Stephanie's Blog
I LOVE to plan a party!! More often than not I will find ANY excuse to throw a party. I will use this blog as a way to communicate with you about the trials, tribulations, and ultimate payoffs when I get behind the party planning wheel :)
My Wedding (part 1)
Date: February
27, 2009, May 30, 2009, March 28, 2009,
April 4, 2009, March 14, 2009
So, here I am, planning ultimately the most important party of my life......and I'm having a hard time picking a date :). Actually, we've moved the date around due to other reasons, specifically weather and off-peak season dates. We have finally settled on March 14, 2009....and for now it's sticking. Seriously though, we have found the location, and it's available for that date, so provided that no major catastrophe's occur, March 13, 2009 will officially be my last day as a single woman :). I will update this blog as often as I can, with new information, fun ideas, and pictures.
So far what I do have accomplished for the wedding is the dress. I ordered my dress back in April, it is due in by July 15, 2008. David's Bridal said it could be in before that, so because I am impatient, I call them at least once a week to see if it has arrived. I'm anxious to have my dress, I guess so it can sit in my closet for almost a year. I have been to two wedding expo's.....so much fun! At the first one, I entered to win, and won a basic photography package from a local photographer.....who has NOT returned ONE phone call. So as of yet, I still am on the prowl for a DJ, photographer, videographer, table/chairs/linen rentals, officiant, and the list goes on.
Some tips that I have determined are helpful for wedding expo's:
- Print out address labels with important information such as name,
address, email address, phone number, and wedding date. These save SO
MUCH time when leaving contact information for vendors, and ultimately
entering drawings. Plus, you don't end up with graphospasm (writer's
cramp) by the end of the day.
- Carry two bags, make one bag the "keep" bag, and put information in
there that you definitely want to keep, or at least follow up on, as well as
the bridal magazines that you get, everything else goes in the other bag.
For example, if you tried a cake sample and really liked it, put the bakery
information in the keep bag. You have so much information just handed
to you as you walk through the crowded aisles, you may not remember which
bakery it was that had the yummy cinnamon cake with cinnamon mousse (which I
tried and is so YUMMY). At the end of the expo, you can quickly glance
through the "junk" bag, and then toss the information you don't need.
- Wear comfortable shoes, you do a LOT of walking.
- Bring help, whether it is your mom, maid of honor, or the groom, bring someone the bags get heavy, and it's nice to have an extra set of hands to help carry the load.
That is all I can think of for now. I will write again soon.
"It's A Boy" Baby Shower
Date: November 25, 2007
November 3, 2007
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Let me give some background information about this particular
event.
The mom to be called me on September 26, 2007 to tell me that her due date had
been moved up. We had already planned to have the baby shower at the end
of November, since her due date was originally December 5, 2007. When her
OB/GYN moved the date up to November 15, 2007, the plans for the baby shower all
had to be rearranged. In about five minutes over the phone we confirmed
the new date, which at the time didn't seem like a big deal, it was still 5
weeks away. I however had signed up to make Halloween costumes for my
daughter and my niece, and I hadn't even started them, so now I had two
Halloween costumes to make and a baby shower to plan and determine what the
decorations were going to be, and only THREE days in between the two events.
Fortunately for me, I had started "dreaming"
up the baby shower MONTHS prior
when I found out the mom to be was expecting. So the "hard work" was
already done. We decided on a Blue and White "It's A Boy" theme for the
shower. Although I am capable of creating invitations, I only had about a
week before I needed to get them in the mail to allow for plenty of time for the
guests to RSVP. So we decided on a really cute animal themed invitation
(pictured right). Once the invitations went out in the mail, I gave myself
a deadline to have the Halloween costumes finished by. Surprisingly enough,
I managed to only pass that deadline by one day :).
Once the Halloween costumes were out of the way, I was moving
right on to the baby shower decorations. To tie the animal themed
invite into the rest of the baby shower decorations, I made a lion,
turtle, baby giraffe, monkey, and baby elephant out of diapers and
adorned them with all sorts of baby necessities such as bibs, socks,
pacifiers. I also made several diaper cakes and a dozen blue and
white sock roses. Funny story about the sock roses, no one
realized that they weren't real until the mom-to-be's mother pointed it
out to everyone.
For the food I made a HUGE fruit tray, and a HUGE vegetable tray, fresh salsa, fresh bean dip, and fresh guacamole, and we ordered a 6 foot submarine sandwich from a local deli. The cake was a yellow butter cake with a milk chocolate ganache filling, and a chocolate fudge frosting. A vanilla border, and vanilla words saying "It's A Boy" adorned the top of the cake along with a pair of actual baby shoes (cardboard covering the bottom to protect the shoes from the frosting). The guests left with favors of cinnamon roll muffins, a favorite treat of the mom-to be.