October 2010 Weddings
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Show me your....
Flowers and card box! I enjoyed seeing everyone's rings and cake toppers and want to see more, so let's see them!
Here is my card box. It was actually a box that we received a gift in prior to the wedding a friend and her husband actually made the box and I thought it was so cute we decided to use it for the card box. Now it will hold any wedding related items so we can always find them!
Here are our bouquets, they were used to decorate our sweetheart table:
I don't have a non-pro pic of the centerpieces so I'll use the escort card/favor table:
Re: Show me your....
My Card Box
My girls didn't carry flower bouquets, They had masquerade masks with flowers attatched.
I made them, and I made my bouquet. I put this gold rope on it to be like Wonder Woman's golden lasso.
Cardbox that I made
wedding DIYs 014 by chelley599, on Flickr
Our centerpieces...not exactly what I asked for but I was happy with them
1 (309) by chelley599, on Flickr
My bouquet--it was so heavy
1 (183) by chelley599, on Flickr
The girls' bouquets---excuse my sister's very happy face...she was scared to go down the aisle alone
1 (28) by chelley599, on Flickr
I don't really have a photo of our cardbox (birdcage), but here are my flowers:
Our centrepieces were a mix of lumina pumpkins, lace luminaries, copper mason jars and our bridesmaid bouquets (not shown).
No pics of cardbox.. We ended up using the venue's box since my DIY was a FAIL! haha
Flowers... I loved all of them! Sorry for all non-pro pics, but you get the idea!
Centerpiece 1 (CP2 was a 6" square vase with same flowers, no pic)
BM & GM Flowers
Mike & I's flowers.. don't mind me cracking up! You can also see my alter flowers and pew flowers in this picture.
Our card box that we made:
Centerpiece #1
Centerpiece #2
mine and the girls bouquets and my flower girls pomander.
Our bouquets
the centerpieces... not exactly how I wanted them...but when you hand over the reins, you take what you can get!
and we just used a basket for the cards...
We don't really have any photos of our card box, but here's our flowers and centerpieces:
Apparently my dad must have never heard of a cardbox when he took it upon himself to build us one. lol It was HUGE. So, we used it to hold our favors instead. I don't think I have a picture of the whole thing.
PAYNE101510-040-2 by Keith_Tisha, on Flickr
Now it sits in our living room, with the cat's tunnel/seat/bed thingy on top of it. :-)
So, we just had people put the cards in a drawer of the sewing desk we used as our guestbook table. You can't see the drawers or must of the desk at all here, but I just like this picture. ;-)
PAYNE101510-023-2 by Keith_Tisha, on Flickr
The bouquets and bouts were all made by my mom and I (with help from family and friends) from fake mini calla lillies.
PAYNE101510-153-2 by Keith_Tisha, on Flickr
PAYNE101510-282-2 by Keith_Tisha, on Flickr
PAYNE101510-151-2 by Keith_Tisha, on Flickr
PAYNE101510-363-2 by Keith_Tisha, on Flickr
And the "centerpieces" were all my milk glass vases filled with real mini calla lillies that I got in bulk from Sam's!
PAYNE101510-027-2 by Keith_Tisha, on Flickr
Missing our little turkey.
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The cardbox is the pumpkin:
Groom's bout:
BM flowers:
BM flowers again:
My bouquet:
My bouquet again (as decor on the sweetheart table):
We used a friend of Oliver's coworker for the flowers - she does it part time. We had NO idea how they would turn out, but I loved them. She did a great job. I didn't love the greenery in my bouquet, but I was really fine with it. Oh, and funny story - I kept telling her NO crystals in the bouquet. She put a few on anyway, but it looked really good. My bouquet had orange roses, red roses, mini callas, orange orchids, fiddlehead ferns, coffee berries, and some kind of greenery.
We did non-floral CPs.
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I did not have a card box, just a bird cage I got at a surprise lingere shower.
My bouquet:
My centerpieces for long picnic tables and small round tables.
This is my bouquet - the bridesmaids' were all a smaller version of mine, and the flower girl's was a teeny tiny version. Also, my grandmother's rosary, which was blessed by the Pope, was wrapped around mine, but you can only see some of the beads here:
And I guess I missed out on the rings post, but I love mine and this picture, so I thought I'd post it here
Megan & Chris
My flowers are in front, BM in back
Centerpieces
No one took pictures of our card box at the reception. It was DIY and I took one when I finished it, which is good because I threw it away assuming our photog would have a picture of it (he didn't).
I don't have a picture of our card box because it was this cheap cardboard thing I got from oriental trading lol but I didn't really care about a card box so it was fine.
Our photographer didn't get any pictures of just our bouquets (how annoying) but here are some pictures that show them.
This is my older brother and I. He's holding the MOH bouquet (no he wasn't my MOH, he just wanted to hold it for a few pictures lol)
Mine and the MOH bouquet consisted of white and orange gerber daisies with red roses. My BM's bouquets were white, orange, and red gerber daisies. The guys all had a single red rose, although they were supposed to have white roses and Jason was supposed to have a red and white rose...grrrr. I didn't notice this when the florist dropped them off, but once I did I texted Jason and he said, "Babe, it's really not a big deal, don't stress about it" so they just rocked the red.
The flowers/leaves we used to decorate with were silk and my Mom did all of them. She did a wonderful job.
I didn't have a card box, and the photographer didn't get any good pictures of our centerpieces, which annoyed me a little bit. But here's my flowers:
A closeup of mine:
Another shot from the front:
In this shot, you can see the bridesmaid's bouquet (all three looked the same), and hubby's boutonniere that I made for him:
The flower girls carried silver star-shaped wands with red and aqua ribbon tied on them, but I don't have any shots of those not in motion. My sister and I did all the flowers ourselves...we bought them fresh from Sam's Club the night before, and stayed up til about 2 am putting them all together!
This is my unity candle arrangement:
This is the boys holding all of our bouquets. They were a combo of red/orange roses, astralmeria (sp??), dark purple calla lillies
My bouquet
Here is another one of all of our flowers (sorry it is so huge!)
This is our card box (from Etsy!)
My bouquet - the lace is from my moms wedding dress
You can see the GM bouts and bridesmaid bouquets in this one
1 of Centerpieces - we had them in different heights, and our table had extra vases to hold my bouquet and the bm bouquets
We also used flowers in our cake as the topper and in between two of the layers
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My card box
My girls and mine flowers
the guest book table
Our toasting drinks!
The center pieces on the tables.
Our cardbox, it's the lantern ($20 at TJMaxx!)
gifts by thesorceresshermione, on Flickr
The girls bouquets, done oh, about a half hour before the ceremony. I told them it was up to them if they wanted to carry them, and they needed to make them :P I was a little stressed out by that time. I didn't carry one, because I was afraid of tripping down the stairs, I had enough to worry about.
IMG_0360 by thesorceresshermione, on Flickr
Centerpieces, my mom and I did them that morning:
IMG_0011 by thesorceresshermione, on Flickr
IMG_0886 by thesorceresshermione, on Flickr
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Card box is on the right behind the cameras (this was taken while we were setting up)
This was taken again during setup - this is our sweetheart table (so you can see the flowers). We didn't have very many flowers.
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