I got my bridesmaids dress! As some of you may know not only am I going to be a bride, but I am also a bridesmaid! A good friend of mine from college is getting married in June and had asked me to be in her wedding. Yesterday I got my bridesmaids dress from her so I figured I would share!
How cute is this dress?! She is having a Spring wedding and her color scheme is green and blue. It's also going to be an outdoor wedding so this dress matches her theme perfectly. Its a strapless dress that comes to get above the knee. Myself and another bridesmaid are going to be adding straps to our dresses while the 2 maid of honors remain strapless. The thing I love about this dress the most is that it can be worn again. Either to another wedding or bar-b-q! It can be dresses up or down. We are going to be wearing pearl necklaces with the dress which really makes it look nice!
Also today I stopped into Joann's craft store. I wanted to get some ideas for gift bags for guest who are going to be staying at the hotel for the wedding. I didn't actually buy anything but I did get some good ideas. I think what I'm going to do is get some plan brown gift bags like the ones below. Their very simple but they have that outdoors/fall feel to them which matches our theme. Then I think what I want to do is decorate the outside with decorative leaf cut-outs. I think I might even layer them with a solid color behind the decorative one. I'm not positive on my idea but brainstorming.
I also thought about maybe added some simple stamp work to the bag. I saw these two stamps there and thought that they were so cute. However there about the size you see them on here and I kind of want something a bit bigger than that. I was also thinking about doing a simple Thank You stamp instead on the middle of the bag. I don't know I'm having trouble deciding on that part.
I also saw this stamp which I thought was really cute! I wanted to use it for something but I don't think I want to put it on the bag. I feel that if I did it would just be too much of the leaf theme. But it's cute non the less so I'm going to see if I can come up with something for it.
Either way I want to get started making the gift bags. Just so that one less thing I have to worry about. We blocked 30 rooms so at the most I would only have to make 30 which isn't bad. The hard part is buying all the goodies to fill them! lol
Thanks for reading!
Only 231 days until the wedding!
My dresses!!! We got Tiff's today! I really like the tree stamp and the ring one... I have a B&G one from the invitations if you want to use it? Filling them is always hard but I know when I worked at the Inn people would generally fill them with water, little snacks like bags of chips or candy... They would include a "weekend schedule," a welcome and a kind of map of the area with activities to fill some of the empty time they might have! Depending on what you're thinking it might be cute to do cheaper bottles of wine too [like Sutter Home] - and depending on what you'd been planning to fill the bags with it might be cheaper!? And the hotel may supply the glasses and such and set it up nice... Either way it's adorable and I'd love to help if you need it :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE that tree stamp. So beautiful! And very pretty bridesmaids dress. How cool to have your wedding and also to be a bridesmaid at your friends in the same year! :)
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