29 Jul

New Style Board

Author: Susan  |  Category: beach, colors, styleboard, theme

This week I got a couple of great ideas from Martha and Brides.com. To get to our ceremony site, guests will have to cross a beach dune. I saw photos from a wedding where the dune fence was lined with torches. It will be light out when our guests arrive, but it’s a nice touch. Also - enter the cheapskate bride - it should be easy to score a bunch at the end of summer for a major discount.

I’ve been debating about whether or not to have a candy bar / buffet. It’s a nice touch and we have yet to attend wedding with one, but is it weird to mix my professional life into my wedding? If we do, I’d really like to focus on our wedding colors - blues, white, silver … but that should give us plenty of choices. Don says that unless we get all the candy gratis, we won’t have it … but I think he’s bluffing.

The photo of the ceremony on the beach is actually the exact location where Don and I plan to hold our ceremony.

Monday night, I received a shipping notice on the papers necessary to create our DIY invitations. I’m very excited about it. Yes, I know we have 276 days before the wedding … but it’s going to take some time and effort to make these things, okay?
We have a meeting with the caterer on Friday. If he doesn’t make us too angry (yes, there is reason to believe he might), we’ll be ready to pull the trigger on the reception venue. Whee!

5 Responses to “New Style Board”

  1. Katy Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

    Susan–this is great! I will keep checking back to review any taskings you assign to us! At your service!!
    Love,
    Katy

  2. Chris VR Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    Would you consider luminaries instead of the torches? Paper bags with some rocks in the bottom to hold them in plce and a candle in the bottom. We used them all the time at the event venue I used to work at and they really looked lovely. Plus cheap. You could use a funky hole punch to make a design if you’re feeling crafty.

  3. Susan Fussell Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Katy - All the materials for the invitations have arrived … so we’ll be having a girls night soon. Donna had the idea that we should all get together once and month to drink wine and make like 3 invitations each. In 5 months time we will have made them all without doing much work and will have had a reason to hang and drink every month (like we need a reason for that!).

    Chris - We would consider it. For the dune crossing we need something tall that can be placed INSIDE the fence, though because the beach will not be shut down to other visitors - it’s a regular ‘ole public beach. I was looking for a starfish hole punch for luminaries on the deck of the reception venue, though. Might have to settle for a regular star and just pretend. I also found some cheap bags that have lots of little stars already punched out.

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  5. AlexAxe Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 7:32 am

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