It's not you, it's me

I have difficulty committing sometimes. I take a long time making my final decision, especially in something as serious and important as this! I mean, it's not like it's something that will only last a moment and then be over...maybe I rushed into things?

I wasn't having second thoughts until I saw my other options. Although I thought my decision was the right one, it turns out there are other fish in the sea. Sigh.

This story is about my new fish, Eavan.

At the time, I had already made my choice and committed to Sheila for our wedding day:



{ via Amazon }

I was happy with my decision. Very excited in fact, talk about party shoes!!! Way fun. I couldn't wait to spend the whole night with her. Or so I thought...

We were shopping for bridesmaids shoes and decided on these beauties for all the girls:



{ via Aldo }

They look so cute on and all the girls are very excited to wear them again after the wedding. I read somewhere that nude shoes make your legs look longer, total plus!! As I said though, I take a while to finally commit to things so I still wanted to walk around a bit to see if there was anything else we liked. Unfortunately, the shoes I found next were not to be for the bridesmaids.



{ via Zappos }

Meet Eavan. She had style, she had flair, she was there (as in, at the outlet on sale...and um, please tell me someone gets this reference)! Although I felt so glamorous when I put them on, they were still way more than what I wanted to spend...especially when I found a pair of shoes that I already liked. I just couldn't see spending that much money, even if they were already significantly reduced.

Oh, but "I'll give you 30% off" says the woman. Excuse me...What??? Quick mental math and I realized that made them only $10 more than the pink ones. Yes please!! I'm sorry Sheila, but I'm going to have to go with Eavan. Sold.

While I'm not big on bling, I'm excited to have a little more glam on my wedding day. I like to keep things pretty simple, clean, and low on the bling factor, but I think these give just the right amount to balance out with everything else I'm wearing that day. I'm happy I found these shoes and while I'm sure I would have still loved the original ones and been just as happy, I'm ridiculously excited that I'll be wearing the new ones!

Did you change your mind on anything you were going to wear less than a month before your wedding day?

Another Postcard Giveaway

***Update!***
Congratulations Mo! I sent an email to the email address you have listed on your blog...let me know if you don't get it? Yay! Hope you can put the postcards to good use!!


We've done practically every piece of our wedding invitation suite and other printables for our wedding through printing company UPrinting. I feel so lucky to be able to host giveaways and for the month of June, they have once again given me the opportunity to give away 100 of their fabulous postcards from their printing services. Here are the details:

100 4x6 Postcards
14pt Cardstock Gloss
4 Color Both Sides Printing
Limited to US residents; 18 years old and above

To enter, please leave a comment below with how you will use them. Leave a separate comment for an extra entry if you are already a follower or if you become a follower. Giveaway closes at midnight on June 24th!! Winner announced June 25th.

As a sidenote, even if you don't win and you need postcards printed cheap, check out UPrinting!

*This is a sponsored post.

Invitations!

Our invitations are officially out and RSVPs have already started coming in! My mom, bridesmaid Julie, and I created the whole thing by ourselves so it was definitely a labor of love. Here's a look at the final package!



Note to other brides: if designing and printing invitations yourself, do NOT print the RSVP cards first. When it was taking longer than expected to finish up some designs...well, let's just say I was a wee bit stressed out that we'd give guests enough time to RSVP by the time we finally sent them out. Add onto that my Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator pooping out on me and I was one high-strung chica. BUT, thanks to some late nights getting things together and a long assembly party with my mom and bridesmaid Megan we were able to get them out the door.



{ photos from author's personal collection }

It's neat looking back at all the thoughts, ideas, and inspiration that went into our invitations and as I look at them again, I know I wouldn't change a thing! What I'm most shocked about though is how close they are to our original idea. I had expected to change my mind every couple weeks!

Did your final invitations turn out like you had originally envisioned? Or did you change your ideas several times before the version that finally went out the door?

Cupcake flags

I think I found another use for our monogram stickers:

{ photo by me }

Little flags for the ice cream cupcakes!

{ photo by JMM Photography via Style Me Pretty }

The stickers we have might not be the right size, but it sure would be cute!

Ice Cream Cupcakes

I don't like cake. I have only recently started liking cupcakes because of how cute they can be. So, trying to pick out a cake for the wedding has not really been something I had been looking forward to.

Last week I had our first cake tasting. Mr. had left school early because he was sick so I had to do it solo. While the woman was very nice (although not very helpful) I was completely uninspired and overwhelmed. Not to mention, I really didn't feel comfortable spending at least $500 on something I wouldn't love. I knew it would be pretty, but spending that much money on something I'm not even sure everyone would like was not something we wanted to do.



{ photo by Dustin Todd via Style Me Pretty }

I love that messy buttercream look! Just don't like what's underneath it...

So, I asked Mr., "Would it be crazy to have an ice cream cake for our wedding cake? Like, we'd do the actual cake cutting with a regular cake so we wouldn't worry about it melting, but then WHOOSH...right after that, out comes ice cream cake for everyone?"

He thought it was a good idea so I called Dairy Queen to get pricing on just regular sheet cakes. So fantastically affordable! I asked a few more people what they thought about the idea and was met mostly with "Would be great for a July wedding!" and "It's your wedding, you should do what you want!"...yes, I know that, but we still want everyone to enjoy themselves and not think we're totally weird. The best response though? "You know, Maggie Moo's makes really cute ice cream cupcakes"...BINGO! I promptly checked out their website.







{ images via Maggie Moo's }

I think we've found our solution. As long as our venue will allow us to do them, I think that's what we're goin' with! The best part is that they can be customized!

What do you think about having ice cream cake or ice cream cupcakes instead of a traditional cake or cupcakes for a summer wedding?

Postcard Giveaway!*

Ok, you all know how much I love Postcard Printing, and how lucky I feel to be able to host giveaways. For the month of May, they have once again given me the opportunity to give away 100 of their fabulous postcards from their printing services. Here are the details:

100 Postcard (4x6")
14pt Cardstock Gloss
(4/4)

Specifications: 3 Business Days Turnaround
Shipping: FREE UPS Ground Shipping (YAY!)
Eligibility: Limited to US Residents only
You must be at least 18 years old to enter

To enter, please leave a comment below with how you will use them. Leave a separate comment for an extra entry if you are already a follower or if you become a follower. Hurry! Giveaway closes at midnight on Wednesday, May 12th!! Winner announced May 13th.

ALSO, stay tuned for a sneak peak of how I've put our postcards to good use for the wedding!!


*This is a sponsored post.

****GIVEAWAY CLOSED! Congratulations Joy!!****

Color Inspiration

I am totally inspired by these colors for our own wedding! Perhaps not the yellow of the napkins and jelly beans but those peaches, pinks, pale yellow, and creams are just fantastic and absolutely perfect!

{ Photos by Shelly Kroeger Photography via Southern Weddings }