I'm Obsessed!

I do not know what has gotten inside me this weekend, I have been a wedding planning {{and blogging}} fiend!!

Chris and I went to JoAnn Fabrics today to be inspired. Well really for me to be inspired. Chris kind of just tagged along. Found some fabric I'd love to make into a table runner. Then some lovely navy blue ribbon to go with it. We decided today that navy blue and yellow will be our colors {{until next week!}}. I really liked green and yellow for the past month or so. I thought they'd be our wedding colors. When we went to the store to find fabric, we found that it's hard to find that perfect shade of green. It's a lot easier to find navy blue. So our decision was made. Navy blue and Yellow. They are both of our second favorite colors [[red and blue are our first-- too Christmas like!]] so they make us smile still.

Here is the fabric that I like a lot. They only had a small piece of it. I love the color, and adore the pattern. May be somewhere else has a similar pattern.

--The colors don't show as well on here though:(--



--Now for the close up! The yellow is almost exact! The ribbon is navy blue, not black ((like it shows)). --



They also had some very, very cute fabric I want to make a dog bed for Shadow and Jake! It was another small piece.. may be I can make bandannas!

Then, I found some inspiration for an art project. I bought these:


I want to paint these and put them onto a painted canvas. The canvas will be yellow and the letters will be blue. Or vice versa. OR the canvas will be the fabric we use for the table runners, and the letters will be the blue. We also like the idea of getting a BIG letter "B" to paint or something.. next to the canvas. I bought them and won't do anything until more things are finalized.


Moving onto centerpieces.... I like these lanterns from IKEA. Bonus-- They're only like $7!!! They have more at the store too.


I LOVE all of these ideas for using mason jars! My mom has about a million of these in our basement. So that will definitely cut that price down. She just can't make her sauce for about a month or so! haha.



--These are cute too! I could collect bottles from family members throughout the year.--

I'd have to remind them of APPROPRIATE bottles to give us. Budweiser bottles with the label will not make such classy wedding centerpieces.


++And last but not a least... an adorable picture [[or two]] of us.++

Eco-friendly Wedding

Instead of doing my student teaching unit (too much of a bore!), I've been indulging myself in wedding blogs!

I am finding SO MANY great ideas. I think I may have the reception still at Petruzello's or some other fancy place to appease my "likes gaudy things" Italian father and "likes nice things" mother-in-law. I am on the search for an earth friendly ceremony site though! Any suggestions? We are looking in the Troy/Rochester area.

Today, I am impressed with {{eco-friendly}} options for a wedding!

I like the idea of printing our own invitations. Not only will it probably save my money which will be nice for the budget, but if we use environmentally safe paper... it'll be eco-friendly too! I love this idea:


From: Green Field Paper Company

Invites that you can water and grow flowers! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!? Now, I just have to find a place that will print on them. OR see if we can use our own printers at home.

And... how awesome would it be to use recyclable wrapping paper to line the envelopes. I love this wrapping paper:


From: Green Field Paper Company
haha! May be not for the wedding, but I do love it!

OR


From: Green Field Paper Company
A little retro, but I think I like it!


I also like the idea of this! A quilt!

from fellow blogger: 2000 Dollar Budget Wedding

I found this on a fellow blogger's site. They asked for their guests to mail a piece of fabric. They sewed the pieces together to make a quilt. [[THIS IS THE BEST PART]] instead of doing a unity candle or that sand thing.. they were wrapped in this quilt. They even signed their wedding license while wrapped from the "love of family and friends". Absolutely LOVE it!


Also I like the idea of using sheets as tablecloths! You can probably find some very cute ones at resale stores or just on clearance, I love these...{They're from some retro website}






Okay, one last thing {for now}.


from fellow blogger: 2000 Dollar Budget Wedding

Vases for centerpieces made out of recycled wine bottles. LOVE IT. I even like the idea of using recycled wine bottle as water pitchers.


There's SO many ideas out there. I love them all! :)