Jamie Ribisi (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pidjin) wrote,@ 2007-10-04 21:06:00 |
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We're married!!!
We finally got married on Sunday! It was so much fun and was even better than we planned. We have a ton of photos to go through but you can see many of them on my flickr set. We did all of the decorating ourselves with amazing help from our families. Brian made all of the boutonnières for himself and the groomsmen. Each is a leaf mounted on brown felt with a green velvet ribbon tied into a flower pattern with an acorn on top of it. So cute! My sisters and I made all of our bouquets from single flowers that we bought at the supermarket-- $60 for 4 bouquets instead of the $650++ that the florist wanted! Showed them up, huh?? :) We also made all of our placecards from scanned photographs of the family.. that was the biggest hit of the party, it made it a whole lot more fun to find your assigned table!
Speaking of tables, we set and decorated them on the cheap. as well! We found an old bolt of vintage lace fabric at an auction for $25 and cut them to size (we had borrowed white cloths underneath them from a friend). Then we planted mums from Home Depot in thrift store/garage sale/clearance flower pots-- each centerpiece cost under $5! The BEST part was the place settings! We bought vintage china & mixed and matched them at each table. Each person had a place setting that matched itself but was different from the person sitting next to them. We also bought vintage linens for the napkins. It was SOOOO much cheaper than renting them! We spent under $60 for all of the plates & cups.
Brian made those leaf garlands above so everyone could dance under them. It was magical-- exactly what we love. We also gave out tree saplings as our favors. Those are them on the table picture above. I have so much more to say but we'll have to save it for another day!
We finally got married on Sunday! It was so much fun and was even better than we planned. We have a ton of photos to go through but you can see many of them on my flickr set. We did all of the decorating ourselves with amazing help from our families. Brian made all of the boutonnières for himself and the groomsmen. Each is a leaf mounted on brown felt with a green velvet ribbon tied into a flower pattern with an acorn on top of it. So cute! My sisters and I made all of our bouquets from single flowers that we bought at the supermarket-- $60 for 4 bouquets instead of the $650++ that the florist wanted! Showed them up, huh?? :) We also made all of our placecards from scanned photographs of the family.. that was the biggest hit of the party, it made it a whole lot more fun to find your assigned table!
Speaking of tables, we set and decorated them on the cheap. as well! We found an old bolt of vintage lace fabric at an auction for $25 and cut them to size (we had borrowed white cloths underneath them from a friend). Then we planted mums from Home Depot in thrift store/garage sale/clearance flower pots-- each centerpiece cost under $5! The BEST part was the place settings! We bought vintage china & mixed and matched them at each table. Each person had a place setting that matched itself but was different from the person sitting next to them. We also bought vintage linens for the napkins. It was SOOOO much cheaper than renting them! We spent under $60 for all of the plates & cups.
Brian made those leaf garlands above so everyone could dance under them. It was magical-- exactly what we love. We also gave out tree saplings as our favors. Those are them on the table picture above. I have so much more to say but we'll have to save it for another day!
