Browsing Category: Our Wedding

DIY: Faux Milk Glass Bud Vases

I love the idea of mixing mason jars and milk bud vases with flowers as center pieces for the wedding reception—similar to the picture below. Since our reception venue has wood floors and beams and exposed brick walls, I think this type of decor would fit nicely with the space. Source I haven’t started looking […]

What I’ve Learned About Wedding Planning

As of today, Tim and I have been engaged for 3 months. And within those three months, we’ve been able to book just about everything. The only really big thing we have left to book is the florist, but that’s because I’m waiting for one last proposal to show up in my email. Two semi-big […]

Ceremony Site: The Music Stand

Meet the Music Stand. Our future ceremony site. Click on pictures to see them larger. Tim and I knew from the start that we didn’t want a traditional wedding ceremony in a church. He’s Catholic and I’m not, and I don’t plan on converting over to Catholicism. Though his mom really wants us to have […]

Wedding Party Attire

I feel so proud of Tim and myself with planning the wedding. We booked a photographer, we are booking the reception venue tonight, I’m also meeting with a florist tonight and have a list of outdoor ceremony venues to check out. So with most of the big stuff taken care of, I can now start […]

Reception Venues

I mentioned in the last post that Tim and I had looked at three possible reception venues last week, and I wanted to share pictures of them. We are looking at one more place next Saturday, but we’re pretty sold on one of three we looked at this past week. Sorry the pictures are a […]

Photographer is booked!

Last week was a busy week for us. We looked at three possible reception venues and booked the photographer! We booked Studio 21 Photography out of Shelbyville, IL. It’s a husband–wife duo who love photography and capturing real life moments. I actually stumbled upon these guys by accident and fell in love with the style […]