Wedding Details!! Part 2

So I SHOULD be working on a biotechnology website or studying the anatomy of the upper torso... yeah, sounds like fun, huh? But instead, I thought I would post the second part of my wedding plans!! Sorry it took me a little while to get to it!


First of all, a ton of the plans for this wedding come from the inspiration of two great friends and fellow bloggers, Mallory and Lynsie! If you haven't checked out their blogs, yet, you definitely should! Thank you so much to both of you for your awesome ideas and advice from your own beautiful weddings!!


So, here's some more of our plans!

• Booked the photographer! We're going with D Coleman Photography, who is actually who both Mallory and Lynsie used! We haven't had our engagement session, yet, but I'm anxiously awaiting the return of Allen (well, duh...) but also for the fact that we can FINALLY get our engagement pics done!! You should check out his blog!! I'm so incredibly excited!!

         Speaking of pictures, found this on Pinterest, and it looks like so much fun! Allen and I are both big football fans, and since it will be Vikings' colors.... haha

• Found my dress!!! It's beautiful... I'm not going to say much because Allen reads my blog, but it's perfect. Sorry, that's all you pretty much get because I want him to be absolutely surprised. Can not wait to see the look on his face!!!!! He called me the other day at 4 in the morning (TOO early!) to tell me he couldn't sleep because he was dreaming of seeing me walk down the aisle... I LOVE that man and anytime he wants to wake me up in the middle of the night to tell me something like that, it's fine by me!
• Figured out the cake! We really want to do a two-tiered cake at the top with a cupcake tower! Something like this....

The cupcakes will be different for sure, probably just with different flavors of icing to be simple, and we haven't figured out the exact design of the cake, yet, but the layout is similar! We also like the idea of doing the top tier round and then the second tier hexagon or something like that!

• Finished the wedding website! Sorry, there's a webpass (okmo2012), and you have to register, but you can look at it here! We had the webpass on it because it wasn't finished for the longest time, but someone my dad works with told him it may be smarter to leave it on because even if there aren't people in my dad's new job that would want to crash the wedding to ruin the day, there were plenty of people that disagreed with my dad at his last job and would do something like that! Let's just say we met some pretty awful people that way, and for years, one of them had a dummy hanging from a pole in the middle of their yard that was supposed to be my dad because he had to make a decision that they didn't like... how awful is that?! And talk about creepy!! Anyway... check out the website and feel free to sign the guestbook and leave music suggestions!
• Ordered our save-the-dates!! The first round was just sent out yesterday... I have tons more to address, but what do you think?

• Took some "couples" shots with a friend of Allen's, since we have to wait a little while to get our engagement pics done!

• Came up with the flowers for the bouquet... LOVE roses, plus wanted some beautiful accent flowers!

 

LOVE this for my bouquet!!!

 

Thought of something like this for the bridesmaids!!! Gerber daises

 are also my favorite :)

• Decided on the centerpieces.... wanted something simple, so we are going with something like this!

• I know everyone does photo shoots, but I didn't want to copy everyone... I thought instead using Polaroid pictures and doing something like this lovely pinterest idea would be fun!! Then, later, we can scrapbook or frame the pictures! Not quite sure about the idea, yet, but I wanted something original! Any suggestions?

• So, we also came up with a few ideas to honor Allen's mom and sister who passed away in a car accident 6 years ago. One idea was to put a place setting out with a description of the symbolism in it. Another was just to have photos setting at a table, but I'm not sure which Allen wants to do more. He's been having a hard time with figuring out the best way to honor them. I thought something simple like this with a few photos around might be a good idea, and so far, I think this is what we are going with. Any of you in a similar situation with ideas?

Most of the photos are from pinterest, and if you want to see more of my wedding ideas or ideas that I would really love to incorporate into the wedding, go here:

http://pinterest.com/genlynne/my-wedding-day-august-11-2012/

I LOVE that site!!

More to come, but it is mostly just little details that are being figured out. I really want to do as many DIY things as possible, so Pinterest has become my best friend as far as that's concerned. :) I'll touch base with any of those ideas later! 

Hope you had a great Monday, and have a great week!

Love, 

~Gen