Just Married!

Our wedding was a month and a half ago and it was a wonderful day!

Unfortunately I wasn't able to post my plans on here as often as I'd wanted to.  One of the things I learned was that the wedding planning really does take a lot of one's time.  I didn't have much time for anything else the closer we got to the wedding.  Now that the planning is done I have more time to work on this site. I hope to share what we learned from our experience, share the things we are happy we did, and more!  I just need to get it all organized so stay tuned!

Have a wonderful week everyone!

Budget Fairy Tale Giveaway!

My friend and fellow Disneyland bride Mindy started her own blog called Budget Fairy Tale!  I'm so glad she started it because it's awesome and I've become a big fan of it!  Her posts are so original and fun to read!  I loved her latest post called "The Knot Thinks Our Wedding is Strange, and I Do (K)Not Care."

This week Budget Fairy Tale is having their first giveaway!  It's a pretty cool giveaway too-  you could win your own caricature card from Cameoland!  All you have to do is help come up with name for the blog's mascot!

Take a look at this link for info on the giveaway.  It's easy to enter so make sure you check it out! 

Click here to read more about the giveaway:  Name Our New Mascot

Our DIY Invites!

For our invitations we searched online but couldn't find anything we liked.  So I decided I would attempt to make them!  We went to the Paper Source and picked out an assortment of items for me to play with!  We got everything in our colors- dark blue, white, and silver.  After that we made a stop at Paradise Pier and picked out some Mickey punch out items they have at their gift shop as well as some fun scissors that cut Mickey edges.  Finally we grabbed some postcards and a Disney notepad.

Here's a pic of the stuff we started out with.

Here's what we created:

The invite!

With it's envelope:

 

Inside first flap:

Inside (this one has no text because it was the first one I made, we printed the invite info on the rose paper in the middle):

I really love the rose paper.  It reminds me of Beauty and the Beast! 

We used an assortment of Disney postcards for our RSVP cards.  There's a pocket in the card where the postcard fits perfectly.

We also bought envelopes for the RSVP postcards.  Jared came up with the back of the RSVP on his own!  He put one of our engagement pictures on it and I love how it turned out!  

We did English ones and Spanish ones as well for my family.  We used the notepad for handwritten notes that we inserted into the invitations that went to the members of the bridal party.

I love how our invites turned out but I must admit it was a lot of work! We spent a whole Saturday with Jared printing invites and cutting silver paper into strips and me glueing & putting it together. This doesn't include all the time it took to label them all and tie the ribbon around each card.  We were so happy with the result though that the hard work was worth it!  I'm really glad we took on the task of doing them ourselves!