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days until I become a Davenport!

Well, we have reached the point of no return…..

The invitations are being mailed tomorrow!  I’m really excited.  I designed our invitations myself. That was a draining task.  I always double guess myself and never think my designs are quite right.  Minus not having my own letter press to print the invites on; I think these really came out well.  Here are some pictures of all of my tools and papers that I used to make the invites, RSVP cards, and direction inserts.  I also have this really cool paper storage box by Martha Stewart that I store everything in.  I love this box…

Well, I went for my 1st dress fitting today.  My mom & Derek’s mom came to keep me company.  As the seamstress pulled and tugged on my dress to see what she needed to take, I noticed I was starting to get a touch hot under all that material.  Thank goodness the wedding is in October and this October is predicted to be colder than usual.  I don’t mind sweating, but come on….who wants to sweat in a really expensive gown and make it all nasty?!?  Who?

While we were there I got to pick out my veil.  My veil is the entire reason I purchased the dress I did.  I have always loved the lace detail on my mother’s wedding veil.  Since, her veil was darker than my gown I couldn’t wear it for my wedding, so I had to get one of my own.   I decided to get a mantilla style veil.  It reminds me of something you would see a Spanish woman wear for her wedding.  It lays completely flat on your hair and the lace borders the entire veil.

Now the task at hand is to find a hairstyle that will help highlight the beautiful fingertip length, lace mantilla veil I bought today.  I can wear it on the crown of my head w/ my hair mainly down, or I can pull back part of my hair and let the veil drape from the gathering of my hair.

I love the style of lace bordering the veil.  It is a big bold straight lace that is very similar to the lace on my dress.  Here is a glimpse of the lace on my veil….

These are some of the dresses I like @ Jcrew for our flower girl, Brooklyn.  What do you think?

I still haven’t quite decided on what I would like to have on the top of our wedding cake.  At first I just thought I would have some flowers.  Then I thought it would be funny to have a figurine of the bride dragging the groom by his collar.  Haha!

I keep coming back to these two sweet doves.  I think they are simple classy and show the love that Derek and I show for each other.

Okay…..73 days may sound like I have some time, but I don’t.  Derek has not yet decided on what he and davis will wear.  I don’t want the guys in tuxs, but it looks like to make this affordable for everyone we are just gonna have to go with a tux and make it look like a suit.  The thing is…..Derek does not own a suit!!!!

We were going to use this opportunity to buy Derek a nice suit that he can wear again.  But we are also having the issue with Davis (the best man) being one size too small to fit in a standard men’s suit.

This is what I wanted to Derek to look like on our wedding day….

But now he is going to have to wear this……

Below are the RSVP cards that I have mocked up for the wedding….  I thought it would be nice to the environment and my wallet to have some of the younger more computer savvy croud respond by email rather than the traditional mail response.  I hope it works!

The first RSVP you see here is the, reply by mail card….

This is the, reply by email card…..

So, what do ya’ think?