My dress for the Reception

I have almost finished cutting out my dress for the reception. Yes, I am aware that the color is not Lime green or royal blue. But the Bride has forgiven me since I did not have the money to buy more material, and I already had this lace and satin in my fabric stash. Luckily it does go with peacock feathers, it's the darker teal green. I am making my youngest daughter work on her own dress, she wanted to learn how to sew. Of course, I will be helping her out, I'm not that mean (well, not always anyway :D)

Finished Bridesmaid Bouquet

I have finished the bridesmaids bouquets with the zebra ribbon around the handle. I will post a couple of updated pictures to the end of the bridesmaids bouquet picture line. I am almost finished cutting out my dress and one of the bridesmaids dresses. I am using a different pattern than the girls. There's still so much work to be done!

Reception Invites

I have completed the invitations for the Reception here (Finally!!!). And the Open House invites have been sent off to my mom so that she can mail them. So, next on the list is making the dresses.

Reception Invites

I have the Open House invites complete. I did add a bit of "flare" to the top of the inside because it just seemed too dull. I haven't yet uploaded the picture of that. Yesterday, my family and I sat down at the kitchen table and we all worked together, all day, to complete the Reception invitations. Well, they are almost complete anyway...only one more thing to add, the RSVP cards. Arley has not seen them. I hope that she likes them. I ended up not using the embossed calla lillies (Oh, well!). And, foolish me, I neglected to take pictures of the process, so I will have to remember to go through that when I post the pictures, explaining what we did. Note to self: Take pictures of Arley's Reception invitations for here. I really need to get those complete so that I can send them out! I guess when I have these done, my next project will be working on the jacket for Tia's dress and then making Nora's bridesmaid dress.

Open House Invitations

The paper came today!!! Yeah!!! And everything was exactly what I needed (thank you, createforless.com). So, I got one Open House invite made and took a picture. Since it is going to be a low-key, informal affair, we decided to make the invitations pretty simple as well. I just glued a black and white photo of the couple onto some scrapbook paper, glued a section of ribbon onto the lime green cardstock that I made into cards, glued the picture over the ribbon and then added three tiny paper flowers on two corners that I had punched out using a flower-shaped paper puncher. Then, on the inside I just glued the invitation that I had already made.
I am going to use the white cards for the more "formal" reception that we are having. I will start working on those, probably tomorrow.

Invitations

I have been diligently working on the invitations for both the Open House and the Reception. I have accomplished quite a bit but am still waiting for the delivery of cards and cardstock that I ordered from Createforless.com (GREAT prices I might add!!!). I have ordered white premade cards and envelopes, lime green cardstock and royal blue cardstock. That is about all that I need in order to finish the invites because I know that I need to get them out ASAP!

I started working on the invitations today, didn't get too far with them. I did almost finish the Bridal bouquet last night, however. Amidst "star spangled banners" and popping rockets I was poking in flowers, feathers and bling. Why was I not watching said rockets glare??? Migraine....eesh! I am quite pleased with how it is turning out. I would post some pictures, but I am making the bouquet as a surprise for my daughter. She knows I am making it, just not anything else. Once it is finished I will ship it to her and then post the pictures.

Still have not gotten the zebra print ribbon for the bridesmaids' bouquets (lack of funds...). I must also give credit to my great friend, Kim W. for the suggestion of wrapping the ribbon around the handle and having ribbon hanging off of the end. It was a great suggestion!