Now the wedding is over. So I should have more time left to blogging and crafting. So after I took my long long break of Wedding stuff. I got my "You only have 3 more months until you get married" email I jumped up and started crafting, getting outfits, and doing a ton of research.
I didn't want a traditional guest book so I went on pinterest and found something nature-ish to use.

It was a tree where the guests put their names and fingerprints as their signatures in the guest book.

To the left is my version. I drew out a basic shape of a tree then, I hand painted it with acrylic paints and water. Getting it to be just the way I wanted it to be took me 6 hours (3 days 2 hours each)

I also learned that it is not a good idea to paint the tree before the background. So the next time I paint I will do the background FIRST. I am sure that this is a common first timers mistake.





Next up came the invitations. Again trying to save money was what I was trying to do so I found some handmade looking paper and set upon a search for medieval themed wording for our invitations. After a couple of days of searching and finding websites where I had to pay to get anything I found All About Renaissance Faires which had quite a bit of information. I came up with an invitation and wording for the RSVP and got it ok-ed by the hubby.

Managed to get them both on one page to save paper. We also hand delivered the ones that went to people in the area and sent the rest with a "messenger" (someone who was going that way) to save on postage since most of them were sealed with wax.

Others were folded, sealed and sent in a bubble wrap envelope. I got rave reviews for the wording and the craftiness of it. Big Kudos to my crafting skills. Made me quite proud.

Then it was off to the flowers and other items but more on that next Friday.

So upon getting engaged to the new love of my life I set upon a journey to get fit and craft craft craft until I had made the majority of my wedding items. It is now a week and 3 days away and almost everything is finished. First we had to pick a theme, and us being us we took a medieval theme and put our spin on it. I give many thanks to Carole at Camelot Costumes, who made my dress, my daughter's dress, and my darling love his outfit. And to The Fairy Glen for the beyond beautiful cake topper and service set. My first idea was to make ribbon roses. Never having made them before I hit YouTube running. The easiest for me to follow was this video here.

yep thats a dime

 I made so many of these babies in all sizes and colors I don't think I will have to make any for my daughters hair for quite some time.

That was all fine and dandy until my mom went shopping and hit the sale flowers and bought about $800 worth. Lesson learned and I can now use the little roses as accents for my photobooks that I plan on selling on etsy soon.

So after that we consulted the relatives and found out all the birthdays in May, which was the month I wanted... Silly me. We find out that the only free weekend in May was the 19th so that was the day we chose. Now I moved on to Save the Dates.  I had run across Pinterest thanks to my lovely sister and found multiple ideas for this.


The best one I found was magnet save the dates so every time your guests go to the fridge there is the reminder of your very special day. Looking up getting them made made me gasp. For mini magnets it would cost me a little over a buck a piece for each... and with the soon to be hubby wanting over 200 guests well that was a little too spendy for me. So I searched and searched until I found what I wanted. DIY glass magnets I spent maybe $5 at the DollarTree on the glass rocks, $6 at Walmart for the magnets, couple sheets of paper, printer, and craft glue (The last 3 I had just sitting around) I made 250 magnets for a little more than $11 if you add the pennies in the items I had around the house. I had wonderful results even if the camera doesn't show it... I still have a little practice to do in that area.














Then I moved on to lighting... Now just to be clear I didn't do all of this in one night. It took at least a month or two to do all this and the lighting. Again looking at Pinterest I found This, this and this. So seeing the price of the sun jars I looked around and found this which was much better. I combined a few of the ideas mostly just adding pretty colors to both the hanging candle jar and the solar lamps.

really is purple... darn bad camera skills

And after this I dropped the wedding ball until 3 months til... so I will leave you there until next time.