Hey all!
So we are getting married two weeks from Saturday. The clock is ticking and the countdown is on! I have to admit that for these past four or five weeks I've felt overwhelmed with stress at the sheer amount of things we had yet to get accomplished for this wedding (and naturally the blog has suffered). But Eric and I have worked through the list slowly but surely, and have delegated a lot of tasks to our awesome family and wedding party, and the day is coming together wonderfully. I am at the point now where I am just so excited to say I do! I want the day to be here NOW.
Get to call this handsome man my husband in 2.5 weeks!
Now that it is closer to the wedding, we are needing to get done all the tedious tasks that we have been putting off until the end stages. One of those tasks was our corkboard seating chart. You may recall this post where I first unveiled it. So, Eric and I have earnestly saved every cork from every bottle of wine we have shared together, from the day we got engaged until now, with the plans of creating a seating chart made from the corks of our wine bottles of love. Well those plans tanked pretty fast when we realized we would have to drink three bottles of wine a day in order to have enough in time. Riiiiight. So we came up with a new idea for the corks that they would hold our place cards at the tables!
Cute!
At 155 guests, we needed far less of them, so Eric went through the (embarrassingly full) bag of corks and picked out the best ones to use for this project. Then I lured Tara and Melissa over to my place to watch the premiere of the Bachelorette with promise of wine and food, and then dropped the bomb that they would be helping me do crafts all night. Mwahahaha...
Turns out I have the same patience for crafting as I do for shopping. 10 minutes and I'm sooooo done. On a project that takes several hours, this was bad news bears. But I had my lovely besties to help me through, and we ended up doing a pretty awesome job!
We diiiiiiid it.
The first and most ridiculous step was actually cutting the wine cork in order to put the place card into it. We tried a utility knife, butter knife, steak knife and bread knife, and finally settled on the bread knife, but not before my hand slipped and I dug a newly sharpened Henckels blade deep into my thumb. After a 15 minute break to stop the bleeding we resumed, but needless to say I was off cutting duty for the rest of the night. And, I must have nicked a nerve or something because my thumb is still numb around the cut even 10 days later. Weird.
Obbbbbbviously when you craft you need a big glass o'wine.
The next step was getting the wine cork to actually stand up and not roll over with the place card in it. To keep it upright, we went on a
Troubleshooting like a boss....
Next was glittering the ends of the corks because, let's face it, I like glitter. I bought one purple and one black container of fine loose glitter, mixed them together in a bowl (to tone down the purpleyness of it all), and the girls brushed the ends of the cork with white glue and pushed the cork into the bowl. Et voila!
Note the bandaid from the aforementioned knife incident.
Tara made the actual place cards using her vast and impressive supply of scrapbooking tools including a cutter, and some other thing, and these sticky things, and something called cardstock, and glittery paper. I don't ask questions. So here is the finished product! And then we will stick little coloured dots to the place cards so that the wait staff know who is eating what.
Whee! A DIY success!
It's very cool to see all the smaller details of the day coming together. Here's a couple other things that have been going on this week!
We have the favor tags for our imperial cookie favors....
Awe!
My brother chose the dinner wines for our wedding, and naturally Eric and I had to taste them first, and they are AWESOME...
Red: Hacienda Albae 'Seleccion' Cabernet Merlot 2007, Castillo, Spain
White: Adi Badenhorst Secateurs Chenin Blanc 2013, Swartland, South Africa
And Eric and I have also decided on our late night fare. This is obviously really important at a wedding, because it's been 4 hours since you've last eaten, you've burned off your dinner cutting a rug on the dance floor, and you're wasted so naturally you want to stuff your face. We decided for our wedding that although we both love a good cheese sandwich on rye with the cheese on the outside, that we wanted something a little more upscale that the usual deli-style social food. So our guests are going to be scarfing down none other than gourmet mini sliders with aged cheddar and onion confit, and mini poutine with smoked gouda and a herb glace!
Basically small cheeseburgers....
...and small fries and gravy with cheese. Dee-licious.
We're so excited to share this day with all our friends and family. Can't wait!!!
Happy Wedding Wednesday!!!
~M
