Wedding details : )

Last Wednesday was the 16 months mark in the countdown until the wedding!
I couldn't think of any new fresh ideas as of late. So I switched gears and thought about things that I love. I figured once I had a list of things I loved, I could figure out how to incorporate those things into the wedding.
Here's my list.

1. Cody!
2. Buttons!
3. Shiny things
4. Ribbons
5. Cupcakes
6. Balloons
7. Bright colors

Okay, so here is a small list of things I love. Now here are my ideas.

1. Yeah, I might wanna include him in the wedding somehow : p
2. I got the idea that I could make my own placement cards for at the reception and use buttons to make them cute. Well, then I thought about having to cut out little rectangles and how un-fun that would be. Here's where ANOTHER idea hit me. I can order Vistaprint.com business cards (fairly cheap and good) and then I'll have the shape taken care of without countless hours of measuring and cutting. When I order the bussiness cards, all I'm going to do is have a line about 1/3 of the way down from the top (where I can then write the name of whoever's place card is there) And then about 2/3of the way down, I can write Table # ___. When I get these cards, and all the RSVPS are in, I can write the name of the people on these cards, their table number, and glue a button on it! Tada! Really cheap placement cars with BUTTONS!
3 and 4. I love shiny things. I love ribbon. SHINY RIBBON!!! The place I am having the reception doesn't allow alcohol (which I am very happy with). But I still want people to be able to toast with something besides water/soda. So here's my thought. Every table gets a bottle of sparkling cider and I'll tie a shiny ribbon around it! Also, I can make this the center piece. Center pieces are usually extremely expensive. Well, mine would cost about $5 a pop! I could, if I wanted, to put toasting classes around the sparking sider in the middle of the table and tie each one with the ribbon as well. Center piece: Check.
5. I love cupcakes. I might use a lot of cupcakes instead of a cake. How cute and dainty would that be?!
6. BALLOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have no idea what I want to do with these, but one thing I thought of was having my bridesmaids carry balloons. 60per bouquet gets turned into $5 for a bridesmaids balloons. I think this would just make it sorta whimsical and fun.
7. Bright colors really make me happy. My colors are pink and silver. If I decide to do flowers (which I probably will) I don't just want pink flowers, I want multicolored flowers!

And here's another idea about flowers. While the steelers were losing horrible in the super bowl, I got online and was looking up wedding flowers. I learned how to make paper flowers! It's actually really easy, and it would be so cheap. It's also something I can start NOW : ) Once I learned how to make paper roses, I found a website on how to make a bouquet out of paper roses. So. Awesome. Here are some directions I got on a website on how to make paper roses




And look, put the flowers on a toothpick and then into a Styrofoam ball!




Tada!!!

Have a great week!