Cost Efficient Monograms

As I mentioned earlier, I decided to print and cut my own monograms. So, I did just that! But now I'm thinking that I did them on the wrong color card stock! UGH! I clearly can't win for losing! But at least I know that it's an easy task.

Here are all of my monograms on one sheet. I used a ruler to draw very faint lines on them, using the marks that printed out on them.


At work, cutting my monograms. I bought the paper cutter from Hobby Lobby for $6.99.

I think that now that I've bought my own lime green paper, that I want to buy ivory paper for the invite, response cards, and belly band instead of the cream card stock I got from Michael's. I'll let the price be the deciding factor. I may just stick to what I have. I do know that people will only throw the invitations away... so, no sense in wasting unnecessary money!

Name That Cake!

Earlier, I showed you guys the cake table letters that I wanted. I finally purchased them. I've now painted them with acrylic paint. I'm trying to decide if I want to bling them out or not. I have time to decide. I think that I will!

Before:


After:

Costs:

Letters: $0.99/letter {$7.50} Hobby Lobby

Paint: $4.00 w/ 40% off coupon {$2.60} Michael's

Paint Brushes: $3.99 w/ 40% off coupon {$2.59} Michael's

Grand total- $12.69 {FOR NOW!}

I Did It!!!

I have crossed over from being a fiancée to being a wife!!! Yep, I did it! We got married on Sunday, January 9, 2011. No, it wasn't a spontaneous thing, it was planned, but I know how to keep a secret... kinna! lol. {All my Facebook friends knew.}

Our pastor married us in his study on Sunday morning. There were 9 people total in the room. It was very short, sweet, and intimate. I LOVED IT!!! There really isn't much to say about it. Everything went well.

My mom took one pic and that's all we have. Oh well. Sometimes one pic is enough. After the ceremony, we went to 9:00am service. We actually got married at about 9:45am, so we were clearly we were only in there for the pastors sermon. Then we went out to eat. We then went to a nice hotel downtown.

We still plan to have a celebration in May. It may or may not be a vow renewal. At this point, I cold really care less. I have other things I could put my energy towards. But I'll definitely keep everyone posted! I am still planning for WHATEVER it is we'll be having! LOL! Life is good!

My husband and me


Special thanks to my AA Knottie sister, Alf, for posting these shoes a while back! I told her I'd find a reason to own them! I got married in them!

Please Share!

I have decided to do Photo Share Cards. I know that I'm impatient when it comes to seeing pictures. Today, I designed my cards in less than 30 minutes. I'll be using a coupon from Vista Print for 250 free premium business cards AND free uploads. I'll only be spending about $17 for shipping and it's $12.99 for the full color back side of the card. I totally used one of my Knottie sister's, Pasma, words from her photo share cards found here. Here are my cards.

Front View

Back view

HAPPY YEAR OF NEWNESS!!!

Happy Year of Newness everyone!!! 2011, I believe, is going to be an amazing year! There are so many things in store for Babe and me. YAY! Let's make this a great one!

Monograms

I'm buying my paper for my invitations from Cards and Pockets. They also sale the 2x2 monograms for the belly bands. I was going to buy them, but someone reminded me that I could do them myself! So, I did just that! The ones I wanted from CP are $2.99 for 15 2x2 monograms. I was actually okay with that. {Well, I picked a different design so it was 20 for $2.99.} I went on Publisher and created a monogram very similar to the one on CP.
CPs:

Mine:

{Sorry it's blurry, don't feel like trying to correct it.}

So, I went to Michael's yesterday with a 50% off coupon from Retail Me Not and bought a 50 pk of card stock for $2.15. That's less than I would have paid for 15 monograms from CP.

The one issue I had was the fact that the card stock doesn't exactly match the paper on the inside of the invitation! I really don't feel like searching for paper, and I refuse to pay CP $5.00 for 25 sheets of card stock. So, I'm at the point where I don't really care if it matches exactly. I'm sure I'm the only one that will really notice that. So, today, I will be printing out the monograms and maybe cutting them later. I'm going to do everything separate.

Also on my to-do list for the day is finding boxes for my card box and buying the envelopes for my STDs that came in day before yesterday. And I'll be addressing envelopes tomorrow and hopefully mailing out by Tuesday! Stay tuned!

Another Change?

Thanks to one of my Knottie sisters, Cincy, and her helpful daily gorgeous wedding posts, I realized today that I want small simple, elegant centerpieces! What we plan to have currently is tall vases filled with limes with calla lilies at the top. GREAT! Because our colors are navy and lime, so that matches the color scheme. But now, I'm thinking small, sexy centerpieces. Something with classic flower and some candles. {Similar to those in today's daily post, wedding #1.}

With that said, I'm trying to figure out how to make navy and lime {and some silver} classic and sexy. Or I'm thinking maybe we should just change the colors. It's not like we've bought anything in the colors anyway.

I pose this question to whoever might be reading, as well as the ladies on TK:

Do you think I can do the sexy, dim room with up-lighting and pull it off with the navy and lime or should we change it to something else, like red and black or something?

Also, with the new simplicity, I think I'd have to change up our table numbers {that I need to post on here.} Maybe something with just numbers instead of our e-pix. Or I can do the e-pix in black and white.

I think I'm just rambling.

Here are some small centerpieces that I like:

I wonder if I could do this with limes, calla lilies, and candles.


Or this with callas and candles.


This with different flowers.

Or this.

I should be deciding soon what way we're going to go with the colors and centerpieces. I'm hoping that the smaller centerpieces will cut some cost, but candles can be expensive. BUT they can be bought in bulk. So, who knows?!