My wedding cake holder

After the boating and before our party, my sister and I assembled the cake/cupcake holder that I purchased from http://www.cupcaketree.com/. Before we left, the weekend before the wedding, Mr. S and I spray painted the cardboard with the same paint we used on the hooks. This way it will be sturdier and it can be used more than once. My sister and I hot glued ribbon around each layer after assembling.

Then using some dragonflies that I bought from an Etsy seller, we hot glued them around the layers. We also connected a few to florist wire to that they looked like they were flying.
This was our final product. I think it turned out really cute.
Are you doing anything different for displaying your cake/cupcakes?

Pre-wedding party

One of the many aspects of our wedding was making it a family event for the whole weekend. Since everyone had to travel, we wanted people to know how much we appreciated the effort. On Thursday evening we planned a pre-wedding party at our cabin. Everyone in town came over for a bunch of yummy food:
Tortilla Roll-ups (Strawberry, Jalapeno, and Chives - surprisingly the Jalapeno were a HUGE hit)
Chips and Dip
Chips and Salsa
Beef Brisket
Rolls
Baked Beans
Strawberries and Cantaloupe
Veggie Pasta Salad
Smores for dessert

Happy 1 Month Anniversary!

Today is our 1 month anniversary. I can't believe a month has already flown by. It's been a good month for us, however very busy with the kids and work.
I mentioned it to someone yesterday and they laughed and said, well, if you made it a month you'll make it forever. :) I really hope that holds true.
I love you Mr. Snowflake - here's to making it forever, honey.

Taking time to chill out

Once we had the ring, all my troubles melted away. For the next few hours we boated and tubed on the lake.

The ring comes!

First of all, I've been a bad blogger, but to my defense I was waiting for the pro pictures. That and life catches up to you very fast - especially when you have the gall at work to actually take two weeks off. Please forgive me...pretty please...
Okay, now on to the recapping.
So if you remember, the jewelers broke my ring a week before our wedding. As a compromise, they were going to order the head to my engagement ring, cut one of their solid bands, mount my diamond, and solder my wedding bands to it. The problem was that the ring would not be ready before we left for our semi-destination wedding. It had to be overnighted to the hotel. So about 10 am on Thursday, my mom, sister, sister in law and I settled into the hotel's front lobby. The front desk people were very nice and offered many refreshments while we waited - patently.
(No ring - yet)

Weddingbee Gallery Feature

I got featured today on Weddingbee! Well, not exactly me, but my cake did, see here: http://www.weddingbee.com/2009/09/16/gallery-of-the-day-47/. I know it's kind of dumb, but short of being a Bee, it's an honor to be featured among so many other creative brides.

Ringless...again

I'm ringless again. It really sucks since I had the rings taken in before the wedding to avoid this. I miss my ring :(
If you remember, my ring was broken by the jewelry less than a week before my wedding. I had a designer engagement ring, so they couldn't just order it and it would come in the next day. To solve the wedding day issue, they changed a plain band, put a head that matched my old ring on that and soldered my wedding bands to it. They overnight shipped it to my mom's hotel and we picked it up two days before the wedding (cutting it close!). It looks beautiful and all, but I know it's not the ring that my HUSBAND (I've had the hardest time using that word) lovingly picked out all by himself. So, today I went back to the jewelry store to decide what to do. The band they gave me appraises at about $3000 more than my old one (can't figure out why though), so there was an incentive to keep it. The new band though is all flat and my wedding bands and my old e-ring was rounded - I think it would look better all rounded rather than the flat sides sticking out. They also had soldered one of the wedding bands just slightly lower than the other and while no one else noticed it, it bugged me. So, they're in the process of polishing the middle ring round and re-soldering the bands so they're even. I really hope I don't have to go ringless again.
Has anyone else had to go without their ring/rings more than once?
P.S. I know I left off in the recaps, I'll start those again soon, I'd really like the pro photos though.

Hair and Make-up trial

Because we don't live in the same area as the wedding, the salon suggested that I wait until the last few days for my hair and make-up trial. This way they wouldn't forget what they had done and it would be fresh in their memory - plus they can never get things the same twice, but this gives us a little better chance of getting it close. I was a little nervous about that, but Heidi at Bella Via in Okoboji was AWESOME! Mr. S wanted LOTS of curls. I wanted my flowers and dragonflies. She did great.

The make up the salon used is like Bare Minerals. We didn't do a full make-up trial, but we tried out colors. I think it came out nice.

What would you have changed with my hair trial?

Pack it up, move em out

I picked up my sister on Tuesday before the wedding. She was so nice to come out early to make sure that Mr. S and I had the help we needed with packing and the kids. When we got home from the airport that's when the work started. We loaded up the majority of everything we were taking to the lake in the van, truck, and boat. Even though we got all that work done it still didn't stop me from not being able to sleep the night before. This is basically when I had my jitters I guess. I woke up about 3 in the morning with an upset stomach worrying about things. To bide my time until I woke everyone else up, I did something a little bridey and watched Bride Wars and 27 Dresses. Surprisingly, this helped me to relax. :)

Let's go back in time...

I'm sorry, I don't mean to tease, but I want to wait for the pros pics before I start recapping. Trust me, I have plenty to start, but it's only fair if I have hers first - from what I've seen in the previews, they're awesome.

So we'll go back to the weekend before the wedding (cue the music that makes you spin and go back in time...hehe)

The weekend before the wedding was SO busy. One of my major wedding projects was to get my bouquet done. I only tackled this when I had to cancel my florist order (long story), but I was determined. I'm a bad blogger and didn't take detailed pictures for instructions (I basically used the instructions on Wedding Bee and modified them to suit me), but here we go:
1) I decided to use fake flowers because this way my flowers are already preserved and I have something to keep. I originally was going to use white calla lillies and roses, but when the order was canceled, I decided to use the GREEN calla lillies I had already bought (and had no idea how to use them anywhere else in the wedding) and white roses. My suggestion for step one is to "play around" a lot before you make any cuts and decide how you want it to look. At first I played around with some cheap ivory roses with the calla lillies just to get an idea of what I wanted and then later I bought the "real roses" from Hobby Lobby to use for the actual bouquet.

2) After you "mess around" with deciding how you want your bouquet to look, that's when you start cutting things. I estimated that I needed to hands length at first, so that was my cutting length - I was better to cut things too long than too short. I started by cutting about 3 callas and 4 roses. I decided I wanted it more ivory than green so the rose was in the middle as the base.

3) After you create the "middle" you start wrapping the other flowers on singly with florist tape so that you have a nice circle (if you're just doing a basic bouquet). This step took me a long time to get to look just right - I pulled it apart at least once (maybe more).

4)I used 12 ivory "real" roses and 10 green calla lillies to get my bouquet to look like below. After all the flowers were attached, I hot glued rose leaves to wire and attached those to the bouquet to give it a little more "reality" and greenery.

5) After I got it all wrapped up, I decided it need to be slightly shorter and that's when I trimmed the stems.

6) Then I hot glued ribbon that matched everything else to cover the florist tape. This took some time to make sure it was absolutely smooth.

Whew! In all, it took me about 3-4 hours to complete. I liked using the fake flowers because then I had room for mistakes since I'm not exactly a pro when it comes to flowers. I also had all the time in the world (ha ha) to finish.

What do you think?

I also decorated a vase I already had with a ribbon for it to sit on our sweetheart table. I followed the same instructions I used for the jars to get the ribbon on there.

(This is my mess after I finished)
Will you try to tackle something like this? Who is doing your flowers?

Getting back into a routine

Do you know what happens after you wedding is over and you've gone on your honeymoon and then loaded a MILLION pictures over your free two days over the weekend? Nothing...you gone on like nothing has changed. But TONS has changed. Although it's not official I have a NEW last name, trying to think of the millions of places I have to change it makes my mind explode (cell phone screen saver - check; Facebook - check), oh - it makes me exhausted just thinking about it. The fact that I have a HUSBAND is huge. When we were just engaged, I didn't really let him "rule" my life or my daughter's lives. Last night he put his foot down about one of my daughters and although I wasn't exactly happy about the punishment (it wasn't harsh or anything) I still upheld it because not only is he my husband, but right now, he's the only father my daughters know (their father has skipped out of their lives once again (maybe for the last time - I'm sick of his crap). It makes me proud that he feels the responsibility to step in (when my father and I did our father-daughter dance - Mr. S danced with one of my daughters like she was his own - AWW).
So the whole getting "back into a routine" is not exactly the same. Yes, I feel pretty much the same about Mr. S (I love him to death), but really...things are different and I'm excited about the change.
How did you feel about the change from fiance to husband? Or if not married yet, what do you think will change?
P.S. I promise, I'll start recaps soon!