Coloring Books and Shopping

Sarah and I got a ton more done today!

Sarah spent some time assembling an activity/coloring book for the handful of kids that are coming to the wedding. They are really cute with some mazes, wordfinds, coloring pages and a scavenger hunt. Sarah has spent hours and hours working on it and it turned out nicely...so many hours that she will be collecting them at the end to make sure the kids used them and she will spend our honeymoon grading them.

We also spent some time at Michael's picking up random stuff that was on sale: random glass bowls for the candy buffet, ribbon for the cake, ribbon for the goodie bags, lots and lots of ribbon. 

We made our final stop to Archivers and I think we actually have everything we need to finish our invites. We are waiting on two addresses and then we can seal the envelopes. Mind you, we are not sending out our invites until the end of May, but it feels good to be getting things done! We are getting to the point where all we do is eat, work, sleep, and wedding. Yes...I am using wedding as a verb meaning anything and everything to do with the wedding! But we are really having fun with it and that is all that matters!

Happy Trails!!

Travis

A Productive Evening!

Sarah and I can hardly believe how productive our evening was...wedding wise! We started with a tasting after school at the Arboretum! We tried some great appetizers and had a good conversation with the catering director to plan our menu. We picked some of our favorite things and now we just have to wait to get an idea on pricing. 

Then we headed to Archivers in Eden Prairie Center to buy the final things we needed for our invitations. We bought the stickers that we will use to seal our envelopes and the stamp to embellish the stickers. We also had to buy our silver pen to write on the brown envelopes. We are all set now to start mass production of the invites! YAY! Here you can see Sarah getting excited as she opens the FIRST completed invitation!!

ext we headed to the Dollar Store to shop around. We had nothing specific we were looking for, but we thought we would check it out. Little did we know that we would stumble upon great party favor boxes for our candy buffet at the reception. Yes...that is right...I said candy buffet!! We think they are super cool and we are going to stamp our tree (a tree you will see throughout our wedding in different locations) onto the boxes. 

When we got home, we had an even better wedding surprise! Our first set of ties for the wedding arrived. We are not doing the standard tuxes for our brothers in the wedding...we are doing tan suits and flip flops! We are buying the guys ties in different shades of green We heard about a great tie website (thetiebar.com) from my friend Anne who used it to find the perfect orange tie for her wedding and we found several ties that we liked. Well...we got them today and we LOVE them!! Here you can see me modeling them!!

Sarah and I spent lots of time this weekend getting our invitations all ready to be addressed and mailed. We have the bulk of them done and now we just have some finishing touches to do. It is SO much work to do your own invites...now I know why they are so expensive to buy! We printed, glued, and cut! YAY! It feels good to have a lot of it done!! 
We also just found out that we are going to have a shuttle from the hotel (the Holiday Inn Express in Chanhassen) to the Arboretum on the night of the wedding. The shuttle will begin at 4:00 and will travel back and forth until midnight. That should make it easier on folks who want to REALLY have a good time on our wedding night!

Sarah and I are stepping it into full wedding planning mode now! Sarah picked up her dress on Friday and it FITS!! YAY! Not that I have seen it...I am trying very hard to avoid the closet in the spare bedroom!!!!! She has a fitting coming up very soon! We have a meeting/tasting with catering on Wednesday and Sarah has her first bridal shower coming up fast! Lots of fun! 

Good Times

It has been a busy couple of weeks...not necessarily wedding wise, but it has still been crazy. Speech has finally wrapped up and we are looking at finally getting some wedding stuff done! We are hoping to finish up our invitations when we aren't cleaning the garage or writing papers!! 

Check a couple more things off the list!

Sarah and I got a few more things done today! It feels good to get things checked off the list!!

- Sarah spent some time today figuring out the wording and design of our invitations and I am going to be really honest....she did a real nice job!

- Then we headed over to Anchor Paper in Burnsville to pick up some of our invitation stuff from Amy (our dear sweet friend who works WAY too much!) We got a stamp we really like and now we have the paper so we can print our invites.

- On our way home, we decided to stop in a Crate and Barrel to register (you can see/shop for it online too). We had a fun time going through the store and now people can shop for our wedding... (keep in mind that my birthday is coming up too and Sarah's shortly after :) Keep in mind we are also registered at Target, but there are still a few kinks in that one...Sarah is working hard on that!

I think that is it for now...

MMMmmmmmm Cake!!

Well, for those of you who we don't see very often, you may not have heard about our recent 180 in terms of wedding desserts. Sarah and I were originally planning on having bars and treats for dessert. However, when Sarah and I attended the wedding fair at the Arboretum, we sampled a cake that we fell in love with. So today, Sarah and I headed over to Buttercream in Minnetonka for a tasting. The cake is just too good to pass up! After trying an assortment of types of cake, we have opted to go with two kids: a raspberry/lemon filled cake and a white chocolate/chocolate "marble" cake. We are going ultra-simple with the design. The cake above is most like what the cake will look like, except we get to pick out our own ribbon to match the colors to match our wedding! 

More to come as Sarah and I continue to accomplish tasks over our spring break! 

Hotel!!

Hi all!

We have had a ton of requests for the hotel information for our wedding. You can reserve your room at the Chanhassen Holiday Inn Express. It is a very nice hotel near the Arboretum and we have a block reserved. You can make your reservations at this site: http://events.ichotelsgroup.com/DPRD-7NXLCB/MSPCH/website/