Michele and Brett came down today with V so that I could get some more of the little things out of the way. And we did get a ton done, maybe that’s because they stayed for seven hours! I also got the plumbing fixed. "What was it?" "About 40 years of hair, soap scum and make up" "oh." Ewwwww, but all better now. I had a mini melt down with the bank. I’m trying to pay all my vendors, but I have a debit card daily limit. So I call to see if I can have it changed and they are like, "oh no, we can’t do that it’s a master card policy." So I have them transfer me to Master Card who say they have no such policy. Then I go back to the bank (twice because the first call was dropped) and I plead with them, "the money is IN the account, you know it’s there, why can’t I use it?" They are telling me I should just write a check, to which I explain I can’t because I don’t live in the city where I’m getting married. I tried everything, talking to supervisors, crying (but not so much on purpose), pleading, telling them my wedding is in 9 days, nothing. So now I have to contact all the vendors and have them stager payments off the card, grrr. It’s such a scam, I mean I think if you have the money in the account they should let you spend as much of it as you want. Back to the pretty things:


Straws, check!


Buttons, check! Oh how I wish I could record people’s reactions to their buttons. Because each button is specifically for a person they should get a pretty good kick out of them. And they are designed exceptionally well (thank you Sciarrino). This also proves that our count is 100% done. I know exactly who is coming, and since the number is a bit less than what we had originally planned for and we still have to meet the minimum food/beverage requirement for the room we’ve decided on….. An OPEN BAR. Are my friends reading this?


Key cards are almost done, just have to write the names on, and then put in order by table number. I’m going to have to fold newsprint around all of these because I’m afraid the keys will leach onto the paper.


V watched and was a very good girl and let us get a lot done. Now onto the projects of the evening, finishing V’s dress and dressing up the tree containers.

9 days until I do!

So Sciarrino and I have been hard at work making wedding related piles of stuff that is littering my house right now. I think it’s like a war room, I have the tactical seating chart on one wall, buttons for guests on the other, and emergency candy and diet coke ready to go in the kitchen, not to mention 164 163 bottles of champagne in my living room. These were delivered yesterday by Bill:


And of course I had to chill some and make sure they were good:


Are these not the cutest things ever?!?! I found the blue ones of these in In Style Weddings Summer 2003. I had to have them (of course), I mean who wants lame champagne flutes with hearts when you can have these puppies? Michele found the pink ones, and I was able to track those down as well. Then I had another problem. The article showed them on a tray with cute straws and little cards on the straws that said "cheers". I set Michele on the task to find cool straws, no problem right? Wrong, it turns out cute drinking straws are practically non existent. So what did my resourceful bridesmaid do? She impersonated me and tracked down the writer of the article, who got back to her right away and told her that the straws actually come with the champagne, and that a calligrapher had done the cards. I was blown away by this, the writer! Now that’s above and beyond. But yes the straws came with the drinks, and I’ve already started making the cards myself for the straw (check my POTD from a few days ago to few a sample idea). I’m having a stamp made that says "cheers" so that I don’t have to write on every card. Oh and speaking of stamps:


Check out this beast! I think Sciarrino and I might do up our own line of stamps we’re having so much fun making them up. This stamp is for the cards that slip into the napkins, we put it on a rocker to speed up the process. And the 153 cards went really fast because the ink I got practically dries on contact. MMmmmm I love that stamp. Also for those cards, I cut 153 hearts:


(my studio is a mess) And went through 8,000+ keys to find the most perfectly cute ones:


Wait, back up? I have 8,000 keys? Why yes, I do. Michele and I did an instillation artwork in college that involved a freaking crap load of keys. I’ve been storing them under my mom’s house, but crawled under there last week to get them (creepy town!!!) so that I could use some on the table cards (you know "key to my heart" but not so literal and sappy… I hope). Emilie and I lugged the buckets (heavy) into  the living room and sorted through them all. Keys are dirty, I think I’m going to wash these before continuing on with the cards. And…


I have to call a plumber. Ugh.

That’s Kathy, Karen, Katie, and Kristen from left to right. Now that you see how many "K" friends I have I think it’s easy to see why I call so many of them by their last names!


I didn’t see the invites before the party because the theme was a surprise. It was an alphabet shower, everyone got a glitter letter with their invite and then got me a gift to correspond with that. It spelled amber, bj, life, love. So cute! And the girls were pretty clever. Katie Lek. got me cute little undies, and when I asked her what that stood for (because she had an M and everything else in the bag had to do with muffins) she said, "man bait" LOL I was dying.


Sue got me this beautiful bowl for the "E", empty. It is screaming to have dyed easter eggs put in it, so I might do a late easter celebration, because there is no way that is getting done before the wedding.


Sciarrino made me this fab bag, wait what was your letter Sciarrino? It’s so cool, I’m thinking honeymoon carry on. Love the fabric, mmmmm.


Ceara don’t our moms look cute!


And of course one with my very concerned looking little friend. Awe V you’re too cute!