When I was home for Christmas, my mom and I picked out family pictures from my childhood and I had Nate's mom send me scanned pictures from Nate's childhood. I bought frames in different sizes from the thrift store and I pained them with the same paint samples from home depot that I used for the table number frames.
There is a mantle over the fireplace at our reception site that I think the pictures will be nice sitting on.
For centerpieces for the wedding I have been collecting vintage pottery planters in blues and greens from thrift stores. I'm going to plant them with succulents and then if anyone wants to, they can take some home as favors. I've been collecting them for a while now and had a couple of boxes of them stored in the garage.
I pulled them all out today to count and see if I needed to keep looking for more. I swear I have more of them, actually I know I have more of them, I'm just not sure where I put them. Even with the missing ones, there are a lot fewer than I thought. I guess I still have an excuse for excessive thrift shopping.
For some reason I decided to arrange them in the shape of a whale. Now that I look at it I should have used that blue leaf shaped one for a spout.
Nate doesn't believe in Valentines Day (whatever), so I made him a Meowintines Day card from our kittens Harris and Flynn. Very much inspired by Denise Holmes' insanely cute wedding suite for Alison and Chris .
