No invitations needed

We no longer need invitations to be made. I found a website that has the same invitations I saw on several other websites for literally hundred more. Plus I googled a promotional discount and found a coupon code to save even more money. So we have invitations now. We just need to make RSVP cards, place cards, etc. :-)

Wedding Favors

I have ordered the wedding favors so I will no longer need help crafting those. :) They are personalized water bottle labels that look like the picture above.

If you would like to help

If you would like to help with making place holder cards, menu cards, wedding favors, etc. please let me know. I have plenty of crafty stuff that needs to be done if you like to do that kind of stuff! Here is a website I created just for people who are helping with the wedding to consolidate photos into albums. Here you can see what kind of "crafty stuff" I am talking about if you are interested in helping. http://kalaanddavid.webs.com/apps/photos/

For the Bridal Party

I figure since we are having a later wedding that we could all go get lunch then go to a spa and get our nails done, maybe a massage (to keep my stress and hive level down!), and get our makeup and hair done. I am looking at some packages and I found a place that offers a manicure, pedicure, massage, updo, and makeup for $275. This is just something to think about if you want to save up your money and do it. If you just want to come along and hang with us too that's fine. If you want, you can help search for cheap spa's in the Granbury-Fort Worth area. I know it is still plenty of time before the wedding but I figured I would let you know I was thinking about this so you can figure out how much money you might want to bring with you or save up. I hope yall are all doing good. I am looking foward to us all getting together and doiny bridesmaid dresses and stuff. Hopefully we can do that sometime before fall classes start. :-)

Wedding Attire

Asa and I went to Davids Bridal last night. We found one dress ($135) that we both agreed looked the best. They only had her size in pink, but of course we can get them in black. We went to the mall and looked at the department stores and found absolutley nothing. Looked online at Alfred Angelo's dresses and they are the same thing that Davids Bridal has but more expensive. So I am not sure what to do. Becaue I bought my dress at Davids Bridal all Bridesmaids get $20 off their dresses so it would actuall be $115. I also have a coupon for $20 off dresses for my mom and my future mother-in-law! (I love saying that!). I also have a coupon to save 10% on bridesmaid shoes. Let me know if you are interested in this deal or if it seems out of your budget.  These coupons expire 9/30/10 so we will need to use them within the next 3 months so try to be thinking on it if you can. I will post the picture of Asa in the dress that we liked and let me know what you think about this. Is there a day sometime this summer that we can all get together to try on and see what you think? If we can't all get together, I can try to meet with yall at a Davids Bridal just whever each of you are available too. If you have any other suggestions/ideas for bridal party dresses please let me know too! We could also try to go to Beaus Bridal in Fort Smith and see what they have too. Look here too: http://www1.macys.com/catalog/index.ognc?CategoryID=22120&PageID=95007055030483  There are some good sales but we would need to buy them now to get the sales and get alterations done when it gets closer to time. 

Asa and I also went to Hobby Lobby last night. We bought a box and some lace and made a memory/card box. We will have this at the sign in table for people to place notes, memories, and cards in. We also decided to try making our own candy for possible wedding favors. The candy was surprisingly good. I think this is something we are going to do.

Punch Recipes!!

Well I have about 5 minutes before I have to go to work so I will make a quick post. I am needing a good punch recipe to serve at the wedding. Does anyone have one? If so please email it to me ( kharrima@gmail.com ) . I did a lot of shopping today. I got about 80% of my bridal party gifts purchased and I hope to finish the last of it today after I get off work!! I just have to keep myself from trying to give them their gifts early!! So please send me some punch recipes for us to experiment with and try out!!!

Much Accomplished

Well, it's near the end of my week-long trip to Texas and we have gotten much, much, much accomplished!! Tuesday we went back to the venue and got a good idea of how to decorate, took measurements, took more pictures and got some more questions answered. Wednesday we went to Davids Bridal and I tried on more than boo-koos of dresses. Pretty much every dress in my size that I would even consider wearing and then some! I finally found THE dress!!! I LOVE it!! I had bought a dress previously that I loved and it was the only one, my size and on clearance. It was basically a back up in case I couldn't find a dress I liked better so I bought it just in case. But I had also gone wedding dress shopping by my self (which was much more awkward than I expected it to be) and I started getting stressed out by the third dress I tried on. Well the dress I bought this Wednesday FAR exceeds the other dress, so I will sell the old one on Ebay or something. I got the petty-coat to go under it and a diamond hair peice. Poor Kara cried when I got my dress on, she had to walk away. Kara and Lacy tried on bridesmaid dresses at Davids Bridal but no success. The dresses were cheap looking and didn't fit them right so we are going to look else where some other time. I also booked a photographer today! They have GREAT work!! Here is a link to their photo galleries if you would like to see their work http://modernimagestudios.com/photo-gallery I also purchased a garter, some fake (but real looking) rose petals for the cake table, and some vases too. I met with a florist but I think the ideas I gave her FAR exceeds my budget!! So I think we are going to have to re-do some of that! But at least I have an idea of what is cheap, what isn't and what I like and what I can work with. I was going to buy an "R" cake topper but they had literally every letter but R! ha so I will get that later. I have decided to keep a big rubbermaid tub at Karas and just start buying decorations here so we don't have to transport them before the wedding. Mark knows a pastor that he has asked to marry us so we have that taken care of too!! I have a had a great trip. Ranger, Danner and Gunner have been a lot of fun. I swam with the boys a few nights and they loved that. Ranger was a good sport and went with me and Kara to wedding dress shop for hours! We want Ranger and Danner to wear tuxes and by our ushers but they are embarrassed right now with the idea and didn't want to but I think I  might could talk them in to it.  We also have to figure out how we are going to do food at the reception (excluding cake and punch), find a good punch recipe (email me one if you have a good one), invitations, cake topper, guest book, veil, flowers, figure out how I want to do my hair, altar decorations, bridal party gifts, aisle runner, etc! But I feel like we made a lot of head way!!