dreams. And progress.

I had two wedding dreams in a row last night and it was ridiculous.

In the first one, it was the morning after and I was sitting on a couch at my grandma's old house when I realized that everything had gone wrong the day before. There was no photographer, hardly any guests showed up, I never got to eat anything, and the worst: we forgot to sign the marriage license. I was freaking out hoping that it was all a dream. Then I woke up. My heart was racing but I was quite relieved that it was a dream.

In the second one, we were setting up the reception inside a house. We cleared out all the furniture and brought in tables and stuff, and it looked amazing. Some dude was practicing his toast and I overheard it while I was setting up and I started to cry a little. And that was it, end of dream.

Anyway. I spent most of yesterday working on wedding projects. I made a card box, dyed more program pieces, and made necklace things for my ladies of honor. They're not fancy or anything- I fully intend on throwing them away after the wedding- but I think they'll look nifty. Maybe not though. I'll decide the day of, I suppose.

Today I'm going to finish dying the paper, finish the card box, and maybe make the signs to hang. They say "guestbook," "food," "drink," "beer," and "games." When I realized how expensive chalkboards would be, I decided to steal the idea that Heather used at her wedding: paper banners. Bam.

programs

Okay, so it might take a little convincing to get Darren to go along with this taco bar idea. Fingers crossed!

In other news, the most time-consuming project is proving to be the ceremony programs. I mentioned in an earlier post that I downloaded a template to make fans. I have to cut out each individual piece- five sections per fan. Three of them will be printed on both sides (one side with actual ceremony and wedding party info, the other side with a design), and the other two are blank but there to make the fan larger and more fan-like.

I decided that instead of leaving the blank pages boring and white, I'm going to stain them with tea. I've got some test pages drying right now, but as long as they dry to the same stiffness as before, then it's a go. I've got almost all of the blank pieces cut out. I'm not going to print the other pieces until after I get more ink, so I can do them all at once (my current color cartridge is about half empty and I'd inevitably run out half way through printing).

So it's going to take a long time. But they're going to be pretty nifty I think.

Programs!

Originally I was going to have Eric design some super simple two-sided programs with just something pretty on the front, and the wedding party on the back.

Until today, when I found this sweet template for fan programs. Which means I won't have to buy actual fans. Win.

I found a fabulous design that is actually a border, at a stock images website. I just had to register (free, of course), and was able to download the full-sized document of said image. I used my mad skills in Photoshop and MS paint and will be adding the test in the very near future. I downloaded a free font that is similar to Futura, which is what Eric is using, but then he said he's send his fonts to me, so... awesome.

I'm kind of geeking out over this, actually. Hahaha. Programs.