The wedding website has been up for a while now but it's officially live to all guests! It includes all details an out of town guest may need to make proper arrangements for the wedding plus some fun extra stuff too! We have a link to the slideshow our church has on it's website showing the progress of our new sanctuary, a listing of all restaurants near our reception venue for those staying downtown, a place where guests can RSVP now if they'd like, a place where guests can request song choices, and even our full engagement story from my side and Curtis'! I'm very happy with the way it turned out and hope you all enjoy it!
www.wedding.gulicks.com
Thursday, March 18, 2010
DIY Projects
Most people hire someone else to do the amount of work I plan on doing in just the short 7 months we have until the wedding but in an effort to keep our budget in check, and truthfully, moreso because I am what one may call a *ahem* control freak, I am doing them all myself. :)
Here is the list of all of the DIY projects that I'm doing, come hell or high water.
-make signage for dessert bar
-make drink tags for toasting champagne and cocktail hour
-make WE DO letters for cake table or guest book table
-make Unity candle
-bathroom baskets
-make food trays
-create invitations
-create full playlist
-make programs
-order guestbook (already created!)
-finish Out of Town bags
-make basket for "dancing shoes"
-make church door monogram
-make menu cards
-made signage for food stations, table names
-make alcohol drink list
-make escort cards
-rehearsal dinner invites
-make door hangers for out of town guests
-make petal cones
-make elevator cling
Crazy? Yes. Will it all be done before it needs to be? Absolutely. Will I probably double this list? Yep. But it's all completely worth it! This weekend I'm making the drink tags, designing menus and starting on the drink list. Here are some photos I'm using as inspiration for some of the items listed above.
I can't wait to start knocking some of the projects off of the to-do list! All of them take a little time and elbow grease but I think it'll help take the wedding from great to out of this world! Everywhere you look, there will be some small detail that I've dreamt up into a crazy wedding detail. :) And for those of you reading this, I hope you take note in that little detail. If one person notices it then it's worth it and I'll be happy knowing I gave it my all.
Here is the list of all of the DIY projects that I'm doing, come hell or high water.
-make signage for dessert bar
-make drink tags for toasting champagne and cocktail hour
-make WE DO letters for cake table or guest book table
-make Unity candle
-bathroom baskets
-make food trays
-create invitations
-create full playlist
-make programs
-order guestbook (already created!)
-finish Out of Town bags
-make basket for "dancing shoes"
-make church door monogram
-make menu cards
-made signage for food stations, table names
-make alcohol drink list
-make escort cards
-rehearsal dinner invites
-make door hangers for out of town guests
-make petal cones
-make elevator cling
Crazy? Yes. Will it all be done before it needs to be? Absolutely. Will I probably double this list? Yep. But it's all completely worth it! This weekend I'm making the drink tags, designing menus and starting on the drink list. Here are some photos I'm using as inspiration for some of the items listed above.
I can't wait to start knocking some of the projects off of the to-do list! All of them take a little time and elbow grease but I think it'll help take the wedding from great to out of this world! Everywhere you look, there will be some small detail that I've dreamt up into a crazy wedding detail. :) And for those of you reading this, I hope you take note in that little detail. If one person notices it then it's worth it and I'll be happy knowing I gave it my all.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Gocco Napkins
Yesterday evening I decided that I would spend some time Gocco'ing our navy beverage napkins we ordered a few weeks ago. I had a much more pleasant experience with the Gocco and I'm now completely obsessed with it. :) I burned two screens with numerous designs on them to get the most out of each one. I did a one of our monogram, one with our names in script, one with the letter G and another with the chandelier design I fell in love with on the last post. It took around 5 hours to complete all 500 napkins including burning the screens and re-inking 4 designs. The pictures look like dark gray napkins with orange ink but they're really navy with copper and gold ink.
I'll be making 200 more just to make sure we have plenty and these will be by the food stations and handed out at the bar with mixed drinks. I'm also making 100 red ones for the rehearsal dinner and those will say "Rehearsal Dinner" in gold metallic ink. Pictures of those to come later!
I'm so excited about this project because I thought it would take much longer to accomplish and it ended up being very simple, relatively quick project. And no worries; the ink doesn't rub off on your face when you use them. :)
I'll be making 200 more just to make sure we have plenty and these will be by the food stations and handed out at the bar with mixed drinks. I'm also making 100 red ones for the rehearsal dinner and those will say "Rehearsal Dinner" in gold metallic ink. Pictures of those to come later!
I'm so excited about this project because I thought it would take much longer to accomplish and it ended up being very simple, relatively quick project. And no worries; the ink doesn't rub off on your face when you use them. :)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
More Inspiration
Weddingbee.com is my wedding best friend. There are literally thousands of members, all trying to create a unique and special wedding of their own and all sharing countless inspiration ideas and photos. It was Weddingbee who helped me find Gocco and I am forever grateful as a result. :) I have found so many wonderful inspiration photos and ideas that we will use for our own wedding and so I'm sharing a few here. :)
During cocktail hour, all passed drinks and champagne will feature drink tags that have our monogram and wedding date on it. Also, a champagne flute will be at each place setting with a drink tag that says "Toast to the new Mr. & Mrs.!"
I ordered 5000 navy beverage napkins that I will Gocco our monogram and names on for the reception and bar. I plan on using 4 different "logos" for the napkins using Navy and Gold ink. I haven't decided 100% on the design I'll be doing but here are a few pictures of Gocco'd napkins that I think are beautiful!
These are so pretty and they tie in the chandeliers at the ballroom!
Love the idea of making coasters as well!
Because photograpy is so important to us, we welcome all photos of our wedding! These will go in thank you cards and will be at the reception for guests to take home with them.
We're doing a rose petal sendoff so we'll need petal cones!
There are so many unique and fun ideas for weddings now that the hardest part is simply making a decision on what you want, haha. And so, that is my current dilemma.
During cocktail hour, all passed drinks and champagne will feature drink tags that have our monogram and wedding date on it. Also, a champagne flute will be at each place setting with a drink tag that says "Toast to the new Mr. & Mrs.!"
I ordered 5000 navy beverage napkins that I will Gocco our monogram and names on for the reception and bar. I plan on using 4 different "logos" for the napkins using Navy and Gold ink. I haven't decided 100% on the design I'll be doing but here are a few pictures of Gocco'd napkins that I think are beautiful!
These are so pretty and they tie in the chandeliers at the ballroom!
Love the idea of making coasters as well!
Because photograpy is so important to us, we welcome all photos of our wedding! These will go in thank you cards and will be at the reception for guests to take home with them.
We're doing a rose petal sendoff so we'll need petal cones!
There are so many unique and fun ideas for weddings now that the hardest part is simply making a decision on what you want, haha. And so, that is my current dilemma.
Gocco Goodness
After weeks of being afraid to open my new favorite toy, I finally assembled and decided I would start Gocco'ing! What on earth is a Gocco you ask? It is a Japanese screen printing machine that allows you to create a design, burn it to one of their screens, then ink it for printing. After falling in love with Stardream Opal paper at Paper Source, I realized that you can only use a laser printer to print on it since it absorbs inkjet ink too much. Enter the Gocco! I was able to print using a gorgeous metallic gold ink and a navy ink to create a beautiful Save the Date that I'm very excited to send out. I love that the Gocco allows you to create your own design and then burn it to their screens. The possibilities are endless!
Here's a sneak peak after the embossing step:
The envelopes will have guests information the front by hand calligraphy and the return address on the back will be created using a custom address embosser we ordered. I may end up Gocco'ing a design on the envelopes and creating liners for the envelopes as well but I'm not sure yet. I can't decide if I want to use all of my new DIY tricks up front on the Save the Dates or wait unitl the invite. :) You will be wow'd!
Here's a sneak peak after the embossing step:
The envelopes will have guests information the front by hand calligraphy and the return address on the back will be created using a custom address embosser we ordered. I may end up Gocco'ing a design on the envelopes and creating liners for the envelopes as well but I'm not sure yet. I can't decide if I want to use all of my new DIY tricks up front on the Save the Dates or wait unitl the invite. :) You will be wow'd!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Wedding Weekend!
My mom and ma came into town last weekend and we got two big things knocked off the wedding checklist. Yah! My wedding dress is paid for (THANK YOU MOM!!!) so now I just have to pick it up this week. I love love love my wedding dress and I cannot wait to wear it on wedding day! (and doing dishes the week after and to a party the week after that....j/k!) I have been waiting for my wedding day since I was a little girl and I truly feel like a princess in this gown.
After the dress shop, we headed out to Grapevine for our first cake tasting. I had anticpated to shop around a bit for wedding cakes but after meeting Jenny Murdoch with The Jenny Layne Bakery, I knew we had found our baker. She's so vibrant and talented. The cake was delicious and we chose some really great flavors. We'll have extra cake so that will go on our dessert bar for people to take home and enjoy in the days after our reception. More on the dessert bar to come in later posts. The cake will be four tiers, a pearlized ivory color with navy ribbon around each tier. The front will feature 4 small bows where the ribbon meets and a small crystal broach in the middle of each bow. Then, because I love a dramatic detail on anything, the back of the cake will mimic the crystal buttons down the back of my dress by featuring crystals from top to bottom. I think it's a fun detail that will be unexpected!
It was a wonderful weekend with family and wedding details! I am so looking forward to wedding day! 8 months to go!!!
After the dress shop, we headed out to Grapevine for our first cake tasting. I had anticpated to shop around a bit for wedding cakes but after meeting Jenny Murdoch with The Jenny Layne Bakery, I knew we had found our baker. She's so vibrant and talented. The cake was delicious and we chose some really great flavors. We'll have extra cake so that will go on our dessert bar for people to take home and enjoy in the days after our reception. More on the dessert bar to come in later posts. The cake will be four tiers, a pearlized ivory color with navy ribbon around each tier. The front will feature 4 small bows where the ribbon meets and a small crystal broach in the middle of each bow. Then, because I love a dramatic detail on anything, the back of the cake will mimic the crystal buttons down the back of my dress by featuring crystals from top to bottom. I think it's a fun detail that will be unexpected!
It was a wonderful weekend with family and wedding details! I am so looking forward to wedding day! 8 months to go!!!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wedding Website is Up!!
Our wedding website is up and running! It has all of the important information guests might need for our wedding.
www.wedding.gulicks.com
password: greece
Feel free to leave any comments or well wishes on our guest book page. Also, guests are able to make song requests, figure out where to stay and where to dine while in Dallas for our wedding. Check it out!
www.wedding.gulicks.com
password: greece
Feel free to leave any comments or well wishes on our guest book page. Also, guests are able to make song requests, figure out where to stay and where to dine while in Dallas for our wedding. Check it out!
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