awesome tool

On twitter today I saw a link to this very helpful tool from Real Simple. Awesome!


Wedding Wine & Liquor Calculator

Based on this tool, here's what Real Simple suggests we need for our 100 person wedding.

100 Guests
Red Wine: 12 bottles
White Wine: 12 bottles
Champagne: 20 bottles
Beer: 120 bottles
Vodka: 4 bottles
Gin: 2 bottles
Rum: 2 bottles
Bourbon: 2 bottles
Scotch (blended): 1 bottle

...Lord knows we're going to have PLENTY of liquor. We're doing a keg for the beer, which is the equivalent of 160 bottles. Perfect. My plan is to hit up the 5 cent wine sale today at Bev Mo to look for some Wine & Champagne options. Cheers! :)

registering!

Well, we began our registering during our Holiday vacations. I of course loved it, and lets just say he only "liked" it :) No, but it really is kind of stressful. Especially for my fiance and I, since we're not living together until after the big day, we really don't have much. Which means we're hoping for all necessities as wedding gifts.

Here's our run-down as of now...

We have registries set up at Crate & Barrel, Macy's, and Bed, Bath & Beyond. We're inviting around 75 couples/single people to make around 100 guests. They suggest we register for around 150 gifts to accommodate for showers, etc.

So far we have...

29 items at Crate & Barrel
16 items at Macy's
32 items at Bed, Bath & Beyond

...for a grand total of 77 items!

Yikes! We have some shopping to do!!!

michigan wedding video

This has got to be one of the cutest weddings I've seen in a while, and this video is adorable. Featured on Style Me Pretty, it's one of the best I've seen!

Sarah & Rupert Wedding 16mm Film from sarahandrupert on Vimeo.

engagement pictures!

So excited to see some of our engagement pictures posted on our photographer's blog, He & She Photography! CHECK THEM OUT!


Leave lots of happy comments too...everyone loves a happy comment :)

ideas, ideas, ideas!

So, true story...I'm browsing Once Wed and see this beautiful bouquet, and wedding, that I love. *Yes, I'm blogging at work again. Don't tell...* The wedding was at the Smog Shoppe in Culver City, which I've been seeing a lot of lately. Looks like SUCH a cool venue, especially for those into throwing a green wedding. Anywho, I click to look at the photographer's blog to see more pictures and what do I see?! A little something we're going to have for our wedding, which I will not reveal. Duh, some things need to stay secret! Browse away though, because the images, this bride, everything is gorgeous.

I LOVE the succulents used as escort cards/probably favors. Everything just looks so beautiful. I still cannot get enough of that bouquet. The table decorations...her shoes...the boloro...perfect. Whoever this girl is, needs a pat on the back!

this excites me

SMP Home?! Apparently this might be a new venture for a favorite blog of brides and wedding pros - Style Me Pretty Home.

NOT that I'm thinking about babies - but I love these colors and this set.

Looking forward to Style Me Pretty Home!

foodzie

So, this isn't really wedding related, but still a great idea. Love etsy? Love food? :) Who doesn't?! Here's a site that combines the two...www.foodzie.com.

You can grab some items for a dessert bar, favors, or goodies to have in your bridal suite.

Like this tasty treat I found simply by clicking on "Bakery" - cheesecake in a jar! Yes, please! A six-pack of cheesecakes decoratively displayed in a reusable mini wooden crate?! Who could say no to that? THIS could be the down fall to my bridal diet...

Yummy!

wedding website!

I'm so excited to say that our wedding website is up, running, and for the most part finished! We've been working on this for a while, and we'll of course still be adding things as we see fit. Check it out! We love all the messages we're receiving in our guestbook!

http://www.heatherandtravis.wedsite.com/

hotel accomodations

Something I've been working on/thining more about lately is where we're going to stay, and blocking rooms for guests. I went through our list and at least 85% of our guests are from out of town! (Meaning they don't live in Orange County). So, techincally it's a destination wedding :)

This site gives great information on hotels in San Clemente.

I've been calling around, and a few hotel managers have been really helpful. The first is San Clemente's Little Inn by the Beach. They're able to block rooms for us, or give our guests a discounted rate of $85/night. Pretty amazing for a holiday weekend! They're less than a mile from the Casa Romantica, too!

There's only 18 rooms in the hotel, which obviously won't accomodate all our guests, but maybe wedding party and family...

The next two hotels we'll look into and maybe block rooms at are the Hampton Inn in San Clemente and the Travel Lodge.

There are also lots of really cute B&Bs in San Clemente, and also the option to rent a beach house for the weekend. I'd suggest booking anything early, though, since our wedding is over a holiday weekend.

We're getting closer and closer to our big day! I can't believe it's already the week of Thanksgiving. Before we know it the holidays will be here and it'll be 2010! Woohooo!

e-shots

I don't know this couple, but I kind of wish I did. These pictures are on our photographer's blog, and I love them. I'm getting so excited for our engagement pictures, we take them on January 7th! Yay!

philosophy wedding giveaway

My friend Lisa, another soon-to-be-bride, sent me this link to share! I definitely entered this, along with every other wedding giveaway I see.

Check it out!

more ideas from martha...

I was trying to think of a fun idea for guests to "send us off" from our ceremony instead of bubbles, bells, petals or rice...I saw this DIY flags that I thought were really fun. How hard can this be? I love the sheer fabrics....
I found this on Martha too, cute idea for escort cards. Fabric inside frames with the numbers pinned inside. Love it!

inspired by martha

So you may or may not know this, but I have a major girl crush on Martha Stewart (I know, pathetic). She is just so classy (minus the whole prison thing) with the perfect mix of crafty-do it yourself-ness. Does that make sense? Haha.

I saw these today while browsing Martha Stewart Weddings (no need to buy the glossy magazine, browse for FREE). Such great ideas to add to the list...yikes, do I like too much??

I am loving the top right STD (woah, weird) with the finger and string. It'll fit perfect with our invite look, maybe with a picture on the back? Hmm...ideas are flowing.


I'm also loving this guest book featured from a wedding on Martha Stewart. Their whole them was elementary school because the bride & groom met when they were kids. Looks so cute. See, you can do anything and class it up. I already purchased my polaroid online, just waiting for it to come in. I found a "like new" pre-used camera on amazon for around $17. I just need to find the film, and I love this idea of placing the photo corners in the book for guests to place their pictures in. I was wondering how I would go about having everyone stick their picture into the book...problem solved!

ring bearer bowl!

I got this in the mail today...custom made from Elm Studios on etsy! I love it, and they were so great about customizing my bowl to be exactly what I want it to look like. I'm excited to have this as a keepsake for us to have in our new place after our big day!

shoes!

I just may need these...

wish tree

Okay, I may just like way too much stuff that I see. Love this idea of a wish tree. Photo booth (which I'm in the works of planning) and a wish tree? Too much? What do you think?

Here's a link to Here Comes the Guide - a tutorial of how to make your own! Lovely!

cute wedding from smp

I saw this wedding on SMP that had such amazing diy ideas. Almost all her vendors were ones from etsy. Some ideas I loved:

jewelry giveaway!

Woah!

Another fabulous giveaway - this time from Pre-Owned Wedding Dresses. They're giving away a jewelry rental with Adorn Brides worth $2,500!

Click here!

cool giveaway!

Woah, it's been a while. I guess I've been kinda crazy busy with school - I really haven't thought too much about the wedding lately at all! Which I think is probably a good thing (I may or may not be making the future hubs a little crazy...hehe)

I saw this though, and had to share. Bare Escentuals, my favorite makeup that I wear EVERY DAY, is giving away a makeup artist for your wedding day. My mom & I were just talking about this, figuring out how we're going to do this part of my day down in Orange County...I feel for you girls who plan your wedding from far away (and I'm only an hour).

So great of them to give this away. To enter, click here.

facebook love

CUTE...(kinda creepy?)

About 100 guests are expected to gather at a Florida yacht club this October for Kelly Hildebrandt's wedding -- to Kelly Hildebrandt.

Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt says she was bored one night last year and decided to search Facebook for her own name to see if anyone shared it. Kelly Carl Hildebrandt of Lubbock, Texas, came up as the only match.

The two exchanged e-mails, then occasional phone calls. Eventually that turned into daily conversations, sometimes lasting for hours. After a few months, he visited her in Florida, and that cinched it. Last December, she found a diamond engagement ring hidden in a treasure box on a beach.

While the couple says it's fun sharing a name, there have been complications. They nearly had a cruise canceled when a travel agent deleted one ticket on their reservation, thinking it was a duplicate entry.

The couple are including their middle names on the wedding invitations to save confusion. And, they've ruled out naming any children Kelly.

Story of ABC News