Wedding Vodka

What more do I need to say? I really want to try the 'Bride' vodka now as it is 'Wedding Cake' flavored which means it will either be really good or terrible like the Rootbeer Vodka I bought on sale last time. Regardless, we started making our 'Alcohol' box for the wedding since we are providing all the hard stuff, plus beer as wine will come from Stoney Creek itself due to their liquor licence.

Printed, Cut, Folded and Stuffed

It's official - the invitations are done! Today I picked them up at 7:30am from Don and Chrissie at Custom Printing and they looked great. Chrissie was able to get the paper back to normal after I blew dried it as she repacked it with her machine to make it tight and flat. Then while working at school today, I was able to get them all cut and folded. Stuffed them when I got home and mailed them out this afternoon. The post office said all non-international invites should arrive by the end of the week so make sure to check your mail boxes as they are small!

Table Cloths

So we realized it was cheaper to buy table cloths then to rent them and since we wanted black and Stoney Creek only had white, we bought them. There were several places that had them for just under $9.00 a piece however this place not only offered free shipping, but this week they had a special for 3 days where everything was 15% off so we saved way more then if were were to rent them. Now if you ever need 8 black round 90 inch table cloths, you know who to borrow them from!

Decorating kit

So the room we are having our reception in is pretty empty so I need to put up decorations yet decorations are so expensive. While at Party City today to by Cyndi's daughter, as well as Carri, both a wedding card, I happened to find Black and White decorating kits and they were super cheap - only $9.99 which shocked me since Party City is over priced on everything else. I opened the kit up too and the items are good sized. I am debating now if I should buy more or just stick with one. I guess I better ask Dena if decorations are ok first. Needles to say, here are the sets online http://www.partycity.com/product/black+damask+party+decorating+kit.do?sortby=ourPicks&pp=60&size=all&navSet=170233

Printed and Stamped!

So everyone said not to get big invites or envelops because it would cost more to send them. So leave ti to me to get super small ones. Problem with that is that no printer could print them! I finally was able to tape each one onto it's own sheet of paper and manually feed them into the printer one by one. All of our envelopes are not only printed, but also stamped. Now if only I had the invitations to put in them...Oh and yes, I put the stamps on sideways...opps!

Bows

So while watching Marrisa and Landon sleep last night at Karen's while they had a softball game, I was able to get a majority of the bows and bells tied onto the place cards. Let's just say it was very tedious and reminded me of when Nanci and I were tying bows for the shower she was throwing. Another good thing I got done was convincing Fedex/Kinox to let me copy the Scrabble board paper to make the center pieces. How did I do it; said it was for my classroom as teachers apparently get copyright privileges waived haha.

Invitation Nightmare...

Invitations...who thought it would be this difficult! Besides the hours spent at Office Max last week, and the millions of phone calls to other places, one which wanted to charge over $100 just to print them as I would be providing them with the paper, I think we found one. Greg Leyden from work was helping redesign my classroom and I asked him if he knew anyone since he's lived and worked around here for a long time. He said he had a friend named Don who owns http://www.custom-bindery.com/. Needless to say, Don thinks he can do it so we decided to go there today. Unfortunately when I went to retrieve the paper from the laundry room, somehow it had gotten all wet and was now wrapped - how I have no idea. I tried blow drying it and it got out most of the wrinkles but not all. He does not know if it will run through the printer and we couldn't find more for at a reasonable price so he is going to try to use it and his graphic artist is going to work on the file to make sure it lines up. Needless to say, this is my LAST shot because if they do not do it, sorry Chris, your request is going to be left un-met as I am sick and tired of waiting to send these out which means I will be doing them myself...which I wanted to do weeks ago! He said they should be done by Monday at the latest so pray this is true. Now all I need to do in the mean time is work on envelopes which Cyndi is letting me borrow her classroom printer and if that does not work, then I will do them at her house as she just printed her daughters a few weeks ago.