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Giving a little wedding planning advice to brides and brides to be  over at Michelle's blog Delighted while she is off getting married! Check it out here & let me know what you think!

Marry This!

Brian and I had SO much fun being able to model in this month's new Marry This! wedding guide. This one is FREE!!!! If you are a bride-to-be and need a little push towards your wedding planning on a budget (under 10k) check out these guides! They are full of information, budget breakout, shopping guide, free printables, good ideas, and the ability to see the looks all put together. 

Check out this guide here as well as Marry This!'s new wedding blog as well as their twitter account

just a small snippet from this month's free guide: 

off the registry

a friend asked me the other day for some ideas for bridal shower gifts that are not from the registry.

Source: google.co.uk via Olivia on Pinterest

1. Holiday Theme- my mom actually gave me this idea, along with a family friend who gave us this as a wedding gift: get your bride a package with holiday decor in it! Getting married young, i didn't have many items of my own to decorate for the holidays or ornaments for our Christmas tree. It was great to have a few things to start me off so I wasn't tempted to do a little shopping spree at target when each holiday came around. You could pick a holiday or do a mix of a few different ones, create a package for Christmas wrap- scissors, tape, bags, tags, wrapping paper.

2. Return Address Stamp for their new home together!

Source: etsy.com via cyndi on Pinterest

3. Stationery Items: Everybody needs in their home extra cards for birthdays, envelopes, stamps, and an address book. Put together a fun kit of these items for them to start out with!
4. Receipes

5. Magazine Subscription- Martha Stewart, Real Simple, House Beautiful, Portland Monthly (or your respective city)

6. Date Night Ideas- click on the picture twice to follow to the ideas!

Source: shannonbrown.typepad.com via Olivia on Pinterest

7. Picnic Basket- pack it with a blanket, bottle of wine, plastic wine glasses, plastic plates & silverware and any food items you can think of that are non-perishable

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8. Marriage Books- some of my favorites are found here, here, here & here

9. Meal on the Honeymoon- Call ahead to the place where the couple is honeymooning and pre pay for a bottle of wine, room service or a meal at one of the restaurant at the resort or in town somewhere

10. Registry Item +

WIne glasses + a bottle of wine
coffee mugs + coffee
Cupcake tins + paper for the cupcakes

Off to

Santa Barbara for a wonderful wedding weekend!

Source: davestravelcorner.com via MJ on Pinterest

Source: flickr.com via Nancy on Pinterest

This will be my second time there and absolutely loved it the first! We won't have a ton of leisure time but just in case, does anyone have any must do/eat/see suggestions?

Have a great weekend all!

two years

of marriage. in bend. escaping this world to celebrate

see details from our day here & here

last year we celebrate our anniversary this way:
in Seattle, at Hotel Max, on Lake Washington, with amazing cake that our bakery gave us to enjoy 1 year later so we didn't have to eat frozen wedding cake.

put a bird on it

Source: etsy.com via Janet on Pinterest

guest postin:

Hi friends! I did a little guest post over at Delighted today! Check it out:

I hope you all have a great weekend!!! I am off with Brian to meet my parents down at the Coast for a weekend of camping!!!

road trip day 3: Grass Valley and a best friend's wedding

organize by olivia project #1

some shots from the wedding I coordinated a few weeks back-- 

lots of prep happening

super cute invites the bride had made by an artist who makes posters for bands! 

great idea, huh? those faces are the bride & groom :)

some flowers for decor that the bride's co-workers helped her make during one of her showers

cute & helpful idea for a shower!

another brilliant DIY idea by the bride: she collected lots of class bottles and jars

then had sticker strips made

I took the stickers and made different patterns with all of the colors for the center pieces

some DIY mustaches for the Photo booth Prop Box!

another quick DIY for the extra invites-- 

putting them on sticks to then put in vases or different pots & buckets around the reception site

FLOWER PREP

only spent about $60 by going to Costco the day before the reception

I prepped them all the day before just in case I needed to buy more 

the done ones:

transportation was an issue-- I wouldn't recommend a box like this

it worked, i put a towel down at the bottom in case there were any spills

there were and it worked out fine but the rest I put in buckets and it was much safer & easier!

all out at the reception site ready to go on tables!

a somewhat done project:

wish I could have gotten more pics from around the reception- but there was a wonderful photobooth 

everyone had a blast. I made a prop box with the following:

5 sombreros

2 boas

4 mustaches on a stick

lei

red skirt

chalkboard with chalk to write messages

YAY fabulous night.