Saturday: shopping for mother-of-the-groom and junior-bridesmaid dresses
At our very first stop (David's Bridal), we found a pretty dress for Terry's niece, Madison. She also picked out cute bright pink shoes to go with her dark brown dress. After a bit more searching, Terry's mom found a beautiful dress at Nordstrom. She's going to wear a dark wine color.
I enjoyed hanging out with some folks who are going to become my family soon, and I couldn't have navigated all over unfamiliar parts of Houston (including the Galleria) without a lot of help from my future-sister-in-law, Heather.
I'm very pleased so far that everyone is getting to choose styles, fabrics, and (when possible) hues they like for their attire. No matchy-matchy bridesmaids in this wedding.
Sunday: who knew table linens could be so complicated?
My mom has some skill with a sewing machine, so we asked her if she might like to make some runners or overlays for the tables at the reception. I'm so glad she liked this idea. We visited two fabric stores and chose several different prints to fit the pink and brown palette: dots, stripes, unexpected patterns.
Near the end of this shopping excursion, I had a mini-meltdown and panicked that all the different patterns were not going to work together. Maybe, I thought, I have taken this non-matching business too far. I'm striving for quirky or unexpected, but I have nightmares that something I plan will turn out to be tacky or silly.
Terry and Mom assured me it all looks good. Nevertheless, I spent a few more minutes stressing over how many tables we need to cover and the calculations involved in fitting table linens to various tables.
These are the moments that make we wonder how we went from planning a small (about 40 people) outdoor wedding to a large (about 200 people) church wedding.
Monday: from flowers to favors
Early Monday morning, I absentmindedly clicked a link on The Knot and found myself looking at a rather whimsical wedding favor: lollipops and rock candy tied together with a gold ribbon. I loved it! So I started scouring the web for bulk candy prices. I soon found that this particular favor would cost about $5 per person. Five dollars times two hundred people .... okay, that's a little bit outside the budget.
Terry and I intended to finalize our flower choices yesterday evening. I showed him the lollipop picture, and we picked out favors instead. Drawing on Terry's computer expertise--the sort of expertise that involves an interactive spreadsheet with formulas and functions I only partially understand--we eventually chose a visually appealing candy favor that fits into our modest budget. At one point I tied four dry erase markers together with a scrap of Christmas ribbon to study the possibilities.
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