing. I took the flowers that I used on the bows, and glued them onto the end of bobby pins for my hair and all of my girls' hair. Since I wasn't going to wear a veil, I figured a couple pins with flowers on them would look pretty. Same with my girls. I wanted their hair off to the side and a couple flowers tucked in. Anyways, enough rambling! Here are the pictures!:)

These are the flowers (in ivory, purple, and grey!)

And the bobby pins I used

The flower glued on! (The camera turned it pink for some reason)

The finished product in my hair (Don't mind my crazy face!)

I made a whole pack of little bobby pins, and about a half pack of the big bobby pins. We didn't end up using them all, but they were so easy to make, and looked so pretty. You couldn't see the bobby pin at either, so it just looked like little flowers in our hair.

Are you making your own hair pieces?

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

In Case You Forgot...

ME! Well, I know it has been an extremely long time since I have blogged, but I haven't forgotten about you! So much has happened, including our big day, and I will fill you in on all of it, I promise.

I have so many projects that I did to show you, and lots of stories to tell, so I will start at the beginning :)

I made bathroom baskets for our venue, just in case our guests forgot something. I found some really cute and inexpensive baskets at our local fabric store, and wrapped a ribbon in our wedding color around them.





I filled the baskets with things I thought people might need and probably wouldn't have. For the men's basket, I put in:

  • Bandaids
  • Hair Gel
  • Combs
  • Mints & Mouthwash
  • Static Guard
  • Dental Floss
  • Deodorant (Spray)
  • Axe Body Spray
  • Tissues (You never know!)
  • Advil
  • Lotion
  • Q-Tips

For the ladies, I supplied:

  • Bandaids
  • Hair Brush & Comb
  • Rubber Bands & Bobby Pins
  • Hair Spray
  • Mouthwash & Gum
  • Static Guard
  • Dental Floss
  • Deodorant (Spray)
  • Body Spray
  • Tissues
  • Advil
  • Lotion
  • Clear Polish
  • Contact Solution
  • Nail Files
  • Q-Tips
  • Tampons

All the stuff for the baskets

Then I put them in their baskets! I tried to arrange the items so that everyone could see what was all in there. This is what they looked like all finished.

Men's Basket
Ladies' Basket (Little more full)

Most of the stuff came home with us, but there were things that got used! I am glad I did it too, it was a nice, easy, fun project, and I even ended up using some of the items!

Have you ever been to wedding with bathroom baskets? Are you going to make baskets for your guests? What do you think would be a good item for one?