Give a girl a pair of shoes and she'll conquer the world

I am paraphrasing Marilyn Monroe but I am thrilled with Kacey Higley from Etsy.  I was just sent the pictures from my shoe clips and they are oh.so.me.

Here they are on a pair of shoes to give you a visualization...

Now to remind you... Here are my invites:

Napkins...

With the other belly band...

My feather centerpieces.. (these are actual pictures of the centerpieces) and yes even my cake will have feathers just like in the picture :o)... They will be fuller though like the one on the left... I messed the one on the right up lol!!!! If you look to the extreme left you will notice my card box....

My fascinator:

And lastly: Damn I love it when a plan comes together!!!!!



Finally figured out what I am wearing... but what about HIM?!

Now what about him?! I have decided that I like different.  My fi teases and says that I must have every INCH of my wedding different from everyone else's. I think maybe it's because I have lived in the wedding world for the last two years (longer if you count how long I pined over gorgeous wedding goodies).  The thing is a black suit has become very bleh to me. 

This is what we decided that M would be wearing. Nice, basic, boring as hell.  The one on the left is what we agreed upon.

Of course after seeing this I decided it wasn't ENOUGH for my fiance.  Plain, basic simple, ick.  Then I saw the below picture and fell hopelessly in love with them. Think Olivia Newton and John Travolta singing hopelessly devoted in Grease. Yeah I had that type of moment...

Image from Post Cards and Pretties

Isn't this the most awesome thing you have ever seen?! Wouldn't this look amazing?!

But alas.  The wonderful M says NO... I am still trying to work my womanly charm on him to get him to see things my way. Unfortunately the night shift isn't allowing me to work my magic... Hmmmm... Maybe the cookies I am baking tonight will... And well his favorite heels...

&....

I am friggin' in love with this!!!

Thanks so much Mrs. Frozen Yogurt for this beautiful inspiration!!! This one picture has changed the entire layout of our reception!! We will now be sitting in front of the picture window and our damask name decal (pix to come later I promise) will be right above our heads with the ampersand that I scored at Hobby Lobby for $5.00 between the two of us.  Man oh man can you imagine a smooch being caught there... I LOVE THIS!!

H stands for

Happy

Haute

Heavenly

Hilariously Mochafrugalista!

AND

my new last name :D

Here's the topper that I created for us.  It is a bit more simplistic than what I would usually chose, but I let the fi' chose the font.  If you look closely you will see five purple stones, one for each person in our family.

And we have a venue!!

I have shown you-all some of the pictures of No. 2 Vance, but not the ones from my digi camera that turned out amazingly!!!  Don't forget to get the napkin because the view is drool worthy!!

Entrance into Bathroom

Another

That's me on the left taking in the view...

The view!!!

Another shot of the view...

This is the deck where we will be married, but the chairs will be facing the river and the tables will be removed to make room for chairs....

Things I have been working on!! Heavy picture post!!!

I have been neglecting my poor blog. Shame on me!!! Here are some things that you have missed ;). I have had my first fitting....

Chose a great pair of shoes that even I love (although they are shorter than I would normally wear)...

I also got a new e-ring.  For those of you that have known me pre-engagement days you will know this is the one I salivated over FOREVER!! And my sweetie got it for me when we moved the wedding date up.

Here it is with my mom's faux wax seals that she made for my invites... She will be opening up an etsy store shortly after the wedding called Clay Seals

I thought this was a kick ass picture if I must say so myself...

Ours together...

And here are the napkins I busted my butt folding, ironing, wrapping, sealling and feathering....

Invite Design Completed!!

My invite design is done!! Thank you so much etsy seller GOTARINGONIT !!!!
I sent her an inspiration picture and the damask and told her I was going for damask and vintage yet modern and funky (yeah exactly lol!!!)

What she delivered to me was better than I expected and perfection!!! I am sooo happy with them!!!!
The invites will be black and white with a purple or clear rhinestone on a few of the drops for the chandelier as well as the damask pattern on the right. The invite will have a purple belly band (dunno if it's ribbon or paper yet) and be affixed with my wax seals which are pictured before they are silver and after they are silver.  The invites will also have a purple feather through them...

I will hand emboss the envelopes to look like this:

Also, the faux seals will go on my favors (as pictured) before and after...

The below are my awesome favors!!!!  The one on the left is a Christmas ornament, on the right a ball point pen.  Total cost $0.80 each!!!!

Here are the final versions of my invites with the embossed envelopes:

Here they are with the feather.  The belly band is velvet and the feather purple.  The faux wax seals are made by mom who is opening an etsy store soon.