*~Wedding Stuff~*

This past weekend Amber and her fiance Patrick put together my bridal bouquet and my toss bouquet. It of course turned out BEAUTIFUL! I fell in LOVE with these flower colors and arrangement. I have opted for fake flowers for my bouquet, that way I will have the same one for my bridal portraits and on the actual wedding day. I can't thank Amber and Patrick enough!!!



The flowers came from Michael's in Morehead it is a mixture between confetti roses, and hydrangeas. The two big yellow roses (that look and honestly feel real) came from House of Silk in Morehead!

Look at the detail on how they tied the ribbon, so awesome! If I had attempted to this myself good lord it would of just looked like tangled knots!

So below are pictures of the bouquet and then a project I am doing for the wedding. As some of you know I have been trying so hard to figure out some kind of paper to wrap around the vases to diffuse the look of the glass and candle light. We have tried rice paper that we dyed with water color and food color. That process would work its just a long process. Then on a random thought I decided to try tissue paper because we could get those in lots of different colors. But when we wet it to put to the vases it was a little difficult to deal with (it kept tearing real easily). So I kind of stopped for a while on that project. At my Bridal Shower a couple weekends ago someone suggested (I don't know who it was) to my mom that we try food color in the water to give it that different look. Which I LOVED that idea. My mom suggested it to Amber and she said that they did that at a friends wedding and it worked out great. It doesn't kill the flowers or anything. So last night I was trying different colors for the water, they were all to harsh looking. I wanted more a pastel shade for the water. Then I remembered we had bought some water colors for the project of dying rice paper. I loved those colors, they were a perfect match! I'm also planning on going back to Michael's to see if I can find a pale pink color to have a third color. Also I tested these 2 flowers (real) in the water over night to see how it did in the water that had the paint color in it. They survived :) :)

So now you will notice I had two votive candles in the picture as well. My grandma came over on Saturday morning with a suggestion for the vases as well. She brought this stuff called "Gallery Glass Window Color" which is sort of like a glue that you can put on glass (windows, mirrors, vases etc). So I practiced on one of the votive with the gold color. Which obviously (or I hope anyway) that you see the one on the left is covered with the Glass Window Color and the one on the right is the original votive with nothing on it. I really loved the gold color on the glass, especially when the candle was lit and the lights were dimmed. It was very romantic looking :)

So then I tried the White Pearl on the square vase (but only on one side). I didn't wait long enough before I started touching it which is why its not as smooth (if you want to call it smooth) but it will take some practice to do this just the right way. The good thing about this Glass Window Color stuff is it just peels off whenever you don't want it on there anymore. You can also make stencils and put them on the vases. My mom suggested that we do our initial "L" on some of the vases just to have something different on there. Which is a cute idea. Also once the stuff is dry on the vase you can get a sponge and paint over it with whatever color you wanted. So if you guys ever want a fun little project to try this is something worth trying!

*These are the glass window colors I used*

All these vases, votive, paints, glass window colors, and most of the flowers were all purchased at Michael's in Morehead :) In case anyone was wanting to know.

Please put some feedback and tell me what you think about this stuff.

Thanks,
~BRIDE~

P.S. Today marks the TWO MONTH MARK until the WEDDING! :)