Anchorage Reception

We are going for a Mexican Fiesta...Bright colors, fun, and laid back!The cocktail hour will include chips, salsa, dips, margaritas, sangria, and tequila sunrise.

We will enter with a mariachi band and they will play through dinner. Dinner will be a taco/burrito bar and then the full bar will open.

After dinner we will have our first dance to a romanic marichi song. The the DJ will get the party started:)

This is the cake we are having but we will add bright colored flowers to it like the second picture...

Wow...where did the time go??

This summer has been super busy! I have found that I suck at blogging. However I am going to try harder!

This summer FI and I have painted two houses for extra wedding money. At first I thought what the heck do I want to paint a house for afte rmy regular job...But after painting the first in two nights and one day and getting the $3000.00 paycheck...all was well in my book. Since I now look at money in terms of what it can cover for the wedding that was a nice chunk. It also came right in time to put all of our deposits down. What can I say through all my complaining it was worth it!

We have only made it camping twice. Which is very sad considering we live in Alaska and do not have much time to enjoy warm weather:( But our last camping trip was our annual dip netting trip and we caught over 100 fish one day. Whew but the aftermath of cleaning, cutting, smoking, and canning...I can not fully explain unless you have ever tried to process 100 fish:( not fun! BUt it will be worth it over the next year considering the cost of Alaskan salmon.

Anchorage seating chart...well at least the layout

Odd layout I know...but I am odd so it fits:)

THE dress

Must imagine dress with tan skin! The wedding will be in Mexico so I should have a good tan going on instead of the pasty white color.

Here it is with my hair trail

And some other hair trial photos:

(I think the poof will have to be a little less the day of)

Mood board for Mexico

This is what we are going for in Mexico:

What to wear what to wear?? -Bridal Party

This is the dress the bridesmaids are wearing. Cute, simple, comfortable, and affordable! The colors will be Teal and Lake Blue with a brown sash and brown flip flops. I am making all the jewelry with brown fresh water pearls.

Groomsmen will wear Polo Shirts with khaki cargo shorts. It will be one of these blue colors.

Mexico Wedding Planners....AHHHHHHHHHH

Ok, to this date I have tried to work with four different wedding planners. The last one was an event planner for the resort we will be staying at. She was great. They had wonderful prices and she would answer your questions in a timely manner. THEN SHE GOT A PROMOTION! :( I am happy for her cause she was really great at her job and she deserves it….but can I throw a little selfish fit and say….”HEY WHAT ABOUT MY WEDDING???” Ok I am done. So they replaced her with a new person.

This person doesn’t seem to know that it is really not appropriate to take a month to answer a simple yes or no question. I simply asked if there resort has a sound system for the beach or if I would need to find one to rent? I really think that this type of question should be able to get an answer within a week? Maybe I am too impatient, but seriously a month?!? What happens when I ask her the cake flavor choices? Will that take two or three months? Wow, I though I was ahead of the game since I started planning over a year in advanced, but I guess not for her. Ahhhhhhhhh!!! I am just a little frustrated right now. Plus I keep having nightmares that we get to Mexico and they are like “What wedding?!?” Ok enough venting for now.

Tesoro Resort

We have decided on Tesoro Resort for the wedding!!!

We will walk down the stairs and out toward the ocean for the ceremony!!! I love it and am so excited!!!

Invitations- DIY or purchase? That is the question??

Well after completing our DIY save-the -dates, that happen to come out fantastic(will post pictures soon), we decided that it may be cost effective to purchase inviations. So I began my search for a great deal.

Since this blog just began you have no idea what kind of a bargin hunter I am. Some may call me cheap, but as anyone in my shoes...I call my self thrifty.

Ok, back to invitations. A co-worker who is getting married this summer pointed me in the direction of http://www.costco.com/ for wedding invitations. I thought to myself..."Costco sells wedding invitations??? How ghetto!" Well, being a bargin hunter I still checked it out and it just so happens it is not really Costco that sells them. It must be some sort of partner deal where if you log onto the website on http://www.einvite.com/ via the Costco website you save a TON of money. Not only are they very well priced they have an awsome collection! Needless to say more, when I got home that night Warren and I logged on via Costco.com and found the perfect invite for us. That night I ordered a sample and it showed up earlier than expected and looked great! We added a peacock feather to the front to personalize it just a little....Voila the perfect invite at an unbelieveable price...we could not have made them at this price.

So we made a spreadsheet with the guest list for the Anchorage reception and the Mexico Ceremony and needed about 50 invites. We ordered 75 to be safe. lol and at times I think I am too prepared as we ordered our invitations 4/10/08 for our 1/20/09 wedding. Oh well, they were on sale and it is one more thing that is finished and didn't take alot of time!

D.I.Y Save the dates

I was really Happy with how well they came out! Warren designed the front and the magnet. With some basic assembeling they were ready!! Super easy D.I.Y project!