uberniftacular | (no subject)

We are getting married December 13th, at the Longway Planetarium ... it's coming up! I'm so excited!

Some tips:
http://wwww.fireyourweddingplanner.com/default.html?referID=fireyourweddingplanner
That helped me be frugal, for sure.

And I got my dress off ebay, custom made to my height for like $200.

Plus, all the flowers/decorations we are doing ourselves... like the day before, to keep us busy since we'll already be thinking about it.

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uberniftacular

What sort of stuff are you doing for decorations and flowers?

And thanks for that site, looks like it's gonna be really helpful.

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unknownalchemy.livejournal.com

For Decorations, our pews will have iced branches instead of pew bows:
http://www.save-on-crafts.com/icedbranches.html
The bottom right picture of the four is what we're going for.

And then we're going to have luminaries light up a path into the planetarium:
http://mydreamwedding.weddingstar.ca/1126-3+Wedding+Luminaries_refine:367;
Like those but we're going to have snowflake punches

Since it's winter, we're having a outside wintery/snowflake theme. The planetarium is going to display a winter snowfall while we do our vows.
And we're going to have sparklers for everyone when we do our grand exit! :D

We posted an ad in craigslist for our photographer and decided on this awesome man: http://www.centofantiphoto.blogspot.com/

As for flowers, I found this site:
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/2870_wedding-boutonniere.htm
to teach me how to do everything.

And then I went to Michael's and started picking flower combos I liked, which I ended up deciding on the bridesmaids' bouquets. My bouquet I just looked through a bunch of pictures and found one that I really liked. I am probably going to order the roses online through
http://www.theflowerexchange.com/scripts/prodViewn.asp?idproduct=231
and then get other supplies elsewhere. Like I'm going to have a pine branch in the bridesmaid bouquets and probably just go to Michael's again to get it. Most of the backing/filler stuff will probably be fake, but the roses will be real. Ebay and Etsy are good for uniques supplies too.
And I'm also going to put these in the bouquets:
http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/Partysupplies.htm
If they end up looking crappy, then at least I tried. It's going to be dark in the Planetarium and I think it will be cool with their bouquets glowing.

As for the reception, the hall has it all pretty much decorated. We might go over in the morning and put random pictures of us up on the walls, so people have something to look at. Our receptions is at http://www.4-1stchoice.com/hall.html

Oh, and you're probably all focused on your dress at the moment, but a good website for jewelry is shangby.com
Or you can ask for custom-made jewelry/hair accessories/veils through Etsy.com, under the category Alchemy, and different crafters accross America will put in different bids for your requests.

Wow, that was probably more info than you needed, but I hope some of it helps. :)

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uberniftacular

Thanks! Don't have time to look through it all tonight, but I'm sure it'll help a lot! Etsy looks really interesting, I'm definitely gonna have to spend more time looking at that.