Throwback Thursday

January 2007

Bridal Shower Color Scheme

With planning any event, you should have a color scheme right? Well until like yesterday... we did not have one for the shower. 

My Mom came into town for work and we took a day to run around and do errands for the shower. In doing that, we figured out exactly what color the napkins that hotel will be giving us. Royal Blue. So I thought... what goes with royal blue? 

Enter The Perfect Palette. I follow them on Pinterest and seriously go to this all the time because I'm horrible for color-coordinating.

So anyway, I found this lovely set: Navy and Pink (I know the napkins are royal blue but it is close enough)

I like how the pink is being included because it is also one of my wedding colors. I would have loved to do pink and gold - that is really in right now - but we weren't paying to rent napkins when they provided us with these certain colors. That is just silly!

Florist

So we have booked the florist. I'll admit, I was a little afraid of this one because I have heard some pretty outrageous quotes for flowers but I have said this before and I'll say it again and again... use your contacts! 

I go on a local wedding forum for my city and I have found almost all my vendors through this so far. I basically go on there and ask people if they know of any good vendors within this certain price range. 

I got a name, and a couple more from various sources and I emailed them all but what stood out for this certain vendor was that instead of emailing me back saying, "Ya book an appointment," she emailed me back asking me very detailed questions so that when we did have our meeting, she already had a proposal ready for me. 

So I answered her questions and didn't bother with the other ones I had emailed. I also sent her some pictures of some examples of things that I liked (Pinterest is such a lovely tool). Here are some of the pictures I sent:

She had a very detailed vision of what she had in mind which I loved and she also came back under budget. Another brownie point for her because like real estate agents, most wedding vendors like to push your budget. 

So anyway, I won't tell you what style we are going with because I would like to leave some elements of the wedding a surprise but I know it will be so gorgeous!

Oh and I just realized I never mentioned who we booked and I must do that!

Here is her website: Click Me

Weekly Highlights

My blog is always changing. I'm always trying to come up with new ways to make it better and more interesting. I few weeks ago, I started doing weekend recaps. I noticed after doing a couple that sometimes, the more interesting things happened during the week and really nothing good happened during the weekend. So now I will be doing highlights from the previous week! 

Here are the highlights from last week:

• We booked our florist! There will be a post on that later this week.
• We also went to Ottawa for a night because my brother had a game there (yes all that way for one game). Here are some pictures.

 Nice digs. The Westin Hotel

 Such a big fluffy duvet. I wish I could have taken it home.

And the whole reason we were there.....Don't mind the crappy picture. I took it with my phone

Blog Love

For a while I've been meaning to feature the blogs that I follow. I like to read blogs and I follow quite a few of them. I plan to feature each one over time. Today I will be featuring:

Little Baby Garvin

If you frequent on Pinterest, you may have seen this floating around a few times:

This blog was the first blog that I discovered and was really part of the inspiration to me creating my own blog. I had followed hers for a while and a few others and then decided to just do it.

She has the coolest layout: 

And she is always coming up with the cutest outfit mood boards for her little girl who is one of the cutest babies I have ever seen. She has tons of ideas and advise and gives you real life, no bull experiences. Here is one of her more recent outfit boards. You'll have to go to her bog to see where you can buy this stuff. 

Throwback Thursday

December 2006

- Panic! at the Disco Concert 

- On our way to a Choir Competition type thing
- Christmas and New Years with my Dad

Bedroom Inspiration

Yesterday I posted a moodboard for the dressing table I would like to have. Today I am doing our bedroom. If you can recall here, we did have a bedroom set. Key word: did. I was never a fan of the dresser and nightstand that we had so we sold them before we moved. I also gave the mirror to my Mom because it was probably going to break during the move. The only thing we really brought was the bed. 

But... we have decided to keep that here at my Dads and let my brother have it because I have always had my eye on a different bed. When we bought the Hopen bed from Ikea, we did so because we didn't have a bed frame and it was on a special for only $70. It was meant to be temporary. 

Here is what I'm planing for our bedroom when we get our new place:

 (duvet cover from Urban Barn and the rest from Ikea)

Those are the basics. I would accessorize and everything once it is all set up. I originally wanted this nightstand but at almost $400 each, it was a little out of my price range. I've actually been scouting craigslist for most of these items to see if I can score them even cheaper.

Those two dressors are actually really short and at bed height so I am going to use them as nightstands. I like the idea of having nice big nightstands with drawers because that means more storage space :)

As for clothing dressers... I'm not sure what route I'm going with that yet. I'm pretty picky....

Now to just get into an apartment so I can stop telling you my plans and actually SHOW them ... :)