Vintage/DIY Contest Entry

Vintage/DIY Contest Entry, originally uploaded by krakencrafts.

I entered this contest on the wedding blog ruffledblog.com. They just posted my succulent/vintage planter centerpieces tutorial today. I would really appreciate it if you clicked back and voted for me to win starting March 29th.

Our Invitations

We sent out our invitations already, and since we have started getting RSVPs back, I'm pretty sure that most of our guests, at least the ones in the US, have gotten them in the mail. It does seem a little bit early to be sending out invitations for a wedding at the end of July, but since it is a destination wedding for pretty much everyone, I don't think it hurts to send them out early. I really just wanted to get to check another thing off my list of wedding DIY projects. I got the card stock and envelopes from paper-source.com and designed and printed them myself with my print gocco. It took a long time and a bit of frustration, but I'm happy with how they turned out. I think they really set the tone for our wedding which will be very casual, DIY, and sea creature theme.

Polaroid

Meet the Swinger, originally uploaded by krakencrafts.

I really want to have a polaroid camera at our wedding and have our guests take pictures of themselves for a photo guestbook, The only problem is that they stopped making polaroid film a couple of years ago and buying the old stuff on ebay is really expensive. Supposedly The Impossible Project has bought the old polaroid film factory and is going to start making the film again. It is unclear exactly when or where this film will be available, so I probably won't be able to get it in time for our wedding.

Anyway, I found this incredible polaroid swinger camera from the 60's with the original box at an estate sale. I really wish we could use this but it takes black and white polaroid roll film that they probably haven't made for 25 years or more.

Check out this adfor the polaroid swinger.

Family Pictures

More Wedding Decorations
Originally uploaded by krakencrafts

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.

Planter Whale

Planter Whale
Originally uploaded by krakencrafts

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.

Happy Meowintines Day

Happy Meowintines Day
Originally uploaded by krakencrafts

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 .

Dream Wedding Dress

I found my dream wedding dress the other day. Too bad it sold from this etsy shop a long time ago. It combines my love of fish motifs, mid-century illustration and short wedding dresses with straps. I know it was definitely not meant to be a wedding dress, but I think it would have worked for our wedding.

I received my actual wedding dress in the mail today nordstrom.com. I actually really like it and it fits pretty amazingly for a dress I didn't get to try on before I bought.